not Sungirls again
The creator of the musical Annie, which he had based on his own life, was trying to pitch an early version of Annie, called Sungirls to the faculty of a high school where he worked. The teacher, transgendered, was wearing a shawl and a dark, wavy wig. The musical deciding board groaned when he showed them drafts of the programs for Sungirls. “Not Sungirls again!” “You’re the worst CCM we’ve ever had.” CCM meant Chair of the Department of Music. The creator of Annie, with quiet passion in his voice, pleaded with them to try Sungirls. He recited some of the lyrics and said, “Just give the kids an hour or two of homework on Danel Broflovsky.” The board said no.
Then I was on a camping trip with LF and her father, who kept trying to get us to go buy new duffel bags. When we got back to LF’s parents’ house, a guy was washing off candied nuts and dried fruit in a sink. I said that if he ate all of those, he’d have eaten “half the sugar in a baby.” Then I read an article that said since most people only eat a couple of handfuls of snacks while listening to radio show, sugar intake wasn’t a problem… EXCEPT this one time. And the writer guiltily described the time he had eaten too many chocolate chips while listening to his favorite radio show, which was called “reeve heeben” or something.
