Friday, October 30, 2009
Reader, you are gazing upon an image of the world’s greatest living Sconnie. It’s Geoff Herbach, and he is forty years old today.
The glasses he is wearing in this photo were purchased as a kind of a joke, because we had both helped write an urban planning radio musical about a twee-pop band last year, and Geoff played the lead twee-pop songwriter. So he needed a suitable pair of tongue-in-cheek 1980s sad-person glasses. But he actually looked fairly good in them, and started wearing them on a regular basis, even after the performance’s run had ended. “I see why computer guys like these,” he exclaimed one evening, walking around his living room whipping his head around. “You can really see everything! I’ve got perfect 360 degree vision!”
That is my own personal idea of Herbach: a man with perfect 360 degree vision who can see things around him. I, uh, guess that works on a couple of different levels, but Herbach would write it better.
I’m not a dad or a homeowner, Obama. What can I do to help?
I am hoping the answer is “form a bluegrass band and travel across the country in a red-white-and-blue solar-powered conversion van solving mysteries.”
