Friday, June 09, 2006
"I know, Dad!"
An excerpt from Jonah Goldberg's eulogy of/for/to his Dad:
As Josh and I grew older we sometimes, as kids are wont to do, bristled at my Dad’s tendency to tell us things we felt we didn’t need to hear or stuff we thought we already knew. “I know Dad!” became a reflexive response from Josh and me, often to our peril.
One time, when I was in high school, I was eating something with hot sauce in the kitchen. By accident, I got some on my fingers and then managed to rub the Tabasco into my eye. The stinging began almost immediately and I ran to the bathroom and started flushing my eye with water from the tap. My dad walked by the open bathroom door and saw me. He came up to me and asked what was wrong. In short spurts between splashes of water, I told him, “I…rubbed…hot…sauce…in-in-in… muh-my eye.”
My Dad paused for a moment and then in that dry, razor-like pitch-perfect monotone said, “Damn. I could kick myself for not telling you not to rub hot sauce in your eye.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGZkYjA3NmIzN2ZiNTE3ODE5NTgyMWY4YjIxMDEyZjY=
As Josh and I grew older we sometimes, as kids are wont to do, bristled at my Dad’s tendency to tell us things we felt we didn’t need to hear or stuff we thought we already knew. “I know Dad!” became a reflexive response from Josh and me, often to our peril.
One time, when I was in high school, I was eating something with hot sauce in the kitchen. By accident, I got some on my fingers and then managed to rub the Tabasco into my eye. The stinging began almost immediately and I ran to the bathroom and started flushing my eye with water from the tap. My dad walked by the open bathroom door and saw me. He came up to me and asked what was wrong. In short spurts between splashes of water, I told him, “I…rubbed…hot…sauce…in-in-in… muh-my eye.”
My Dad paused for a moment and then in that dry, razor-like pitch-perfect monotone said, “Damn. I could kick myself for not telling you not to rub hot sauce in your eye.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGZkYjA3NmIzN2ZiNTE3ODE5NTgyMWY4YjIxMDEyZjY=
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Hahaha, oops. We are idiots. We were supposed to fold the tarp under the tent instead of letting it collect water. We woke up on a water bed. THere was water inside the tent too. Attacked on both sides!
All the RV people were laughing at us. Silly college students and their tents. And wet stuff.
Doesn't this look like a subaru commercial?
Competition. Very nervous. I don't know if anna is kidding or not with that face.
We made it home! and we are still friends! sort of...;)
Some pictures
Right before we left, around midnight.
Four in the morning, starting to get sweaty and tired.
Dr. Sam!! The funny girl in the back told us that she smiled so that we wouldn't have some random person making a funny face in our picture.
The man responsible for most of our meals, hahah! (anna's uncle kevin and her cousin casey)
Setting up at our camp site.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Welcome, Arthur!
Arthur Fortin moved in the other night to stay with us for the month of June. Just in time, the Evening Sun ran this picture of him competing in a track meet.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Youk!
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/06/04/jones_moves_on_puts_youkiliss_blast_in_past/
"There have been two games all season in the major leagues, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, in which a team trailing with two outs and no one on base in their last at-bat has rallied to win. On each occasion, the Red Sox were the winners and Youkilis was involved. On April 17, Youkilis beat out a two-out infield hit and scored on Mark Loretta's walkoff home run on Patriots Day against the Mariners. Friday night, Mike Lowell, Jones's teammate a year ago with the Florida Marlins, lined a two-out single and Youkilis, who was still in the minor leagues when Jones was in the Sox bullpen in 2003, followed with a home run."
"There have been two games all season in the major leagues, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, in which a team trailing with two outs and no one on base in their last at-bat has rallied to win. On each occasion, the Red Sox were the winners and Youkilis was involved. On April 17, Youkilis beat out a two-out infield hit and scored on Mark Loretta's walkoff home run on Patriots Day against the Mariners. Friday night, Mike Lowell, Jones's teammate a year ago with the Florida Marlins, lined a two-out single and Youkilis, who was still in the minor leagues when Jones was in the Sox bullpen in 2003, followed with a home run."
Friday, June 02, 2006
Great Expectations again
Luke won a TANYS award for his role as Pip in "Great Expectations." I don't know how long the Mid-York Weekly will leave the article up, so in addition to the link, here's the article and picture. Congratulations, Luke!
SECS Drama Club Receives Merit Awards
Thu, Jun 1, 2006
Pictured are Luke Murphy and Lauren Mettler, two of the TANYS award recipients, performing in Great Expectations.
Sherburne-Earlville Drama Club received notification that they are recipients of four Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS) Roving Adjudicator Merit Awards following adjudication of their production of Great Expectations, performed on April 28 & 29 at the S-E High School Auditorium. Recognized were Luke Murphy as Pip, Lauren Mettler as Estella, Ellen Fagan as Camilla and Adrian Enscoe as Herbert Pocket who received awards for Meritorious Achievement in Acting.
"The Sherburne-Earlville Drama Club under the direction of Colleen Law-Tefft brought this classic novel to the stage providing its audiences with an entertaining evening and a number of very engaging and compelling theatrical moments." said TANYS adjudicator, Paul Nelson from Olean, NY.
The students recognized were only four out of a cast and crew of 32 plus students who worked extremely hard to present this production, which presented many technical, as well as acting challenges. "They far exceeded my expectations," said director, Colleen Law-Tefft, "I am proud of all of them and what they have accomplished!"
Formal presentations of these awards will be held on Saturday, November 18th, during the TANYS Festival Awards Banquet in Glens Falls, NY as part of the 2006 TANYS Festival which runs Friday through Sunday, November 17, 18, 19.
The Sherburne-Earlville Drama Club has had a busy year. In the fall they produced an evening of one-act plays (13 in all), which was also adjudicated by TANYS. One of the shows, Chicken Wings, won merit awards (Adrian Enscoe for performance and Justin Utegg for student direction). They were also honored with an invitation to perform at the TANYS Festival in November as the only high school organization. There, both Adrian and Justin were recognized again with awards. In January 2006, several students attended the NYSTEA (New York State Theatre Education Association) Student Conference in Callicoon, NY at the Villa Roma Resort & Conference Center, where they were able to take workshops from professionals in the theatre world on a large variety of topics from Improvisation to Swing Dance to Audition Techniques, as well as workshops on the technical side of theatre. In March the Drama Club traveled to the Michael Harms Theatre Festival in Syracuse, NY where they performed two one-act plays (The Turnover and Chicken Wings) from their fall production. This garnered them performance awards for Adrian Enscoe and Josh Ayers, a directing award for Justin Utegg, and a technical theatre scholarship for Jake von Mechow. They finished their year on a high note with a successful spring production of Great Expectations, which brought them record attendance.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Greenpeace
Being a green-hater and a peace-hater, I found this pretty funny.
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026634.php
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026634.php
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