Saturday, March 08, 2008

One Giant Leap for Jazzkind

When you read student papers, you find (a) errors that confuse you, (b) errors that annoy you, and (c) errors that make you rock with laughter. Here's one of the latter that helped to make my day a bit more enjoyable:

When man landed on the moon everyone thought it was such an amazing historical event. They thought that it was such an immense accomplishment. Everyone watched the broadcast of it on their black and white television in their living room and tried to imagine what they were seeing. Watching it, you would have seen an image of Louis Armstrong bouncing up and down on the moon’s surface, planting that celebrated American flag.
And then you would have seen his thrilling rendition of "Basin Street Blues" in the vacuum of space. Man, did Satchmo have a set of lungs on him or what?

Comments:
o/` "I see craters of gray / a planet of blue / one small step for me / one giant leap for you / and I think to myself / what a wonderful moon..." o/`
 
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