I'm still in the midst of my final final final mile of a big project. Yes, I will finish it before the sand runs out of the hourglass! I appreciate you guys reading and for all the support. Clearly, not a lot of love for high school -- ha! I understand. High school is about surviving a kind of existential horror show played out in cafeterias. At any rate, today I'm going to quote the end of the Playboy interview with Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman. I think it's really insightful. Opinions?
Playboy: At the end of your stage show Pee-wee Herman proclaims in song that he feels like the luckiest boy in the whole wide world. How about you?
Reubens: Ummm. Does the length of that pause tell you anything? No, I don't know. I don't feel like the "iest" of anything. I'm not the best or the worst. I grew up never realizing there was this gray area of life. Everything was black-and-white, right and wrong, whatever. Well, I like the gray area. I don't have to be the luckiest anymore. But I will be, I bet, every night on Broadway when I'm singing the song. I believe it at that moment when I'm singing that Pee-wee Herman is the luckiest boy in the world. He does learn to fly after all.
Michelle's Spell of the Day
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Carl Rogers
Cocktail Hour
Interview suggestion: Paul Reubens in Playboy this month. Read the whole thing. Yes, Heff, Playboy does have words! You won't regret it.
Benedictions and Maledictions
Happy Thursday!
7 comments:
Wander this way home after that final, final, final---last mile will ya?
What good are the words in Playboy when the pictures are so much easier to read?
MOst of the time these days I feel very very lucky.
Hey Hon, When Dane was little, we watched and loved the Pee! And yes, I am verrry lucky and blessed. With love and friends, what else is there? xoxxo to u, Friend that I love!
Now why would Michelle be a Pee-Wee fan?
Oh yeah!--
[after Pee Wee passes out]
Texan: What's your name?
Pee-wee: I don't remember.
Texan: Where are you from?
Pee-wee: I don't remember.
Texan: Do you remember anything?
Pee-wee: I remember... the Alamo.
[Texans cheer]
...
[Dottie answers the phone]
Dottie: Hello?
Pee-wee: Hi, Dottie, it's Pee-wee!
Dottie: Pee-wee? Where are you calling from?
Pee-wee: Texas!
Dottie: Huh?
Pee-wee: Honest! I'll prove it!
[singing]
Pee-wee: The stars at night are big and bright...
Passersby: [singing and clapping] ... deep in the heart of Texas!
...
You can take the girl out of Texas, but...
wish you would sing Drifter on stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBoPVtI-qI
I feel lucky these days, too. I feel better than I have in a while & at my age, that's pretty darned lucky.
I feel lucky these days, too. I feel better than I have in a while & at my age, that's pretty darned lucky.
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