Things a wedding needs: Bride; Groom; Tasty Cake-like Substance. All else is optional.
Plei, being still in some measure a Philly girl, I immediately imagined a wedding cake made of Tastykake.
And someone somewhere has probably done it.
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Susan W. - Jan 30, 2005 8:50:15 am PST #2187 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
DavidS - Jan 30, 2005 8:52:33 am PST #2188 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No chicken dance! Also, no hora despite the many greeks in attendance. We did however do a conga line to The Clash's "Rock the Casbah" and that was very fun.
Hec, the next time you talk to her, could you please let her know that I adore her work and am goggle-eyed with envy that you know her well enough to make video compilations for her?
Oh Jilli, I don't know her personally. I'm just going to send it to her as a fan. I did meet her at A.P.E. three years ago and she was very pleasant and entertained to hear that (then 5 y.o.) Emmett was a huge fan. (Which he was.) Also, I got a really cool set of pins with the Blue Monday characters on them. One of which is holding the back of JZ's jacket tight. At that same A.P.E. I got Ariel Schrag to sign two of her collections which I sent to Lizard. Also, that's when Kim and I got together and conceived Lost in the Grooves. 'Twas a momentous A.P.E. for me. It was at the next A.P.E. however that I got a Strangers in Paradise drawing for Kat.
amych - Jan 30, 2005 8:55:33 am PST #2189 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No chicken dance. The midwest will just have to be scandalized by our doubtfully-married state.
tommyrot - Jan 30, 2005 8:57:56 am PST #2190 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Fred Pete - Jan 30, 2005 8:58:29 am PST #2191 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I've only been to two WI weddings (three if I count my own) and one MI wedding. No chicken dance at any of them.
I've only seen it done on a boat on the Potomac River. Never in WI.
Sheryl - Jan 30, 2005 8:58:35 am PST #2192 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Erm, we had "Sunrise, Sunset" as our father-daughter mother-son dance.
No chicken dance, no macarena. We did the hora, complete with chair lifting and people entertaining us.(If you saw the wedding pictures I mentioned, that's when the juggling by the guy with the bottle on his head occurred)
Of course, we did kinda go full metal on the wedding...
sumi - Jan 30, 2005 9:19:03 am PST #2193 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday Anne!
Allyson - Jan 30, 2005 9:21:30 am PST #2194 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm certain I could put a sweater on Ruby, and more certain that she would be miserable and desperately try to get it off and hate me forever.
My local video store had DVDs on sale, buy two get one free. I got the special edition Silence of the Lambs, 28 Days Later, and Before Sunset. I love frivoulous purchases.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 30, 2005 9:27:45 am PST #2195 of 10002
What is even happening?
Hec, isn't the Hora the Jewish dance? Am I twisting my Horas and Hava Nagilas? Help. I need posters of other ethnicities, now.
A WASP, a Jew, and a Greek walk into a bar...
Hil R. - Jan 30, 2005 9:40:48 am PST #2196 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
isn't the Hora the Jewish dance? Am I twisting my Horas and Hava Nagilas?
The Hora is a Jewish dance. (Well, I think that, if you want to be really technical about it, it's an Israeli dance.) The song it's usually danced to is Hava Nagila.
t edit: although, now that I've done a bit of googling, it looks like the Hora is also the name of an ancient Greek dance that's still danced in Romania
t edit again: and a bit more googling tells me that the Israeli hora was influenced by dances brought by Romanian Jews, who were probably influenced by the Romanian hora, which was probably based on that Greek hora.