{"id":257,"date":"2005-10-30T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2005-10-30T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T19:34:00","slug":"my-flat-cresta-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-flat-cresta-25\/","title":{"rendered":"My Flat, Cresta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sunday, October 30, 2005<\/h1>\n<p><i>Service: * * * 1\/2<br \/>Food: * * *<br \/>Ambience: * * * * *<br \/>Babe Count: * * * * *<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>     It&#8217;s not that this Coffee-Shop Schmuck HASN&#8217;T been out and about. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m now in a fulltime relationship, and she&#8217;s moved into my place temporarily, and I&#8217;m digging it tons.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just had a Fontana chicken takeaway with a salad from Panarotti&#8217;s, which was QUITE delicious. She&#8217;s busy practising her singing for an audition, and I&#8217;m dreaming of having some tea and a TIM TAM. (It&#8217;s a biscuit imported from Australia, available only in certain Pick &#8216;n Pay supermarkets. If you&#8217;re interested&#8230; head for the Melville branch at Campus Square.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing tons of things.<\/p>\n<p>For one, I&#8217;ve bought a tablet PC &#8212; the Toshiba Tecra M4. And it&#8217;s a serious wet dream.<\/p>\n<p>For another, I&#8217;ve acted in a corporate video, which was damn cool. And I&#8217;ve been doing voice-over work too. I&#8217;m getting busy, mon.<\/p>\n<p>For another, I delivered a creativity seminar for 23 teachers from various schools. Two of them were hotties. Hmmm. S was going to come to the seminar, but a voice-over session came up, and she had to miss it. Sad. It would have been nice for the two hotties to see me with an uber hottie. Heheheh.<\/p>\n<p>For another, I finally wrote a redraft of my feature screenplay, HOME. It&#8217;s now sitting online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoetrope.com\">www.zoetrope.com<\/a>, waiting for members of Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s online filmmaking community to crit. So far, I&#8217;ve had four people read it, and no crits yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started gearing up to expand my ka huna massage practice. Did a massage two days ago. And loved being in the flow of it again. I&#8217;ve listed myself on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therapistdirectory.co.za\/\">www.therapistdirectory.co.za<\/a>. So if you want a ka huna massage, I&#8217;m available on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and on Saturday afternoons. The charge is R400 for a one and-a-half hour session.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve been accepted into THE ACTOR&#8217;S CENTRE as a full member, which is really quite something. I&#8217;m taking classes with Daniel Buckland in physical comedy. We do a small show on Thursday, and my little Golem-like creature plays a neat role in the unfolding story.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Dick Richards, the author of a book that changed my life some years ago, has released a new book. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;camp=1789&amp;tag=barefootpress&#038;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0891061940\/qid=1130702190\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\">IS YOUR GENIUS AT WORK?<\/a> And it&#8217;s available for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;camp=1789&amp;tag=barefootpress&#038;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0891061940\/qid=1130702190\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\">Amazon.com<\/a>. Some months ago he contacted me and asked me if I&#8217;d be willing to write some comments on the book. He forwarded me a substantial wad of the book, and I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m quoted as saying on the first page of the book:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve found  it easier to relate to clients and friends having named my genius. And I find it&#8217;s a useful tool to offer to people so that they know how best to utilize my skills.&#8221; &#8212; Roy Blumenthal, Artist-at-Large<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dick and I have been in touch for years. I wrote to him ages ago asking if it would be okay for me to create a weekend seminar based on his work. He was delighted to let me do so. I ran a test weekend, and it was awesome. Ten of my friends benefited from learning the names of their genius. Mine is &#8216;Guiding the Flow&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly recommend that you buy his book. And head for his blog. His thinking is life-changing. He&#8217;s at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ongenius.com\/blog\">www.ongenius.com\/blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s asked for guest bloggers, and one of my pieces will be appearing on his site sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dick, I&#8217;m in a serious piece of re-evaluation space right now. I&#8217;m busy looking at how my blog comes across in the eyes of the world. The image I&#8217;m giving people of myself. I&#8217;m ready to take myself to the next level of earning, and the next level of making a contribution to the world.<\/p>\n<p>So watch this space. Soon I&#8217;ll be offering my services as a life coach and as a creativity coach. I&#8217;ve been doing some informal sessions with friends and acquaintances, and soon I&#8217;ll be ready to start charging for it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it for now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll catch you when I&#8217;ve got time.<\/p>\n<p>Blue skies<br \/>love<br \/>Roy<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, October 30, 2005 Service: * * * 1\/2Food: * * *Ambience: * * * * *Babe Count: * * * * * It&#8217;s not that this Coffee-Shop Schmuck HASN&#8217;T been out and about. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m now in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/my-flat-cresta-25\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Flat, Cresta<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-49","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}