Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Daily News
1 Did I read correctly that some guy is suing JetBlue for two-million dollars because they made him sit on a toilet on a round-trip that they let him go on for free?
2 I think it was something about him being a friend of an employee and when an actual employee needed to sit down, they made this poor schlep sit on the toilet.
3 To the guy's credit, the plane hit turbulence.
4 Hey, I'd just sit on a toilet for the free ride. He got to go to New York.
5 You mean to tell me that not only could I get a free ride to somewhere fun, but if I'm lucky enough to hit turbulence, I can sue an airline for two mil? Where do I sign up?
6 The guy had a round-trip flight from San Diego to New York, working on a buddy system in which Jet Blue employees can get a friend to travel for free.
7 Okay, so he hit a little turbulence...
8 Anyway, if he wins two million bucks, it was worth the effort.
9 By the way, I never quite did get what the guy on the tail of those planes was all about.
10 I thought that guy on the tail was some dictator we were schmoozing or something.
11 I'm so out of it these days.
12 I'm tellin' ya.
13 Moving on: I have this old saying: those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, direct plays.
14 And those who can't direct plays?
15 We watch Dancing With the Stars and realize that at no point in our lives could we EVER have danced, acted, or moved like those talented people we see on reality shows, in professional theater, or on most high school stages, for that matter.
16 Ah, looking over an entire career where I got to tell people more talented than me how to do what they do, I break into a twinkly smile. Nice times. Very simple. Very innocent and fun. Very lively. And all very real.
17 Telling people who are more talented than you how to do things can be pretty unnerving. But it's also fascinating.
18 I watched some guy last night who swirled around, danced perfectly, and came to a total Broadway pose and thought to myself, "Even at the height of my game I could never deliver that sort of pizzazz."
19 I love that word.
20 Pizzazz.
21 But it's been a fun time of it. Helping talented people reach for the stars is a bit of an art, I imagine.
22 I'll tellya this much, I do miss it. I do miss it.
23 Moving on, Part the Second: This Friday and Saturday nights the Yerba Buena Drama Workshop presents The Odd Couple at 7:30 p.m. in the Theatre.
24 I got an e-mail last week inviting me to go, as well as a MySpace invite. I haven't yet RSVP'd because the nature of my job keeps me from committing myself, especially on Friday nights.
25 Sure enough, on Friday some club decided they wanted to do a banquet.
26 I told them they could have their banquet but that I wasn't going to be there for them, that they needed an advisor to do that. And I had a perfectly good reason.
27 I was making plans to be somewhere else.
28 Somewhere pretty special.
29 I hope to see a lot of you there.
30 Go out and support the Workshop. They're still giving it all they got.
31 And go enjoy the Theatre, the only one I will capitalize and spell with the "-re" ending.
32 My attempt at a subtle tribute.
33 For the record, I don't spell it that way at the Chill.
34 Sort of like retiring someone's number.
35 Something like that.
36 Have a great day everybody.
37 See ya again.
38 Peace.
~H~
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