Wednesday club night

[drscott]

Quiet post-Convention session starting at 7 and ending at 8:45 PM, since the church is being used this month for "Hotel de Zink," the rotating homeless shelter shared between a group of churches in Palo Alto. The homeless begin to congregate outside hours in advance, and we clear out a bit before they're invited in at 9. Rich called Plus for the half hour until 7:30, since Andy (and lots of other people) didn't notice the schedule change. Rich has become a credible caller and teacher, and we're lucky to have several plausible choices ro replace Andy (although no one can really replace Andy.)

Tim came over to talk to me while I was gulping down water. This was unusual -- actually a first, since Tim has given every indication in the past that he actively dislikes me. He wanted to warn me that Brian Jarvis had sent out an email pointing to a gallery with a couple of pictures of me more bare than usual. I already knew about it since Brian had sent me the same email; Brian and his partner Kent are charming (and handsome) guys who live in Washington, D.C,, though Brian is originally from Ontario.

Tim and I talked some more about the burden of suddenly coming to the attention of the square dance community as some sort of hunk. Tim's experience with this was a few years ago, when he escorted a contestant in the Honky Tonk Queen contest. His costume? Gold paint, mostly, since he was supposed to be Oscar, the Academy Award statuette. Ever since, any time he comes up in front of an audience at a square dance function, helpful audience members call out, "Os-car! Os-car!" Which is why, when a group tried to get me to escort a contestant for next year, I said no, anything but that. No, really, I get nauseous on stage.

Comments

Gallery Pictures

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted you a good time dancing in Phoenix. Did you go out to Charlie's or was all the time taken up with convention activities? I enjoyed the photos...had a big smile on my face when I recognized some folks from Seattle whom I met at Bearaoke, Tuesday nights at Guppys in West Seattle. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Gallery Pictures

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

In general people didn't have cars -- you're way too busy dancing and socializing to have time to run off the reservation. Though usually there's a bar tour, I don't remember anyone saying they went. I never left the Biltmore's grounds.

Actually you'd fit right in in square dancing -- ever thought about picking it up?

[goldibehr.livejournal.com]

I downloaded both the bathing suit and leather pics. They're hot.

I don't quite get why this guy Tim felt you needed to be warned. After all, you chose to dress that way in front of dozens/hundreds of people, right?

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Maybe "warn" is too strong a word, but there's a big difference between hanging around the pool with a dozen or so similarly (un)dressed people and having a photo go out to a large mailing list. For similar reasons, when we are doing publicity photos from dances we try to get permission of anyone recognizable, because they have a right to decide if their image is going to be disseminated outside the square dance community. It's not really a public place, or private either. But I'd certainly appreciate knowing if I didn't already because it would have explained some curious emails I got afterwards from people I didn't know.