2 I just watched Slim Pickins ride an atomic bomb cowboy-style to a nuclear missile complex at a place called Kodlosk.
3 The funny thing is that carnival music played in my head as it happened.
4 I consider that a combination of downing a huge fruit/veggie shake, then another, then another, followed by watching Dorothy Kilgallen's last appearance on What's My Line, and Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment coming at me from all sorts of directions.
5 Very conspiratorial stuff.
6 I feel like putting on a Fedora and smoking an expensive Cuban seegar.
7 What was particularly entertaining was this commercial for Kool cigarettes. Come up to Kool.
8 These skiers on a bus up in some alpine setting had a conversation, and the woman in the commercial said words to this effect: "Even this cigarette is stale." Enter the debonair gentleman smoker who slides up next to her and gives her this bottom line, all with sheer suavity: "Come up to Kool."
9 They came up to Kool and it changed their skiing lives permanently.
10 I thought twice about the Cuban seegar.
11 I almost went to the store to buy myself a pack of Kools when it dawned on me.
12 I don't smoke.
13 Too bad.
14 Maybe if I take up smoking I too could become a world class skier.
15 Anybody lookin'?
16 AnywayZ
17 Those were some of the little visions dancing through my head last night.
18 Moving On, Part One: I just re-read this nonsense.
19 Somebody ought to test me.
20 All this multi-tasking and watching of early sixties stuff be messin' with my mind.
21 Moving On, Part Two: Many readers of the DN will probably remember some of the Pida Man skits conceived, created and delivered by the hilarious Jason Lane.
22 They spilled out of improv Fridays Back-in-the Day. Anybody who was around need not give years.
23 We all seem safely shrouded in this mysterious cloak called Back-in-the-Day.
24 So is Pida Man.
25 The PIda Man skits took place in what eventually became the piano lab at YB. I had converted that room into a drama room for a few years, complete with cheap lighting and a mini-stage. Thornton Wilder would have been proud.
26 That cheap light, the mini-stage, and a hoop of imagination converted that classroom into the darkness of Gotham Citeh, where "the Mind Messer was up to his old tricks again."
27 The Mind Messer would mess with people's minds at whatever locale they seemed to be, in most cases in front of an ATM machine. The set consisted of the mini- stage, a cardboard box, and a small piece of paper that said in black marker, "ATM Machine."
28 The unsuspecting victim featured our incredible guitarist Rich Colbert, the perfect candidate for a mind messing. The Mind Messer would appear out of the darkness, stare down the victim, and then mess with his mind. The victim would always declare, "Who are you? What do you want?" followed by the Mind Messer declaring, "I am the Mind Messer, and I am gonna MESS WIT YOUR MIND!!!"
29 All the lights would then flash on and off, and any sort of lighting gadget would blink incessantly, contributing to the confusion and disorientation the Messer's unique power could dish out.
30 FX baby. Back-in-the DAY.
31 When the lights were just about done, the victim would always shout, "MY MIND IS MESSED!!!" The victim staggered dizzily, walked a few cirlces, and stared off in a bewildered state. The Mind Messer would then step in and take his wallet. And just as fast as he appeared, he would disappear into the darkness.
32 Through Jason's dramatic narration the Mind Messer would do this to different victims until Pida Man would show up.
33 The REAL Pida Man was this guy named Eddie Vargas. No Toby, no Andrew, but Eddie. The first, and unquestionably the greatest.
34 Eddie was an amazing Pida Man. He was good in the classroom, but his true powers came to the front when we would move some of the Pida Man skits to the good ol' Theatre. Those were special days, and worth gold now.
35 Eddie as Pida Man was acrobatic, graceful, and agile; he could even jump and cling to the side wall of the building. It would bring down the house every time.
36 For a time, Pida Man reigned supreme in that building, to the delight of everyone, especially me and Ponch.
37 Good times, good times.
38 Moving On, Part the Thoid: As always, my TOSHIBA laptop went offline with utterly no warning last night, so I saw it as a sign to get outta here.
39 The entire point of Wednesday is getting safely to Thursday anyway.
40 I could live through the great Pida Man days again and again. Always good for a laugh.
41 So are Wednesdays.
42 No point in standing on ceremony.
43 You ride through Wednesday for me, will you?
44 We'll see you again.
45 Peace.
~H~
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