Guess What? (REDUX)

3.2.2017  (first published this month, 2001)

I was walkin' through the lobby at work the other day and there was someone walkin' behind me. They were making some jingley noises. I figured it had to be either Santa or a dog. I'll never know because I didn't turn around to look. I've been doing that sort of thing recently: Leaving things a mystery. Like the other day I turned off the TV with five minutes to go in the third period when the Sharks and Kings were tied at two goals each. Who won? Don't know. I threw out a "to go" container without looking in it. What was it? Delicious curry fried rice or moldy penne? That's an unknown too. I did the old Drawing 101 trick: Blind sketching. Here one draws or sketches a subject without looking down at the paper. So I didn't look down at the paper while I was sketching my cat and, well, I didn't look at the finished product. I finished and then wadded up the paper and chucked it. All I know it coulda been a masterpiece.

I figure this is a good way to add some random intrigue or excitement into one's life. Not saying that my life is devoid of intrigue or excitement ... far from it! I'm just a little sick of the Information Age. Everything at one's fingertips. A search engine away from the knowing the phase of the moon, if that sniper movie's any good, how to de-vein shrimp, why shampoo farmers hate bunnys, etc. Screw that. I'd rather figure it out myself or not know.

Oh, and about them bunnys ... it's a good thing we got experts on the list. Now I know why shampoo farmers hate bunnys.

Tonight: Benders.  (by request)
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TONIGHT'S CONTEST: Longtime list member Sue Erokan challenges the entire TNSC to a Bellydance marathon. "Till you drop!" she says. Miss Erokan does bring a distinct advantage: She and her dance toupe bellydance every Thursday night at 8:45 at Kanzaman in the Haight.

TONIGHT'S DRAMATIC REENACTMENT: (3rd installment in TNSC's salute to the silver screen.) The fistfight scene from They Live (Universal, 1988). Earth's population is being taken over by creepy skull faced ... aliens (?) and they're clever enough to transmit some force-field that disguises their appearance to the unsuspecting humans. Fortunately, some scientist has devised sunglasses that filter the transmissions, exposing the beasties for what they are. Our hero, played by Rowdy Roddy Piper, tries to get another good-guy, Kieth David, to put on the glasses and see the light (so to speak). But when Kieth David doesn't want to put on the glasses, what ensues is the longest, wackiest fistfight ever filmed. Our players: Kathleen plays Nada (Piper's character); Lamey plays Frank (David's character); and Jay Herda plays the glasses.

TONIGHT'S SINGLED-OUT LIST MEMBER: Jerry Castro. Keywords: Birthday, wallet.



(If you've got other plans tonight ... cancel them! Get over to Benders and hoist one with your TNSC pals. I know I will. See you there!

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