1. Taking a long walk through the streets of San Francisco
2. Sitting through an open-mic poetry reading at a coffee shop in a college town
3. Watching an episode of The View featuring special guest Kamala Harris giggling and Joy and Whoopi applauding
4. Participating in a tripe-eating festival
5. Extensive impetigo
6. Hearing a radio start that “1-877-Kars-4-Kids” commercial when you can’t shut it off
7. Red Sox fans bellowing along with Neil Diamond’s painful “Sweet Caroline” while you’re stuck in the middle of a row and can’t escape
8. Watching a Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on a full stomach
9. A Batman movie festival screening all 67 Batman-based movies
10. Hot yoga in a locked room
11. Attending a “high concept” production of Hamlet with the actors wearing roller skates and bikinis
12. Owning enough cats that you start to act like a cat
Wow! Pretty involved/accomplished Dave!
Thanks, Jim. I’m considering a sequel: “Plan Nine From Outer Washington.”
Obviously, too many strands to give proper treatment, but the fundamental analogical truism that – “Some people like tripe. Some voters, too.” – absolutely did me in. I would also like more information about number eleven . . .
Before I learned to avoid them, I sat through several productions of Shakespeare plays “re-thought” by creative modern companies that believed they were casting new light on one of the Bard’s great works by misplacing it, say, on a fishing trawler kidnapped by Greenpeace. Trust me, Ward, if you’ve never been ambushed by such “high concept” stagings, stay ambush-free . . . unless you enjoy self-parody!
Oh, bummer. I was hoping for something more Animal House than Animal Farm. Love your stuff.