Whiskey, tango, foxtrot, over?!?!

[duane_kc]

OK. Many of you know that heathercharlott and I are planning to throw an all-day Muppet viewing marathion party sometime. What we don't know is what day to throw this extravaganza. Halloween is out for her; November 5-7 is out for me. What dates are good for you guys?

In other news, Alton Brown is demoing at Nebraska Furniture Mart this Saturday at noon, two, and four. Who wants to help me kidnap him as a present for motherpockets? Alton Brown at the Soup Kitchen just sorta WORKS for me...

Comments

[courtneymckenny.livejournal.com]

after you are done with him, stick him in a box and send him to me!!! I have a very un-natural obsession with Alton...he makes me get all tingly...mmmm....

Note to self...

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

...must make me an Alton Brown suit.

[ladybrie.livejournal.com]

Okay - for those of us in St. Louis just obsessive enough to consider driving up for that - can you give a basic location of the Nebraska Furniture Mart?

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

I-435 & State Avenue. Across the street from the racetrack, east of the Faire site.

metoometoometoometoometoometoometoometoo!

[motherpockets.livejournal.com]

Or, as soon as the soup is ready, we could just go see him and see if we can convince him to come back with us!! Or we could take him a cauldron...

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Oh, the visual I got there was so very funny! All the double-takes it would get for the parade to see Alton Brown bending over the cauldron.

I think the whole parade, or parts of it anyway would come to a screeching halt. Oh that is sooo tempting....

hehehehe!

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

Ooo, me too.

He's just disturbingly sexy.

[eacole72.livejournal.com]

Just forwarded to another person who has Good Eats TiVo'ed. (I'm collecting every episode.) That would be WAY to cool.

huh...?

[themadblonde]

Having never heard of him, I just googled Alton Brown. I SO don't get it, who is he & why would anyone snugglebunny him?

[jaiwitchy.livejournal.com]

what kind of muppets? The kind like Kermit or the kind with the but sting like you get at pricilla's?

Re: huh...?

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Picture Bill Nye, the Science Guy, as a cook. That pretty well sums him up, methinks...

[ladyotterfae.livejournal.com]

hey, like I said, I'm for a mass invasion in full garb. Maybe we could convince him to work the kitchen for a day or two next year.

ah, the mental images....*sigh*

BUMMER

[motherpockets.livejournal.com]

Well, I spent about an hour today trying to talk to a human at Nebraska Furniture Mart. Still not sure I succeeded, but I then spent another 20 minutes on the phone with the woman ("Tangela") who is in charge of this event. No way in hell can we get to Alton Brown with a cauldron. (First of all, she didn't know what a cauldron was....). Says he has very strict security and will not see anyone. Does his show, hides in the greenroom for 45 min., does another show, back to green room for 45 min., another show, and boom, he's outta there. Morning is spent in prep time. I asked if we could see him in the green room for 5 min. Nope! Asked if she could ask him if he would like to have a big cauldron, and call me if he said yes and we'd come right over. Nope! Too busy, 4 pages of things to do all over that building in 4 hours. We could leave it for him. I said if I don't even know if he is getting it, I'm not leaving the cauldron if I can't even see him. We could still go in garb and catch his demo, I suppose. And maybe take the cauldron and leave it in the car, just in case. They expect it to be packed, tho, and since we can't be gone that long, we would probably be wedged in at the back of some huge room with him far away on a stage, not even able to see us in all our renfest finery and say, "Gee, you wouldn't happen to have a large cauldron anywhere about, would you?" My thought, at this point, is that what we would get from the "in person" experience would be significantly less than what you can see ("see" being the operative word here) on tv. Unless you just get off on possibly breathing some neutrino of oxygen particle that passed thru the great man's lungs. I'm having such a good time at faire, I think I'd rather spend my time there. Have to leave early anyway, and frankly, I just don't think it would turn out to be worth it. Lovely thought, tho! I would SO get off on him coming to the soup kitchen. I did write him a while back and invited him, but never got the courtesy of a reply. To be fair, it was around the same time he was in the hospital, but still, I didn't expect a personal reply, and you would think he would have someone who answers mail who could have said, "Thanks, but no."

Re: BUMMER

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, y'know I was kinda kidding about kidnapping him anywho...[grin]

ok

[themadblonde]

THAT could be sexy. ;-)