My brother has a one-track mind.
We were just catching up by phone. He told me about his new job, at the Buttercup Bakeshop. Isn't that a great name? I like to picture him wearing a white paper hat and a white apron. He's got the apron, but wears a baseball cap. I told him about my diminishing motivitation to make a Halloween costume. And then I remembered. I hadn't told him that Sam and I were going to see Rebirth Brass Band. It's great - a band from New Orleans, a band that has a standing Tuesday night gig in our old neighborhood, a band we thoroughly enjoy - here in Honolulu.
Me: Guess what we're doing for Halloween?
Him: Having a baby?!
I'm not making this up.
Posted by Shokufeh at October 29, 2003 08:05 PMhey shokufeh -- we miss you! especially since it's halloween. i mean, not because i think shokufeh and think halloween. but because mojan was just reminiscing about our autumnal evening 2 halloweens ago and it brought back such fond memories of playing salad bowl with you.
have a happy halloween!
Posted by: kari at October 29, 2003 11:04 PMEverything this past week has reminded me of the Autumnal Reception! And our leaf invitations.
Posted by: +mojan. at October 30, 2003 07:40 AMwhat is salad bowl? a game?
Posted by: meisa at October 30, 2003 09:02 AMI miss you guys, too. Please teach Meisa salad bowl. Meisa, you will like it!
Posted by: shokufeh at October 30, 2003 10:54 AMthe band at your wedding totally recommended the rebirth brass band to me. it was so funny! they were all talking about how rebirth was such a great band and from new orleans and they were going to be in chicago or something. I just laughed and said I was from new orleans. I think they felt silly after that. It was fun.
Posted by: Emily at October 30, 2003 10:54 AMthere was a forced salad bowl game at my bday party this year and i don't know many people who seem all that thrilled to play it. but, meisa, if you want, i can teach you. i love it.
mojan -- our leaf invitations were great. too bad we didn't make charlie brown invitations for tonight's viewing of the family classic! ah, well, there's always next year.
Posted by: kari at October 30, 2003 11:22 AMsalad bowl game?this sounds like pregnant talk to me
Posted by: anis at October 30, 2003 03:58 PMha ha ha, anis.... you funny boy!
Posted by: roya at October 30, 2003 06:09 PMWell, I suppose we could theme a game of salad bowl "pregnancy salad bowl," but that might not be so much fun for everyone.
Posted by: lacey at October 31, 2003 07:33 AMNow I'm curious too. I think this warrants an entry on the game rules (non-pregnancy version).
(Sup Anis! I miss you dude!)
Posted by: Afshin at October 31, 2003 07:51 AMHaaaaa ha! I'm dying.
Posted by: +mojan. at October 31, 2003 08:27 AMLOL :)) he did it again!!
Posted by: stef at November 1, 2003 05:21 PMspeaking of pregnancy, i think i'm a few days late...
...reading all these questions about salad bowl. :)
whew. i almost has some explaining to do!
briefly, salad bowl is a game which oddly enough requires a salad bowl, some paper and pens. a punch bowl would also do. but a cereal bowl would be too small. each party-goer has about 10 small pieces of paper upon which they write the name of a well known person (dead, alive, fictional, non-fictional). and all these names are put into a bowl. partygoers are divided into teams and each person gets a minute to get their teams to guess as many names as possible. it's so much fun -- we've had the Hamburglar, Gunnar Nelson and Noam Chomsky all in the same bowl before!
Posted by: kari at November 5, 2003 12:30 PM