What You Learn When You Go Bowling
. . . at The Super Modern Mega Video Bowling Entertainment Center for the Terminally Short Attention Spanned:
-Melissa Etheridge, Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow are still hot. They show videos, see, at the bowling alley. This makes it very difficult for 10 year old boys to focus on bowling, but Max and I did alright on our little father-son afternoon. The videos are aimed at my generation, too, so if it's not from the 80/90s it's often modern works by those artists. Last time we were there I got to show Max The Commodores in their full spaceship-disco glory! He remembered that on the way there today, said about them "they seemed to be having fun".
-Despite the advances in adding bright flashy video clips and giant LCD screens to our modern bowling experience, blowling alley food is as toxic as ever. We should have learned our lesson last time, after the microwaved nachos that congealed into one solid nacho-rock. But no, I wanted to make our 2 games last as long as possible, so we perused the menu & chose quesadillas. Ouch. See what they did was take yesterdays nacho-rocks, and re-soften them with today's grease, and fold it up in day-before-yesterday's tortillas (if the tortilla is stale enough, you don't have to grill it to make it stiff).
-Many of the Bowling Manners my father passed on to me have been lost to the ages. I learned that you were to generally keep to your lane for seating/stuff stowage. I learned that You waited until each lane beside you had bowled, so you didn't run up to the lane distracting them. Now of course sometimes you need to make exceptions, as was our case, with the entire Penn State Korean American Giggling & High-Fiving Club in the lane next to ours. So we didn't mind their stuff overflowing into our stuff. But we did have to excuse our way to our lane most times & darned if I didn't get plowed by a Giggletractor or a HighFiveosaurus on my way up the lane a few times.
-Sometimes, watching the videos, you find the next. .
Today's Daily Muppet Thing of The Day for Sunday Well, it's Puppet Thing, but that counts. Especially if you've seen Being John Malkovich. It might be old-hat, as you know I don't find the cool things until they're 4-5 years past their drink-by date. But Max & I sure got a kick out of it . . .
-Melissa Etheridge, Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow are still hot. They show videos, see, at the bowling alley. This makes it very difficult for 10 year old boys to focus on bowling, but Max and I did alright on our little father-son afternoon. The videos are aimed at my generation, too, so if it's not from the 80/90s it's often modern works by those artists. Last time we were there I got to show Max The Commodores in their full spaceship-disco glory! He remembered that on the way there today, said about them "they seemed to be having fun".
-Despite the advances in adding bright flashy video clips and giant LCD screens to our modern bowling experience, blowling alley food is as toxic as ever. We should have learned our lesson last time, after the microwaved nachos that congealed into one solid nacho-rock. But no, I wanted to make our 2 games last as long as possible, so we perused the menu & chose quesadillas. Ouch. See what they did was take yesterdays nacho-rocks, and re-soften them with today's grease, and fold it up in day-before-yesterday's tortillas (if the tortilla is stale enough, you don't have to grill it to make it stiff).
-Many of the Bowling Manners my father passed on to me have been lost to the ages. I learned that you were to generally keep to your lane for seating/stuff stowage. I learned that You waited until each lane beside you had bowled, so you didn't run up to the lane distracting them. Now of course sometimes you need to make exceptions, as was our case, with the entire Penn State Korean American Giggling & High-Fiving Club in the lane next to ours. So we didn't mind their stuff overflowing into our stuff. But we did have to excuse our way to our lane most times & darned if I didn't get plowed by a Giggletractor or a HighFiveosaurus on my way up the lane a few times.
-Sometimes, watching the videos, you find the next. .
Today's Daily Muppet Thing of The Day for Sunday Well, it's Puppet Thing, but that counts. Especially if you've seen Being John Malkovich. It might be old-hat, as you know I don't find the cool things until they're 4-5 years past their drink-by date. But Max & I sure got a kick out of it . . .
posted by Chris at
5:53 PM
2 Comments:
not quite sure whether to laugh or be afraid of nightmares tonite...
well, ok, it was funny, but kinda creepy, too.
i could see you laughing it up to that, though!!
Yes, I can understand how MTV-edited videos of seizure'ly string puppets jerking around might inspire nightmares. I had a friend in middle school was scared silly of the Herbie Hancock "Rockit" video. And I still get the heebidebleebies when I see the stop-motion abominable snowman in the old TV Christmas special. HIS FUR WON'T STOP MOVING!!!
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