Hip Hop Kids

Back to dancers to help me fill a very, very busy week. These kids were terrific. I can't dance to save my life. The very thought of trying to do so reminds me of the famous (to the initiated) Firesign Theatre line, "He's no fun, he fell right over." (Some explanation here - scroll about a third of the way down the page or search for the word "fall." Well, I guess you had to be there. )

A game of tag is going around CDPB. I have been tagged by by Victoria of Joplin, Missouri and Viola, who I believe is in State College, Pennsylvania. See Victoria's post of Tuesday for an explanation of the rules. With the way my time is stretched at the moment, I'm not going to pass the tag along but I jotted down eight interesting (or not) gee-whiz facts about myself:

1. When I was in high school, I held the door open for Jacqueline Kennedy and her children leaving a theater in NYC. This was after Jack died. Such days of innocence.
2. I have rheumatoid arthritis but the rapid advances in treatment control it very well.
3. According to a web site that lets you track this, I have had the privilege of visiting 34 countries if you count Vatican City and Gibraltar. .
4. I grew up on the very same block in Queens, New York, where NYC CDPBer Ming the Merciless lives now.
5. I am the oldest of four children. All of us are still on our first marriages.
6. I met my wife in a bar on St. Patrick ’s Day 34 years ago.
7. My son calls me Bob and my wife mom, following the example of Bart Simpson. My daughter sometimes calls me Bruce. Click here for the reason. We can recite this together from memory.
8. When my daughter was a toddler, I taught her to sing Frank Zappa's "Dog Breath In the Year Of the Plague." She still loves me for it.
9. Bonus factoid: I was at Woodstock.

TOMORROW: Thursday Arch Series