Melonball Rising!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long and hard we toil. Hours numerous and remunerations scant, we work. We work to provide for a better life and in doing so we find humor along the way. Humor is deliverance from the banality and agony of day in day out labors. Humor is a multilingual mistress who can provoke her recipient in many tongues. What's one man's trash is another man's treasure which explains the enormous success of Larry The Cable Guy.

Git 'er done.

It's silly, I know but so are so many other things in life. Why are tops necessary at the beach, why do we have to follow the flow of the escalators and what was Tropicana thinking with their new packaging?? Silliness abounds and we all see it differently. The common thread is that we are transformed in a moment by just that little twist that appeals to our senses. Schadenfreude, scatology, wit, knock knock jokes, practical jokes even Howie Mandel with a surgical glove can make someone stop and smile. In that moment you are free to feel, and even to dream a bit. I would love to be able to share in this happy feeling that we all share when something 'tickles our funnybone' and am once again inviting all to celebrating



Melonball Thursday; The unofficial holiday celebrating Silliness usually marked by toasting a shared silly act from the past with a melonball of the celebrant's personal choice. Historically the thursday before Easter.


This holiday took it's roots in a kegger back in the Eighties. It was originally marked as an homage a man who's ego directly influenced a generation of some very funny people. Melonball was his nickname but it became the bouncing ball that made me want to keep singing funny lyrics. The holiday was bastardized or re-engineered to bring in a larger group of people who deserve to feel good about themselves and their lives in the Nineties. From NYC to NH, from Newport to NJ the word was spread of a holiday that was the organized moment to have a laugh, a memory and a melonball. The word was spread from tavern to tavern, from career-ending youth theatre tours to career-ending youth theatre tours. Just like those beacons were lit in the end of "The Lord Of The Rings" the news has been spread. Alright maybe that was just silly, but we're still trying.

Everyone has a right to be silly at sometime or another (and hopefully even get paid for it) so this coming thursday, give yourself a break and crack a smile, have a melonball and tell a story or two. You'll make your bartender, local farmer and yourself a bit happier. And from the way the world is today, don't you think you deserve it????

Send your pictures of this Melonball Thursday to my email monoxvii@adelphia.net I look forward to seeing them and you and hearing your stories!