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Pencil script
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Listen
Garrison Keillor: ...you're writing the last paragraph of the novel you've been working on for six years.
(COMPUTER KEYS CLACKING)
Sue Scott: With a faint smile, Jack waved to her and ducked his head and got into the car. The smell of roses hung in the air, the mourning doves were sighing in a distant tree, and both of them knew, though neither fully appreciated the implications of this knowledge, that Jack would never see her again, the woman of his.....
(BEEP-BOOP)
Tom Keith: (ELECTRONIC VOICE) Error. Error. File deleted.
SS: (SHRIEKS) Nooooooo! My novel!
TK: (ELECTRONIC VOICE) All copies of file deleted. Forever. There is nothing you can do.
SS: No— I have to collect myself. Focus. Think. There's a way to do this. F12, Control Shift Ampersand. Escape. (CLICK, CLACK, CLICK) —
TK: (ELECTRONIC VOICE) There is no escape. Self-destruct sequence initiated. Computer will explode in blazing fireball in T-minus ten, nine, eight, seven...
SS: Why? Why?????? Oh, if only I'd used a pencil!
(BUBBLY MUSIC)
GK: The pencil. Your old friend. From kindergarten right up through those standardized tests you took to get into college and the essay tests with the little blue books, the good old yellow No. 2 pencil has been there for you. And the pencil is still there for you. You sharpen them and write with them and if they break, it doesn't mean your entire manuscript is lost. Pencils don't destroy novels, or lives. Pencils will never let you down. Next time you need something to write with— reach for a pencil.
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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