Speaking of speaking…

Tomorrow begins the March Madness at Chez Shea. I head off to Walla Walla, WA, home of the ACME Birdseed Company as well as all the other fine ACME products that have served Wile E. Coyote so well. It is also the inspiration for this fine Walt Kelly poem:

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don’t we know archaic barrel
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly wolly cracker ‘n’ too-da-loo!
Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloupe, ‘lope with you!

Hunky Dory’s pop is lolly gaggin’ on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!
Chollie’s collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarm bung-a-loo!

Dunk us all in bowls of barley,
Hinky dinky dink an’ polly voo!
Chilly Filly’s name is Chollie,
Chollie Filly’s jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, woof, woof!
Tizzy seas on melon collie!
Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, goof, goof!

But I digress.

Anyhow, I will be speaking February 27-28 at St. Patrick parish, Walla Walla, WA. Topics: 101 Reasons Not to Be Catholic, Making Senses Out of Scripture, This is My Body, Behold Your Mother. Hope to see you there if you live in the area!

Then, I fly home *early* on Sunday, go to Mass with the fambly one last time, zip off to a Boy Scout event (Rifle range. We’re preparing our children for the Great Cleansing Fire of Righteousness!!! [I just say that cuz it drives people haunted by paranoid fantasies about The Coming Theocratic Revolution into fits of terror]), rush from there to Sean’s early birthday party (swimming and pizza! Yay!), then home for the evening, followed by an *early* flight out to Savannah for the shoot. Then, I become Mr. Homesick playing Innocent Smith and trying not to suck so bad that he winds up on some future MST3K episode.

Home on the 30th with lots of smooches for Jan and squeezes for my guys.