Wednesday, November 09, 2005
PANDA WATCH!
Not too much going on here today.
Reading through Gordon Edes' GM meetings blog - good stuff. Nice to see the Globe relevant.
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In a shameless way, I encourage you all to click on the links on the side. One blog in particular, Dave's World, had a bit of good news on it today. Dave (the title track of Dave's World) is moving onto a full-time gig with Fox Sports. So a hearty congrats to him for that.
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And I leave you with this story.
There have been stories about Theo Epstein donning a gorilla suit to escape the media hordes outside Fenway.
And there is a "superfan" here that comes to virtually every sporting event, dressed as a panda.
He also has friends that are cows, chickens, Superman, and then a few folks who dress up in uniform.
But this story is un-be-shampooing-lievable.
Two pandas get married. Pandas. Married. Riiiiight.
So skipping past the irrationality of deciding on staging a nuptial ceremony, uniting Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui till death do they part, or when the bamboo runs out...actually, no...we don't...they had a wedding procession with music (dunno if it was a band or a DJ)...they had a cake...they had a friggin' ice sculpture!!!
But the kicker, the front row orchestra seats to this opening night show at the theatre of the absurd? The guests. All wore panda suits. Panda suits.
I've heard of casual weddings - one on tropical isles where folks are dressed in traditional garb and barefoot...I've heard of cape weddings, which are suits and not tuxes...I've even seen the weddings in Vegas where folks wearing a "Take Me Drunk, I'm home" t-shirt, who have been playing blackjack and slugging back watered down 7&7's for 18 hours, decide to go to the Little White Wedding Chapel with the chain-smoking waitress from the Waffle House to make her an honest woman...
But panda suits?
(No confirmation if the Marquette panda got an engraved invitation, but methinks it would only be right and polite, as he is a panda. Sorta. Kinda. Maybe? Hey, you're making me look stupid! Get out of here, Panda Jerk!)
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Reading through Gordon Edes' GM meetings blog - good stuff. Nice to see the Globe relevant.
-----
In a shameless way, I encourage you all to click on the links on the side. One blog in particular, Dave's World, had a bit of good news on it today. Dave (the title track of Dave's World) is moving onto a full-time gig with Fox Sports. So a hearty congrats to him for that.
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And I leave you with this story.
There have been stories about Theo Epstein donning a gorilla suit to escape the media hordes outside Fenway.
And there is a "superfan" here that comes to virtually every sporting event, dressed as a panda.
He also has friends that are cows, chickens, Superman, and then a few folks who dress up in uniform.
But this story is un-be-shampooing-lievable.
Two pandas get married. Pandas. Married. Riiiiight.
So skipping past the irrationality of deciding on staging a nuptial ceremony, uniting Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui till death do they part, or when the bamboo runs out...actually, no...we don't...they had a wedding procession with music (dunno if it was a band or a DJ)...they had a cake...they had a friggin' ice sculpture!!!
But the kicker, the front row orchestra seats to this opening night show at the theatre of the absurd? The guests. All wore panda suits. Panda suits.
I've heard of casual weddings - one on tropical isles where folks are dressed in traditional garb and barefoot...I've heard of cape weddings, which are suits and not tuxes...I've even seen the weddings in Vegas where folks wearing a "Take Me Drunk, I'm home" t-shirt, who have been playing blackjack and slugging back watered down 7&7's for 18 hours, decide to go to the Little White Wedding Chapel with the chain-smoking waitress from the Waffle House to make her an honest woman...
But panda suits?
(No confirmation if the Marquette panda got an engraved invitation, but methinks it would only be right and polite, as he is a panda. Sorta. Kinda. Maybe? Hey, you're making me look stupid! Get out of here, Panda Jerk!)
One.
