Spitball Army

I’m thinking, in particular, how easy it would be to entertain a room of people with only a simple rhythm track and a microphone: invite members of the crowd to the stage to exultantly exclaim, with clear pronunciation a la Barack Obama, lines like “Come here, you little butterbean, you…Come on!!” or “Here comes a Great Dane, trotting down the lane!!”

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Haven’t heard from Les and Dee for sometime, but have had several papers from them lately with numerous pix of the flood conditions there. The old river really went on a rampage in that vicinity, swelled from the fast melting snows. A man who lives there, told me today, that the snow, five feet of it, melted in one week’s time. Is it any wonder that they had floods.

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Yesterday, Dad and I went to church and then had our dinner at home together. We picked up Inez and went over to the campus and went thru the Museum of Natural History. We had never been thru the new bldg. and it was very interesting.

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We have called on Beverly since she came back, and Aunt Etta has talked to her several times over the telephone.

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Forgot to tell you that I was given a smallpox vaccination at N.W. Hosp. They asked me if I wanted one so took advantage of their offer; also got a free lunch. Saw the ass’t staff worker’s uniform today and it was darling. Hope I’ll pass the exam so I can see what it’s like to wear one.

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Speaking of laughing out loud, I got the entire waiting room at my doctor’s office doing just that this morning by telling this silly riddle. It was prompted by the talkative woman in the corner who was knitting a baby shawl and talking about her cats.

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Let’s just assume that a polling population of 2,513 people is representative of the entirety of the United States. OK. That accomplished, take a look at what the entirety of the United States claims as its ten favorite books.

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Just couldn’t resist sending this and along with it am sending oodles of love (perhaps should say gobs of love)…

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Now, I know me, and I have never, ever, left a blank spot on a recordable tape for want of music. My tapes were always full, from start to finish. So, I rewound Side B and listened. First song by the Jayhawks. Okay. Then, the second song.

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My dear wife,

You get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, filth, and noise.

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