Rock to the Raven
Digg It!
Edgar Allen Poe, Allen Iverson, and I all followed similar paths from the streets of Virginia to Philadelphia. And as the sole remaining torch bearer of our little triumvirate, I feel it is my duty to inform you that the band Glass Prism is performing manana at the German Society in a benefit for the EA Poe National Historic Site. They are best known for taking the poem The Raven and setting it to music. Anyway, should be a fairly intriguing Halloween party.
In the 7th grade, I memorized the entire poem The Raven for a middle school oratory contest. I got dressed up like Poe, put a plastic raven over an actual door, and performed the poem splendidly without a hitch. And when I didn't win 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or honorable mention, my mom was pissed. Especially when J.D. Outten got Honorable Mention for doing some dumb "radio broadcast with an alien" sketch. And judges, if you think that I or my mother have forgotten this little slight, you are wrong. Dead wrong.
I know how you feel about "The Raven," performance, Goodtimes. You try to give them something intelligent, something with maybe a teaspoonful of culture stirred in, and they'll opt for the space aliens every time. Pearls before swine, Goodtimes. Pearls before swine.
As for those obviously corrupt judges, my advice would be to bide your time, nurse your grudge, and, when the opportunity presents itself, kill them all in as gruesome a fashion as possible. Perhaps lure them into your underground vaults, and entomb them alive in a wall.
Dammit, Bob T. stole my Amontillado joke! Now following up with another Poe reference is meaningless.
Similar paths, eh? Just you and AI be careful to not move to Baltimore before your 40th birthday. What happens after we'll never know.
The Broadwater Gym Lights, have seen great sights,
But the greatest they ever did see:
was long before SARS
and a poem about Mars
And I defeated Johnny G. T.
While we are on the subject,
a word problem:
If Johnny Good Times (or whatever he goes by these days) and the sister of J.D. Outten are the same age (making them in the same grade) and the sister is two years younger than the brother and the brother has never failed a grade AND High School starts at Broadwater in the ninth grade: what is wrong with the following statement:
"In the 7th grade....a middle school oratory contest.."
"Especially when J.D. Outten got Honorable Mention for doing some dumb 'radio broadcast with an alien' sketch"
I wish I could remember the name of that poem
Quoth the Outten....Nevermore...