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My June 2012 dreams: Anthony Bourdain, Public Enemy, Harry Morgan, and more

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  dreams    Posted date:  July 3, 2012  |  No comment


Another month gone by, another batch of dreams, these with guest stars such as Anthony Bourdain, Public Enemy, Steve Martin, Julie Schwartz, Harry Morgan, Tommy Tune and more. Here’s what I tweeted last month, perhaps delivering some sort of rough poetry because of their proximity to each other.

JUNE 2012

I dreamt Dan Perez regaled me with wild tales of his UK road trips, especially the troubles he got into in small villages not on any map. 29 Jun

I dreamt I attended my first George Formby Society convention, but there was a Russian there who would only talk, talk, talk about trains. 28 Jun

I dreamt I drove through Denver, numbers popping up on objects as though I was in a video game. They vanished to musical notes as I passed. 28 Jun

I dreamt I visited a fortune teller and asked, “Will I be tried for murder?” But I had no memory of killing, so my own question confused me. 27 Jun

I dreamt I wandered Texas with friends in search of BBQ, but wherever we stopped — no BBQ! Just lots and lots of old people line dancing. 27 Jun

I dreamt I played catch with Anthony Bourdain and his kid using a huge jawbreaker. Later, I decided to bake them my grandma’s mandel bread. 27 Jun

I dreamt I was chased through a forest by tiny flying robots. But before I either was caught or got clean away, I woke. So — no ending! 26 Jun

I dreamt I owned a trumpet which, when blown, opened a gateway to another dimension. I peered across, but woke before stepping through. 26 Jun

I dreamt I helped the Stark kids escape, which involved pushing an evil dwarf off a cliff, then pushing a great stone on top of him. 26 Jun

I dreamt an old HS friend went into an Apple store while I waited out front, and never came out. Eventually, I looked inside. He was gone. 25 Jun

I dreamt I climbed an Everest-sized mountain rather than using the elevator everyone else was using. Oddly, I could see Vegas from the top. 25 Jun

I dreamt my mother was out of breath as we walked, so a KISS-like rock band offered us a ride home in its limo. Which got stuck in the mud. 25 Jun

I dreamt I was helping adapt a musical version of something that should never be adapted into a musical. Wish I could remember what it was! 23 Jun

I dreamt I rode the NYC subway system wearing a full Spider-Man suit. I can remember looking down at my webbed gloves, but not much else. 22 Jun

I dreamt that while cleaning, I found four additional passports on top of the ones I _really_ own, but woke before I could examine them. 21 Jun

I dreamt I ran into a kid whose dad was in a political scandal. He was crying because of badgering reporters, and I tried to comfort him. 21 Jun

I dreamt I walked across Brooklyn and grew offended because I didn’t recognize a certain street. I should know EVERY Brooklyn street, right? 21 Jun

I dreamt I flipped through a newspaper and found a full-page ad for an exhibition of Zap Comics original art I couldn’t get to. I was sad. 20 Jun

I dreamt I wandered a closed supermarket in the middle of the night, turning lights on and off, wondering why no one would sell me anything. 20 Jun

I dreamt Public Enemy performed “Fight the Power” live on the streets of Brooklyn, and I danced. Badly. But I didn’t care. I wouldn’t stop. 20 Jun

I dreamt friends of mine dropped acid, but not me, because I was the one chosen to keep them out of trouble while we wandered Disneyland. 20 Jun

I dreamt that after missing a World Horror Convention, I tried to catch up on what I missed by reading graffiti. And visiting Mike Marano. 19 Jun

I dreamt I uncovered plans for a revolution which included closing all Walmarts, and was interviewed by a reporter while being arrested. 19 Jun

I dreamt I worked in a huge skyscraper, saw a guy with a bomb disguised as a baby, and rapelled down the inside of the building to stop him. 19 Jun

I dreamt we kept a dead industrialist in our house because he believed he had a 50/50 chance of coming back to life. We watched and waited. 19 Jun

I dreamt Gardner Dozois and I were trying to reach the SFWA suite, but I had to clear the corridor of stacks of bicycles blocking us first. 18 Jun

I dreamt I was on set with a young Shatner as he recorded a commercial urging people to go see The Avengers — which in my sleep made sense. 18 Jun

I dreamt I slurped oysters on the beach in a world straight out of Tenniel’s Alice. Woke before learning if I was the Walrus or Carpenter. 18 Jun

I dreamt Irene had brought a golden gown, complete with cape and tiara, for the opera, but couldn’t resist wearing it to the supermarket. 17 Jun

I had a dream about Pete Campbell last night, but remember none of the details. Only that, of course, I very much wanted to punch him. 16 Jun

I dreamt I visited a kid to cheer him up after he’d been bullied in his small town for drawing pictures of animals in same-sex groupings. 16 Jun

