LOSS OF INNOCENCE SHOWERBrainstorming Notes
DECORATIONS:
Ruddy red sheets draped around the room (*Be sure to remember an extension cord for the fan that can be plugged in behind them for full effect!) OH, and an Air Supply cassette.
Strings of fairies hanging by fishing line (6X tippet – light) by their necks, of course.
A big trash can in the corner for such favourites as Santa, The Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny. Note to self: consider separate cans as these notions often disappear one at a time.
A casket would be nice, just to underline the whole mortality thing. Maybe some flowers to juxtapose life and death. Or maybe just dig up Grandma and leave the soil on her. So much to consider.
CENTERPIECE:
Your guidance counsellor on a tiny chair surrounded by sprigs of baby’s breath shouting at you, “You’ll never amount to anything!” (Supply guests with a water pistol.)
MENU: Goat nads, grapes and glasses of mead!
GAMES:
DART THROUGH THE HEART: A pretty dartboard with gingham edging and a pocket in the middle for a picture of the guest’s parents. A bull’s eye means you’ve done it! You’ve destroyed the perfect image them that you once held of them! (Interchangeable with pictures of your children, if preferred.)
PIN THE TAIL ON YOURSELF: This will keep you going in circles for hours, which is just what you’ll do about your identity, your self-worth, your children and life’s purpose. When you get too dizzy and fall down YOU WIN!
RIDE ‘EM COWBOY: I think that’s enough said. Play Air Supply cassette here and turn up the fans.
**PARTING GIFT: Depends undergarments. This is a cute idea. It underlines how we all start out pooping ourselves and in spite of all the dreams, we end up right where we started.
****OH, and EVERYBODY’S WELCOME! Better to celebrate and eat a few horsd’oeuvres then just end up with a diaper full of poop and an empty belly, right?*
6 comments:
Hah! Great idea, and nice post. I am still banging my head up against the wall hoping for an idea-- THE PRESSURE!
Your Blog name is very catchy.
Great post! I love your game ideas and poor Grandma with the dirt still on was priceless.
bwa ha ha ha ha! hysterical. bravo. and the picture is perfect, too. Thanks for playing along, and excellent first Monday Mission (and no, there will be no shatting, even in depends)
re: Angela's Ashes - still working on it. a friend of mine warned me that I would weep all the way through it, which is probably why the book has been sitting on my "to be read" pile lo these last SIX years. but 2 months ago the director of my play gave me 'Tis, and well, you can't read 'Tis without first reading Angela's Ashes, so here I am. I've been pretty strong so far, but it's not exactly a happy tale.
I just read back a few posts.
I really like what you have to say and how you say it.
Air Supply, eh? This was just so BRILLIANT, you smartypants. And the poor fairies, strung up by their necks and Grandma with her dirt still on. Wonderful.
Great post. The visuals are unforgettable.
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