Ali & Don’s Amazing Alcove
Amy arrives first - Keith is home with the chilluns tonight. She’s way early so she’ll pass the time watching a flashback show about last seasons American Idol. Brian B. arrives next. Deanne is on her way. Amy goes down to Ali’s magic room with her to help her prepare her share. Then everyone else arrives! Cool how that works, eh?
Some general chit chat, fun and lolly gagging is had by all as we all catch up together. Jeremy’s shirt matches his drink! And Don has a new toy - a huge remote control powered blimp! Where does he find these things? (Big Kid Toys R Us?) Ali dents Kim’s cheese. But don’t complain because Ali is “The Decider” (and Master of Strategery, as well?) for tonight’s sharing!

Joe shows respect to the $15 Goodwill table by using a coaster and Ali asks if Jeana and Rebecca have signed in yet. Everyone looks around the packed living room and asks - are they here? Where are they? They must be invisible because they are most definitely not in the room. Are they by the fire ? There’s a fire here? What ? (These are some strange notes, man) What is this? They snuck in when nobody was looking and they are in the back room. Hmmm. So many people are here tonight, we’ve almost got row seating. Okay, are we all settled now. Can we begin?

Kimby is up first. It’s a few choice songs from Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny. She shares “Classico” and “The Government Totally Sucks”. The Tenacious D movie is out and nobody has seen it yet. What fans we are - sheesh!
Next up, is Amy sharing scenes from the movie, “Little Miss Sunshine” in which Steve Carell proves that even when he’s acting in a serious role, he’s freaking hilarious.

Don shares a documentary called “All We Are Saying“. It’s Rosanna Arquette with a $1000 video camera going around interviewing Rock legends about what the music industry has become. (”Britney Spears is as deep as a birdbath”- David Crosby). Suddenly a really scary looking person is on the screen and everyone is trying to figure out who HE is. Deanne knows - it’s Patti Smith. Kim is like, “whoa, that’s MAN, dude” but lo and behold, the name appears on screen and Deanne called it. Yikes!
Don then tells us a totally fabricated story about a plunger and on that note, it’s time for a SMOKE BREAK!
Lots of funny shit happens outside, but most important is the wet willy Brian tries to give Grandma while she just continues her serious conversation with someone just off camera..

Upon coming back inside, Joe begins to prep his next share on the computer while Brian plays with Don’s big sword. Colby will share next then! It’s a clip of our Rockin New Years party complete with Colby’s homemade glowing ball. Hey, is that a UFO in the background?
Joe is ready for his share now. It’s video of Qigong Masters. Damn, the guy uses his hands to boil water and start a fire. If everyone could learn to do this, match and lighter companies would go out of business. Joe introduces us to Masters Joe and John, who can heal all kinds of ailments by channeling the electricity from their bodies into their hands. It takes years of daily meditation. Joe also shares some clips of Chris Angel walking through a glass window and putting a cell phone in a bottle. Joe also shares about vitamin B-17 which is a cure for cancer, but the Government doesn’t want anyone to know that!
Hey, maybe if Noah starts now - he can be a Qigong Master!

Heather and Amy have to duck out of the computer area before Joe’s share is done. Amy has an excuse - she was painting all day and her legs hurt too much to stand. Heather just says “I’m a bitch” - then quickly recants that, but not before it goes into the minutes becaust it was too funny to leave out (sorry, Heath).
We all come back to the living room to continue the sharing and Colby says “here, here”. To which Grandma replies : “where, where”? Some mild chaos ensues for no apparent reason and Kimby runs out of the bedroom telling everyone to shut up because Noah is sleeping.
Joe takes a Yagger bomb but doesn’t like it. He says it tastes like a shot of NyQuil. Joe takes over the minute taking duties (and has much nicer handwriting than any of the rest of us freaks, I might add - especially considering he just had a Yagger bomb). Joe writes : “Joe gets to take the minutes. Where should I take them?” and that concludes his minute taking duties for the night.
Ali shares Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvienient Truth“. Well, damn, that sure is inconvienient! Where’s the lockbox, we’re all gonna die! The heat is off the charts. Is Al Gore running for President in ‘08? Nope. But “Broccoli-Obama” is. Not only will he be the first Black President - he will also declare Broccoli to be the official food of the United States. Ali also shares scenes from “Lady in the Water” by M. Night Shamalamma-ding dong.
It takes us 30 frackin minutes to figure out who is sharing next. Finally it’s decided. Brian shares his new tattoo and new “deelux geetar”. Deanne thinks Brian’s new guitar is the “smokey wood in Joe’s butt”. Brian shares a little ditty on his new guitar. (”there’s a lot of jabbering going on during shares”, Deanne thinks to herself, with a little bubble of thought floating over her head) and Don laughs out loud randomly. Kimby tries to decipher the difference between Joe and Brian’s songs. Brian tells us the one he just played is titled “Da Da Da Babee bada doo” Got it straight now?
Amy and Deanne are talking about how old Cameron is getting. (He’s 11 in February) and Deanne says “just think, in a few short years, he’ll be the same age as when you had him - then you’ll be a Grandma” WHAT! Hold it right there. I’m too young for that. I’m still just a kid. Oh, wait….. that’s what I did to my Mom, isn’t it? Oh, well she recovered and she’s still a kid, too.
What in the world is going on in this picture? Maybe Kimby is declaring her intent to run for President - and Deanne is her running mate.

Alright, back to the sharing. Jeremy shares about his volunteer work with Pacific NW Mountain Rescue, one of the teams that were looking for the lost hikers on Mt. Hood. Kimby jokes that Jeremy has a magic pony tail that rescues people (hang onto my beard, I’ll take you to the land of faraway!)
Jeremy wants to tell us some of the secret details about the Mt. Hood rescue, but if he did, he’d have to kill us.Kimby says they should make a movie about Jeremy’s life and Heather says she already did. All we can hope is that it’s locked up somewhere safe, or someday we may see it on the internet somewhere.

Heather sees dead people. And Kimby has a short “sharling” - It’s a scene from Scrubs showing how pregnant women are totally insane. It’s her shortest share ever!
SMOKE BREAK - time for a metaphysical, cosmic discussion.
Colby shares next. It’s the movie, “Junebug” with a very excited girl who talks really fast. There are some strange noises coming from the TV…..Heather is snoring and Deanne’s ass feels the vibration. (Feel the Vibration….Feel it….Feel it!) Another share from Colby - it’s the “Puffy Chair” - Whoa that chick is freaking pissed off!
And last, but not least, Deanne has an extended share of an episode of “Nip/Tuck” This is one twisted, demented show man. But that guy is hot.
Wait, that wasn’t last. We forgot Brian C’s share. He emailed it just a tad too late and nobody brought it with them. But here it is now, in all it’s glory: H.E.M.P.!