I dreamt I found Star Wars masks with a friend and decided to make movies. He filmed a mini-SW. But mine was about guys who find SW masks. 16 Jun

I dreamt I had to clean up my grandmother’s clutter after she died, only … it was all neatly arranged, like an endless con freebie table. 16 Jun

I dreamt I distracted some government officials so my co-conspirator could photocopy evidence of a cover-up without being discovered. 15 Jun

I dreamt I was being followed by a stalker in a car and tried to hide by lying down in the low fog. But then I worried he might run me over! 15 Jun

I dreamt we were moving, and even though IRL we’ve extensively decluttered, I was struggling to pack, stunned by the insane amount of paper. 14 Jun

I dreamt I was on a radio talk show explaining the differences between Twitter and Facebook. And strangely, not doing a very good job of it. 14 Jun

I had a dream in which Irene and I were living in an Addams Family-style house, but whatever we were doing there vanished when I woke. 13 Jun

I dreamt I put a mannequin in our window that looked exactly like me so I could sneak away and fool people into thinking I was still home. 13 Jun

I dreamt @shunn and @tobiasbuckell were in my kitchen rearranging many boxes of cans and bottles until they fit into a single recycle bin. 12 Jun

I dreamt I took refuge from zombies with others in a huge house. An old guy couldn’t cope, freaked out. We tried (and failed) to calm him. 11 Jun

I dreamt that as I wandered a mall, I confronted a group of masked bank robbers attempting their getaway. But I woke before the dream ended. 11 Jun

I dreamt I carried a huge SF art book and collected business cards at a party so I could pick one and give it away at the end of the night. 10 Jun

I dreamt I was part of a Men in Black-type band of alien hunters raiding a junkyard. We captured them all, but then one made a break for it. 10 Jun

I dreamt I received a box from Disney filled with hundreds of Disney-themed postage stamps. Then, oddly, there was a Disney kiosk beside me. 8 Jun

I dreamt I discussed our estrangement with my two sisters, one of whom said we were raised to be “petulant.” (I have no real-world sisters.) 8 Jun

I dreamt I bumped into Tommy Tune in a NY theater, and for some reason told him all about this play I’d seen in Austin: http://www.scottedelman.com/2011/05/15/i-was-so-happy-to-see-ive-never-been-so-happy/ 8 Jun

I dreamt I was in a con suite with Eric Van describing to @neilhimself our line of Barry Malzberg merchandise, showing off the wristwatch. 8 Jun

I dreamt I was Adrian Fenty, wandering a school before being introduced at a political rally, a dream which seems both strange and mundane. 7 Jun

I dreamt I bumped into @Annaleen on her travels — she was heading to Maurice Sendak’s memorial service, and we discussed him at length. 6 Jun

I dreamt that while wandering a cemetery, all my friends pulled up in limos. No, it wasn’t my funeral. But I rushed home to put on a suit. 6 Jun

I dreamt I somehow wandered onto the set of an Australian gameshow and was made a contestant. But I didn’t understand the slang, so I lost. 5 Jun

I dreamt I found a box of ’60s art at Marvel, and tried to convince John Verpoorten it should be returned to artists. He wasn’t buying it. 5 Jun

I dreamt a friend was disappointed I hadn’t yet learned on the ukulele a song I have no plans of ever learning on the ukulele. 4 Jun

I dreamt my mother finally figured out Facebook and caught up with all my status updates. (The resulting conversation did NOT go well.) 4 Jun

I dreamt I had a small part in a big film, it was the last day of shooting, the camaraderie was intense, and we were all morose it was over. 4 Jun

I dreamt Irene took me to church, but the priest wouldn’t let me in because I wasn’t dressed appropriately. (Nor will I never be.) 4 Jun

I dreamt entering Disney World involved zooming down a long slide, and at the bottom, correctly answering many multiple choice questions. 3 Jun

I dreamt Don Perlin was meant to draw an issue of Ghost Rider I wrote, but Ryan Howard from The Office bribed him not to. He wanted the job. 2 Jun

I dreamt Paul McCartney asked me to help him record a song, which involved me dropping concrete blocks, and making other industrial noises. 2 Jun

I dreamt I bumped into Harry Morgan, and we reminisced about the old days on Dragnet, since in my dream I’d done a guest role as a baby. 1 Jun

I dreamt I drove along as Steve Martin, and grew claustrophobic in the car, so stood and stuck my head out the sunroof. And kept driving. 1 Jun

I dreamt I was Captain America, and having recovered a bag of loot from some crooks, I dropped it at an orphanage so it could survive. 1 Jun

I dreamt I went to school with Kurt from Glee, and he was so miserable for not getting into NYADA, I spent the day trying to cheer him up. 1 Jun

I dreamt Julie Schwartz popped by with an unopened 1943 Superman fan letter. I said — lets track this guy down! But I woke before we could. 1 Jun





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