Will I get it done before Saturday? Well, no, if I continue rambling on in this manner and don’t just get around to reviewing the week. And what a week it was! It was a week of joy! A week of tears! A week of thrills and chills! And some other stuff! It may just be too exciting for me to keep going!
Or maybe not.
Which is good, because over in the Seven Seas Lobby:
- There was roommate searching galore! cricket538 (not to be confused with just plain cricket, who was in on the roommate searching last week) is looking for someone to fill a space in a quad.
- And pastry really wants to find a roommate.
Does anybody ever remember that the purpose of this message board was originally just to supply us with news? Oh, if only that were the case and The Victory were the only forum to review:
- The Canadian postal service deigned to deliver wristbands to its residents. Now we can be cruise dorks the world over!
- According to Garyrulez, the cabins are filling up. The theory is that this has to do with the fact that several new acts have been added. These many new acts mean that none of us will have time for such standard cruise amenities as the waterslide. And that’s now seeming like a really good thing…
- If you want to take advantage of the Miami Marathon room rates, you can do so. But you might be condemned to distance runner hell for this, so do so only at your own risk.
- The thread supposedly devoted to welcoming the S&D Virgins aboard was hijacked by 2kids5cats and Garyrulez arguing about yard work.
- Anything you ever might need to know about the cruise is pretty much contained in one post by dr.evil, located here: http://www.shipsanddip.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2208&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=50 Which is a good thing, since there seem to be an awful lot of virgins out there this week.
- I sure hope BNL play as many concerts as last year. Possibly we were spoiled by that BNL-everywhere-all-the-time week we had on S&DI. But spoiled is good!
- There are still message board wristbands left to buy, if you want to be a cruise dork like the rest of us! (Shun the non-cruise dork! Shun! )
- katiesmom has joined the infinite coolness that will be the Riviera Deck.
- The consensus seems to be that “browncoat” refers to a fan of Firefly/Serenity. But we may never be sure, if ZiggyNJ doesn’t come back and tell us… And how cool is it that cbuford has a picture of himself in front of the Buffy house, in which it looks like he’s about to get shot?
- Once again, I have been reminded that BNL didn’t call me.
- The Lido stage on the Victory is causing both some concern and some plans involving scaffolding. The Venture Brothers causes confusion among those of us (like me) who don’t get it. Oh well. I’ll just go back to obsessing over whether the stage will be OK or not.
- We got an e-mail from Sixthman! Even me, the woefully-neglected one, got the e-mail (OK, so I always get the e-mails. It’s just the phone calls and the occasional mailing that miss me. E-mail’s fine.)! And we’re all supposed to look like the tourist dorks we are when we board! And then we’re supposed to flirt in our pajamas! Or out of our pajamas, if that’s the way you roll…
I’m so not going to make midnight… But I will steadfastly carry on to the Caribbean Lounge:
- Gaelic Storm was on TV. But only on the high-tech DirectTV that I’m pretty sure I don’t have. So never mind.
- Fin made a brief reappearance to let us know that Flight of the Conchords isn’t going to happen. Oh well. They probably wouldn’t have random psychedelic music videos in their live shows anyway.
- Guster played Phoenix. And AZSally might have gone. But she didn’t tell us.
- 54 Seconds, the band about which we know exceptionally little, had a show in Austin. Somehow, this was related to personal venus’ cat.
- You can watch a Guster concert for Farm Aid. Unfortunately they have one of those “pay if you support us, but we’ll let you watch it for free if you’re a selfish beast who would just let the world go to hell in a handbasket so that you can save yourself a few bucks, and I hope that makes you happy” systems. Needless to say, I feel guilty just thinking about watching the concert.
- Guster’s been nominated for a Good Woodie Award. Please excuse me while I take a break to indulge in some adolescent snickering.
- Not only do people on this board listen to a lot of BNL, some of them listen to a little BNL a lot.
- Fond memories of funny BNL were shared. It’s funnier in real life, but that’s OK.
- Many Top 10 Carbon Leaf lists were posted. I’m still really proud of myself for coming up with one. Hopefully I’ll be ready to pretend to be a big, longtime fan in time for the cruise!
- I have neither photos, music, nor friends to say I was at my first BNL show. nvcatgut has a whole slide show…
- We will no more let Billy Joel drive the boat than we would let NiceyDoodle or WildEagle do so. And in honor of the turn the confirmed artist thread took this week:
“Since the invention of the music cruise, there have been many cruises that were rated the most rocking, the most fun. This one left them all behind.”
The end.
But only the end of the Caribbean Lounge. Somehow I still need to make it through the morass of looniness that is the Buffet:
- There should be a pre-cruise party in Philadelphia. Mostly because I could go to that party. And I like parties.
