Wow, what a party! Friend Will unveiled the artwork on his mini cooper: a car that now as closely resembles an X-wing from the original Star Wars as anything could that is on the road and street legal. A picture is really worth a thousand words, in this case. Stop by his site and check out the photos.

Jenne made a great barbeque and there was all kinds of good food. I had two glasses of wine, and was all the way out of my shell...I think many people might have been anxious for me to go back in, but I had an awefully good time.

While the party was also supposed to feature a Battlestar Gallactica tie in, we wound up getting involved with an even guiltier pleasure: MXE (or MXC) episodes. This show was originally a game show in Japan called Takeshi's Castle.
Spike tv ( nobody can believe I ever watched anything on Spike tv, but, alas, it's true)took it over, and dubbed totally unrelated - yet believable - English over the action. Of course, it's full of all kinds of double entendres and sexual inuendo....some of which I get and some of which I don't. Of course, the action just by itself is funny and wild....it's like a game show of really wierd physical challenges, such as people swinging on a rope and attempting to velcro themselves to a wall.

You know I'm not a big proponent of laughing at people who injure themselves, but lets face it: an obvious non-athelete wearing spandex and a flower pot on his head while attempting to velcro himself to a wall is fair game in any language. You can't help laughing, even if you don't get every single one of the jokes. Almost no one completes the challenges, like log rolls, trying to walk accross a narrow, shakey bridge carrying a gold soccar ball while someone shoots other balls at the contestant from an air cannon ( a game, not surprisingly called "brass balls" in the MXE version) or swinging one handed from from a spinning mushroom in an attempt to land on a small platform. That one's called "Eat Shitake" and, yes, it does make you wonder what kind of drugs they have in Japan. The potential for serious injury definately seems to be there, and there's at least one spectacular fall upon the head per episode...and I confess that I laugh as hard as anybody. Weirdly, nobody ever seems to actually get hurt - at least I've never seen anybody carried off the course on a stretcher - but maybe the Japenese are just very tough people.

Anyway, with regard to all the "can't believe they said that on t.v." comments....well, I think they can say that stuff on t.v. because a great deal of it goes right over the head of a viewer like me - a faithful, married lady with zero interest in doing anything in the bedroom that is likely to hurt my back. However, what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business....it's just that watching the show at the party lead me to the knowlege that if you can think of a thing to do in the privacy of your own home with a partner, somebody else has thought of it first and given it a creative name.

For all that Friend Will's friends call themselves "geeks" they certainly are EDUCATED geeks - educated in all aspects of life! I spent one entire episode with my eyebrows way up over the tops of my glasses learning much more about sex than I ever learned from a woman's magazine - and that's saying something! The other thing that must be said about these gentlemen is that they really WERE gentlemen - explaining things in mixed company in such a way that, at least after two glasses of wine, was just informative, if not a little mind boggling.

They say that knowlege is power, but in this case, I think I can safely quote the show's voice over comedians..."that was both insightful AND disturbing!"