Eric called Ian [Podraza] and told him to come down. I called Holli [Weisman]. Just before Holli got there, I chased Steve around the room and then jumped over a couch, tipping it over. Once, at my suggestion, we turned off all the lights but the two chandeliers and swung them back and forth.

When Holli arrived, she gave me a giant hug. "It's been some week," she remarked. We launched into some more silly singing and reciting.

We basically decided to have Matt Black put together a video compilation of the Best of Graham Chapman. I might do a [radio] show on Monty Python, and I'm definitely redoing "Python Potpourri." [Note: "Python Potpourri" was an audio montage of sound effects and Monty Python quotes. I later did a second montage of Graham Chapman sound bytes, "What's All This, Then?" Both were accepted by Doctor Demento to air on his weekly national humor program.] We want to have a brief tribute at the next meeting, and I'll put something in the newsletter. We're going to put his picture on the flyers for the next meeting. Also, in the Homecoming Parade, we're going to have some pallbearers, and someone will carry a huge sign with the poster from Life of Brian on it, probably Matt Pyson.

Ian came down, and we first saw him sneaking around outside the window, so we opened the screen and made him come in the window.

Dave Hrencin came down, too, and he played, "How Sweet to Be an Idiot" [on the piano]. He pretended to get all choked up, and we hugged him and kissed him on the forehead until he'd start again.

Later, L.J. ["Trotsky" Sparvero] came down. Eric tells me the first thing he said when he found out was, "Son of a bitch would have to be an alcoholic all those years." [Note: It was lung cancer that killed Graham, not an alcohol related illness.] He joined us, wearing his yellow Monty Python Society shirt and gray pants.

Eric, Kzin, L.J. and I went down to Highway Pizza, because Eric was hungry and hadn't eaten all day. He had three slices of pizza, and I had a ginger ale.

One of the last things Holli warned me about before we left was, "Don't listen to the radio." She was right. The Cutting Crew started singing, "I just died in your arms tonight..."

We got into a black humor streak again. I told them that one of the interpretations of the word "die" in Shakespeare's time was sexual orgasm. Eric started laughing and told us to consider the last scene of Hamlet with this in mind.

At one point, when we were quieter, Eric turned to me and said, "Where were you the night Graham Chapman died?"

"I'll remember," I told him.

We went back to Atherton, after singing "Let It Be" and hopping around on one foot. Back there, Kzin sat on the counter and I called Jenny [Hoffman] to tell her. I then called Matt [Pyson] (both of their lines had been busy before).

I broke the news to Matt, and he sort of gasped. "Oh, no." I told him about our plans for the parade, and he said he'd be honored to carry the poster.

Everyone went to bed, to sleep, perchance to dream.