The Rough Draft

So my son Colin as previously stated has Autism. In fact he’s classified as extremely Autistic. Unlike Jenny McCarthy, we get that this is who he is, there is no cure and you just do the best you can and be happy for what you get in return. This level of Autism presents a number of issues regarding communication and understanding between our family and my son. He’s mostly non verbal in that he communicates in single words as opposed to sentences, the most we’ll get out of him is three words strung together. Anything longer will be movie dialogue. Dialogue, I might add he’ll repeat at length. Of course his diction can get a bit muddled so sometimes it’ll take us a few months to figure out what film it’s from. We get by and for the most part can figure out what he wants, though he gets a lot more specific when it comes to certain DVD’s, Musical shows and Video games (more on that in a bit)

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So thanks to IMDb and a few other sites I get about ten queries a week regarding the kind of scripts I have no interest in either reading, critiquing or generally knowing about the existence of. See IMDB has one major flaw, it shows what you’re doing and what you’ve done but it doesn’t allow you to list a webpage unless you pony up even more cash.

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Remember when the news used to have… well, news? You know, a compendium of information about stuff that was happening in the world. Cause to be honest, I’m not all that interested in who Tiger did or didn’t shag (married or not). In fact I wasn’t all that interested in him in respects to golf, well anything to do with the game either. Perhaps if he’d portrayed himself as more of a guy and less of a Paragon (is the counter to Paragon Pariah?) there’d be less fall out? You know, if he was the Wilt Chamberlain of Golf, would people just cluck their tongues and go, “Oh that Tiger…”

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So tomorrow will probably be my last ride of the year. It’s still dry but the snow is really close and with snow comes the salt. So I’ll be attending the club meeting tomorrow morning and then going off to find a decent wand type car wash. A bit of Stabil in the tank and that’ll be another year of riding done.

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So Colin, my autistic son, loves these movies. We as parents don’t force our movie tastes on him, he’s come by them himself honestly. he’s also a big fan of James Bond and yes, he prefers Sean Connery, though he was enthusiastic about Casino Royal.

On my trip down to Virginia this Spring, my friend Michael took me up to DC for the Sunday and we toured a number of the Smithsonian Museums. For me the Air and Space Museum was the best, I’ll be heading down next year to catch the static displays out at the Dulles portion of the museum. However, I happened to arrive a day after the premiere at the museum and so I was able to get Colin a T-Shirt of the film. Which he proudly wore when we caught it a few weeks later.

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…Is not always the best thing that can happen to you. Success depends on a large number of factors, most of which are completely out of your control. Now I’m not one of those guys who’s super precious about my words. It’s a little irritating if you don’t follow my script but more in a, “I put a lot of thought into that,” sort of way. Believe it or not, it’s an intricate process. Some of these lines, I write now, will pay off later. Of course, because you shoot a film in bits and pieces, it’s not readily apparent on the day. Never mind that you’re supposed to have read the whole thing cover to cover a few times.

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