IMMORTALITY!!!
By Gerrie Burke posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @ 6:58 PM - (General)
Yes, you read right. IMMORTALITY. As in Townsend and I are going to be immortalized. Enjoy this blog, for it may be the last one you read from me before my ego swells to the size of an NFL wide receiver. Or, even bigger yet, Townsend's.
Now, ANYONE can be immortalized by receiving a plaque in the baseball hall of fame, or a bust in Canton. Seriously. All you have to be is great. Hell, anyone with talent, drive, and ambition can do that. Now, Ol' Towny Ballgame and I, WE are going to be immortalized in the world of literature. As in a book. One with more words than pictures. Can you believe it? Let me explain...
...This past Saturday I went to a long running musical caberet in San Francisco called, "Beach Blanket Babylon." Big deal, right? At 75 bucks a ticket, you're damn right it is.
In any event, I attended this show with my best friend Robin, along with Diana, and Bill "Spaceman" Lee. Bill and I are old friends. Actually, he's an older friend than I am. Him being 62, and yours truly acting all of 12.
We met a few hours before the show to have a "couple of drinks," and got on the topic of books. Bill is an voracious reader. We were discussing some author.....I can't remember which one.....primarily because I was blind drunk by this point, when I asked Bill if he was going to be writing another book any time soon. (He's written four.)
He informed me that he was in the process of writing a novel. Not another jock book, but an honest to God novel, and guess what? Both Towny and I are going to be characters in this book. RAPTURE!!!
I don't know about you, but......well, then again, I barely know about me half of the time. Anyway, growing up, Bill Lee was the nearest thing to an idol that I had. And here's the cool part: I am friends with my childhood idol. Not alot of people can say that. And NOW he's putting me in a book. I'm sorry, but for me, this is cooler than that weekend I spent with Bernadette Thompson and Ann Mary Keenan at the Fell's Point Festival in Baltimore. Well, maybe not. BUT IT'S DAMN CLOSE.
Me and Towny, immortalized in literature. Now, if we can just keep our parents from reading it, we'll be okay.
Now, ANYONE can be immortalized by receiving a plaque in the baseball hall of fame, or a bust in Canton. Seriously. All you have to be is great. Hell, anyone with talent, drive, and ambition can do that. Now, Ol' Towny Ballgame and I, WE are going to be immortalized in the world of literature. As in a book. One with more words than pictures. Can you believe it? Let me explain...
...This past Saturday I went to a long running musical caberet in San Francisco called, "Beach Blanket Babylon." Big deal, right? At 75 bucks a ticket, you're damn right it is.
In any event, I attended this show with my best friend Robin, along with Diana, and Bill "Spaceman" Lee. Bill and I are old friends. Actually, he's an older friend than I am. Him being 62, and yours truly acting all of 12.
We met a few hours before the show to have a "couple of drinks," and got on the topic of books. Bill is an voracious reader. We were discussing some author.....I can't remember which one.....primarily because I was blind drunk by this point, when I asked Bill if he was going to be writing another book any time soon. (He's written four.)
He informed me that he was in the process of writing a novel. Not another jock book, but an honest to God novel, and guess what? Both Towny and I are going to be characters in this book. RAPTURE!!!
I don't know about you, but......well, then again, I barely know about me half of the time. Anyway, growing up, Bill Lee was the nearest thing to an idol that I had. And here's the cool part: I am friends with my childhood idol. Not alot of people can say that. And NOW he's putting me in a book. I'm sorry, but for me, this is cooler than that weekend I spent with Bernadette Thompson and Ann Mary Keenan at the Fell's Point Festival in Baltimore. Well, maybe not. BUT IT'S DAMN CLOSE.
Me and Towny, immortalized in literature. Now, if we can just keep our parents from reading it, we'll be okay.
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By Spike Rogan posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 @ 8:26 AM
I thought this post was going to be on the Pearl Jam song "Imortality" of their third record Vitalogy (1994)
