Well, I planted the yarrow yesterday. I didn’t actually plant it with my own hands, it was planted by the Holiday Nursery guys who told me it was too early to plant, plus too late to trim my Sand Cherry tree which had already started to blossom. However, it turned out to be neither too early nor too late. So I have a nicely trimmed Sand Cherry and two new yarrow plants. Yarrow being the traditional oracle for the I Ching as well as the plant that attracts a Crossroads Demon. Watched a few scenes of a 1957 movie, “Curse of the Demon,” about a skeptical professor and a devil worshipper who cross paths. Scary, so I stopped watching. Read on Wikipedia that the Satanic cult guy gets torn apart by the Demon in the end.
I only tried writing horror one time. I was living in Venice, 25th and Speedway, a block from the beach. I forget the details of the story. I just remember that mysterious little fires started to spring up around the house. A trash basket burst into flames. A candle out of control. Like that. I abandoned the story.
Watched a beautiful piece by Judd Apatow about the life of Garry Shandling. Inspiring. Shandling’s thoughts on Zen Buddhism, plus his desire to create a real human being. Himself. His comic characters. Real humans. That’s what I want for Anna Jane. Just something simple. A real human being. Let her come to life on the page. I want that for her.
I’ve been avoiding Chapter Four all week.
Eclectic Magpie 