December 17, 2009
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The Daily News
1 So...Roy Disney walks into a bar...
2 I used to goof on ol' Roy for years on end, and yet...
3 Ladieeez and Gents, the immortal Roy Disney!
4 Ya gotta raise a glass!
5 So it goes.
6 Speaking of glasses...
7 (Looking about, patting pockets.) Thought I lost my glasses.
8 Honestly.
9 I have a hunnert-and-five pairs of reading glasses, but the ONLY pair I actually would be seen is the pair that I lost.
10 (Excitedly.) OH! WAIT!!! I just FOUND my glasses. (But the joy quickly turns to dismay.) Whoops! Lost 'em again.
11 (To himself, an amazing discovery.) Whaaaat? They were right in front of me the whole time!
12 Fookin' glasses. I swear to you. (Takes out tissue and water. He cleans them.)
13 (Suddenly, a discovery.) I have cleaned them, and suddenly virtually everything is coming at me with crystal clarity!
14 Now that the smoodges and all have vanished, the world is materializing perfectly to me.
15 I see a whole buncha things that are opening before my quite dazzled eyes.
16 (Noticing Mickey Mouse at the top of the page.) Wow.
17 A Fun Moment, Part 1: I discovered Russell on So You Think You Can Dance, and saw a guy with a lot of heart and soul win the whole ordeal.
18 Ah, clear glasses!
19 Do we all not see better once we improve our personal vision?
20 Well, I refuse to go too deeply into all THAT.
21 Moving On: I had an entire Christmas piece for this DN, but somehow all my notes and extremely clever retorts to life buried, or perhaps, recycled.
22 So I just thought I'd reverse direction and focus all of us on forgetting all things life, looking within ourselves, and then counting the blessings that so many of us have surrounding our very beings.
23 Today, for example, might perfectly well have become one of the loveliest days of the year.
24 Well, I crowed yesterday about making that a possibility, yet I stubbornly wanted also to offer my services at the girls' basketball game.
25 And our girls, who went to state last year, have had some less-than-awesome games, and were down.
26 I reluctantly went to the game because I told the coach that I wanted to be there for the team, plus I'm a pretty good shot clock guy.
27 For the record, this team went to state playoffs last year. AND most of the team are returning veterans.
28 And yet...the opposition dominated the entire game, at least until the final four minutes, when our girls began pressing and stealing the ball. Their strenght is in their speed, ability to press, and ability to throw threes from a mile away. ; ) <---sideways winky smiling dude.
29 Ah, the usual. They wear down the thundering giants from other teams, who peter out, and then they just manage to tie it on a three-pointer, sneak ahead by four, and run out the clock. That's precisely what happened last night. Up 'til then, they haven't had a very good pre-season, so it was a breakthrough night. Some fun!
30 Bottom line: we won, and I'm loving all of it.
31 It made for a late night, but also a fun night.
32 That's two outta three fun night's this week, the first being our Choir concert Monday night.
33 Tonight is the Winter Concert, and Steve Barnhill's troops always deliver some of the best music you'll ever hear. So yeah, I'll be exhausted by tomorrow, but I look way forward to working lights in the booth and enjoying live music. It's exhilarating. Our wind ensemble still has kids who went to Carnegie Hall two years ago, and Steve told me the other day that these guys are in orbit once again.
34 Ah, 'tis the season. I'll try to hunt down the DN I wrote last week in hard copy all about what's playing around town during Christmas. I may even have to throw a special edition of the DN out there on Saturday, not sure. It took a while to get all that info I lost written down.
35 Hmmm. (Looking around.) Maybe those notes are with my...glasses? ; )
36 Peace.
~H~
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