Post Birthday Planning
Oct13
on 10/13/2016
at 12:01 am
Seems as if Randie isn’t wasting any time in planning the look of her new scooter. I’d be the same way… but I would be up late sketching.
Randie and Ryan
Tripping through married life…
I like this kind of party idea! Do stuff and get eats and coffee, that works! And gee, that slogan sounds kinda familiar. Plus more things need to end with ‘be kind’, I think!
We need MORE KINDness! For certain… and all the other stuff. Life needs more celebrating… more conversation and less fighting…
The circumstances of painting your vehicle may vary. About fifteen years ago I had been restoring a classic 1978 Lambourghini Countach LP400. A beautiful machine, black with real plated gold trim. I had just finished when someone I knew and usually tried to avoid arrived one Saturday morning with a can of Bondo and fiberglass sheets with the intention of putting Batmobile fins on the thing. No. Just…no. If nothing else, it would have cut the value of a rare collector car to about a tenth.
I’m not even a car person and I salute you for preventing this travesty!
Oh, indeed… no sir… no wings… whatsoever … no how. Wings only belong on the Batmobile. Only.
I finally noticed that the way Randie jumped on that scooter and took off suggests prior experience. I have a new photo of my Tiny Lady Veterinarian on her Harley – she and Randie look equally pleased with their wheels! http://uncle-bilbo.deviantart.com/art/Electraglide-In-Black-640104683
I would suggest that they would both be better suited for the size of their machines if they traded, assuming that Randie would want to take on four times the horsepower. Actually, Rabbi Bob got the best practical joke on the subject. He turned up one day saying that he had found the perfect bike for someone so short – he had borrowed one of those tiny motorbikes that Shriners ride in parades!
Yes, Randie has experience! Her first “ride” came when Ryan left for London… it was all downhill from there!
Thanks for the photo link… having visuals is the best! My Aunt has a Harley, too… but her’s is much newer.
DRINK COFFEE
MAKE ART
Huh… I just KNOW I’ve seen that somewhere before… but WHERE? *lol!*
Sounds like good times coming on Friday night. I always loved those kinds of parties. For about six weeks one fall in the early 80s, a middle school gave “our gang” an empty classroom to haunt up for their big Halloween fundraiser party. Most of us worked at Disneyland and all of us were geeks/nerds. We knew a lot of Disney’s Haunted Mansion tricks and used them to create a mega-awesome haunted classroom.
I don’t know how much we made for the middle school, but it must have been a lot; the line stretched around the entire school building. It was non-stop for us the entire afternoon/evening. And though we said we’d gladly do it for free – even paying for our own materials – a couple weeks after the event the school sent us a check for $100!
Which we promptly spent on pizza.
Haunted classroom??!!! How fun is that!?? I bet is was nothing short of amazing! If only there was some video. Sigh. Anyhow… musta ben fun. Pizza and the chilling screams of students … best rewards.
We built a long, winding hallway using black landscaping plastic hung from the ceiling. From start to finish we had small scenarios along the way.
1.) Executioner about to chop off a prisoner’s head. The kids were hurried along by a guide just as the axe man brought his axe back. After they were around the corner, the kid’s heard a *thunk* and gurgling sound.)
2.) A chilly fireplace with ghostly flames. (Cardboard fireplace, hidden fan, blacklight and plastic wrap cut into flame shape. Plastic wrap glows all ephemeral under a black light.)
3.) A burning candle on top of a rat-infested skull. The candle would lift up by some unseen hand, dance around, the abruptly disappear.
4.) A cackling witch with a glowing orb that had billowing smoke inside it. (flashlight, dry ice in a cup of hot water). She’d point and laugh at the kids (and grownups), then call forth a spirit. At which point:
5.) From inside an upright piano (a real piano, left behind for us to “haunt”), a life-size ghost with glowing eyes (Styrofoam modeling head under a blacklight draped with clear plastic sheeting with two red LEDs as eyes) would fly-up (fishing line on two nails on the head’s side) and move toward them. The guide would then rush the kids to:
6.) A spider crawl space they had to get on their hands and knees to get through, feeling invisible spider webs the entire way. (Large appliance boxes taped together. Short lengths of fishing line were secured to the top of the crawlspace; fishing line feels exactly like spider webs against your face. To light the way, we had a strobe light at the end of the tunnel.)
7.) Having escaped the ghost and spiders, when you stand up, you see a mirror on the wall just before a turn. When you looked in the mirror, you’re face suddenly turned into a monster’s face! (A two-way mirror with someone on the other side with a mask on and a holding a flashlight. When a kid looked into the mirror, you’d lower yourself to their height and shine the flashlight on your mask. It would show through to the kid.
8.) After going around the corner, you’d be scared by the same monster.
AND AT LAST:
9.) The Grand Finale: A foggy (dry-ice) graveyard with gravestones and a still unburied coffin (we built it). A small group of hood figures are standing around it, making ominous sounds. Suddenly, a poor wretch in shredded, bloody clothing would sit up in the coffin and start pleading with the figures, screaming, “I’m not dead! I’m not dead!” One of the hooded figures would lightly press him back down into the coffin, his pleas softening but continuing. A lid would be put on the coffin and the “funeral” would continue.
Yeah… we had a LOT of fun with that. There were about eight or ten in our group, and we ran the whole thing. We’d hung the plastic walls so that we had hidden places to stand. We even had a “break area” which had a couple chairs and a cooler with pop in it. But we got so busy – it was non-stop the entire time – that we didn’t use the break area until after the event was over.
Sorry for the long post, but I thought you’d like to know. Oh, a number of things I mentioned are Disney tricks.
UN-Holy Bananas! Remind me to ask you to participate in … ANYthing! I love the two-way mirror with matching spook! And a haunted piano… and the ghastly “funeral”… what fun!? I must say that I’m impressed… what a Spooktackular event!
“Drink coffee. Make Art.” Who’s Art and when do we get to meet him?
Art is a pretty likable guy, I’d say…
Might I suggest a black rondel with a capital letter “P” and an exclamation point as an homage to the scooter in FLCL? http://orig04.deviantart.net/9977/f/2014/012/0/c/flcl_cosplay___haruko_s_vespa_ss_180_scooter_by_boomerjinks-d71z6t3.jpg
OH MY! I LOVE THIS VESPA! Want! Want! Want!
The one in the series is capable of interstellar travel…
Oh and there is a Manga, too.
The art looks nifty.