Wonderland or Not

Recently my life has been like the The Brief Won­drous Life of Oscar Wao, and it’s not because my life is lite­rally like the The Brief Won­drous Life of Oscar Wao. No, it’s because a few months ago I mis­pla­ced both a seg­ment of my life and the book, the book with one chap­ter to go, my life with the current chap­ter not yet com­plete. I knew the book was around somewhere, tem­po­ra­rily una­vai­la­ble, the chap­ter of my life momen­ta­rily super­ve­nient. Cer­tain the los­ses were tem­po­rary, no fran­tic search was con­duc­ted. The Exce­drin pro­vo­king AWOL light did burn on both accounts, but it wasn’t the bright­ness which cau­sed the dis­com­fort, it was the nag­ging ghosts of the mislaid.

All is well that ends well. I reco­ve­red both the book and the slice of my life. That they were found at the same time may or may not be cen­tral to any great life theme, but it did prompt these paragraphs.

It is Old School Fri­day and the theme is “keep it in the family”.

Tech­ni­cally not old school, if you haven’t heard these guys live and can, do so. You will love me for it. Robert Ran­dolph and the Family Band . Not all family, but close enough.

Their ver­sion of Billy Jean.

I some­ti­mes won­der (not often I’m not that lame) when watching this Sta­ying Alive video, which Gibb I would have clai­med for my own, had I been alive and 12 at the time this video was made. It defi­ni­tely would not have been the dude in the high was­ted white pants.

Pro­bably would have been Robin.

Family Gibb on Old School Fri­day. I Star­ted a Joke.

OSF spon­so­red by Con­ver­sa­tions With Marva and Mrs Gra­pe­vine

The pla­yers:

Elec­tro­nic Village | Kim | Kevin — A Slant Truth | Mar­cus LANGFORD | irie­gal | John | CC Groovy | Krea­tive Talk | Regina | Viv­rant Thing | AJ | Belei­ver 1964 | SJP | Bklyn­Queen 86 | Hey Shae | Mal­colm

peace