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CAT Tracks for August 22, 2012
CAIRO HOME DEMOLITION |
What's the buzz?
Tell me what's a-happening.
So went the lyrics to a song from the 1970s rock-opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Well...
Cairo has no Broadway...
...doesn't even have a movie theater for a retro-showing.
However...
...if you were in the vicinity of 23rd and MLK Avenue on Monday afternoon, you likely heard workers and passers-by bellowing out lines reminiscent of the play/movie.
Things like "Jesus Christ" and "What the..."
May God forgive them!
From the KFVS TV Channel 12...
Grants enable city of Cairo to demo old houses
Maybe Tom Cruise will read about this incident and choose Cairo to stage a remake of his 1980s hit movie Risky Business...
...updating the title to "Risky Beesness".
The swarm would serve as proper inspiration for the crane operator to disrobe and dance around the streets in his underwear, socks and pink dress shirt to "Old Time Rock and Roll".
If producers need a plausible rationale for the re-staging of the movie at a demolition site, they could play upon recent real-life marital events in the life and times of Tom Cruise...
...call it "Grants Enable City of Cairo to Demo Old Holmes".
And if you thought that was catty...
Producers can always look forward, rather than to the past!
Since the stated premise of the demolition of these 50 homes is to pave the way for the economic rebirth of the City of Cairo, how 'bout we call our new movie:
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Town
As always, should you or any of your I.M. Force be caught or killed (or stung!), the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This tape/disc will self-destruct in five seconds.
Good luck, Ethan.
CAT Tracks Editor's Note:
To those who condemn all negative (reality-based) utterances about Cairo...
I hope and pray as much as anyone that the City of Cairo will be reborn...or at least level out (no demolition pun intended.)
However...
Living in Cairo for 67 years, teaching in the Cairo Public Schools for 39 years, I believe has earned me the right to temper my hopes with gallows humor.
And, if that disclaimer is not enough for you "glass runneth over" types...
Here's the good news:
Those first four "Mission: Impossible" movies?
The impossible was accomplished; the mission was a success!!!
Your mission Ethan, should you choose to accept it, is to rebuild the City of Cairo to a thriving tri-state mecca of commerce and industry.
