It’s Tuesday. :: Brad Walsh

It’s Tuesday.

Yesterday someone at work was on the phone being eerily cheerful for a Monday morning, and when he laughed a fake laugh I said, out loud, “why don’t you shut your mouth?” Last week I told him to “hang up or I’ll kill you.” This morning I accidentally punched a girl in the head by the fax machine.

Of all the horrible crap on my iPod, Madonna’s “Take A Bow” just started playing, and now I’m ready to slow-motion walk out of the office and sit with coffee in the corner Starbucks as people walk by barefoot over broken glass. There is something wrong with me, and I should not admit that this song is on my iPod. Nor should I recall publicly that in seventh grade ensemble, our director Mrs. Heidmann chose this song for us to sing at our year-end concert. I shouldn’t continue to the part where I ended up with a solo and she choreographed hand movements so that we were, in effect, a damn show choir. I blame Mrs. Heidmann for making me gay. And for my subsequent-to-current hatred of musicals, choirs, people who move their hands when they sing, and Oprah.

I’m not the only person who remembers Mr. Bogus, am I? At one point he was claymation and then I think he was animated. Bumpy head. Nobody believes me, and Kathy and her mom called me a liar. I may lie about a lot of things, but not about something as serious as Mr. Bogus. Back me up.

6 Comments to It’s Tuesday.

by Andrea

On February 28, 2006 at 10:17 pm

I was in a show choir in 8th grade. We sang Lollipop a lot, and would spend hours trying to get everyone in unison when we made that popping noise with our fingers in our cheeks. But dude, we never did anything as lame as Take a Bow.
by anonymousmom

On March 1, 2006 at 1:56 pm

i got your back. i remember mr. bogus.
by anonymousmom

On March 2, 2006 at 11:57 am

http://www.jumptheshark.com/m/mrbogus.html
by Mary Smith

On February 23, 2007 at 1:07 am

Hey,
Get over yourself, you’re Gay because you chose to be that way. If you hated choir so much, why didn’t you quit. Get a life and acept responsiblity for your life, and not blame a teacher. You chose to mate with a man and not a woman!
by Kathy

On February 23, 2007 at 1:54 am

I like that what Mary’s offended by isn’t that you “chose” to be gay, but that you associate gayness and show choir.

DON’T SULLY THE NAME OF SHOW CHOIR.
DON’T DRAG SHOW CHOIR THROUGH THE MUD.
IT’S ADAM & EVE, NOT ADAM & SHOW CHOIR.
by playthemixtape

On May 13, 2007 at 1:04 am

ah ah this was really funny, you seem to be so traumatised by madonna’s take a bow lol

got to your blog when browsing junk mag, loved it so i’m adding to my favorites.

done!

feel free to browse my livejournal and leave a message or two if you like… huge madonna fan here, did you ever remixed her stuff?