Day Trips

As a kid I was told many ghost stories by my relatives. One of my favorites was a tale told to me by my father about a haunted tombstone in a remote cemetery. The story goes something like this: a man was beaten to death by a chain. Shortly after the burial, an image of a chain appeared on his tombstone. Repeated attempts to remove the image from the stone were useless. The image of the chain was -in- the stone. Finally, the family removed the stone and replaced it with a new one. Soon after replacing the stone, the image of the chain appeared again on the new stone. According to the story, on the anniversary of the man's death the number of links on the chain changes. Each year a new link gets added or taken away.

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You simply can't grow up a geek and not have been exposed to Monty Python in some form or another. It's also more than likely that you have sat through endless viewings of their classic movie, The Holy Grail, and even have recited lines from the film back and forth with your friends.

So who would have thought that this cinema masterpiece of high absurdity from 1975 would make its way to Broadway? Hell, who would have thought that people would travel hundreds of miles just to see a musical adaptation of the movie that they have chiseled into their subconscious? Well, I did for one.

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