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07jan2009 — Live at City Park: Unnamed Codger with a Walkman

I was sitting on a bench reading a book in City Park (that's its name—happily, it's not named after some stupid politician or dead, dumb order follower) when this old codger trudged up to another bench, lay his jacket and backpack on it, and climbed the stairs to the stage. Facing the back of the bandshell, he slipped on a large pair of earphones, turned on a portable CD player, and began to belt out Sinatra songs. "I've got the world on a string . . . Life is a wonderful thing, as long as I hold the string!" In a canyon town, even quiet sounds can echo all over the place but harness a bandshell and you serenade the world. Every dog up and down Brewery Gulch began barking and howling along. "Dont you know you fool, you never can win . . . Use your mentality, wake up to reality!" I was meeting someone elsewhere, so I couldn't stay for the whole show. "And even when I'm old and gray, I'm gonna feel the way I do today!" But I'm going back tomorrow.

How 'bout a little reverb, willya Nellie, for chrissakes? Yer killin' me, ya kooky nut ya.

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