RENT, the Super Bowl & a bit of B.S.

Thanks, Paul OKeefe! Not only did we get to visit with you, chatter through some great stories, share some memories but.....FREEEEEEEEE! tickets to the show! Could there be anything better than a live performance of anything? Timeless and contemporary themes, dark drama, caustic comedy, mellow harmonies, and HUGE voices, spectacular music, dancing, audience engagement--"FAN" tastic! Plus a pre-show backstage tour, meeting and being greeted by stars and stage hands who really had lots of other stuff to do--oh, and as Erika, Kathy & I pulled up for Erika to be the super driver transporter for Paul to get to the Omni--a big ole shout from Kathy--the elephants were marching tail to trunk down the street on their way back to the circus train that was leaving Charlotte.

So, we missed watching the "best Super Bowl Game" in a really long time, maybe ever. The highlights and frequent updates from Bill kept us up to date and we groaned at how close Sean Nathan came to winning the big $$. It would have been soooooo ironic--the only Satchwill ever who's not into sports of all sorts! But glad Kathy's friends won (well just sort of glad!) and Erika and Jim Schmid will probably be easily into gambling from this day forward! So, next big burning question--how will guys from Batesville spend their million $$ and why the heck hasn't the Krider-OKeefe talent pool done a million dollar winning commercial?

In the BS/political commentary department--If the Democrats don't start reminding everyone that we ALREADY have a multi-trillion dollar debt, and tell the yammering pundits and mud-slinging "spokespersons for the Republican perspective" to shut the **** up about how we have to stop spending--I'm going to run naked through the streets--and THAT's not a pretty sight to even imagine! How about the GOP national chairman? Catholic, moderate, articulate, not a Rush-raging Conservative and and African American! Makes me re-think my Republican and roots. Gotta enjoy the whole Claire McCaskill commentary on common sense and idots. Hooray too, for her proposal to establish a commission to investigate profiteering in Iraq. Last, but not least, Mr. Obama, get on with finding folks other than "from Washington" to your Cabinet--among all the health & human services leaders in the USA, isn't there someone besides Daschle? Get over it and get on with it.