If a newspaper story gets really boring, the reporter should act it out with puppets. Or Muppets. Think of it. You could have Ernie and Bert analyze the redevelopment agency budget. Or those two codgers on "The Muppet Show." (Actually, that sounds like me when I used to cover city council meetings that dragged on until my head fell off: "Why do we always come here? I guess we'll never know.")
Or, you could just go to a really good puppet show and watch a master artist at work. I have never seen Kansas City puppeteer Paul Mesner perform, but you have to have a warm feeling about a man who lets his ear be eaten by a dinosaur.
The traveling Paul is bringing his puppets to the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto this Saturday for two family-friendly performances of "Rapunzel." And because every good fairy tale needs a little kohlrabi, he's dramatizing the story with puppets that look like vegetables. As Paul says, they just may all "leaf happily ever alfalfa." Oy.
Pictured: Paul Mesner with a friend, courtesy of his website.
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