a) Sitting in a smoke filled bar in the deepest parts of Amsterdams overnight club zone... I looked up from the ridiculous reefer that had just been passed to me to see Arlo Guthrie bobbing his head to the sounds of Led Zeps just released "In The Evening".
b) Handcuffed and flanked by two DC police officers, I was led through a sea of rush hour subway travellers, heading to one of several squad cars arranged at the top of the stairs... waiting to transport my fellow crime lords and I to the station for a wee stay behind bars... Of course, while walking past the endless commuters below the Pentagon I just had to say "yup... we bad" in an Eddy Murphy voice... this earned me a rather swift cuff across the top of my head...
c) Stepping out of the dressing room I shared with the other pages, I could see rudolph nureyev down the hall... talking to some scantily clad woman... then suddenly he pulls back and absolutely clocks her. Shaken (not stirred) she yells at him in french and storms off... An hour later we are both on the stage of Canada's National Arts Center... he's playing the lead in the National Ballet of Canada's Giselle production with Karen Kain played ... well... Giselle. I was a page to the queen... just a wee little bit of a boy..
d) Clearly having had too much to drink... I stumbled away from the crowd and followed the edge of the wall until I found a door. The sounds of YES "live in the round" played on in the background but I couldn't care less... I needed a washroom. Not sure how I managed it... but I found one - and it was on the wrong side of a group of big guys that keep the riff raff out. After throwing up for ages... and then cleaning up... I lit a smoke and headed out into the hall... I was swept up by a group of women, and a few guys heading to a back room... waiting for Rick Wakeman to come back after the show. I chowed down on the finger foods and spent considerable energy lying my ass off to the groupies about being part of the road crew...
e) Tipping my hat to all the people who say "just act like you belong"... when I stopped to snap a picture of their offices... I stepped up to the group of visiting Korean businessmen lined up for a picture out front of HP Galactic Core (headquarters in Palo Alto) and "made like I belonged"... in fact I gave the guide my camera and asked for another picture with the group. There was much bowing and business card exchanging and everyone had a grand time... no idea what was happening... but I kept smiling and laughing... so they did too... and I'm in all of their Group Photos.
hmmm?
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