September 20, 2012
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The Daily News
1 Batman Live.
2 Opens tonight at the HP.
3 7:30.
4 Tix begin at around $21 and go up from there, but I'm certainly curious.
5 It is tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30, and Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
6 The reviews from Great Britain were dazzling.
7 The Merc called it "...part stunt show, part video-light show, part circus (done by England's well-known Circus Space) and part stage show."
8 Right when I complained of no real news.
9 Batman Live baby.
10 The Joker, Riddler, Catwoman, Penquin and Poison Ivy will be on hand, according to the Merc Blurb.
11 Batman Live. I'm stoked, whatever that means.
12 Moving On, Part One: I love Thursdays because the Eye comes to my door via the Merc.
13 The Eye has entertainment news.
14 After first looking past the Batman Live ad, I ruffled through it to see that a bunch of the old geezers (Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joe Walsh, etc.) are touring, but not this weekend.
15 Jason Mraz and Christina Perri will be at the HP next Friday AND at the Greek on October 4, but that's in the future. The tour, incidentally, is called Tour is a Four Letter Word.
16 I loves that guy.
17 There is so much going on it's almost impossible to report it here at 6:30 in the a.m.
18 Moving on, Part the Second: The Monterey Jazz Festival goes up this weekend as well, closing Saturday Night with 86-year old crooner Tony Bennet. Other performers in the order of the Merc will consist of: pianist/keyboard guyTigran Hamasyan, Jose James and Gregory Porter, Mulgrew Miller, Eddie Palmieri, Antonio Sanchez and Migration, Christian Scott, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue; Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Marcus Gilmore, and a host of others.
19 Unfortunately, the Eye doesn't come close to the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday pink section, which includes vast coverage of the Bay Area theatre scene. In fact, it is now pretty difficult to find theatre coverage at all in the Eye.
20 I have been way too busy to really rustle that stuff up, so all apologies to my local theatre friends.
21 Moving On, Part the Thoid: I have figured out a good way to know if I am late for work.
22 First, you must understand that no two clocks in my house tell the same time. I have one that I rely on, but it isn't consistent with real time. It's a little ahead so that psychologically I will THINK it is later than it is.
23 I generally get out the door at about the same time each morning, but the clock in my car seems always to be inconsistent.
24 Once I am on the road, I think of nothing more than to get myself safely from Point A to Point B, despite all the imbeciles on the freeways and byways.
25 Once I get into the area of my school, I go backroads to get to the school. I found this great little route that nobody goes near, and come in right where I need to park, with everything being my right-of-way.
26 I find myself talking to the other cars. "Uh, I don't think so Mac!" "Hey underpants, it's my right-of-way, NOT yours!" "Neener, neener, neener."
27 Walter Fookin' Mitty unfurled.
28 I usually see kids walking to school, and I realized that I will make it if I see a few of them, because they are like a little German street-clock.
29 If I turn up one street, for example, I am sure to run into Indian Jesus, this kid with a long beard. I didn't think high school kids could get that hairy, but dude looks just like Jesus, I swear to you.
30 If I see him, you can bet that School Girl will be in the picture within a minute.
31 Schoolgirl is this girl with stringy hair, glasses, and a backpack that looks like she is going to stay a week in Desolation.
32 I could grade students easily by just looking at their backpacks, I swear to you.
33 Schoolgirl is a scholar, no question.
34 When I make my final turn to have my nose on the edge of the school, I look for this awesome student I had last year. If she is up Quimby Road, I am WAY on time. If she is turning the corner to the school, I'm pretty close. If I see her head disappearing into a building, I had better book it.
35 You should try it sometime. Just locate peeps on the streets, give three of them names, and you could throw away your watch.
36 I swear.
37 And you could goof on other drivers, and call the idiots out.
38 I loves living me in my own head sometimes.
39 Anyway, my own little German street-clock tells me that I had better wrap this up.
40 Have a great day.
41 Batman Live.
42 Be there.
43 Peace.
~H~
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