First Friday

Kimby arrives first with Noah who makes a beeline for the cheese tray that Amy has so carefully arranged. Oh no, he tries to grab a piece from the bottom and Amy gets so flustery she forgets how to speak “Don’t Topple, Ted Koppel” or something like that. Diana and Colby arrive next, followed by Ali and Don. (who is drunk with love!)

First order of business : unveil the new FF minutes site (yes, what you are looking at right now - this is it!) After that, Colby has some announcements about our Solstice camping trip. He wants some money, man.

Dr. Ali, Medicine Woman is on the job this FF, answering all kinds of medical questions. What is that bump on Noah’s head? And why is Amy’s foot so swollen?? Also, why does Kimby have to yell into her phone to get it to call someone?? These are mysteries for the ages.

Kimby shares first. It’s “Happy Feet” (in a “Snurks” case!). Whoa, these penguins don’t get out much - they are all stuck in the 70’s. We are all saddened by the trauma of penguins - all the fish in their natural habitat are stolen to feed the penguins that have been captured for the zoo. Bogus. It’s nice to see the globalization issue from the viewpoint of penguins. Kimby cried when she watched this movie and did not have happy feet at the time.

Don tells us all how amazing it is that only 7 years ago, everyone was excited about the dancing baby animation, like it was the height of coolness and now they are making way cooler animations. Colby corrects him “No, it was like 7.67 years ago”

Ali & Don share next - select scenes from the HBO series “Deadwood” in which Calamity Jane curses up a storm and cracks us all up. “Stop fucking apologizing” “You fucking in there?” We think she may have Tourettes. And no, Don wasn’t around in the Old West days so how would he know what really happened?

Amy shares next - select musical numbers from the movie “Across the Universe“. We all dig on the classic Beatles tunes and Amy has a “Mystery Science Theater” moment as she summarizes the lines of the movie while watching in fast forward. “you’re always working and I’m tired of it….”

SMOKE BREAK

Kimby calls herself - trippy!

Colby & Diana share “The Real Dirt on Farmer John” a documentary of a very fun loopy farmer (feather boas on the tracker) who saves his family farm with CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). We are totally loving this idea and want to get in on it for sure. The organicness of the idea is just so cool. Just whatever you do, don’t let devil worship interfere with the cattle. That would be baaaaaaaad.

Amy shares her “cyber massage” invention that came to her in a dream. Everyone thinks she’s loopy for thinking it would work but Colby gets on board and shows enthusiasm for the project. We’ll see if this one takes off!

Amy shares the book “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Kimby loves the excerpt so much she promptly snatches up the book and starts reading it right away!

Don gives us a sports update. The Blazers have won 17 of their last 18 games - with no technical fouls. Wowzers, the Blazers are a whole new team. Kimby asks “What happened to Maurice Cheeks (their previous coach)” and Colby replies “They gave him a wedgie!”. Colby then goes on to paraphrase a completely different conversation that was nothing close to what Don actually said, but it sounded good. Keith accurately demonstrates how some drunk guy leaned back at a Blazer game and passed out on Mom’s leg and then puked.

Colby is next with a David Bromberg song from the album Midnight on the Water. He says it’s Cajun music but it’s totally Celtic, man. Dude, don’t put that thang on me!

And then Amy shares again - what does she share?? Cuntal Pain?? Yowtch - is that a country singer? No, goobers, it’s KENDALL PAYNE! She shares three songs that touch her heart and move her soul.

And to finish off the night, Colby and Diana share the first 20 minutes of the movie, Once - which features some excellent music (that Amy later went and downloaded to her mp3 player - fo shore!)

That’s it, folks! See you next time at Deanne’s place - Feb 9th.

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