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Saturday, March 11, 2006

 

Zippidy Fucking Doo Dah

It is simply amazing to me how something as random as warmer weather after months of cold can lift one's spirits. Yesterday, we had a record high here in New York. It hit the mid-seventies. And suddenly the life-crushing despair I'd been feeling since Arrested Development got canceled just flew out the window and I began skipping down the street like Gene Kelly.

New York is such a fantastic place in the Spring. All of a sudden, you remember how awesome it is to walk in the park. Museums, which have been open all winter anyway, sing a louder siren song. Even the crackheads on our block seem to have a spring in their step.

I walked my dogs this morning under a bright, sunny sky and I felt energized. My wife and I just went for a run in the park and I feel like I've got rainbows coming out my ass. I started singing the theme from Fame for absolutely no reason. I have an urge to sit down and crank out the screenplay I've been neglecting for the past two weeks. I want to adopt homeless orphans and teach them to play the violin. I want to give George Bush a big hug.

Okay, I don't really want to do that. That's just the caffeine talking. But still.

I guess the deep and profound point I want to make here is that Spring is good. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go heal some lepers.

Comments:
You just described how I felt on Friday when my March Break started.
 
I was looking up the spelling of what I thought was zippety or maybe zippidy and your BLOG came up with the correct spelling zippity.

Your title and blog really amused me and then struck me more critically as I thought, "Now that is the voice of the 21st century. Not Frost with vestiges of the 19th century, nor e.e. cummings which probably culminated with the 20th, but that exuberance of this new century.

I may be wrongly interpreting this. There is ambivilence: zip pity, pity zip, the juxtaposition does catch one's eye.
 
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