My friend T-Bone used to keep a blog about the weeklyish brunches of the weeklyish brunch group that she graciously organizes with her H-Band, Matt. This Sunday Lolly + I accidentally had brunch with T-Bone + Matt, so I decided to do a Brunch Blog in their honor.
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After I did some housecleaning this morning, activating my allergies, and Lolly finished up some work, it had already turned into afternoon and we wanted to go see the squid exhibit but first we needed a meal so we decided to have brunch although it was well after lunch time and more like “lunner” or maybe “dinch.” There had been no previous brunch notifications for the day (and it would have been too late anyway if there had been) so we sallied forth to the Sunlight Cafe, hopefully for some falafel (but that’s apparently an inappropriate brunch food item ’cause it wasn’t on the menu today) or a pancake, but when I started getting congested I thought I would have something spicy but ultimately went with the #3 which wasn’t spicy at all and quite good anyway.
But before the eating started, we got a table and menus and when I looked up T-Bone was laughing at us because they were eating there too in the next room. Surprise! No brunch = brunch! Then they didn’t join us at our table big enough for four, but went back to their own table because they were having a private party at which they were eating plates of food that they were vague about later, referring to them only as “piles” and “more tortilla shaped” leading me to suspect that they really were having a private affair, shrouded in secrecy and perhaps some falafel.
When they finished their veiled vegetarian vittles we scooched over and they joined us, T-Bone said, to watch us eat our food, but really I think they wanted to hang out with us and catch-up on things and chat and get us to invite ourselves over for New Year’s Eve, and I have to say they were Very Crafty about it but successful in the end because as soon as Lolly went to the Ladies Room I quickly succumbed to their manipulative monkey-shines and did just that. There’s always the possibility that we’re being had and we’ll show up for ball-dropping and board-gaming with our cocktails and our sleeping bags and be left out in the cold like styrofoam wooden-legged bunny statues in prairie dresses. (And if that happens, I will start singing “Wuthering Heights” ala Kate Bush because in addition to balls and games there was also supposed to be some dancin’ and singin’ but just nice regular singing of songs not necessarily to further a plot and not that awful shout singing, with all due respect to our differing opinions.)
But before we made plans for later and were standing outside in the cold watching T-Bone dance as we almost always request of her — Lolly especially likes the hip hop dancin’ although today T-Bone invented a new style of dancing that is half tap dancing and half hip hop dancing and you can pick which half you want to be which, like the top half does pop and lock while the bottom half does soft-shoe and I suppose you could have the right half krumping and the left half shim-shamming but we didn’t think of that then — we talked about various things while we sat around the table eating or drinking coffee and sneezing and getting dripped on by a pipe in the ceiling or not depending on where one was sitting. A list of topics discussed:
I. Christmas
A. not traveling
1. Montana and Wyoming, sameness of
2. decorations or lack of
B. visitation by relatives
1. pleasant
2. effect on TiVo of
C. performances and dancing
1. lady no longer hogging the roles of all three ghosts
2. The Black Nativity, inclusion of Pam
…..a. goodness of show
…..b. yes, met her several times even since her haircut
II. Movies
A. recently seen movies
1. Grindhouse – Planet Terror
…..a. too long
…..b. appreciating cinematography and style of
…..c. Matt liking better than Death Proof
2. Grindhouse – Death Proof
…..a. may also be too long
…..b. disappointment with Tarantino dialogue therein
…..c. first half v. second half
……….i. Lolly’s appreciation of seeing parts of Austin
……….ii. LizzieLou’s appreciation of girls kicking ass
…..d. coolness of car chase
…..e. hotness of Zoe Bell
B. new musicals
1. Sweeney Todd
…..a. not seen yet
…..b. bloodiness of as reported by cousin
…..c. Angela Lansbury
2. Across the Universe
…..a. lesbian cheerleaders
…..b. Julie Taymor
C. old musicals
1. those preferred by lolly
…..a. Hedwig
…..b. the Buffy episode
2. those dreaded by Lolly
…..a. Oklahoma
……….i. autoharp playing
……….ii. prestige of playing autoharp compared to sticks or cymbals
……….iii. differences between recorders and Flutophones
…..b. Sound of Music
…..c. pretty much everything else
III. Pets
A. current status of existing pets
1. fine
2. attempts at, yet ultimately failing, to open doors
…..a. lack of thumbs
…..b. unspoken acknowledgment of lack of brains
B. official limit on number of pets allowed in household being three
1. enforcement of statute by local authorities, notable lack of and thankfulness for
2. enforcement of statute by shelter workers, questionable and variability of
…..a. answers that should not be given to screening question, “What will you do when your cat misses the litter box the first time?”
……….i. “Beat it!”
……….ii. “Preheat the oven to 350!”
3. originations of statute, reasons
…..a. crazy cat ladies
…..b. number v. size and/or type of pet
……….e.g. 3 legal pet elephants v. 4 illegitimate small cats
…..c. alternatives including basing statute by weight of pet, overlooking of
……….e.g. one ton of pet(s) = one elephant or 200 cats
IV. New Year’s Eve
A. lack of plans made
B. people who invite themselves over
