| This one starts out with me on stage with two other people. I am on stage right. (To you non-thespians/techies: Imagine you’re standing on a stage, facing the audience. Look to your right. That’s stage right.) I am seated in a folding metal chair, looking at the audience. Seated in a similar manner on stage left is Kimmee (of the Page of Al Lovin). Standing at a podium in the center is Al. He’s giving a speech on something...I don’t recall what. He’s really getting into it. His hands are flying in the air, and he's as focused as he could be. Suddenly, Kimmee and I see this huge alligator sneaking up on him from behind. Kimmee stands up and bellows “AL!” reeeally loudly. Al turns around quickly and sees the gator. Enter the special effects. Al reaches down and grabs its tail and yanks it off the ground. With a flick of the wrist, he sets it spinning in midair. He stands there watching it spin for about five seconds. Then he grabs its tail again, snapping it to the ground like a bullwhip. He raises his right leg and STOMPs its head. The gator twitches a bit, then lays still. Al nods and turns back to his speech, completely unruffled. He isn’t bothered a bit by stomping this enormous gator into submission. Kimmee and I at this point are on our feet, cheering, clapping, going nuts. But what about the audience, you ask? What was their reaction? Sadly, we’ll never know...there was no audience. The auditorium was totally empty except for Al, Kimmee and me. And then I woke up. My Take On It Next Dream |
| Public Speakin' Al 12/01/00 |