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Joe Cottonwood
Four smart kids. One busy town.
Bowie Brown plays guitar - and uses it as an assault weapon. Mimi Bucher lives in a secret bedroom in a shopping mall. Jaz McGuire is determined to never grow up and to never hear mention of ess ee ex. Hoot Howard collects waterfalls - until somebody steals them.
Hoot has a mother with lime-green hair. Bowie has a father who sings to a ghost. Jaz has a mother who is too Chinese. Mimi has nobody at all.
A couple of neighbors nicknamed Curly and Moe just might be starting a multi-billion dollar software company in a garage - if only they can cash their first check.
It’s the beginning of another year of school in Menlo Park, California in the year 1998, a time of change, the end of a millennium.
I try to be funny. I try to be humane. Mixing story and original music I try to present likable people who grow as you listen.
Besides myself, the voices are Susan Walker, Caroline Graham, Michael Minard, and Patrick Bradley. The music is by Will Fourt.
Cross that footbridge, danger on the other side. Too big, too fast, let your brain be your guide.
Run, run, across the track. Sky is yellow, earth is black. Cold wind, hard steel. Got to find where life is real.
It's September, 1998. Menlo Park just south of the Golden Gate. Talkin' on pay phones, internet's gonna be great.
She'll never grow up, her mama is too Chinese. Call me fickle but save the last pickle, please.
Got a secret bedroom, living in the Stanford Mall. Everybody wants her, nobody knows her at all.
Don't you cry now, Daddy had to die some day. Find you a waterfall, put it in your Chevrolet.
It's September, 1998. Menlo Park just south of the Golden Gate. Talkin' on pay phones, internet's gonna be great.