Talking w/ Paul

PIANO MAN:
Paul, it's been awhile.

PAUL:
Yeah. How have you been?

PIANO MAN:
Good. Busy. I think I've played out every night this month but one.

PAUL:
That's great. I am so busy too. So busy.

PIANO MAN:
Good. Busy bird gets the worm, right?

PAUL:
I think it's early bird gets the worm.

PIANO MAN:
I know. I was making a joke.

PAUL:
Oh. So yeah, pretty much all I do is work. Work work work.

PIANO MAN:
Sold any doozies lately?

PAUL:
No. I'm still shopping it around.

PIANO MAN:
Oh... Is the market good or bad these days? I don't pay attention.

PAUL:
I mean, like always, it's hard for first time authors.

PIANO MAN:
Realtors.

PAUL:
I'm sorry?

PIANO MAN:
You accidentally said author.

PAUL:
That's what I said.

PIANO MAN:
Realtor?

PAUL:
Author.

PIANO MAN:
....

PAUL:
....

PIANO MAN:
Who's on first?

PAUL:
What?

PIANO MAN:
Never mind. Paul, unless I'm going crazy, I swear you've been in real estate for as long as I've known you.

PAUL:
Real estate just pays the bills. I'm a writer. Well, a novelist, I should say.

PIANO MAN:
I had no idea.

PAUL:
I just finished my first.

PIANO MAN:
Congrats.

PAUL:
Thanks. Yeah, so I'm in the process of sending query letters right now.

PIANO MAN:
I see.

PAUL:
I send at least ten a night to publishers, other novelists who may know publishers, rich people that my parents know who may want to get into publishing.

PIANO MAN:
Is that...how it works?

PAUL:
Like I said, it's tough for unpublished authors. But I figure I got a great back story, you know? Realtor by day, author by night. That's the kind of crap Barbara Walters eats up.

PIANO MAN:
Is it?

PAUL:
I think.

PIANO MAN:
Hmmmm.

PAUL:
You've seen her, right?

PIANO MAN:
Yeah...

PAUL:
20/20.

PIANO MAN:
Yeah. I've seen it.

PAUL:
Great show.

PIANO MAN:
I don't.....really...

PAUL:
I'm gonna go say hi to Davey.

PIANO MAN:
I'll see you around, Paul. Good luck with the letters.

PAUL:
Thanks, Bill.