Willie likes the ending.

Mike, I think it is perfectly reasonable to set the ending and work towards it. And I think it would be great fun to cameo ourselves in as readers of the Great One's posts.

By the way, I learned today of the death of a man I knew slightly- apparently heart failure or stroke- at age 60 alone in his chair at home. It could happen to anyone. Certainly to Ignatz Katz, or even Ignatius.

I am eager to read your rough draft, but have not been able to crack the code. Anyone else seen it and ready to comment?

Did everybody see FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION? I do not know, but I suspect that is the kind of thing that could happen to our little movie- a transformation or alteration in ways we never imagined. There is also an interesting piece on this week's New Yorker called "The Cobra" about movie marketing. It is full of cliches, but then so is my life.

I think the Peter Lake character I sketched out will probably not mess around on his girlfriend. I think he may have some distancing disagreement with her before he goes to the funeral- maybe nothing more than "you care more about some dead guy you've never met than you do about our future," but he will want to think about the lovely women he has come to know on the Eye. And then he will probably be the one to shake hands and go to bed alone.

Pam, I asked you about being the sensible one. I do not think there really IS a sensible one in this story. I think there are only older and younger versions of women who have permission to go on a wild adventure, or what they think of as a wild adventure. It doesn't have to be really wild or dangerous, but it has to be new and unpredictable and these women, no matter what their appearance, no matter what else they say or do, I think they will be interested in the new and unpredictable for these few days.

Maybe somebody can remind everyone of a post on Absinthe, and, while they sip their way into an altered state, the stories and sharing will fly. I guess this would be part of the after the funeral drinking as I imagined it.

If MissIve and somebody (Pam?) get on a train heading somehow from Detroit to Cleveland ( A ferry? does such a thing exist?) and then, maybe a train south? Clever people actually take picnic baskets on Amtrak trains. This should be good for a fair amount of zany bonding, especially after they realize their cohort

SKRUUUNNKKK. NO Amtrak service in all of Kentucky, or nearly none.

So maybe no train ride if Lexington is the destination. And, believe it or not, getting from Cleveland to just about anywhere besides DC on a train is a major pain.

Can they meet in an airport, then get separated by their schedules? Bumped? That would give the women a chance to discuss the guy they had just met without being rude to him. Then they catch up later on. Or we could have one of those scenes that shows a map and shows five different paths converging in Lexington. A long drive from Deetroit and another from Cleveland, or make that a flight. Then a shorter drive for Olivia and Mike- how do you travel , Mike?

What say?