{"id":12870,"date":"2008-05-19T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:02:46","slug":"dreaming-denny-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/19\/dreaming-denny-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming Denny Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two relevant dreams to relate this morning.<\/p>\n

In the first, I was in the world of Boston Legal<\/i>. I was Denny Crane (William Shatner) and I was hanging out with Alan Shore (James Spader). We were in a montage of the two of us acting wacky in different costumes, i.e. naval uniforms, cheerleader outfits, etc. <\/p>\n

\"DennyCrane\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the last scene, the only one of any length, I was hunched over, snapping my fingers, and moving through an office hallway while wearing a black leather jacket and singing “When You’re a Jet” from West Side Story<\/i>. Alan Shore was watching me suspiciously, only to finally join in halfheartedly. After he did so, I berated him for not committing himself to it. “Don’t ham it up, play it for real,” I growled at him. At least that’s what I scribbled down on my notepad that I’d said, when I woke immediately after that, humming the song.<\/p>\n

In the second dream, I was being visited by the late John Buscema, the Marvel Comics artist probably best known for his work on Silver Surfer<\/i> and Conan the Barbarian<\/i>. He and his wife were staying overnight with us, though not in my current real-life house, one more like my previous house in Maryland, since we were chatting in a wood-paneled finished basement. And yet, when I was coming up with things we could all do that day, I suggested a trip to the Charles Town Racetrack, which is near where I live now. <\/p>\n

\"JohnBuscema\"<\/a><\/p>\n

John said that he wasn’t into horse racing, so I kept tossing out other possibilities. (Whether he was or wasn’t in real life, I have no idea, though there were plenty of OTB fanatics in the Marvel Bullpen, Mike Esposito among them.) As we talked, I was very conscious of not pulling out my collection of original artwork to show him, because I didn’t want him thinking that I was indirectly trying to get him to give me artwork. I woke with us still trying to figure out how to spend the afternoon.<\/p>\n

No idea where either of these dreams came from, though I do watch Boston Legal<\/i> and did know John Buscema (though not well enough that he ever visited my home).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two relevant dreams to relate this morning. In the first, I was in the world of Boston Legal. I was Denny Crane (William Shatner) and I was hanging out with Alan Shore (James Spader). We were in a montage of the two of us acting wacky in different costumes, i.e. naval uniforms, cheerleader outfits, etc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,437,299],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams","tag-john-buscema","tag-william-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12873,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/12873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}