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Sunday I'll tell you ONE good thing that's come out of practicing this magic act with Scotty Douglas: It's given me a bunch of good ideas for more Creighton the Cretin comics. Rowley quit doing his comic strip "Zoo-Wee Mama!" for the school paper a few months ago, because he said he wanted to have more time to play with his Dinoblazer action figures. That means the cartoonist job is open again, and maybe I have a shot.

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Well, good news on the Talent Show. The tryouts were today, and me and Scotty didn't make it in. OK, so maybe I could have done a better job as Scotty's assistant. But I didn't blow it on PURPOSE. I just forgot to hand him his props once or twice. We were the ONLY ones who didn't make the cut, and that actually is kind of embarrassing. I know we weren't exactly the best act trying out today, but we weren't the WORST, either. Some of the acts that got in were a lot lamer than our magic act. This kindergartner named Harry Gilbertson made the cut, and all he did was roller-skate figure eights around a boom box that was playing "Yankee Doodle

Dandy." Rodrick's band made it in, too, and he's acting like that's some huge accomplishment. Like I said before, Rodrick is really excited about the Winter Talent Show. In fact, he actually got his Science Fair project done a day EARLY so he could squeeze in some extra band practices before the big night. But when Rodrick turned in his project, his Science teacher told him he was gonna have to start over and come up with a whole new idea. He said that Rodrick didn't use the "scientific method" with a hypothesis and a conclusion and all that. Rodrick told the teacher he actually grew a sixteenth of an inch during his "zero gravity" experiment, so that proved he was on to something. nkledc. But his teacher said that's a normal amount for a boy

Rodrick's age to grow in a month. Well, this really stinks for me, because I had decided to do my Science Fair project on "zero gravity," too. And now it looks like all the research I did was just a big waste of time. Dad told Rodrick he's going to have to just skip the Talent Show so he can do a new experiment, but Rodrick says he's not going to do it. Rodrick told Dad he doesn't CARE about school anymore. He said his plan is to win the talent show

and use the tape of the performance to get signed to a record label. The he'll quit school and just do the band full-time. It sounds like a terrible plan to me, but I think Dad is pretty open to the idea. Wednesday Tonight was the big Winter Talent Show. I didn't want to go, and neither did Dad. But Mom made us both go to show our support for Rodrick.