SOUNDINGS FROM The WHARF

Corrections to 27 July 2009 SOUNDINGS

I am deeply embarrassed and greatly humiliated that I erred in not listing the date of the Cigar Event at The Vue Ultra Lounge. The date is this Saturday, 1 August.

As well, yesterday was my 75^th birthday, so I can use the excuse of oncoming dementia. Seriously, with tongue in cheek, I have been thinking of retiring, leaving the tobacco business before the governments force me out. But I can’t just sit and do nothing; to vegetate, and die on the vine.

Therefore, I have decided to use what resources are still at my command and become a Broadway Producer, Director, and Writer of a Musical Extravaganza which portrays this decade. Kennedy had his ‘Camelot.’ Surely Obama deserves his place in the limelight.

Rather than start from scratch to produce an original plot, I intend to borrow bits and pieces from past Broadway and Hollywood hits and weave those subplots into current events. For example, do you recall the story line of ‘My Fair Lady?’ Right on! In my rendition, Ms Doolittle will undergo a sex change and will be transformed into a young lad ‘Out of Africa.’ Bits of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘The Emperor’s Clothes’ will be woven into my creation. I am trying to fit “Hawaii Five-0’ in somehow as a place of incubation. Anyway, you should begin to understand the storyline.

I already have the theme song – well part of it anyway. During WWI a hit tune surfaced which questioned ‘How are you going to keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?’ Once those Dough boys saw the sights of Paris, there was no way they wanted to return to ‘The Farm.’ I really like that melody - I’m sure you remember it - so just hum it along with me but substitute these words ‘How are we going to get him back to Kenya after he’s been in DC?’ It’s not a super fit, catch the double meaning, but the message comes across. I would appreciate any help you can provide to make this a smash hit. Obama deserves this tribute.

Ronald Houck