The Falcon Has Landed!

Falcon, our SDMB Road Trip Goddess, has arrived safely in Flint. Well, she arrived safely in Detroit, and then xploder & I drove her back here to Flint, in a blinding rainstorm. She is safe, though!

We didn’t want to just ditch her at her hotel, though, so we decided to try & find something fun to do for a while. Not easy in Flint. But the xploder had a brilliant idea. There’s a bar here called the Village Inn, with a show that’s been running for several months called Dueling Pianos. It’s a bunch of guys (five, IIRC) that play piano. I’ve heard of the show, and it’s gotten rave reviews, but until last night, I hadn’t seen them. xploder has seen them several times, and told us we’d love it.

We did.

Oh boy, these guys are great. They are funny, fast, and know every single song ever written in the history of the world. We got there just as they were getting ready to get the waitstaff on stage to do the “Time Warp.” The whole audience was doing it, xploder, falcon, and myself included. We had a ball.

xploder, of course, was just beside himself with testosterone, because he was sitting at a table with not one, not two, but three redheads (one of his friends, a delightful lady named Terry, was at the bar also, and she joined us for the evening). Men just don’t get much luckier than that! :smiley:

FlintDope II begins in a few hours, so this will be the official running thread. Falc has brought her laptop, and xploder has a desktop at his home, so we’ll keep you updated on the goings on. Oh yeah–tomorrow is Shadowfox’s birthday, and Monday is Mr. Shadowfox’s birthday, so be sure to say Happy Birthday to them both!

Wow, sounds like you’re going to have a great time! Defineitly better than on the other thread.

Say hi to everyone there from me in sunny Florida. And happy birthday to Shadowfox and Mr. Shadowox, respectively!

Woohoo! (happy dance) I get to meet Falcon in a few hours!

Oh, before I forget…thank you screech owl. My birthday is actually tomorrow (Sunday), but I don’t mind early birthday greetings at all! :slight_smile:

well, have a good time. I’m stuck here avoiding MSU football traffic (my son is working at the Ag Pavillion across from one of the major parking sites for the game), waded through the nearly 2 inches of rain that fell around here in the last 24 hours.

If you’re looking for fun, a friend of mine does a one man band act that’s off color (including for instance an alternate version of the Brady Bunch song) and plays in bars around MI, let me know if you want his name to look for and I’ll e- it to ya.

wring, we’re gonna have to do lunch sometime! :smiley:

Okay, I’m not actually at the party yet. I was supposed to be there an hour ago. But my son just went down for his nap, I haven’t taken a shower yet, and I had to make Shadowfox’s birthday cake. Which, BTW, turned out to be not a Triple Chocolate Cake O’ Death as I’d planned, but a QUADRUPLE Chocolate Cake O’ Death Upon Which One Will Be Assumed Bodily Into Heaven After One Bite. I hope you don’t mind.

I’ll get to the party eventually. I will. Really.

have fun at the party. Naps? I seem to remember an occasional time when my young one slept during the day (generally less than an hour and only once, not every day…)

Where are you? I’m in Lansing. lunch sounds fun.

I’m in Flint, wring, only maybe an hour/hour & a half from Lansing. My sister lives there, and my husband makes trips there occasionally to go to Elderly’s Music.

We’ll get together soon!

Elderly???
Damn!
Good friend of mine (for the past 30 years) works there, and my SO is the designated “repair” tech across the street!

I’ll stop before I start singing “it’s a small world afterall…”

Say hi to all for me.

Too late, wring. That song has the most power of any I know to become embedded in one’s brain upon thinking about just the first note. Now you’ve completely wrecked my day. Thanks. Thanks so much. I was going to save you a piece of cake, but now, I don’t think so. Nyah. :wink:

Sounds divine…but who’s gonna finish the cake, if you’re all somewhere other than Flint after you each take a bite? :slight_smile:

Happy birthday to the Shadowfoxes, and a big hello to Falcon, my favorite Dopefest 'ho! And Persephone, if Falc excuses herself to ‘change’, make sure she leaves ALONE if you want to see her again soon! :stuck_out_tongue: (No, Falc sweetie, you guys are never gonna live that down!)

