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1 Halloweeeeen time!
2 We are in the heart of the week.
3 I work with Poe's Tell-Tale Heart today. There will be a reading.
4 We also enjoyed two Twilight Zone episodes. My personal favorite is one called Living Doll, about a talking doll that threatens a little girl's mean stepfather.
5 Fun stuff, AND we do The Raven tomorrow, and stories in the Theatre Thursday and Friday.
6 I'm pretty sure they are letting me use the Theatre. I got okays from around six thousand people. I'm awaiting a return call from Obama, and it will be nailed.
7 So it will be ALMOST a classic day of Heidi stories on Friday. Our school gets WAY into Halloween too, so there should be some fun costumes going on.
8 I always loved when students would dress like monsters and skeletons. That is consistent with historical Halloween. These days it's starting to look like a a huge kink/skank show.
9 Enticing, I suppose, but not my cup of tea.
10 Bring me monsters, skeletons, and ghouls.
11 That's the classic Halloween.
12 And the Heidi chronz always worked better with classic Halloween costumes lurking in the dark as the stories unfolded.
13 I'm a little unprepared for the stories proper, because I ran across this awesome book called Haunts of San Jose.
14 Good book, but mildly researched. The author went to purportedly haunted places and talked with people who live or work there.
15 Still, the first picture you turn to in the book is the view of San Jose right when it appears coming down Mt. Hamilton. How many of us have seen that view? Lots. It's the road, and then you see the city through the trees.
16 So I have to fly through that book for stories, and tell stories I've never told before.
17 Still, looking forward to it.
18 Moving on, Part the First: I got over to YB Friday and yesterday to do a little school biz. Yesterday I found my way into the Theatre (you know those doors have never been fixed!) and walked out on stage. It is now a sort of dance studio, with mirrrors on the cyclorama.
19 But there was a wonderful familiarity, as scores of shows brought a smile to my eyes. It was nothing supernatural, and in fact, I waited to hear seats click, and sorry to report, no clicks. I was in there for around fifteen minutes, alone and drinking it all in.
20 The spot booth still looms, and the light/soundboard haven't budged. My wonderful lights looked happy to see me. And it just felt like home. Kids prepared outside for Spirit Week. Today is Freshmen day, and all over campus kids painted posters and worked on dances.
21 It was home. Leaving the parking lot caught me up for a second, because it was suddenly five years ago, in a flash, and the entire ride back to EV kept me in a nostalgic mood. As soon as I went over the Capitol Expressway "bridge", I was suddenly back in the present, on my way back up to Evergreen.
22 It was a sort of dream, in a strange way.
23 Moving on, Part the Second: I've been trying to avoid World Series stuff, because I will clearly throw LOTS of that out in the next few days.
24 But yesterday morning on KNBR, Mike Krukow gave an account on what was happening in the Giants' party following their well-earned defeat of the Phillies.
25 He said that after the Giants had celebrated beyond celebration, drank anything remotely near to them, and poured ice water over Coach Bruce Bochy's cabesa, they got back to the hotel in Philly.
26 At two a.m., the Giants got cut off booze, so they all raided every mini-bar in the house, and continued partying until around four a.m.
27 Kruk reported that at one point, he ran into Buster Posey, red-eyed and exhausted as one might imagine.
28 Kruk said to Buster, "You know, it won't always be like this."
29 Posey's retort?
30 "Why not?"
31 Fookin' Buster.
32 On my way to school, I listened to Kruk's stories on KNBR's Murph and Mac show, one of the greatest radio shows in Giants' history.
33 At one point, I heard Kruk say that the Phillies' bus service drove them out to the airport. He said that when the team hopped onto a couple of buses leaving the stadium, the drivers drove them to some enormous plane, much more enormous than our red-eyed misfits were used to.
34 And to a bus, the drivers took them to a much smaller plane, letting the Giants know that THOSE were the Phillies' planes. From what I'm seeing, this is not atypical of Philadelphia's mentality. The bus drivers must have thought it was hilarious. Philly, you're looking pretty small on the national stage these days, truly.
35 So the Giants got on board smaller, stuffier planes and proceeded to grouse and groan about that. Plus they were a tad exhausted and blurry from all the torture.
36 When they got to SFO, the plane landed, taxied, and came to rest right next to an exact replica of the Phillies' plane.
37 Kruk reported that someone shouted out, "WE KICKED THEIR ASS, WE DRANK ALL THEIR WHISKEY, AND WE STOLE THEIR PLANE!!!!" The team exploded into laughter, as did I when Kruk reported the story.
38 Haha! Good times, good times.
39 I quate agree.
40 Quate, Quate, Quate.
41 Classic.
42 Moving on, Part the Second: Hope you are all appreciating exactly what this merry crew of misfits has accomplished. I've been there all season, every pitch, whether I was asleep in my living room avoiding certain TORTURE, or just loving the purity that these guys bring to the Show.
43 The Show.
44 There is no team, like the best team, and it's OUR team, right here!
45 I named one of my shows The Show, because of the history. As the guy who was the mayor of the Show village, I knew that every Show I ever directed was the continuance of all the Shows that had gone before.
46 So The Show was based on the baseball espression of guys who finally made it to the major leagues. It was a tribute to every Show that me, Ponch, and Shawna had battled through over the years.
47 It was also a salute to those amazing colleagues and students who put nothing but heart into every single Show we had worked on.
48 So this great day, the day before our Giants go into the World Series, I would like to dedicate today's DN to every student who ever acted or did tech or music on the YB stage. I also dedicate it ALL to my wonderful friends, Shawna Fleming and Ken Ponticelli.
49 On the Willows there.
50 Just great, great times.
51 And now...
52 Yeesh.
53 I'm just caught up, all "on the sudden" as some of my brightest would put it.
54 Let's finish it all off, and celebrate this miraculous season.
55 Warning: There's a LOT more TORTURE to endure.
56 But we're there, and that's what counts.
57 To all of you: A simple thanks.
58 A teacher is nothing without a lot of class.
59 You all always brought that.
60 Now let's finish it off with class.
61 Go Giants. Go alumini. Teach class. Live class.
62 Live life.
63 Love life.
64 Peace.
~H~
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