Gibson Mammon
This entry was posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 12:17 AM and is filed under Stories I would be telling if I still taught high school,Characters I've known.
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One day I was visiting my sister in Toronto. We were walking through an Indian section of town. Indian dance music was blaring everywhere. One of the stores was playing a CD that sounded too good not to buy. Now why the hell would I want to buy a CD of Indian dance music? Easy. Another dumbass scheme had just hatched in my head.
In my freshman algebra class, I had a student named Gibson Mammon. He was a good kid. He was little, maybe 90 pounds. He was Indian. And he was a boy. You might say he was a good little Indian boy. He was smart, respectful, and polite, but his excessive energy drove his classmates up a wall. Maybe he had ADD. Who knows. To keep an eye on his antics, I moved him next to my desk. Around that time, I heard the Indian dance music in Toronto. The scheme: make an Indian dance remix, featuring Gibson Mammon! With Gibson sitting next to my desk, I could easily record some of the crazy shit he would say. Of course, like 90% of my ideas, I lost interest before the project gathered any momentum. Here is the dance track I was going to use, along with some vintage Gibson...
Indian Dance Music.mp3
Gibson Mammon.mp3