{"id":3883,"date":"2011-09-09T21:47:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T01:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2011-09-09T21:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T01:47:44","slug":"my-august-dream-tweets-walter-white-jonathan-winters-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/09\/my-august-dream-tweets-walter-white-jonathan-winters-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"My August dream tweets: Walter White, Jonathan Winters, and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking at the list below, August seems to have been comparatively light on dreams. Too much travel and too much sleep in unfamiliar beds, I think. But still, Stephen Colbert managed to make yet another of his appearances, plus Walter White, Gen. William Westmoreland and Jonathan Winters showed as well.<\/p>\n

Were you in my dreams, too? Only one way to tell!<\/p>\n

August 2011<\/p>\n

I dreamt I wandered NY’s Forbidden Planet, which was filled with familiar comics titles, ALL of which were drawn by unfamiliar artists. 31 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt a woman escaping a horde of zombies scampered up a rose trellis to a building’s second level and they were too clumsy to follow. 30 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I starred in a new Batman TV show and ran costumed through city streets with Robin to get to the taping of the 1st episode in time. 29 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was Jimmy Berluti from The Practice, and a bodyguard I’d hired accidentally discharged his gun at the airport and shot a kid. 29 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was a reporter attending Gen. William Westmoreland’s final press conference, where one of his aides forced my arm into a salute. 29 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was in a softball league with Steve Carell and needed to pay refs, but the bills in my wallet for $180, $360, etc. confused me. 28 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt it was my first day at a Boston comics shop, but couldn’t find a spot nearby so had to walk a mile to get there. And I had a beard! 26 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt stories of mine occupied all five slots on next year’s Hugo ballot, but told Allan Steele I would probably be beaten by No Award. 26 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was in a diner with Jonathan Winters discussing where to find great BBQ. We agreed the best ever had been cooked by Elvis’s maid. 26 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt that @pnh was attempting to sing “Billy Don’t Be a Hero” in the SFWA suite, but forgot how it started, so I pulled it up on iTunes. 25 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was the Art Director for MAD magazine and giving advice to Kurt Schaffenberger about his sketch for an upcoming cover. 25 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I carried @doctorow around a Worldcon dealers room on my shoulders so he could read the signatures in a guest book on a high shelf. 25 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I ransacked safe deposit boxes during a mine cave-in with Boyd Crowder, and discovered one of the 5th anniversary coins I’d minted. 18 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was fleeing a dictator’s lair, shoving 5.25″ floppies with my collected writing in my pants though he warned me to take nothing. 18 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt that while at a Worldcon freebie table, I discovered magazines containing stories credited to me that I hadn’t remembered writing. 16 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was at Readercon, where I discovered I’d been placed on a panel about scientifiction of the 1920s — which I know nothing about! 16 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I swam as fast as I could to avoid being made into a sacrifice, but the pira\u00f1a kept biting into me as fast as I could rip them off. 14 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt an enemy was bidding on artwork I was selling at auction. He said it was as revenge, which upset me even though it made no sense. 14 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I’d created a series of posters (I no longer remember for what) and showed them off to Glee’s Kurt Hummel to get his design advice. 14 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I just woke from a nightmare about John Kessel, and I hope that by telling you about I’ll be able to get back to sleep. bit.ly\/qbgJ5P<\/a> 13 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I bumped into Paul Levitz and thought — why don’t I just HAND him this package I was about to mail? After much discussion, I did. 11 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt F. Lee Bailey was heading to hear a verdict in a murder trial that impacted my family. Since they weren’t going, I didn’t either. 10 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt Irene and I were working on a crossword puzzle which could win us a cruise, but she ran off and I was left to complete it myself. 10 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was being chased by a mob of men who thrust large crabs toward me, which nipped my flesh. I ran toward a fire station for help. 10 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was part of a plot to kidnap John Wilkes Booth and smuggle him somewhere. But this all took place today. And there were swords. 10 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was Walter White, had hidden voice-activated recorders in the furniture, and asked my wife to check they were well enough hidden. 9 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I had sold my West Virginia house and was giving it a last look before moving back to New York. And I was not happy. 9 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was chatting with @SteveNiles at a con and explaining what it was like to watch the first three Star Wars films the night before. 9 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I visited a guru who lived in the Anasazi cliff dwellings to convince him to share his secret cookie recipe. I was successful. 9 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was at a panel I very much wanted to see when the lady sitting beside me started pushing her lap dog at me and wouldn’t shut up. 8 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I watched Bush 43 watch a clip of himself being hit by a pie. Then the guy about to interview Bush on stage was also hit by a pie. 8 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was cast as Kolenkhov in “You Can’t Take It With You,” and realized as I arrived for opening night — we’d never had a rehearsal! 8 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I stuffed my face with scrambled eggs at breakfast while listening to @tinytempest and @2muchexposition tell tales of stupid men. 8 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I wandered Brooklyn barefoot, sensing calluses building on the soles of my feet, but I was in search of dim sum, so I didn’t care. 7 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt my son was only two years old, playing a guitar far larger than himself, yet speaking to me with the voice of an adult. 7 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I toured Europe with my wife, and in the distance saw a magnificent castle I sensed once we got inside we’d never be able to leave. 7 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I visited the house of @mrbelm and his wife to discover they built it with tunnels big enough for their son but not the rest of us. 7 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt my father (no longer alive and not a drinker) led my wife, son and I around Brooklyn pointing out the bars he used to hang out at. 7 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt that every teenaged girl I saw was wearing a massive, ornate gown worthy of Cinderella’s ball, and I was unable to figure out why. 7 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was on a train crossing a bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn, a bridge so high it was as if I was looking out an airplane window. 5 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt my son wandered about holding three motionless hula hoops around his waist, pretending that he was actually keeping them aloft. 4 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was on an adventure cruise through extremely rocky seas, which morphed into me watching a video about that cruise while at home. 4 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt a messenger accidentally left Jerry Robinson’s original cover art to Detective #69 at Sovereign Media and I was stunned to find it. 4 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt my brother organized a party for my Dad that involved a raid on an old timey candy store, but I didn’t want to eat all that candy. 4 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I worked at Marvel again, and Christopher Gabbert, who works at Syfy, was also there, nudging me, a modern day John Verpoorten. 3 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was embedded as a journalist in Afghanistan, where I walked carefully behind a soldier in his exact footsteps to not blow up. 3 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt an old lady thrust a battered mailbox in my hands, which turned out to be rubble from 9\/11. She wanted people to remember her son. 1 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I hung with @LenWein at a bar as he told me of the time he retired from comics and went to work for the Arizona police department. 1 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was in a large, cubicle-filled office with Stephen Colbert, and he commanded me to come after him in a game of tag. So I did. 1 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I was in an endless underground glass-walled maze, running from huge alien dogs that had been released to hunt me down. 1 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n

I dreamt I found a 4-foot tongue sculpted out of sherbet in a hospital lobby, and before it could be unveiled, dove in and began eating it. 1 Aug<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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