Everything Everywhere All At Once

[Drunk Monk]

I feel this should have been a Sober Monk post, but now that he's sober, I guess he just doesn't care about us.

This looks messed up and I am ready for it.

Well that didn't work out at all. Or did it?

I got invited to this screener for yesterday. There was an earlier showing on Tuesday afternoon at Stonestown. This one was at Alamo Drafthouse and Tara was not working so we talked about going together, but then she got behind in some stuff and had to drop out, so for a few days I was searching for a new +1. It was astonishingly hard. Two of my usuals had to go to a funeral. Another just caught a cold. Another still hasn't answered and I'm a bit worried and will have to follow up. I gave up and went by myself. 

I got to the Mission early and hit up a farmer's market for dinner, plus got some freeze dried chicken hearts for Yuki. I was just killing time. I went in the theater thinking I was still early and admired the place - a beautifully restored vintage theater decorated with old Kung Fu posters in Spanish. Then I checked my email to discover that the screener had been moved up an hour. So I missed it. Damn it. 

The theater was apologetic and gave me some raincheck passes for next week. I replied to the rep and she was also apologetic and offered two more potential screeners - mountain view on Saturday, or Castro on Sunday with a Q&A with the talent. Wait...what? The talent?

I'm sorting that later today.

My St. Paddy's day SF trip wasn't a complete bust. It was redeemed by the Yeti and H, who I imposed upon for a visit, a shot of Glenmorangie (I know, not Irish - Yetis are such philistines) and a cup of coffee which might keep me up all night. It was lovely. 

I was pretty bummed about the screener snafu. In the 15 or so years that I've been doing these, I've only had one similar situation where the theater had to be switched at the last minute due to a technical failure. I've been looking forward to this since I got the invite and planned my work schedule around having seen it yesterday night, but now, no. Gotta reorg. 

To be continued...