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Friday, September 21, 2007
  A Great Moment for a Stooges Fan

We had a little party at the GoNOMAD Cafe to celebrate my daughter's television debut on a show called "America's Next Top Model."


As she approached the judges, she had a little piece of paper sticking out of her nose. Then she pulled it out. It was one of those paper wrappers they put on soda straws, so it looked like she was pulling a big white worm out of her nostril.


She learned the trick from her mom's mom Morning Star, but for me, a lifelong fan of The Three Stooges, it was a great moment.


Before your kids are born, you hope they'll be kind, because if they're not, nothing else means much. And then you hope they'll be smart and beautiful. And you hope they'll have some talent that will bring them happiness and satisfaction. But you don't anticipate that they will be funny, at least I didn't, and so that becomes a delightful surprise.


I remember Sarah and I used to make a fake radio show with a tape recorder while we were driving around. Our first opening worked so well, that we used it all the time. I would start out, "We're here live..." and she would say, "Well what else would we be?"


What a wiseguy.
 
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Congratulations Dad on a fine daughter!
 
Your pride shows through :)
 
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Stephen Hartshorne worked in newspapers and magazines around New England for many years and served as Information Officer in the New Hampshire Senate under Senate President Vesta Roy. He worked as a material handler for nine years at the Yankee Candle Company until the company was taken over by corporate weasels. He is currently the associate editor of GoNOMAD.com, an alternative travel website, which gives him the opportunity to correspond with writers and photographers all over the world. He lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts, with his daughter Sarah, a student at Drew University, and their cat, Dwight D. Eisenmeower. This blog is dedicated to his mom, who made him bookish.

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