August 22, 2005
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The Daily News
1 Welcome back! I hope y'all had a great summer! To the new alumni, my Class of '05 guys, welcome to the wide, wonderful, wacky world of the Daily News!!! To my old readers and fans of the DN, it looks like it'll be around for its 10th year!
2 Despite the Drama Workshop not really existing this year (VERY weird!), there was never really a question that the DN would continue. Or there might have been. I can't remember. Anyway, to some, this is like a warm cup of coffee each morning. To others, it's an instant delete. To others, it's a great way to start each day. To me, it's a lark, a spree, it's very clear to see!
3 Hmm. It doesn't bode well when you start busting out in Julie Andrews' tunes the first day of school...
4 As always, each year I select a few alumni and add them to the DN delivery service. If you would rather not receive the DN, just write me an e-mail, and I'll not send these out to you. Otherwise, welcome to my Daily News! It is now a tradition going back TEN years this Spring!!! This is where you get the REAL news, not only about the school, or the Workshop, or anything, but about the WHOLE world!!! It doesn't get any better than this!
5 Okay, that being said, the school year began yesterday with a District meeting with about 4 billion teachers who dyed their ears, plucked their eyebrows, and cried on the scales, as yet another year had taken away any hope of personal dignity.
6 I, on the other hand, worked out, tanned, swam, visited canyons, plundered and pillaged white rafters on the Sea of Green, dressed in full PIRATE regalia, put a gold cap on my first tooth left of center, and smiled with a bright twinkle, ready to take all this to the next level.
7 In short, I'm uglier than ever.
8 Yeesh.
9 Drama Workshop people: one of the first items on my agenda is to attempt to hook something up for a full season of plays. While I'm NOT going to direct plays, nor will I teach a Drama class, I never intended last year for the Workshop to go away; I just thought I'd be replaced, which didn't happen. But the Workshop has been around for almost 25 years, and is clearly a classic YB tradition, so rest assured that I am working on it. It will be a huge task, and maybe one I won't be able to fulfill, but I promise at least to look into it.
10 The PA office and entire area has had a huge facelift thanks to Ms. Hooper and select members of the Band, who came down during the summer and cleaned, organized, and got the place in ship-shape. Great work!
11 Along the way, a sad thing: my posters came down and were in a box, and I accidentally put them with a bunch of normal garbage, which the janitors tossed. This box included a lot of original office posters, including the Chaplin poster, the mime sitting on the crescent moon, and the guy with the duck hands, the first poster I ever hung in the building! Awwwww...
12 Somewhere I still have pictures of those. I took them last year during a exquisitely painful afternoon alone in the office, when I decided to take pictures for the slide show that ultimately made it into my last show, A Love Letter. So they are still somewhere...
13 Anyway, welcome back everybody! Let's write it in our hearts that every day will be the best day. I'd say that was a paraphrase of Emerson, but I've reached the point where the only Emerson I know of is an affordable boombox at Target.
14 I better leave.
15 Let's get it started!
16 Peace.
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