Except I know she’ll show up at the end. I’m at The International Spy Museum. I made sure to get here an hour early because my dad needed me to buy the books, and I thought there would be a line. Not only was there not a line, the bookstore doesn’t have them. You get them at the event. All I have to say about that is that it is a very good hour I could have spent reading the book. I’m trying hard not to be mad about it, but it’s like getting the new Outlander for me. This is Autism Christmas, okkkkkkkkk………..
Intelligence is my special interest, and has been since 2008. I have said this many times before that the obsession started not with wanting to do intelligence myself (although it would have been nice in my 20s), but with wanting to write a script like “Argo.” The humor about The Agency was funnier than anything I’ve heard in a long time…. except, perhaps, Burn After Reading. It’s tied for my favorite because I didn’t even know I needed to see CIA written as a Coen Brothers movie until I did. The last line of the movie made me fall off my couch, I was laughing so hard. Everything is building to it. EVERYTHING. You don’t see it coming, and J.K. Simmons knocks it out of the park…. as always.
Jonna says that “people will be shocked.” If I had half a brain I would have brought two copies of that “People” magazine (!!!!!!!). I would have needed one for my dad, because now he’s into it. I am sure that he’s got his own magazine, but he’s not three floors from her and I am. 😉
After this my sister and I are going to Zaytinya. She’s getting her hair cut and doing her thing until this is over. Our timing should be perfect. Doors open at 6:30, and our reservations are for 9:00pm. I was going to stop for something on the way home, anyway. Preferably a coffee shop so I could finish the book. But it would have to be one of those 90s coffee shops, like Tryst or Afterwords if they were open 24 hours.
Let’s not kid ourselves. I’d be done by 11:00.
It’s not only because I read fast. It’s that Jonna’s a blogger. Her style is just as easy and clear as mine, painting her feelings as fact as I am. Probably why I sound like a professor all the time, but if you read both of us you’ll see that I read her as fast as I read me, because she writes just like she talks. When you see her in a YouTube video, THAT’S HER. You can take that check to the bank and cash it. When I think of how much Argo, Master of Disguise, Spy Dust, et al have changed my writing style, it’s mind boggling. But not hard to comprehend, because when I wanted to write something like Argo, I went to the source.
If there’s anything I’ve learned in all this time from intelligence operatives, real and otherwise, it’s that you can prevent wars with more information, no matter how many people are involved in the conflict.
Stories That Are All True 