From the Customer Evaluation Form
Quote whoring: You can visit Wisconsin and leave your firearms at home. (Andrea) I've participated in Weekends of all kinds in my adult career. This sets the standard for Williams. Tour de force! (Deb) Who's in charge of all this chaos? We are tramps for the trampoline (Steve) All the karaoke you can stand! (Beth) We made it to single digit. (Bryan) My unspeakable erotic fetish (customers were guaranteed anonymity): It's only once a year. (Mike) As seen on TV! (Rosenkrantz) The soft flesh just below the last rib bone. (Andrea) Well, first I order some shoes from Zappos. Then [...]
From the 2009 Customer Evaluation Form
Quote whoring: You can visit Wisconsin and leave your firearms at home. (Andrea) I've participated in Weekends of all kinds in my adult career. This sets the standard for Williams. Tour de force! (Deb) Who's in charge of all this chaos? We are tramps for the trampoline (Steve) All the karaoke you can stand! (Beth) We made it to single digit. (Bryan) It's only once a year. (Mike) As seen on TV! (Rosenkrantz) My unspeakable erotic fetish (customers were guaranteed anonymity): The soft flesh just below the last rib bone. (Andrea) Well, first I order some shoes from Zappos. Then [...]
Tell the Muses what you really think of them
Friday is I Can't Believe It's Not Poetry Night. The winner (chosen by the audience, usually without regard to skill or sobriety on anyoneís part) is named Malvolian of the Year and earns a minimally interesting gift award. Any form of poetry is acceptable, though the Homeric Epic has been largely discouraged. One may wish to study previous entries for inspiration, or perhaps as a form of aversion therapy. Among favorite forms for Weekenders have been: The Haiku. Three lines (5 syllables, then 7, then 5 again) with no need to rhyme. The last line is often zany. Special credit [...]
The “Weekend’s Got No Talent” Contest
There's no doubt, lined up side to side and head to toe, we Weekenders have just as much talent as any randomly chosen cross-section of any Westernized nation. Let's prove that to ourselves! Contest Rules Rules for the first annual Weekend's Got No Talent Contest are very simple. Just plan on getting in front of the group, and start performing. Music, acrobatics, oratory, origami, humming through an unexpected orifice: Whatever you think will win you the smallest amount of derision. Everyone will get up to ten minutes (and no fewer than nine) to impress the audience. We'll all take turns [...]
Clams and more
The Weekend highlight will be Saturday's authentic clambake. Weekenders Mike and Bryan are taking the lead for us. We'll probably hit local eateries Friday and Saturday afternoon and figure out a breakfast strategy. More to follow closer to W-Day.
Hither/Thither
Shall we meet up at Hoffman House on Friday (the 13th) at 10 in the morning? Plenty of diversions shall usher us up to the lodge. Feel free to use this blog for other travel related discussions, too, for example, who wants to drive? Plus when are people coming home?
Odes to Weekend
In the Comments Section below, please offer your vote for the 2009 Malvolian of the Year Best Poem ______ William Weekend in Wisconsin For not faint hearted Lacerated toe in Moccasin Gangrene hath started - Scott _____ I Hate Haikus I hate haikus lots Stupid little pointless things Wait I just did one - Alex ______ Gownku (courtesy FTD) For the gown winner Prancing and dancing with glee Welcome to the fold - Melissa ______ William Weekend Nine William Weekend Nine Exposed to William first time Cover my ta-ta's - Andrea ______ A Bovine Fantasia How now, cow You are [...]
Balloting is now open
Please carefully review (and snigger at) the following Top candidates and then cast your ballot for your favorites in the "Leave A Comment" section. Feel free to add another candidate there, too. A) If you've crossed the Mississippi, you've probably gone too far. (Mike, based on a true story during the trip home. No, there is no Dubuque, Wisconsin.) b) I believe in pleasure units! (Andrea) C) You're lucky I didn't have my bare ass on that one. (Andrea, shortly after the sublime sound of a whoppee cushion echoed through the ballroom.) D) Go tell them we blew a fuse [...]
Gown of Humility 2009
From Weekender and GoH 2008 Winner Steve: Think of Survivor, Wait..Wait Don't Tell Me, and Hollywood Squares then mash them all together, add paper crowns and tiaras, and you get the Gown of Humility Challenge 2009*. Do you know your Weekend with William and Shakespeare trivia? Can you get from point A to point B? Do you look at a Picasso and say to yourself "That makes sense?" Can you dress yourself? If you answered Yes to all then you are sure to be a winner! (But then again, EVERYONE is a winner. Except maybe the poor weekender who receives, [...]
The Weekend Olympiad
Can not one appreciate Shakespeare and also the grace of simple athletics? ... Probably not. But that won't stop us from inaugurating the Weekend Olympiad this year. Let us know what games you'll be bringing up, or if you have any competitive ideas -- and not just those involving the projecting of spheres and being somehow shod. Drinking games? Mind games? War games? Saturday night, we'll offer awards to the winners and, naturally, scorn to everyone else!