BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Friday, February 12, 2010

Hot Date on Valentine's Day.


"LUV THIS SHOW"



Producing a comedy series is a lot like mixing a pitcher of lemonade.  First, choose the lemons you want to use. Next, you squeeze in as much as you can, spicing it up with sugar, diluting it with water, to taste.  The bulk of the juice being tossed along with the lemons.

"Intelligent Design" is like a little bit of juice believing it was created in the image of one BIG LEMON."


."WE'VE ALL GONE THROUGH THIS BEFORE!"

Picture this:

Two kids, brother and sister, playing a board game in the living room.  Both aware of the the tears behind closed door to their parent's bedroom.  Both frequently looking at the clock. 

 As another working day comes to an end, the sister becomes much more cheerful with her focus on the front door knowing, soon, both doors will open and everything back to normal.  The other focuses on the bedroom door, still concerned, an uneasy feeling, that somehow, this fight was different.


Tradition tells us:

Barbie,
with all of her clothes, is suppose to be behind closed door number one; coming out looking her best, either wearing something pretty or pretty much...almost.....nothing......but one big smile

as

G.I. JOE,
the great protector, provider
 walks through the front door after such a long hard day of doing whatever it is he thinks he's gotta do;  someone usually being picked up off the floor.  In my case, the youngest of three, being picked up by the hair.


As lemons go, I think my parents did a pretty good job.  My dad never stripped down less than his boxers big enough to fit a cow, settling into the Lazy Boy to watch his war movies till it's time to go to work again.  My mom did a pretty good job of spicing (and diluting) where needed to keep the family functional....as well as looking pretty.  But damn, wish she would stop taking baths with the door open and lights out.  You wouldn't know someone's in there till it's too late.  I screamed everytime. 

There was talk of   "D-I-V-O-R-C-E ".  Nothing serious, just enough to make us behave.  She once asked me, when I was little,  if I thought she should leave dad.  I said,  "yes!"

With other people's families, seen some unexpectedly colorful things come and go through those doors; enough over time,  to realize, that all families once you get to know them, were pretty much the same... no more or less perfect than mine.

A mother's tears altogether different.......Mother Earth's.   Can't help feel this fight is different.  Be comfortable with doing nothing; everything will be alright, "We gone through this before."



As to what OMNIPOTENT would wear through those doors..........all bets are off!   As I can only imagine within the realms of what I've seen; to even try would be believing,  "I've seen it all."

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