Zachary

The band

The other band

Cooking stuff (temporarily inactive...)

 
Ahhh, the aftermath. The day after is never quite as glamorous as the party. We had a couple of hitches, the biggest being J.T. had to work and was unable to trade shifts or get off early. He walked in around 9:30pm, changed into Shaggy, scarfed a burger, so we could get on to the radio drama. Needless to say I missed him on many levels. He's the life of any party I go to, and, a party of this magnitude is a bit much for one person to pull off the day of. There were casualties. I managed to get a small sliver of glass in my foot that I never had time to fish out until afterwards, and in curling my hair for the Daphne costume, I burned my neck something fierce. I figured it looked like a hickey, which was probably in character. The other hiccup was J.T. forgot to turn on the recording for the entire third act so we had to do it again. Sadly, there were less mistakes for the blooper real. And the diorama contest was a big flop. J.T. and I had the only finished entries, and Velma had a partially done entry. Cool as mine was, the host is not supposed to win especially when they own two of the three entries. Prizes instead went to the 2nd (Scooby-Dum) and 3rd place (Headless Horseman) costume winners (first place was Velma who was dead-on right out of the cartoon). Our non-costumed guests took the door prize of Scooby Doo pop tarts for bringing the most creative food - a four+ foot high Shaggy styled hamburger. I kid you not. Next year, the non-costume competition will be some contest of skill that doesn't require much preparation. The diorama was a good idea that no one had time to implement.

BUT, that said, I think it was an overall success. Too much food, which is better than the alternative. A great radio drama with new and improved, all digital sound. The sound pit was way high-tech this year and run by one person on a networked computer - last year it took three people. No more banging pots with wooden spoons. And J.T. found a gold mine of sounds at www.clipart.com (which has clip art too). Our friend had a great Scooby Doo voice, and J.T. surprised me with a great Shaggy voice. I'm a natural at the dumb chick voice - not sure how to feel about that... And it ended with a ton of great desserts, including crepes. To quote Fred, "This is the one party I look forward to all year."
posted by hbt at 11:15 AM