{"id":7372,"date":"2019-05-26T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2024-01-15T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:34:17","slug":"a-night-with-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2019\/05\/26\/a-night-with-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night with Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Olin Park, Christmas 2001<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have a huge Christmas display you can see from John Nolen Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The electronics are pretty crude: Anything that blinks or alternates is plugged into a big metal box with a large relay you can hear clicking back and forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example: A railroad crossing sign with a little arm that goes up and down, is actually two arms. One in the raised position and one in the lowered position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They alternate back and forth between which one is lit up, and to you, it looks like the arm is going up and down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stacked a couple of triads of reindeer up, with the one on the bottom constantly lit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we took the two on top and plugged them into these devices so that they\u2019d alternate back and forth between which one was lit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the highway it looked like a reindeer thrusting in and out of the one on the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, we hopped the fence for Edgewood College and walked up to the nativity scene.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know what we intended to do \u2014 scope out the electronics like we did at the park I guess and go from there, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we got halfway up the driveway, the twenty foot high back drop started creaking and groaning and it fell forward, crashing down on the entire nativity scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked at him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He looked at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said \u201cI think God is trying to tell us something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He goes, \u201cNah. It saw us coming and it surrendered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We called it a night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wouldn\u2019t say that he was a religious fellow to put it mildly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was an unrelated nativity scene stunt where Baby Jesus was replaced with a Heavenly Ham from the Heavenly Ham Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there was that time some billboard up in Door County said: \u201cJesus is the answer, what is your question?\u201d and the fucker spray painted \u201cWho raped my son?\u201d on the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did snicker at some point in one of my interviews, only to be challenged with \u201cDo you think this is funny?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apologies, but yeah, I do think that at least a couple of the things<\/em> he did were quite funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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