#the lost pilot

[dncingthrghlife]

the devil works hard but ray mona works harder

[just-comic-things]

She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #2

[poem-today]

A poem by James Tate

The Lost Pilot

for my father, 1922-1944

Your face did not rot like the others—the co-pilot,    for example, I saw him

yesterday. His face is corn- mush: his wife and daughter,    the poor ignorant people, stare

as if he will compose soon. He was more wronged than Job.    But your face did not rot

like the others—it grew dark, and hard like ebony; the features progressed in their

distinction. If I could cajole you to come back for an evening,    down from your compulsive

orbiting, I would touch you,    read your face as Dallas,    your hoodlum gunner, now,

with the blistered eyes, reads    his braille editions. I would touch your face as a disinterested

scholar touches an original page.    However frightening, I would    discover you, and I would not

turn you in; I would not make    you face your wife, or Dallas,    or the co-pilot, Jim. You

could return to your crazy    orbiting, and I would not try    to fully understand what

it means to you. All I know    is this: when I see you,    as I have seen you at least

once every year of my life,    spin across the wilds of the sky    like a tiny, African god,

I feel dead. I feel as if I were    the residue of a stranger’s life,    that I should pursue you.

My head cocked toward the sky,    I cannot get off the ground,    and, you, passing over again,

fast, perfect, and unwilling    to tell me that you are doing    well, or that it was mistake

that placed you in that world, and me in this; or that misfortune    placed these worlds in us.

James Tate (1943-2015)

Listen to James Tate introduce and read his poem

[toyboy-molloy]

mate I just want to watch the pilot

[lifewithaview]

I Love Lucy (1951–1957) The lost Pilot

Ricky tries to keep Lucy away from auditioning for a TV show, but when a clown becomes unavailable, Lucy takes his place.

Friday, March 2, 1951

Five months pregnant, Lucy stepped before the live TV cameras at Studio A at CBS headquarters on Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street on March 2, 1951, to do the “audition film.” 

This pilot resurfaced in 1990 in the possesion of Pepito the Spanish clown`s widow Joanne Perez,and was made into a television special.  Lucille Ball biographer Bart Andrews labeled it one of the biggest archival finds in television history.

[longerbox]

Same energy.

[just-comic-things]

She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #2

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She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #2