February 22, 2007
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The Daily News
1 Hey, welcome back!
2 I know some of you out there probably throw the DN out there on your computer while you are putting on a sock, or slurping down a fast cuppa, or maybe even having some hot oatmeal.
3 You may be leaning upside down on a Pilates ball, or just settling into avoiding work while at work, so this is a great way to LOOK like you’re doing something important.
4 Procrastinator’s dream.
5 Some just refer to the DN as that “whatever thing you send me” haha. Awesome.
6 Others just delete without even lookin’.
7 Some check it out after a high ball; some after an eight-ball.
8 To me, it’s sorta like the Merc in the morning. I go out there and pick it up, scan it for anything that might waste away some fun minutes, and then get on with stuff.
9 It’s funny because I write the damn thing and have no control over it. It’s like it’s been going for 11 years now, pre-dates blogs by a mile, and somehow winds up at my own doorstep each morning, except when school isn’t in session.
10 I often just feel it’s like a good song coming in and moving you through moods as you drift through life. It’s a constant. I swear to you I don’t even write this stuff. It just sorta writes itself. My fingers just tack away, random thoughts and idiotic ponderings.
11 Someone is probably spoon-feeding a baby while reading this stuff.
12 College people just sorta delete it, and occasionally read it. Some spend time on a rainy Saturday reading all the dumb stuff, which I do as well. I may suddenly catch a letter “I” where I was trying to put an exclamation point.
13 Or some horrid misspelling. A wrong “there”. Or a misnumbering. Like it would go from 13 to 10 or something.
14 Sure is fun though.
15 Saturdays and Sundays are particularly fun to go back and re-read stuff that was happening in life six or seven months ago.
16 Over this vacation I decided that I’m going to try to write a bunch more, just some fun and idiotic stuff in advance of the days. The new job has me awakening at 5:30 each morning so writing well into the evening causes me to pass out by early afternoon.
17 I’ve literally been driving home and my head would almost roll to awaken, you know like you do, only I’m on the freeway. Not good. They have laws against narcoleptic driving.
18 So I have to find more creative ways of getting this mishmosh out there, because it’s still pretty fun mishmosh. I have people from the Class of ’82 reading this. Pretty valuable mishmosh.
19 And I have people from three decades of YB reading this, all of whom have stumbled through that institution’s Theatre at some point and who enjoy bathing in the rainbow glow of the mirror ball and the music and all the goofiness.
20 So I’m gonna start writing during normal daytime hours and see how things might change with a different world spinning about and behind me. I think it will be fun; we’ll get things like Gary Radnich, and lunchtime goofs, rainy afternoons and some of the bizarre entrances that happen throught my door each and every day.
21 The new job has me as a sort of Godfather. People line up to come in and ask me for things, for favors, for events, for sales pitches. People throw fires at me, hate me, and want to burn me in effigy.
22 I’m also a sort of tackling dummy. Everyone wants to take a hit at the guy who creates school activities. I get a lot of, “ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?” comments.
Great fun!
23 I used to always tell Rocha that every time I would schedule something insane in the Theatre, that his job was to look at me and say, “Whataya, nuts?”
24 We now do that to one another.
25 So the DN should broaden at this point. I’ll be writing all hours of the day so I could get to bed a little earlier.
26 It’ll be different, but hopefully even more idiotic than ever!
27 I hope you enjoy the changes.
28 They should be pretty lively.
29 And oh, the DN will be for only three days this week. I’m flying to Sandyeggo with Rocha. We’re going to a convention of other guys and gals who do this idiotic job.
30 Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the modified DN format. I think it’ll be fun!
31 Peace.
2 I know some of you out there probably throw the DN out there on your computer while you are putting on a sock, or slurping down a fast cuppa, or maybe even having some hot oatmeal.
3 You may be leaning upside down on a Pilates ball, or just settling into avoiding work while at work, so this is a great way to LOOK like you’re doing something important.