- September 13 was the anniversary of the shooting at polyester_angel’s school. Sometimes the world just makes me sad.
- Chocolate rain: Mexican food was eaten for dinner.
Chocolate rain: Then I went to see a movie.
Chocolate rain: Working hard on a Week in Review.
Chocolate rain: Possibly the weirdest thing in the history of the universe.
And repeat. Forever…
- O.J. Simpson did something bad. Somehow this doesn’t feel new…
- Hey! exportedmolson did remember Circular Impression!
- There were more weird dreams. But we’re weird people, so that’s OK.
- Normally, I’m not a proponent of the death penalty. But when it involves Barbie and is conducted in the name of science, I guess it’s OK.
- Maybe kids should give up on explaining science and just stick to doing science. You know, like electrocuting their Barbies.
- Michael Vick still sucks.
- And will hopefully be kept far away from all of us, now that we know what kinds of dogs we are.
- And if any of us are in fact the kind of dog that obsessively plays on waterslides until passing out, please let the rest of us know before the cruise so that we can get out of your way while on the upper decks…
- Avast ye hardies! Methinks there would’ve been more pirate-talk if the grog had flown more freely. Aaargh!
- Staying in a luxury hotel for free would be nice. But unlikely.
- “There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.” – Booth Tarkington
I just thought I should re-post this particular quote, as WE seemed adamant that we read it…
- MoodyCat’s ex may not be the sharpest tool in the shed…
- Whether you plan to take part in the tacky-tourist dress-up or in pajama night, don’t forget to pack your Gorilla costume for the 31st!
- NikkiPoooo and Jackie were in the trunk of a car in Wisconsin, in case you gave up on the game before there was an answer and were curious.
- Sea scavengers are creepy and that video might keep me out of the water pretty much permanently…
- Do you think the Chocolate Rain guy stole his lyrics from the Random Thread? I wouldn’t be surprised…
- The actors on Tell Me You Love Me may have a lot of sex, but their show still apparently sucks. Bless their hearts.
- I only just found the “Canada Kicks Ass” section on that website. I guess I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed either.
- Big Brother seems to be over! From what I can gather from the ever-so-confusing posts on that topic anyway… And now they’re all going to talk about Survivor… Oh how I look forward to the return of scripted television next week!
- The Canadian dollar is now worth more than the US dollar. You are all so buying me drinks on the cruise!
- Despite being gone
For ever so long a time
The haiku thread’s back!
- ShortAlaina’s just about done with school! And won’t be leaving us! Yay!
- More crappy songs were listed. I refuse to admit how many of those songs are in my collection…
- It’s kind of neat when bands come from your area – makes you think that greatness is possible even from people who are more or less like you. Of course, it’s hard to be great in music without talented musical influences. And judging from many of our first concerts, most of us are unlikely to be achieving musical greatness any time soon.
- Don’t put snakes in your mouth. Or attend barbeques with your ex-girlfriend.
- Airport Security, as an institution, is seriously lacking in both a sense of humor and artistic sensibility. This should be taken into consideration when deciding what to wear to the airport.
- Considering how desperate most New Yorkers are to keep their little ones out of the public school system, $23,000 for kindergarten doesn’t sound that crazy. And the teachers will be blue!
- There are just so many ways you can talk about the ABC game creatively. And I think I exhausted the last of those a week ago…
- Hey! The guys were talking about CLOTHES this week!
- Grubs are gross. Unfortunately, most of them improve but little upon maturity. I am suddenly struck by the resemblance between grubs and small children…
- Whether or not you like The Big Bang Theory, you should watch it for the theme song.
- Cats pee on your bed. Cats scratch you. Cats pee on your bed again. Cats vomit all over the place. Cats incite murderous sentiment among neighbors. Cats require the purchase of many cleaning products that are probably expensive. I think I need to go buy a box of chalk now…
- Jake Byrd might be my new hero.
- Why do so many of us have Corelle plates? That’s just kind of weird.
- BNL lyrics have a weird tendency to be regularly referenced by life. The life of a person who listens to too much BNL anyway…
- If you’re in the mood for a multi-media presentation about love, life, and kidneys, you’re in luck this week (text version available in the Indian Library, if you’re more the literary type).
- I learned a new word this week. Merkin. Amidst the geographic and home furnishing metaphors, we were treated yet again to the genius that is Ellen from Saint Louis. Who prevailed in her girlyness, even when confronted with boys and their bleeding nipples. Altogether now: “Ah’m proud to be a merkin, cause at least ah known ahm freeee”
As suspected, I didn’t finish by midnight. It is 12:14 now. Ah, Friday night! Bless its heart.
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