I watched a Christmas classic today. It's a Wonderful Life. I didn't catch it on television. I didn't bust out the DVD. I didn't even see a stage performance of it. I guess I technically didn't even see it. It was a live broadcast of a radio play of It's a Wonderful Life. Okay, it wasn't a real radio play. It was a performance by a local school done in the style of a radio play. Just like in the old days before there was a television set in every house. When you heard a story on the radio with saline effects and all. Micah Vargas was in a high school performance of it. If you know the movie, then you should know Micah's parts were Mr. Gower and Bert the cop. Even making his voice different for each character to make them distinctly different but done by the same person. It was very entertaining. It even had the live sound effects, a live band for music for the play, and radio commercials for the intermissions. It was fun to see something different then the usual high school plays we have gone to. Micah did a wonderful job and are looking forward to possibly some more theatrical performances from him and his drama class.
By the way, wasn't the world supposed to end today? I guess the Mayans had it all wrong. Or they just ran out of stone to write on and couldn't keep the calender going. Shows how much people can actually predict the future. No one knows what tomorrow may bring. Not even the weathermen get it right. The just get lucky sometimes. Here is to not knowing the future.
This Day In History: 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs debuts. The American film, created by Walt Disney's animation company, was the first feature length animated movie. It became a classic, and box office receipts recouped the film's cost of $1.5 million by the end of its first year in circulation.
Born This Day: 1879
Joseph Stalin - Russian Soviet, dictator infamous for the numerous mass exterminations of his own people.
"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."
-Benjamin Disraeli
Fitting, don't you think?
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