Shore Excursions
Things to Do around the Lodge.
WiWwW: To Fran!
Saturday, July 25, 7p CST on Zoom. What to pack for your WiWwW trip: Dress Up Contest (Chest Level Up). Hilarious hat, whimsical wig, strange scarf? Just have your costume nearby when the party starts. And make sure it fits inside your screen. Fabulous prize for the winner! Haiku! For those who haven’t Ku’d before, it’s the simplest poem form ever. Write yours with our special Haiku Helper and find inspiration from previous Weekends. Best Haiku wins Malvolian of the Year prize. The Play's the Thing (for a bit). Learn the origin of the Gown of Humility through a nostalgic [...]
XVIII in the rear-view mirror: On our Comedy Bus, there is no brake
Laffstock Comedy Barn Players! The last hitchhiker has scurried off, our Groucho glasses are folded, grand meals digested and docent hat hung. But Weekend 18 lives on in our smiles. And the following posts: Photo album Blow, Haiku siren, blow! From soup to nuts: Our Top Tens Fun. Knee: Evaluating 18 Offer your thoughts and pictures on our exclusive Weekend FB page (and invite Friends to join), and enjoy a wend through Weekends past. Fun times? You do the mirth.
A wend through Weekends past
Like an internal organ distending with undiagnosable fluid, the Weekend tradition just keeps getting greater: Check out the official, unabridged chronicle of Top Tens, poems, drink recipes and too much more in our absolutely free Weekend XVIII Souvenir Booklet -- with an exciting preview of the updated Booklet 19. And kill even more time watching the A Very Special Episode of the Weekend Highlights Reel Don't forget to check us out on Facebook too!
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Weekend XV: Murder Most Fun
Yet again you found a way, Central Illinois, to surprise and charm us. The King paid us an audience before tossing on his robes. Next day we costumed ourselves, according to the mind of Bard of Bloomington Deb "Murder She Wrote" Dicke. We quaffed wine at an art fair, rode silly bikes, lied our way through to a new GoH winner (humility virgin Wayne), charaded like Wizards and had the best Turkish food this side of Constantinople. And for the record, Kulm Kocktail Kontest winner: Chris Hage, Dark and Stormies. All amid the splendor of a real-life, top-hat-displaying mansion with [...]
The Weekend XIII Plan for Fun
Weekenders -- For those of us who need structure to our lives, here's the rough outline for how we will enjoy ourselves: Friday, August 23. Arrive at the lodge in the afternoon. Dinner at The Bank ... Yes, it's reopened! Play (8p) Saturday, August 24 Morning. School of Picnic (Prepare and learn to prepare a first class picnic) Noonish. Mess around. (Governor Dodge? Road Trip?) 4pm-ish. Cheese and cocktails 6pm-ish. Let the picnicking begin ... Games, fun, and possibly more. And don't forget our other Weekend traditions: Kulm Kocktail Kontest Poetry slam
Weekend XII: Now with Shakespeare Free!
Thoughts, questions, concerns, comments, rants about Weekend XII? Most especially: Suggested movies for our Movie House night. We'll run a couple features in the lodge ballroom on Saturday night.
Drinking and Playing
Best Cocktail Contest Beth Hage has come up with perhaps the greatest Weekend idea ever -- Best Cocktail Contest. The lodge has blenders and all kinds of equipment. Just bring up your creativity, mixers and booze. Winner receives the Kulm Kocktail Award. Game Night Saturday night will be our Retro Game Tournament -- including, of course, Twister. Every Weekender is kindly requested to provide for one game that will demonstrate our collective lack of agility, thinking and dignity.
Made to be Broken
Like previous Weekends, we have a carefully considered a complex itinerary and schedule, which, it is to be expected, will be violated before we even start. As follows: Friday, 26th Dinner and drinks at the Lodge starting mid-afternoon Blah blah Shakespeare blah. Play starts 8pm Vote on Malvolian of the Year and Top Ten from Weekend X. Ballots will be provided. (Email me or post any late entries.) Cocktail Contest Part One Saturday Daytime beach and boating fun at Governor Dodge State Park Cocktail Contest 2.0 back at the lodge Smokin Mikottin dinner extravaganza Gown of Humility contest (Dicke) Retro [...]