{"id":279,"date":"2010-03-31T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-05-20T18:57:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T01:57:01","slug":"garrison-is-has-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/garrison-is-has-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrison Is, Has, at Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ Garrison, skunk, spent much of Shiny Day and the week thereafter as a pinball. We caught him in the Rose Garden to ask about the experience. Also present were Terry, pangolin; Dingo, dingo; and Mavra, centaur. ] <\/em><\/p>\n

Garrison was a metal ball at the time and didn’t have a very good vantage point.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s something, though, Garrison. How did you have your ball?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison says, “Is my ball really something that should be talked about in a family newspaper? … I think for most of it I was in Beltrami’s hands.”<\/p>\n

Ah, it was one of Beltrami’s schemes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison says, “Ayup”<\/p>\n

Was it comfortable?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison hmmms, “Well….it was not uncomfortable.”<\/p>\n

Did you risk dizziness? How did magnets feel? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison says, “I had to learn to roll around. Magnets made me sing folk tunes.”<\/p>\n

Well, that’s just crazy. A pinball would have to be crazy to want to be a folk singer. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Terry puffs, “Yeah, folk singing and pinball dings and beeps don’t go together well at all.”<\/p>\n

Garrison says, “What about Peter, Pinball, and Mary?”<\/p>\n

So while you were a pinball, Garrison, were you menaced by any rogue pin boys?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison says, “Nope…just Roofus.”<\/p>\n

Roofus_roo? What was she up to? Oh, wait, she wasn’t trying to use you as crystal ball, was she?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Terry puffs, “I’ve been used as a croquet ball. Not a pinball though.”<\/p>\n

[ Garrison did not answer, possibly missing the question in Rose Garden chatter. The lack of an answer was missed in Rose Garden chatter. ] <\/em><\/p>\n

So, Garrison, do you think you’ll go pinballing again, given the chance?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison mmms, “I think I’ll leave the balling to Mischa.”<\/p>\n

Don’t care for being an object, Garrison, or was it just the pinball that left room for more action?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison says, “Well it was kinda lonely. If Dingo had also been a pinball, or maybe a pinball machine….then I’d consider it.”<\/p>\n

That’s sweet, Garrison, and weird. Dingo, think you might be up for that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dingo yips, “If Garrison were a pinball, I’d…. er better not say anything. Hehe…”<\/p>\n

Garrison chuckles.<\/p>\n

Dingo winks at Garrison. It was about balls and holes.<\/p>\n

Strangest Match Game<\/cite> blank in years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anything you’d recommend about being a pinball, Garrison? Something we shouldn’t miss if it happens to us?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garrison says, “Make sure Beltrami gives you a way to communicate, and go easy on the metal polish. Its addictive.”<\/p>\n

And see about having a table ready, then?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dingo blushes. Dingo pats Garrison’s side. She looks up at him endearingly.<\/p>\n

How’d you get out of pinball and into skunktaur form, by the way, Garrison?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mavra says, “He was inspired, Austin.”<\/p>\n

Garrison says, “Beltrami tapped me with her wand and I just kind of exploded. Startled her, she fell backwards in a slow balloon sort of way.”<\/p>\n

Powerful wand, that. You don’t think of her as encouraging explosions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mavra says, “Hmm… I best get going then with a wand like that lying around.”<\/p>\n

Garrison says, “Beltrami’s gone to sleep, Mavra.”<\/p>\n

Mavra waves and heads for home.<\/p>\n

[ With the Garden conversation’s shift the interview concluded. ]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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