9/3/03 Nice Rack; LiCalsi likes Money; Richard's Burgers; Brian too:

My apartment is not growing. But the number of things I have to put in it certainly is. With the impending arrival of a film projector (for transferring 8mm film to DVD in the near future) and other equipment purchases, my "foyer" has become a "mess." And so, I bought another wire rack for stacking my various possessions, just like the city stacks its real estate. Today I assembled my new rack.

Richard, once again, conducts business via bathrobe. For a gaffer, this is often what pre-production looks like... arranging equipment rentals, getting the pricing worked out, talking about locations with directors, etc.

Like an office tower, the rack begins to rise.

LiCalsi. Italian.

Richard. Master chef. Today the three stooges shall dine on hamburgers. A Rich makes a mean one.

LiCalsi begins.

Mmmmm.

Putting together prefabricated materials that are made in Taiwan or china help, not only to keep costs down, but to learn Chinese in the process! These cardboard coverings came in the box with my new rack, and now we know the symbols for top and bottom!!! (Even if they do seem totally counterintuitive. I wonder what the character for "counterintuitive" is?)

Peter's dessert consists of digging for ice cream in a small Haagen-Daaz container.

I have lots of 1 dollar bills accumulating in my apartment. What is actually not a whole lot of money looks like an incredible amount of money when it is in stacks or bricks of $1 bills. And when each of my friends have come to my apartment, in turn, they first remark "is that safe?" But, LiCalsi is the first to have seen my stacks of cash and whose first instinct was to remark, "Oh cool!"

Brian, studying my 2002 Not For Tourist's guide (which I think he borrowed and never gave back) over some leftover pastries that Richard bequeathed to us.