Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for November 14, 2013
Transcript:
Marigold: You could practice now. Phoebe: The timing is wrong. Dinner's gonna be in 27 minutes, and I'm supposed to practice for 30. Marigold: You have become quite practiced at not practicing. Phoebe: I'm hoping to hit the after-dinner pre-bath window.
kaykeyser about 11 years ago
If I was Phoebe’s parent I would say no Bath no dinner no bed till you practice. Either that or explain to us why you don’t love music any more and we won’t force you.
kaykeyser about 11 years ago
Also I wounder what a unicorn’s favorite game and game piece is?
blackshire about 11 years ago
Yep, I think Marigold is letting Phoebe “punish herself” so that she will learn a lesson the hard way… :-)
Kali39 about 11 years ago
Doesn’t Phoebe now have respect for her piano teacher and "promised’ (sorta kinda) that she WOULD practice?
DanglingModifier about 11 years ago
Aww, they could’ve been playing Zen: The Board Game!
XD yeah, I doubt Phoebe would’ve sat still for that
Q4horse about 11 years ago
This story arc suffers from a logic error. If you enjoy playing the piano, you wouldn’t mind practice. If you do not enjoy playing, why take lessons?
Stellagal about 11 years ago
Isn’t the after-dinner pre-bath window the time you’re suppose to be doing your school homework?
Hafoc about 11 years ago
You take lessons because your parents force you to. I still hate anything to do with pianos after all these decades.
Hag5000 about 11 years ago
Maybe Schroeder can pay Phoebe a visit and talk her into practicing.
dogday Premium Member about 11 years ago
It looks like Sorry to me. And Marigold is particularly pretty today.
John W Kennedy Premium Member about 11 years ago
It’s not as simple as that. Playing piano is fun; it’s /practicing/ that is boring. Boring, boring, boring, boring! It’s much more fun to improvise, and to go off on an expedition looking for interesting new chords—but if you don’t do those stupid, boring scales and the other stupid, boring exercises, you’ll never be really good. I suppose it’s the same for dancers—all that barre work that isn’t interesting at all, when you want to be leaping or twirling.
I could never have been an outright virtuoso piano player; my reflexes are too slow. But there are a lot of musical things that I know now that I could have done—I’ve sung opera at a professional level, and I once, under pressure, composed an entire one-act operetta for children in one week. But no matter what I try to do musically, I could do it much better if I were even a third-rate piano player, instead of eighth-rate or so, as I am. I didn’t understand that when I was a kiddy-wink.
Comic Minister Premium Member about 11 years ago
The pre-bath window?
coz69 about 11 years ago
It’s a Ouija Board…
reynard61 about 11 years ago
“Pre-bath window.”
Something tells me that the word “Defenestration” is going to become very important in Phoebe’s near-future…