The Party
November 15, 2001

"Hey, Philip, how are you?"

"Good! Oh, Rodney, it's great you're here -- I want you to meet Georgia."

We walk over to Georgia.

"Georgia is, like, one of the big names in film in town and you guy's'll really hit it off. Georgia, this is Rodney, one of our young, aspiring auteurs. He does great work for us."

"Hello, Rodney." Georgia offers a clean hand and I shake it. Philip goes back to near his front door, to his conversation over there.

"Oh, hello. Yeah, I've contributed a few super-8 films to Philip's festivals."

"Well that's good. What about?"

"I did one about volleyball players and one about a girl overdosing on vitamin pills."

"Oh, that sounds fun."

"Yeah, it was. What do you do?"

"I run a company that does titling for motion pictures."

"Like which?"

"Big budget local stuff."

"Sounds great."

"Yeah."

"I missed dinner -- I'm going to grab some carrot sticks. Good talking, though!"