Michael Boo

Not when one goes to the source.

I have been informed this particular event IS going to be available and should be listed on the calendar. Please note this line from the original news release: "Additional events are expected to be added to this preliminary schedule as the summer approaches. Schedule is subject to change." Thank you for noticing the oversight and mentioning it so it can be corrected. It will appear soon. We now return you to our regularly scheduled program. :)

Mods: I didn't remember the prior posting from two months earlier, so please feel free to close this new article about all the marching units if you so desire.

I love you people! We've reached a compromise: All ticket buyers will receive a complimentary copy of my new music CD, "Baby: Michael Boo Sings the Music of Justin Bieber." In exchange for DCI sending out the CDs, I had to agree to allow them to produce them with a special additive that makes the disks flammable.

http://www.tournamentofroses.com/news/19-marching-bands-selected-join-2017-rose-parade®

In a privately held company, the owner would have to sell every brick, every window, and more to be worth what Forbes guesses. And I agree with George Dixon...my memory is too strong to allow me to forget how Bill was wrongly regarded by much of the drum corps community while he was alive. (But hey, that's coming from someone who hasn't changed his DCP avatar from that of his friend and hero, and has no plans of doing so.)

I've got nothing.

I'm somewhat bigger in girth now and I don't fit as easily into the smaller dimensions of those earlier photos. I also stopped giving the photos out for free when I learned most of them were being used for dartboards.

I don't have that kind of power. If I did, I wouldn't have to take out my own garbage.

Oh, sure...rub in the Pulitzer snub. But despite the contribution to my lack of sleep on certain summer weekends, I truly did enjoy doing the Recap Roundup.

Many, many thousands of fans read the Recap Roundup. However, I'm not sure if any of them actually "enjoyed" it.

But can it still be about ME? Me, me, me, me, me.

Honestly, no. I believe it's just an attempt to purify the competition experience for the corps; especially the members. I think the intent is that corps have no doubts that they are being judged solely based on what they put on the field during any particular performance, without concerns they were slotted or that another corps was being advanced based on prior performances. We all perhaps need to see how this plays out to fully comprehend how it's going to work. The proposal received such huge support from the corps, I've got to believe they're on the same page and wish to know exactly where they stand each day of the season based on what they left on the field.

Yes, but I only know television commercial themes about food.

Well, I am a tool, but let's not get personal.

lol. BOO 9000: "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."

I don't know, but I'm feeling a bit like HAL 9000 when David Bowman began to shut down the computer. And now I want to start singing, "Daisy."

No, because I'll be posting lots of glamour shots of myself. It's the least I can do.

I didn't even know about it as I wasn't even there. But I'll cop to it if it gets me more sleep. :)

I haven't been to a drum corps party for at least a couple decades. After the shows, I'm too tired to do anything except the writing I've got to do and the preparation for the next day's events. I suspect the time I spent writing the Recap Roundup will be invested in sleep, which is in short supply the final week of the season. Perhaps I'll even feel awake enough to attend the SoundSport and Drumline Battle events.

First class? My plane ticket requires me to leave my seat whenever someone needs to use the toilet.

Well, I was allowed in the staff dining room, so there's that.

The plan is to rent me out to personally go to the houses of fans willing to pay for a Recap Roundup experience, just like Michio Kaku in that TurboTax commercial.

Laughing my butt off. Perhaps I'll be handed the recaps after Finals and told I can't leave the stadium until I complete the analysis. I wonder if the ankle bracelet will allow me to venture out to Shapiro's Deli down the street for sustenance. If not, the Lucas Oil Stadium crews will have to sweep around me after the exhibition games. OH MY GOD! You've just given DCI an idea that could place me in indentured servitude at least until Labor Day. I love the concept of job security...but, hey.

Yes, the amount I had to pay in order to be allowed to do the feature was starting to really negatively affect my bank book. I wish I made a tenth of what some people think I make. :)