Dance Like Nobody's Watching

You know what I really miss? School dances.

Now, of course, as soon as I say that I know it's not-quite-accurate. The 'best' dances, musically speaking, were the earliest; that is, middle school dances, like 6th and 8th grade and stuff. Saying middle school dances had the best music is itself a bit absurd, but things just went down hill from there, in my experience. Before the end of high school everything was hiphop and grinding, and that's really not my sort of thing.

I've been out to clubs and stuff, and they're fun enough when you have friends with you, but it's not dancing, at least not the sort that I miss. I miss walking a girl out onto the floor and couple-dancing to sappy love songs from the 70s and 80s. That's what middle school had, though I was even more awkward and shy then than I am now, so there was conspicuously little actually leading girls to said floor.

I can remember several nice dances in my time; possibly through the nostalgia-haze of time, but still. There was the cruise-dance I went to with Leslie back in Highschool; little dancing, but it was generally a good (if very cold) night. I think there were a couple decent dances with my high school youth group. And the Prom that Liz took me to was nice, if a bit awkward (I was a college guy wandering around with a bunch of high school girls. In retrospect, that happened to me a lot.) And, of course, when I got into Contra in College that was probably the best of times (and yet, as the line goes, the worst of times, too).

The ones with Liz and Leslie were just really... casual. Really nice. Just being there with friends and enjoying ourselves.

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SCENE: ANDREW is asking MOM if she's seen his suit, which has gone missing.

MOM: Do you know what size it would be?
ANDREW: Uhm... comparable to dad? I'm a little taller than he is, but he's a little broader than me.
MOM: Yeah, that's a nice way of putting it.
ANDREW: <Laughter> I won't tell him you said that.

The Brothers Three

These still make me laugh audibly. The comments some of them got are half the fun.

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I was on the phone with mom this afternoon, checking up on some things that may have ended up back home, when apparently my little sister Becky was caught not doing her work. My mom then said something to the effect of, "bring down here and do it at the kitchen, now, or no Heroes, I mean it," in exactly the tone you'd expect something like, "do your homework or I'm taking the car away." It was great.
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Have any of you out there known bottled Guinness Draught to... go bad? I mean, the bottled stuff is obviously not going to be as good as Guinness on-tap, but it seems to me that whenever I get the bottles it goes... sour after like a day or two. Sitting in the fridge, mind you. So either I'm imagining it, or I have really crummy luck, or there's actually something up. I haven't been able to find any kind of 'drink by' label or anything, so... Help?