Subject: Re: Indirect B-Fish Mention in AP ((No) Celebrations...)
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 21:56:00 GMT
Fishes:
First off, the celebrations shouldn't happen until July. Holden was born
(sprung unnaturally from the author's womb as an adolescent) in the very
same month that I myself first saw the light of day. July, 1951. We've got
MONTHS before we even begin to plan a celebration--although I'm trying to
remember WHO was supposed to research the Yankee/BlueJay schedule for the
Bronx Zoo in July....
Beer's on me (until the bottom of the fifth!)
Luke.... I wish I'd met him. I actually talked to him (briefly on the
telephone one day....) Maybe someday I WILL meet him.... Maybe he'll be in
Yankee Stadium in July.... (Do Cecilia's wretched Cubs come to Shea in July?)
There's an interesting "freedom of speech" case that's causing considerable
concern in the Great White North these days. Last fall, a kid in Cornwall,
Ontario, read a self-composed monologue in front of a high school classroom.
The kid had only come to the school at the beginning of the fall term. He'd
been harrassed. Actually, he'd been beaten bloody. His monologue was all
about how he wanted to blow up the school.
This is Canada. But it's also post-Columbine.... (We get most of our "news"
from south of the 49th, up here....)
The kid was arrested..... He spent his 16th birthday in a detention centre
(read: prison for juveniles).... He spent CHRISTMAS in the detention
centre.... He spent New Year's Eve in the detention centre.... In fact, in
an article he's since written for a Canadian paper, he thanked the guard
that woke him up, two minutes before midnight, to welcome in 2001....
I don't know whether this is "relevant".... It might be a diversion....
Is this Canada?
Didn't I see Luke Seeman in the bananafishbowl recently?
Maybe Bob Dylan's best line: "There must be some way out of here...."
Cheers,
Paul
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