The Columbus Poet Games Made Me Sore!
In the span of two weeks with a statewide blackout to contend with and all of the issues that ride into town on that horse, Donielle and I came up with the idea of the first-ever Columbus Poets Games, got it planned, hired Teri/"Brown Sugar BBQ" to cater it and got down to the business of trying to make poets' hearts burst like little sour lemons in the summer afternoon yesterday.
Poets hang out all the time, but it's typically a cliqueish affair: friends hang with friends, peers with peers, and while there's plenty of overlap, it still tends to be clan-specific. Well, we advertised a scene-wide picnic/game day, and we got it. Plenty of poets, kids and others came out to innis Park yesterday and let me tell you: it really felt good. Ain't nothing like walking up to a shelterhouse, grabbing a plate of barbecue and then being yanked out to a field for tug-o-war or a rousing poetic rendition of touch-football.
Spike (Writing Wrongs) is a fine quarterback. Ed Plunkett (Writers' Block) takes his sports VERY seriously! Louise and Spike both made touchdowns...Louise, son! Fred Kirchner (Dayton) can run like the wind for someon withhis brain! I admit: I tried to knock downTeri and Donielle to put them out of commission. I am so sore today that I pulled a cooler out of the back of the fridge and actually drank it! I usually save the alcohol in the house for company of a lush-like nature, but today I needed the un-wind. That's my first drink - and a Seagram's cooler barely qualifies - in something like two years...only my fourth drinking session ever.
Ed has footageof the relay race and the three-legged race here:
http://chaptal.livejournal.com/2166667.html
The tug-o-war was a rip. I'm surprised any pictures of that event exist, considering how fast it went.
I've always been more host than life of the party, more wall flower than Soul train line, but that's because I really like seeing people have a good time. That's my kick. That, and I could barely move after the key scramble I made for twnety yards (or something) in the football game, son!
What an awesome, awesome day. It had all the levels you need for a good time: family, friends and games. I haven't ever seen some of these people in the daylight. Truly fun and genuine. A truly can't miss experience. I am so sore, but it was completely worht it.
Thank you Columbus (and Dayton!).
Poets hang out all the time, but it's typically a cliqueish affair: friends hang with friends, peers with peers, and while there's plenty of overlap, it still tends to be clan-specific. Well, we advertised a scene-wide picnic/game day, and we got it. Plenty of poets, kids and others came out to innis Park yesterday and let me tell you: it really felt good. Ain't nothing like walking up to a shelterhouse, grabbing a plate of barbecue and then being yanked out to a field for tug-o-war or a rousing poetic rendition of touch-football.
Spike (Writing Wrongs) is a fine quarterback. Ed Plunkett (Writers' Block) takes his sports VERY seriously! Louise and Spike both made touchdowns...Louise, son! Fred Kirchner (Dayton) can run like the wind for someon withhis brain! I admit: I tried to knock downTeri and Donielle to put them out of commission. I am so sore today that I pulled a cooler out of the back of the fridge and actually drank it! I usually save the alcohol in the house for company of a lush-like nature, but today I needed the un-wind. That's my first drink - and a Seagram's cooler barely qualifies - in something like two years...only my fourth drinking session ever.
Ed has footageof the relay race and the three-legged race here:
http://chaptal.livejournal.com/2166667.html
The tug-o-war was a rip. I'm surprised any pictures of that event exist, considering how fast it went.
I've always been more host than life of the party, more wall flower than Soul train line, but that's because I really like seeing people have a good time. That's my kick. That, and I could barely move after the key scramble I made for twnety yards (or something) in the football game, son!
What an awesome, awesome day. It had all the levels you need for a good time: family, friends and games. I haven't ever seen some of these people in the daylight. Truly fun and genuine. A truly can't miss experience. I am so sore, but it was completely worht it.
Thank you Columbus (and Dayton!).