Sorry I had to leave so early, but I had stuff to do at the house.

Would’ve loved to stay and had some more of Xploder’s bbq sauce. Hopefully next time.

And Falcon…what can I say, you are a very sweet and beautiful person, it was a pleasure to meet you, and hope that I can chat with you again sometime. BTW, I hope I didn’t crush your lap. :slight_smile:

pipefitter, I’m sorry I missed you. As it turns out, we only missed you by a few minutes.

You missed my cake, too. And since we’ve all partaken of it, we’ve all been Assumed Bodily In To Heaven, so now we can do whatever we want. Soooooo, we’re all drunk & naked. Even the kids.

I’ve had some of xploder’s awesome George concoction, a Guinness (excellent stuff!), and now I’m working my way down a bottle of my favorite pink wine (we had a corckscrew this time, unlike Chicago). My husband is sober, thank goodness, because I certainly am not!

I’ll get Falc, Shadowfox, & xploder down here in a minute to post their drunken ramblings–no wait, I think Shadowfox is sober. Hm. Have to work on that.

Well, the party is going on. I’m drinking a drink called George that tastes like lemonade, but is seriously kicking my ass! My hubby was so worried about not having a good time, but he seems to be fitting in real well with the rest of us freaks :slight_smile: I need to get back to the party now before my buzz wears off.

Okay, I think this might be my first time posting drunk. Or at least SERIOUSLY buzzed. :slight_smile:

First off, I’d like to announce that with this Dopefest, I pass UncBeer for most attended. HAH!

Second, I’m having a great time…I’m so glad I got to meet Shadowfox, pipefitter, and xploder. And seeing Cristi again is ALWAYS a blast. And the bar last night rocked. We also proved that with two beers after a day of work and travel, Falcon will stand up and scream out lines from Violent Femmes songs. :smiley:

And like Shad, George is seriously kicking my ass…I think I’m on my fourth or fifth glass. So anyway…before my curent glass runs out, I’m heading back to the party!!! (Besides, I think I need some more of that cake. Mmmmm…chocolate.)

(And RT? I’d be VERY disappointed in y’all if you let me live that down…) :wink:

Happy one to the foxes.
Happy fest to all.
Cristi: Got Fleetwood Mac on the headset as I type;). That Quadruple would have done me in. Yep: that would have been the clincher.:smiley:

omni-not, someday, I must meet you! I must!

((sob)) I love you guys! I love Dopefests!

:::slugs off the bottle of pink wine:::

Like Falc, this is one of my first posts seriously buzzed. You would not believe the typos I’ve made.

Wow. Now I hear our live band (my husband, xploder, and 2 of xploder’s friends) playing “I’m Your Captain,” or whatever the hell the name of that song is.

Anyway, the reason I came back in here is to tell you guys about Falcon and my son, BabyGuy. He loves her. Of course, everybody loves Falcon (don’t ever pass up a chance to meet her!). My son was a little bit skittish at first, but Falc just smiled that smile of hers, and he fell instantly in love, and proceeded to charm the socks off of her. Of course, the fact that she’s a redhead made her all that much more appealing to him. He even tried to unbutton her shirt. He’s such a guy.

…was not by Falcon! Argh! It was by me, Persephone!

Hey, Cristi: watch it, will you! For a couple of minutes there, I sincerely thought I had a fan club of two!:smiley:

(P.S.: I knew you’d fall for Fleet. Big time. You’re such a pushover…)

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That was my drunken head hitting the keyboard. Falc was making me laugh.

Omni-not, we’ll meet. I promise. And I’ll be sober. For a minute. Maybe. If you’re lucky. Nah. Forget it. I’m a Doper.

I was buzzed when I posted last time. I am drunk now. I drank that entire bottle of wine that I was working on before. So that makes two glasses of George, one Guinness, and an entire bottle of white grenache. And I’m working on my third George. S***, I am so wasted.

Just for kicks, I’m going to type a sentence or two with all my drunken typos:

Okay, I just aske dGalc and Sahdowfox tro tell me what to ype. They couldn’t come up with anything, so. There. I am so drunk.

Now It’s somebody ewlse’s tun. Falc & Sad anre right here. One of them will take over now.