Yuppies Gone Wild
July 4th is one of those holidays for which I feel no real excitement or exhilaration.Until July 3rd.
This year was great. We were in Eastlake at Jon and Amanda's place with Wanda Steph Jason John Kerry Anna Michael Sami Karl and Sedea. Visual interpretation of the fireworks yeilded comments that ranged from the geometric to the un-pc. We saw:
Cubes!!!!, A Clown afro, Bleeding hearts, Green swimming sperm, Queen Anne's Lace flower (?), A cold shower, A weeping willow tree, Cubes!!!!, A smiley face, A Downs Syndrome smiley face, Cubes!!!!
Earlier in the evening, as we sat on the deck looking out at Lake Union before the show started, we could not help but notice a super bright spotlight pointed right at us. It was BRIGHT. Like, wear sunglasses at nighttime like everyone does in LA bright.
At 9 pm, naive and believing that the sole purpose of the light was to annoy us, we hypothesized reasons why the light was on us. Sami came up with a bulletproof theory. It went something like this:
We have been targeted to be the stars of a new dvd/video series: Yuppies Gone Wild. There we were, in our trendy summer garb and designer sunglasses, sipping Corona with Lime, Fat Tire and chilled Sauvignon Blanc spritzers. Scandalous. Commentary by the spotlight operators/camera crew would go something like this: "Check out the babe who just put his glass on the coffee table. WITHOUT A COASTER! Fucking crazy!! And...would you just LOOK at her. She's eating another piece of prociutto wrapped cantelope, that WHORE. Oh and c'mere you Izod clad hottie grilling up those rosemary herb bratwurst on toasted ciabatta bread, flexing with every flip of the burger. Dockers never looked so hot, I wanna undo your leather braided belt with my teeth."
At 10 pm, we found out that the spotlight was there to illuminate an army helicopter that would fly in holding an unfurled American flag. Oh well. We can all dream.
Happy July 4th.
posted by gracegow @ 1:32 AM
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