TEXARKANA MAGAZINE
MY DRIFT COLUMN BY PATSY MORRISS Y’all Ready for This?
I n 1996, Warner Brothers released Space Jam , a sports comedy starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. I never saw it, but the theme song by the Quad City DJs became something of a hit, peaking at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100. You’d know it if I hummed a few bars; it’s a quirky techno-pop-sounding number featuring the lyrics, “Y’all ready for this?” Over the almost thirty years it’s been around, “Space Jam” has become the overture to my internal last-quarter soundtrack. It sums up my mindset perfectly, posing the question of whether I’m ready and immediately moving into music that can only be described as manic. It makes me think of the Charlie Brown Christmas kids dancing during Christmas pageant practice, only in fast forward. Am I ready for the approaching holidays? It doesn’t matter because “Space Jam” is the holidays’ way of saying, “Ready or not, here we come!” Indeed, the holidays are coming. From Halloween, they will increase in technical difficulty level through Christmas, and they’re advancing with… what? Even though “a vengeance” seems like too strident a term, somehow it feels right.
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