A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

Into the Light
Saturday, December 1, 2001
Listen

Into the light, the light, the light
Hey, who turned out the lights?!
Sweetness and light
Can somebody get me a light?
Radiant light
How 'bout a Bud Light?
By the dawn's early light.
What a lightweight!
Shut up or I'll punch your lights out...

A light unto my path
Traffic is light
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine
Tonight is somethin' special
Through the night with a light from above.
Let's light out to the woods.
He's light in the loafers.
Hey, don't put me in a bad light.

Lead kindly light amid the encircling gloom,
Anybody got a light?
In the cold light of day,
Some White Lightnin',
Let the lower lights be burning!
Miller Lite?
Send a gleam across the wave!
The Red Light District!
Don't make light of it...
Oh, lighten up!

Light of my life,
Come on, Baby, light my fire
The inner light, celestial light.
Let's dance by the light of the moon.
Radiant light.

We come to dedicate tonight,
A Strand three hundred lighting console,
Our newest form of total control.
A modular control surface
And a separate Processor enclosure.

Capable of controlling six thousand luminaries,
And up to two thousand attributes of lighting fixtures.
Ten-twenty-four DMX devices it can control.
Control files and backups can be stored on a floppy disk.

Zinc alloy case and ABS,
Fully modular control components
To fully permit rearrangement,
A backlit numeric keypad, dedicated control keys;
All this and much, much more on our
Brand new Strand lighting console.

A true thirty-two bit multitasking system,
With GeniusPro software,
It really is without compare.
To provide complete control of all our lights,
Our brand new console which we dedicate tonight.

© Garrison Keillor 2001