Ze

"It's gonna be a fun fun winter, now,
that I've got my wool socks on,
it's gonna be so exciting, when,
it gets cold outside,

Your nose looks so damn cold, but,
my nose is so much colder,
If you can't see my breath,
Why don't you stand,
just a little bit closer,

It's gonna be a fun fun winter, now,
that you've got my wool socks on,
it's gonna be so exciting, when,
it gets cold outside."


Thank you Ze Frank for supporting the best year of my life. 2006 started off like utter shit. Around my birthday I wasn't sure if I'd be able to make it home in time for it... That was January 22nd. I was ending high school and possibly not going to college. There were circumstances that wouldn't allow for me to leave the city... It was june, I had been accepted all over the state, but I couldn't leave. I finally managed to squeek into UST here in Houston. I fucked up my first semester, as many have, and it was possibly irreperable. I had a long fight with my Dad over the winter.

Ah, the winter.

The winter started off like shit too then... Me and my Dad wern't talking and I was probably not going back to college, and I have no skills to get a job other than working minimum wage. I was scared etc etc... Anyways... pretty much all of the credit for this next part goes to Elaine.

I fixed all of the problems between me and my Dad to the point of him trusting me again. He and I got alon better than we had ever pretty much. But the one thing that waws consistant in all of this turmoil was Ze.

I knew that every weekday, at around 2pm central, that I'd get to watch an incredibly artisticly intelligent guy give me something to look foreward to. Weather it was his songs, or his analogies, or his stories, or his outrageous stunts, I always kept coming back.

Nothing he said specifically helped my situation, I'm not giving him credit for making my year the best year of my life, but now that the Show is gong, I feel that year to be over, and I feel a new one beginning now.

I know I'm a bit late because the show ended last month, but still, he was a constant that delivered every time new and innovative way to experience this thing called fun. Now that he's gone that constant is gone. That waiting period between classes is gone. That means for 5 minutes of new ideas that arn't my own is gone.

But alas, I still thank you Ze. Thank you for more than you know. I know the Show was just an experiment, but it was a success in my mind. Thank you for sticking to your word and ending the show instead of letting it possibly stretch on for too long and deminish all that you'd previously accomplished. Thank you for the ride home ze.

"This is a sad sad song about leaving"

"This is the price you pay when you purchase a feeling"

"It's where the conversation slowly fades and you start saying"

"Hey there, do you have a ride for me?"

"'Cause it's late and I've got to go to bed."

"This is a sweet sweet song about beginnings"

"These are the first few words that you say in the morning"

"It's when you start singing, "Hey, I'm only (insert your age here)"

"Hallelujah, it's a brand new day (a-chicka quack quack)"

"Hallelujah, it's a brand new day"

Thanks Ze
-Bill