The Daily News
1 Looks like I missed yet another awards show.
2 I really don't like them. I like tributes and all, but only to people who have put their lives into something.
3 Besides, Van Halen wins an award but they clearly are too childish to put away differences and accept the award on behalf of their fans. What a buncha turds.
4 I didn't bother watching. I did like the fact that Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones made a wonderful recovery from his fall from a coconut tree last year.
Keith Richards honored the Ronetteslast night.
5 I hate when that happens.
6 My whole deal is that they oughta have awards for normal schmucks. Good plumbers, mechanics, cab drivers, admins, soldiers, fancy dancers, and anyone who has to drag their butts out of bed early in the morning and battle all the stresses of a normal day and still do amazing work for years on end.
7 Cuz yeah, I'd watch that.
8 Ol' Goody Two-Shoes over here.
9 Moving on: Well, Angie's Tom just got back safely from Iraq, and that's always good news. I'm continually amazed that people walking around here have no idea that there is even a war going on. Anyway I'd like to thank Evelyn for sending me that good news and I'd like to wish Angie and Tom all the best.
10 They are all illustrious members of our very own Pigeon Players. I went into my storage area the other day (see yesterday's DN) and saw all the props leaning against the wall. Well, springtime is in the air and everywhere I see rejunenation taking place.
11 Every year, I annually love those early teasing days of spring, when the world is mud-luscious. Not my words, the words of e.e. cummings, the poet.
12 Moving on, well sort of:The other morning, my mom called just to talk about a DN I wrote last year. It was all about baseball. I don't generally really remember what I write from one day to the next, so I went back and it was pretty fun, just all about Opening Day, and a dream I had that I had actually gone to the game on a school day, just like a mischievous kid. Of course I would NEVER really ditch school and go to a Opening Day. So I just reported my DREAM about it. Yeah, that's the ticket. And of course, you can take that one to the bank.
13 Anyway, mom just called because it was a beautiful day, an din fact, a beautiful weekend. Last year's baseball piece fit right in. I think it was on April 7 for those of you crafty enough to hit the archives.
14 This past weekend got everyone going I think. Trees blossomed, birds flitted, and young men's fancies are turned to <ahem!> other things. Radios had the slow, drawn-our loveliness of baseball broadcasters telling us who's on first, but really, it's all about hope and rebirth. Is there a better sound this time of the year than the crack of a bat and a crowd cheering?
15 It beats watching some wretched awards show with egomaniacs strutting around for doing pretty much nothing.
16 And it sure as heck beats falling out of coconut trees.
17 So we count our blessings, I imagine. Just hearing my mom's voice talking about how she can't wait for the Giants to begin, and later that day having my daughters and their fellas over for a barbecue, or soldiers coming home to their loved ones: those are the things we have to file under the Stuff of Life.
18 Well, that's about it for this morning. It's looking to be another gorgeous spring day, even though spring hasn't officially sprung.
19 It has in my eyes.
20 Play ball.
21 Peace.
~H~
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