Saturday, April 6, 2013

Cleetus Ferbderbler, Boy Improvisor, at Artistic Crossroads

Dear Everyone,
  I am in a quandary.  After the unpleasantness with a certain Chicago institution famous for "satire" and "comedy,"  I immediately founded an experimental theater company.  After our first seven hour rehearsal, a schism occurred, but I was not embittered: If some people are so lazy and uncouth as to begrudge an auteur a mere seven hours of "Zip, Zap, Zop," it is their loss.
 
"Vaya con dios," I say, although my beliefs run along the agnostic side.

Lately, it  has seemed necessary to return to school.  Therefore,   I emailed my father for funds.

He called immediately.

"Cleetus, you moron, what is this nonsense about going back to school?"

I detected the pride hidden in his gruff demeanour.

"Yes, Father.  Clearly, a PhD is all this credential crazy world respects."

"In what?"

"Puppetry."

There was a very strange sound at the other end.
I wonder when he will send the $40,000.

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