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| 11/16/2007: "You ought to be on TV"
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Went over to visit my mom for a while today and she said, "I saw you on TV this morning!"
Which was completely baffling since I don't remember being shot lately so to speak, and couldn't imagine why I'd be on television this morning: "Are you sure it was me*, Mom?"
"Of course I'm sure," she averred. "You were at one of those... shows."
Ma can be a bit daffy and addled these days, but she was so positive that I had to believe it. However, I couldn't stop puzzling about how and why... ???
After half an hour of such fruitless effort, I finally gave up and happened to pick up a copy of the Portland Tribune, a pretty decent local biweekly paper. On the front page of the weekend arts and entertainment section, there was an article about the annual "Wild Arts Festival" sponsored by the local Audubon Society. Soon as I saw that, I realized that she must have seen a news blurb promoting the festival.
Which made perfect sense except for the fact that I've attended this show exactly once-- about ten years ago! Somebody either at the TV station or the A. Society had looked through archived footage -- I'm still not sure whether they still actually call it "footage" -- and had decided that a shot of me with the flutes was an interesting snippet to broadcast... pretty strange.
So that was our serendipitous six seconds of fame for today. Let's see, I had an idea of something else to write about... what was it? Oh well, that'll pop back soon enough; better go do some work now and perhaps it'll show up later today. Cheerio, and y'all have a good Friday if possible! --r.
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*Years ago she would have corrected me on that, but it's a lost cause.
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