Slog - Comments on One Day In Black History http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history This is a part of black history: The man in the image is Pat Harrington, Jr. He plays the janitor in the TV show One Day At Time. The show no longer exists but was popular at around the time I was 10 (1978-1982). At around this time I, a black boy, and my sister, a black girl, met Pat Harrington, Jr. in Salisbury, Maryland. We met him in a community center and spent the afternoon discovering his comic greatness. He was hyper in attitude and no line existed between the Pat Harrington, Jr we saw on TV and Pat... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:25:17 -0800 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:31:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Soupytwist This is possibly my favorite Slog post ever. I never thought it would be you, Charles!

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616013 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:36:10 -0800 Comment by elswinger Next time the Game Show network airs Tattletales reruns you'll catch a lot of Pat.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616056 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616056 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:00:26 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Brilliant, Charles. Aflame with consciousness.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616108 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616108 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:10:39 -0800 Comment by bill Charles:

"The show no longer exists but was popular at around the time I was 10 (1978-1982)."

You were ten for four years? That explains a lot--like how you've had the fucking time to read all that philosophy AND listen to all that hip-hop. Me, I was 21 for four years (1980-1984).

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616175 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616175 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:32:28 -0800 Comment by lar charles listens to hiphop?

dude, you met schneider. why didn't you mention this before?

]]> lar http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616188 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616188 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:53:54 -0800 Comment by maria Charles, we have to get you drunk way more often & get these precious stories out of you!! (you're buying)

]]> maria http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616217 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616217 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:22:42 -0800 Comment by kerri harrop charles, this is easily the best slog post of the new year and possibly the best post EVER.

only you could wax poetic about schneider and make me love every goddamn word of it. thanks.

]]> kerri harrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616627 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616627 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:03:00 -0800 Comment by mattias Thamks for sharing your brush with mediocrity. I hope for our sake that you've encountered Harry Bentley in your travels and that someday we'll be fortunate enough to read about it.

]]> mattias http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616730 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616730 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:51:21 -0800 Comment by larry clark WTF? I stopped watching that show after about a year because it got too preachy about social issues. Plus, the one daughter acted like a slut and I'm gay so there there was no attraction. Schneider was kind of funny, though.

]]> larry clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c616891 Celeb Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:12:08 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell That is awesome. And ridiculous, and touching. Valerie Bertinelli lived on my block in Northridge, CA in 1978, when I was ten. Just sayin'.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617189 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617189 Celeb Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:43:57 -0800 Comment by larry clark Just in case Valerie is reading this; you are not the person who was slutty. Your character was the good girl. I think your character was the good girl. Not only that...You married Eddie Vedder... ( I think).

]]> larry clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617470 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617470 Celeb Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:41:15 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray Mackenzie (sp?) Phillips was the slutty daughter, and Valerie Bertinelli married Eddie Van Halen. I think they are still married.

I always thought Schneider was sexy.

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617780 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617780 Celeb Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:34:03 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways according to wikipedia she filed for divorce two years ago, but nothing about it being finalized...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617962 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c617962 Celeb Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:42:45 -0800 Comment by Matt Briggs This was a nice post. I liked the nostalgia of around the time I was ten that covers a four year period -- kind of a gauzy recollection. I also liked it that it violated two "rules" Charles has stated for writing he finds interesting. He has said in the past: children are not interesting because they are children. And he has said memoir is not interesting. I've been puzzled by this stand wondering what he thinks of SPEAK MEMORY, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE, or SWAN'S WAY -- diaphanous memoirs by writes about their childhoods. I suspect, though, that he may be reacting to the glut of memoir that is still being produced despite/because of James Frey -- RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, THE GLASS CASTLE, etc. by fairly literal minded writers. In fact this kind of memoir tends to never draw attention to how it is written because that would into the uncomfortable questions about how true this work actually is. SPEAK MEMORY is all about how it was written and the truth of it is kind of beside the point. Here Charles presents a lyric fragment of memoir. If it had line breaks it could even be a lyric poem.

But I can't help but wonder if this is true? Did Charles actually meet this famous man as a child? How true is this if he can't even remember which four year period when it occurred?

]]> Matt Briggs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c618254 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c618254 Celeb Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:16:57 -0800 Comment by charles mudede matt, i do love speak memory and, you are right, i don't find care for boy and girl stories. so, this post is a contradiction. i can't offer a resolution. but the event did happen in my time as a boy. i just don't have exact dates.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c618531 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/one_day_in_black_history#c618531 Celeb Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:31:20 -0800