February 6, 2006
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The Daily News
1 So...Al Lewis walks into a bar...
2 He played Grandpa on The Munsters. Great guy. So it goes. He was 95, which gives all of us hope!
3 I'd like to send a HUGE congratulations to the Band for their awesome performance at the rally on Friday! You guys stepped up, and really delivered! I'm pretty sure that you stole a whole bunch of the Show, and you percussion dudes, you just rocked everyone!!!
4 But all of you looked bright, played brilliantly, and made me really proud! Evan, you are one of the best ever! But all of you looked and sounded sharp! It was hard not to dance, but I really thought about that one, and then thought better of it! Tracy Wolcott got her groove on though! You go, wild one!
5 Movin' on: After school, I was suddenly hit with the first major flaking of the Spring Musical. I guess you have to take the good with the bad, and a WHOLE bunch of kids cut out of rehearsal on Friday. Ouch...
6 Trouble periodically happens in Paradise, it is said.
7 Anyway, as is my wont, I continued rehearsing anyway, and we wound up with a rousingly amazing LIVE version of Hey, Big Spender! from Sweet Charity! These guys really sounded awesome!
8 But two days in a row we had hints of flakiness. In the past, we've lost shows when things like that happen. This would really be a shame, since I don't offer this sort of show that often, and I have also done some of the best directing of my career. Already we have almost six songs we are working with, and all of them sound good, and two of them already have choreography!
9 So get the word out that it takes hard work and dedication to make a great show! I'm guessing that when working with a lot of new people, we might get a little miscommunication. It's just...oy.
10 We also had a number of people out on a field trip.
11 Either way, we've stayed with it and come away with just some amazing work. At the end of the day on Friday, I was knocked out by the girls' delivery of Hey, Big Spender. They loved it, and so did everyone!
12 Well, I deliberately didn't hype up the Super Bowl this year, don't know why I didn't, really. Good game, but it just seems to lag. I was SORT of there, but not really. Sort of like the Seahawks.
13 I LOVED that they featured the Rolling Stones at halftime, but I couldn't help wondering why they didn't feature Motown stars instead. Aretha should have been the half-time show, and maybe the Temptations.
14 I honestly thought Jagger would bring out Aretha and jam Brown Sugar, but he was already censoring lines from Start Me Up, and I'm guessing that song would have brought a few jeers from the PC. But why on Earth did they play an unknown song called Rough Justice? Huh? To promote a new album? 600 billion kajillion people would have preferred Brown Sugar, or Jumpin' Jack Flash. Still, Mick Jagger looked like he could have flown to the end zone and caught passes for Seattle, and swirled back to the stage to catch roses.
15 And later, if you were REALLY watching, Slim Fast had this commercial that just butchered the Stones' anthem, Time is on My Side. So it goes, so it goes.
16 So no Aretha, who could have used a little Slim Fast. She has grown about thirty chins since I last saw her. But I can criticize, 'cuz I'm just so cut. Hey, you goin' to the Show?
17 My favorite commercial? None of them, really.
18 Oh, there was one where Yosemite Sam macks on a mud flap girl for some truck, but it wasn't a Toooondra, so I just felt happy for that hot-headed fellow. He could use a dame like that, God knows. Calm his ass down.
19 That varmint.
20 I wonder what the kids'll look like?
21 Okay, well, enjoy your Monday! I better get outta here. Yo, Sam! Fine time ya got a saucy dame, ya varmint.
22 I gotta get outta here fast! Have a calm day,
man.
23 Peace.
~H~
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