May 26, 2006
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The Daily News
1 Honors Night.
2 Honors Night was last night. I had to miss it.
3 I didn't exactly WANT to miss it, but I had another in a series of life's wrist-grabbers. In fact, I had my shirt, tie, and Pert ready for a classic tech shower, when I got a phone call.
4 Another emergency, but I won't go into it entirely. They happen. I just needed to go.
5 But I missed Honors Night, and I never miss Honors Night.
6 So to our Senior Class, I apologize.
7 I DID manage to get in there and change the lighting so that everybody didn't look purple.
8 The last light design was the rock show. The night before last I went in to change the lighting for Honors Night, had to leave, came back, and there was a meeting I knew nothing about going on.
9 The stage was lit, but everybody up there was purple, green, pink, and red. I HAD put a white light up, tried to bring it up, but it just didn't work.
10 There was nothing I could really do since NOBODY bothered to tell me there was anything going on.
11 So that meeting looked like a grown-up version of Doug.
12 You Know You're Getting Old, Dept: Uh...Doug?
13 Please don't say, "Uh...Doug?"
14 Doug was this pretty wholesome cartoon that used to be on Nickelodeon "back in the day". To me it was more like "back in the night". It was witty, sweet, and a great little cartoon that depicted school children as young people each of whom was a different color. It actually had humor and pretty good values.
15 Yeah it was called Doug, and...
16 Nickelodeon? Ah, come on! Not the one with Sponge Bob Squarepants. The Classic Nickelodeon.
17 Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron? I can't believe I said that.
18 Anyway, yeah, Doug. Come on. Yer KILLIN' me.
19 Roundhouse? Rugrats?
?
20 Are you afraid of the dark?
21 Omg.
22 Nevermind.
23 Those were the great ones. They also had Ren and Stimpy.
24 Much less classy, but always riveting.
25 And of course, Clarissa Explains it All...
26 Clarissa was responsible for teaching kids that parents are essentially idiots, and...
27 Nevermind.
28 I saw a lot of this listed on some website entitled Classic TV and Movies.
29 Classic.
30 Well, in many ways, Nickelodeon was. Roundhouse was a Godspell-type show that was more creative than about 90% of what passes for kids' shows now.
31 Who's feeling old out there? Are you afraid of the dark?
32 For those of you who haven't a clue about any of this, here's a website that is a sort of encyclopedia. It's what the guys who created it call a "Nicklopedia". Works for me. Once you're on, it's sort of fun and nostalgic.
http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/blammo/nicklo/nicklo_a.html
33 I remember thinking at one point that Ren and Stimpy was pretty much the end of Western Civilization as we know it. I was a huge fan of Roundhouse and Doug.
34 I'd take any of it now.
35 Okay kiddies. That's it for today's lesson.
36 Today's homework: Rediscover. Have a beautiful day!
Peace.
~H~
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