Yo soy Dracula!

I spent Halloween night with friends in Van Nuys, eating pizza and drinking wine and giving candy to the cavalcade of treat-or-treaters. Then we watched my DVD of the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula (filmed at night on the same sets as the Lugosi version). I hadn't seen the film in a few years, and it was even better than I'd remembered, especially the bravura performance of Pablo Alvarez Rubio as Renfield. One of the best Renfields ever! In many ways it's a better film than the Lugosi one (aside from the absence of Lugosi himself), as well as just being a marvelously odd experience seeing an alternate version of the familiar classic.

Today has been rather lethargic, though late this afternoon I finally went to Trader Joe's and did some work on chapter nine. I'll do more revisions this evening. I'm glad to have an extra hour tonight...

hooray vs. eeeek

The chapter nine revisions are finally starting to behave. Hooray!

However, I am so nervous about this election. Eeeeek.