September 15, 2009
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Patrick Swayze 1952-2009The Daily News
After Guys and Dolls, 20061 So…Patrick Swayze walks into a bar…
2 Sometimes things just are that sad.
3 Feels like a part of everybody danced off with that one.
4 So it goes; so it goes.
5 Sweet man. Godspeed your love.
6 That was quite a thing to read coming home yesterday.
7 Puts a lot in perspective.
8 Tell people you love them today, willya?
9 Life’s too short, I swear to you.
10 Moving on: I wouldn’t want to get all “emo” about it, not in the least.
11 I’m finding myself in supermarkets right after school, and that I’m becoming an expert at the psychological warfare that takes place in supermarkets.
12 Yesterday, for example, I had that moment of indecision as to which line to slip into. Directly in front of me was a guy who had about 20 items, but up around six feet was a line that had people with a grand total of about three items. Only one guy was sort of hovering, as though he noticed me eyeballin’ the line, but held his territory, even though he clearly didn’t want to suddenly cut in front of me.
13 I shot him a POTENTIAL stank eye, then stepped back a step, clearly a sign that he could slip into that line, and that I wouldn’t make a scene, so long as I could do the electric slide right in behind him.
14 It was a psychological dance step that worked every bit as anything on So You Think You Could Dance. Like, I wasn’t overly cool with the guy, just enough to let him slip in with two items provided I could file right in behind him.
15 It was actually so nobody else would slide in behind him.
16 Worked great, the guy never looked at me, and we both beat the other line by at LEAST two minutes.
17 You get good at this stuff after a fashion.
18 Moving on, Part the Second: I had an extraordinary political piece all tanned and rested but decided not to throw it out there, at least not quite yet.
19 It is pretty cutting edge, but perhaps WAY too real and on it, and I’m not quite ready to deliver, at least not just now.
20 So I’ll keep it a tad low key, even though some of the stuff is pretty explosive.
21 Just not quite ready to punch one through, at least not quite yet.
22 For now, I just wanna tell everyone to keep heads up, and to keep fighting the good fight.
23 We have many challenges to fight, and it is important that we all keep a smile and a lot of courage as we face these.
24 See ya soon. Keep fighting in the meantime. Miss ya’ll.
25 Love yuz. That’s about it, yo!
26 Peace.
~H~
