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It\u2019s night and we\u2019re driving, my friend David and me. <\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve known him a long time. Since we were in sixth grade, I think. We\u2019ve stayed in touch that whole time, mostly. <\/p>\n

Well, we fall out of touch and then back into touch. We haven\u2019t seen each other in years \u2014 almost twenty, I think . . . though I\u2019m not quite sure exactly how long it\u2019s been.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re back together for the evening, heading over to the old mall to see the new Mickey Mouse cartoon that\u2019s just been released. David is excited. I\u2019m feeling sleepy a bit under the weather. I haven\u2019t been sleeping. <\/p>\n

Most times it seems like I always haven\u2019t been sleeping.<\/p>\n

At the mall, David produces a small swipe card \u2014 somehow he\u2019s managed to clone it from one of the security guards, in order to sneak in to the movies without paying. He has one for me as well and I\u2019m feeling a bit panicky as we swipe our way through the back door, coming face to face with a guard.<\/p>\n

He ignore us. In our suits and ties, I suppose we look like we belong there, behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

I follow David through the hallways to an area behind the movie screen. There is a small riser of stadiums seats, sparsely attended, looking down on a little orchestra pit and a small constellation of microphones. I realize that the movie soundtrack and dialogue will be performed live for the premiere, like an old time live radio show. <\/p>\n

For reasons I that aren\u2019t explained, the sound effects are recorded on the film, however.<\/p>\n

I watch the actors mug their way through the performance, mildly impressed at how well everything goes. I forget sometimes to watch the screen where Mickey\u2019s antics play out in silvered, larger-than-life magic.<\/p>\n

A woman makes her way through the seats, selling concessions. She has the pillbox cap, fishnet stockings, and pin curls of yesteryear. But all she has to sell are oversized chili dogs in greasy wax paper envelopes \u2014 far more suitable for a ballpark than a movie.<\/p>\n

I buy one and, somehow, my youngest daughter is there to help me share it. Though she makes a terrible mess of it and I worry that my wife will be upset over the junk food and additives. We\u2019re so careful with her diet...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s night and we\u2019re driving, my friend David and me.  I\u2019ve known him a long time. Since we were in sixth grade, I think. We\u2019ve stayed in touch that whole time, mostly.  Well, we fall out of touch and then back into touch. We haven\u2019t seen each other in years \u2014 almost twenty, I think . [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,155,567,566,574,564,563,121,93,565,572,568,573,570,569,27,577,576,100,575],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-actors","tag-baby","tag-chili-dogs","tag-concessions","tag-guilty","tag-hot-dogs","tag-mickey-mouse","tag-movies","tag-night","tag-pascua","tag-radio-play","tag-security-guard","tag-silver-screen","tag-sneaking","tag-swipe-card","tag-the-midlands","tag-the-movie-theater","tag-the-old-mall","tag-wife","tag-worried"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}