Overread at Table 4: Watching my Daughter Play Soccer

Watching my Daughter Play Soccer

While watching my daughter play soccer,
I thought to myself,
They may not be as fast
        as the boys
        nor as brutish,
but they kick the same,
       indeed - they kick harder -
they endure as much,
      they can run for far longer periods of time,
they communicate better, co-ordinate passes,
kicks, throw-ins, and
         even when they are losing
         they (unlike the boys)
never,
never,
never
          stop
               trying.







MR
2012-0328
[slight revision 2020-0731]

Overread at Booth 3: Respect

"To demand respect, without being prepared to offer it, not only negates any reasonable claim, but also ensures that none shall be given."

- Giuseppe Salinghetti


[found in a notebook 2012-0301, presumably written 1954 or 1955]

Overread at Table 2: Rainy Night in Galveston

Rainy night in Galveston.
Sheets of water
         cross the black street - sideways -
and somewhere, out beyond
that grassy knoll,
         where the waves beat steady
         against the strand,
you can almost hear
         the ghosts walk here.







MR
2012-0309

Overheard at Booth 4: The Difference Between Concern and Gossip

"The difference between concern and gossip is the level of glee experienced in sharing someone else's secret."

- Giuseppe Salinghetti



[found in an old notebook in 2012-0228 - notedly written sometime in 1954 or 1955]

Overheard at Booth 4: Point Counterpoint

Notes for COMEDY SKETCHBOOK

A remake of Point/Counterpoint ... but instead of the punchline of "Jane you ignorant slut," it can be of two women, one black one white, discussing culture and the current cultural movement, and it can end with the white woman saying, "Bye Felicia!" and the black woman replies, "Fuck you, Karen!"








...
[Thanks must be given to @CandaceTX for this idea]

Overheard at Table 2: The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

I suppose the wife and I were still in our 80's movie mode, because for some reason she suggested we watch "The Witches of Eastwick" and to be honest we were both a little miffed that we still had to pay four bucks for an 80s movies, but what the heck, we thought...

Not a bad movie.  Little cheesy and the special effects must have been decent for the time period, but look a little silly now..

I have to say that Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson, and him playing the Devil was no different than him playing Jack Torrence in The Shining (but that still is his most superlative role ... everything else has simply been a shadow of that character after that, it seems) and Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer just seem to be stereotypes ... the "biker" chick, the baby momma, and the old maid ... who is the sexual tigress who just needed to be awakened.

All in all, it seemed to rather revel in the same feminine mystique myths that it purportedly was trying to dispel; however, one bright aspect was the fact that the male figure (The Devil) who seduced the women by claiming to respect them, in the end throws tantrums like a little child because they don't give him what he wants.

That part, I thought, seemed very accurate regarding the male of the human species: in the end, all a guy wants is to have the woman's entire attention be on him. 

Rather pathetic, in a way.

Overheard at Booth 3: Tent Revival Album

Idea for album.

Set at a tent revival.
small town.
1930s.

can engage different musical styles of the time: blues, country, folk, the remains of minstrelsy, the jazz of the 1920s

The songs will be a linked story-line - focus on each song one character, or multiple characters, who show up in other songs.




sources: DC Talk's "Jesus Freak (reprise)", Tom Russell's Hotwalker