Today's Musical Selection: "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang
Well, I thought my year was made yesterday when I got to meet Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post. (It certainly made Frinklin jealous.) Well, imagine my emotion when I open up today's paper and find myself quoted in Boswell's column! (That's me at the end calling Loudoun County a "cow pasture." And if you didn't know my real name before, well, now you do.) I'm tempted to drop him a line telling him that he quoted the Metallica lyrics at the end wrong, but for now I'm just floating on air. I may be a big-city sophisticate and all that, but I'm not so jaded that I don't find it cool that my name is in a big-deal paper, and in the column of one of my favorite writers no less. (Papa Shaft pointed out that if Boswell ever puts out a book of collected column on the DC baseball struggle, I might well be in it. That possibility is so far off the top of the cool chart that I can scarcely contemplate it.)
I'd shift gears and actually write about something meaningful, but I keep breaking out into spontaneous happy-dance jigs that interrupt the thought process, so I think I'll give up on that. Instead, I'm giving myself a one-day vacation. See you Friday!
Posted by Fred at August 19, 2004 05:10 PM