December 7, 2006
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The Daily News
1 So as AOL is talking about the best places to get strawberries, Jamba Juice in San Francisco has people keeling over from tainted strawberries.
2 Actually, I can’t really say that at all. I pulled in late last night after helping get programs together and all for the second weekend of Behind Closed Doors, the YB Drama Workshop’s fall miracle Show.
3 I had to get the news together and heard that both Jamba Juice and Taco Bell were trying to poison everyone. Or something like that. I was just tired and picking up bits and pieces of the news, so take none of this at face value.
4 It just seems that anything can kill you these days.
5 So anyway, don’t believe anything at all about eating fine products that can purportedly kill you. It seems nowadays that anything can and will.
6 Meanwhile, I just want to remind everyone that the play goes up once again tonight at 8 p.m. I’m hoping the flag goes up.
7 I walked past Buzz yesterday, over at YB, and he just hollered, “Hey Mr. H! I would have gone to the play last week but I didn’t see the flag!”
8 Ah…tradition. As everyone who reads this can tell you, a flag flying proudly above the YB Theatre this time of year indicates that there is a play this night, at 8 p.m. We took to doing that years ago when I just thought it would be great if we flew a flag over the Theatre on performance nights, replicating what the Elizabethans used to do with the Globe during a Shakespearean run.
9 I was originally going to just come home tonight, throw up a sign that said GONE FISHIN’, and then take off to bed.
10 But I clearly didn’t. I needed to throw a huge holla out for everyone to get over to YB and see the first all student-directed show, Behind Closed Doors.
11 The Show is great, and it’s all done in large part to a group of students who never gave up, and who got past all the critics to stage their own play, without so much as one adult director. Oh, a couple of us old brown shoes wandered in and out, threw a wrench on some lights, that sort of thing, but overall, these students did it, and they deserve all the support they can get.
12 On top of which the Show itself is quite an enjoyable evening in the YB Theatre, and feels every bit the same as any Drama Workshop show. Amazingly close. Go and be proud of these brave young directors and actors; they put it all together with monstrous obstacles and with minimal help.13 It’s Tonight and Saturday. Curtain at 8.
14 AOL must have eaten some of its own strawberries last night because all the fonts keep changing and messing this beautiful piece up. I gotta cut this one short.
15 Go to the Show and bring a huge group with you. These guys simply deserve it, and so do you. It’ll do your heart good.
17 Peace.~H~
