PrivateTim

Thank you Mark for the latest CAP chapter. It sounds like we are in the last few chapters of this book. I appreciate all the work it takes and emotional capital it takes to come up with the storyline and then to but flesh on the bones of the story. Matt is right, I go absolutely nuts at French chateaus and Italian villas in Hawaii. They are just so unappealing and I think inappropriate in Hawaii. I like when architects pay homage to traditional Hawaiian style, which means plantation style, which means low slung, very open to let the trade winds blow through, covered lanais (homes in Hawaii don't have patios or balconies). Unmentioned has been that I spent my youngest years growing up in Honolulu and my family mocked those Californians moving into our neighborhood, tearing down the lovely Hawaiian bungalows to put up Beverly Hills mansions with A/C where they never opened a window. I like the introducing of Courtney into the story, but to be in the mode she is in at 10 indicates she is in need of serious therapy. A 13 year exhibiting the same attitude/rebellion could be written off as a phase, but not 10. I also get the problem though faced here. You can't change Courtney's age to 13 and hope no one notices, but yet you know where you want the character to take the story so you have to deal with what you have. 10/11 is 5th grade, so not Middle School yet. I can't imagine what an "incredibly skimpy bikini" is on a 10 year old and who would notice?

Interested in who is melting down.

I love this story and this chapter, but I am no longer bowing to peer pressure for "story likes inflation". I look back at, say, Man in Motion: Super Bowl. That is as brilliant a chapter as any ever written in CAP, yet it received 27 likes, 8 loves, an angry and scattered other signals of appreciation. Travisty: Bastille Day gets a 'like' from me and I will find other ways to grovel before the throne. Anywho, thanks Mark for this lovely bit of craft, thanks that it stays on schedule and starts to wrap up this bit of drama. As to the content, if I could have anyone in this story rubbed out, and not in a good way, it would be Sebastian. Dolan isn't important enough to warrant more attention. He will slink quietly hack to his small pond from whence he came. Maybe two months from now a couple of fellas visit him and do some damage, not too visible, to remind him there are a lot of lonely fishes. To all appearances Travill, or is it Wivis, are back to being a couple again. Do I have this right? Still, I think upon Will's return to Harvard, a swift kick in the nads to Austin could help Will's outlook on life.

You choose the most bizarre, obscure things 🤣 I think 10,000 people saw this movie and the only ones who liked it were upper class East Side twits for the inside jokes. 🤣

Money so new it is still wet.

Boston Brahmins don't accept anyone. The Lodges speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots speak only to God.

Much more like The Wonder Years actually. Despite the wealth I grew up around, no one was ostentatious and many of my friends were slightly embarrassed by their parents wealth. My best friend my freshman year in high school lived in a house so big compared to all the other houses around told kids at school his father was a minister and that was his church. We thought how we lived was normal.

A home on the ocean side of Coast Highway is a minimum 8 figure home. With inflation and all, a nice home in Granada Hills can go from $2-4 million. Calabasas, where the Kardasians are from, is the new "it place" for Hollywood and there are a ton of homes there $10-40 million. As to Dolan, yeah he was a dick, but hardly deserving of death (unlike Zach). He just needs to be black-balled in the industry and sent back to BFE. Last bit of trivia, John Elway played football at Granada Hills High School when his father was the head coach at Cal State Northridge, or the Harvard of the Valley, as we like to call it.

Neither one is a great option because they pay replacement costs not market value. When David Geffin's $85 million house burned down, if he was insured, he'd have received a few million for it. We are actually in good shape in terms of the house washing away, but not everyone is so lucky. It's been a rough couple of years for the area. If you don't know about it, look up Kelvin Wave So Cal. PS Stef's house could be in trouble.

1 Thes 5:3 "For when they say, 'Peace and safety!' then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape."

Falling in the sea first. I've seen fire up close and personal and it is no bueno 😗

Oh honey, he's pushing on middle age from the wrong side 🤣

Travis got a boner, Travis got a boner 🤣 Thanks Mark for your constancy to your fans. I know that some Friday I may sit by the computer and wind up disappointed, but it isn't this week 😁 An interesting chapter as Travis claws his way out of the pit he has been in. Now I need to go figure out if my house is going to burn down before it falls into the sea, or if it falls into the sea before burning 🤣

Where is the edited Timeline posted? Did you also update the Character Cheat Sheet?

I'd have just blamed Will for getting it wrong. 🤣