Could this turn into a full(er) time gig?
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Like many of his fellow Irishmen, Mehaul O’Leary, who moonlights as a City Councilman, attains the zenith of his considerable creativity when he is playing himself, an Irishman.
A scene at the Senior Center a couple of years ago on St. Patrick’s Day — two weeks from this morning — comes to mind.
For a more recent sampling, you are referred to last night.
At the invitation of the Friends of the Library group, Mr. O’Leary colorfully rendered splendid readings for the benefit of Culver City’s youngest citizens at Storytime at the Julian Dixon Library.
As you can see by Susan Deen’s photo, he dressed for the part by wearing his everyday clothes.
He read two stories that call for an Irish brogue:
The hundred-year-old baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat,” and from a book that was written more than two weeks later, “Leprechaun on the Loose.”
Observing Mr. O’Leary, you don’t have to reach deeply into your imagination to envision him as a (bespectacled) leprechaun.
Solemnly, his youthful audience was given sage advice on how to capture a leprechaun and his pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
To clinch his argument, Mr. O’Leary advised: “Always look the Leprechaun in the eye. Never take your eyes off him. That way he cannot escape.”
