Doug Henning made magic all seem so wonderful and accessible. The perspective exits that he also made it seem a bit jejeune, over earnest and cloying... but that is for another diary.
"The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful."
---Doug Henning
Wouldn't it be great if magic was an easy remedy in our civil society and body politic? Join me as I waste time on the other side of the fold.
If I knew the magic words...
* falsifiers and fudgers on Fox would get immediate wedgies from preshrunk fibreglas fruit of the looms every time they crossed the truth line - or even smudged it a bit.
* in the case of Ben Gleck the
legend would come true, and an open mike would depants his cynical fraud... down the lonesome road with you, you ugly face in the crowd.
* drivers of cars with over powered boomer stereos in the back seats would have their shuffles permanently reset to Manilow, Montivani, and Michael Bolton playlists
* Boehner would be given something to
really cry about, like maybe an ethics investigation - with teeth.
* Billo the clown would be suddenly reduced to late night adfomercials for strange and exotic products "Its a personal hygiene bath product and exfoliator! - It's a Middle eastern snack! - it's both! But wait, that's not all..."
* more potential candidates for public servants of the calibre of Franks and Sanders would have full war chests, long volunteer lists and decent chances of winning campaigns.
That last one is doable - Doug would say that its a hard one that we can make easy, and then we can make it beautiful.
What about you - if you had the magic words, what would you use them on?