from the muddy banks of high school

by Steven Garrity

High School was an odd time. The days I remember most are those spent driving my parent’s Saturn to the beach with a Poor Old Lu cassette. The times spent in class and in between have mostly fallen victim to traumatic memory loss – the trauma being boredom and social awkwardness.

a very, very, very little piece of historyEnjoy this high school memory: The valedictorian nomination speech of Dan James, former high school delinquent / honours student, current top 50 CEO. After two other cookie-cutter valedictory nomination addresses, Dan took the stage in the cafeteria, removed the mike from the podium, and gave this, his valedectorian nomination address. He lost by a suspicious two votes.

 

11 thoughts on “from the muddy banks of high school”

  1. Poor old lu… I miss them… Well, I miss when they were good. Or when we thought they were good at least.

    “A Picture of the Eighth Wonder” was, well…
    Here’s to you Poor Old Lu. The good, the bad and all the wednesday nights, camps, coffee houses, hiking trips, soccer games, broken bones, scarred heads, banged up cars, giving up, living up, making up, breaking up, guitars, dyed hair, shaved heads, being a punk but not being punk enough, MxPx, Horton’s Choice, Buddy, Horton, Yesterday and you, romance, better chance, arguments, jokes, smiling, stealing, running, jumping, falling, breaking, too much coke; too fast, sex talks, laughs, tight t-shirts with cooler logos, getting caught, caught with what?, getting away, Steve stuffing 10 and 20 dollar bills down my shirt while I am holding the video companion to Poor Old Lu: Picture of an eighth wonder.

    This was three times as long and yes; it is one big inside joke. I am nothing but a pathetic hypocrite. It was off-topic and un-acceptable.

    Thank you.

  2. Poor Old Lu always felt like our little secret… “Straight Six” is still one of my all time favorite albums/EP’s… Looking forward to hearing their new album in the fall..

    Oh, and Jevon, you were never punk enough…

  4. Dan, you were never punk enough either… Now Steve, that guy was punk without even trying…

  5. It was Steves hair.. Long hair that was punk, not grunge…

    Now Dennis… You did not have punk hair… Heh… What kinda haircut was that?

    Scratch with your mouse to find out ->
    It was a mullet!

  6. I prefer ‘Hockey Hair’, or ‘Camaro Cut’. Mullet seems like such a dirty word.

  8. Dude… I was so much more pretty than that guy.. The part in my hair was more to the right, and more definite… And i washed regularly. And i did’nt have the split ends problem he so obviously does…

    PS. Dan, you should have won the valedictory thing.. for sure..

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