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***I Knew I Should’ve Kept This as Part of My Inner Dialogue***

However, this is the kind of obscure minutia that haunts me:

 

I worry that if I ever met Dick Cavett, he’d be able to sprinkle our conversation with more relevant Norma Desmond quotes from “Sunset Boulevard” than I ever could.

 

An unreasonable fear? Maybe.

 

My condition has been diagnosed as Normaquotaphobia and I believe I’m its only sufferer. There’s a vaccine for it, but the side effect is it makes you think like Jenny McCarthy.

 

In any event, I try to remain a Big Picture guy. After all, “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”

 

And finally, “Tell Mr. Toothpaste, I’m ready for my Close-Up.”

 

We now return you to your regularly scheduled life already in progress.