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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Courage.

I just sent out an e-mail to everyone I know.
One e-mail for this weeks, "Lick Your Wounds" show. That's at the Cornservatory (4210 n. Lincoln) at 11pm on Fridays.
Apparently, the Reader has confirmed for this week. %100, they'll be there to review it.
Another e-mail for the upcoming Kansas City Fringe Festival. It's getting close and it is altogether possible that someone from Kansas City is reading this blog at this very moment. If you are out there and you just came from the www.kcfringe.org website, then welcome. It's nice to meet you. Be sure to introduce yourself to me when you come out to "The Farm" to see me. I'll be the guy in the shirt. You'll be the young lady dabbing your eyes with a handkerchief as my train pulls away from the station. And that's how we fell in love.

So when I perform, I'll say a lot of dumb stuff like that. That's what I do. I do very little sense.

I'm getting excited about the KC shows. First of all, home is home, no matter how long I live in Chicago. I'm still from Kansas City. I had a nice conversation with Ed Asner on the streets of Chicago a couple years ago wherein he confirmed this. He and my sisters went to the same high school in Kansas City. Of course, he went when the high schools were still segregated. Wyandotte was the all balding news editor high school while Sumner High School was for chirpy, peppy, news writers. Everyone else was home schooled. And then Kansas City was burned down in the Great Chicago Fire. Only Ed Asner survived because he was drunk in the water tower.
Yep. He was drunk in the Water Tower by an old lady in a moo-moo. And that moo-moo's name was Bessy. Bessy went on to marry Norman Lear who created such great shows as "When Norman Lear Attacks" and "The Norman Lear Experience" and finally toward the end before the vespa accident which left him riddled with syphillis, he put out the short-lived cult classic, "Norman Lear is thinking dot blogspot dot com." which nobody saw or indeed will ever see as it was a radio script performed in 3D.

This has been, "Today in Black History Today."

I'm Dan Rather.