Monday, January 19, 2009
Friday, July 11, 2008
The weddings are over; let the blogging begin
All three of our ceremonies are done, the first of our three honeymoons has come and gone, and now begins the blog.
I have been mentally writing and rewriting the first proper entry here for weeks, in which I shall explain the concept of a "Dude Wedding" in brief, easily accessible terms, but:
a. that's pretty much the entire point of the blog and accompanying Future Bestseller, and
b. the term is operationally defined quite clearly in the following email. Real names have been obscured, but you all know who you are.
I ask you: would any Chick Wedding prompt the following (written by a biological woman who is, I would approximate, 75% dude and 25% chick)?
There. Now we may begin.
I have been mentally writing and rewriting the first proper entry here for weeks, in which I shall explain the concept of a "Dude Wedding" in brief, easily accessible terms, but:
a. that's pretty much the entire point of the blog and accompanying Future Bestseller, and
b. the term is operationally defined quite clearly in the following email. Real names have been obscured, but you all know who you are.
I ask you: would any Chick Wedding prompt the following (written by a biological woman who is, I would approximate, 75% dude and 25% chick)?
J*****’s ass was on fire Saturday night and he stunk up the southwest corner of the BYC. He nearly killed your dancer friend who was storing his fire apparatus in that corner. Besides the perverse things that P****** was doing with the inflatable Dolphin, I also said “I think I have to poop” in front of one of your guests.
Sorry!
H****
PS – you’ll find evidence of most of this on film.
There. Now we may begin.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
I'm not ready, and yet here we are
Yes, yes, as if I did not have enough to do a mere SIXTY-SIX HOURS (give or take) before the Eventual Husband and I tie the knot, I am launching a new blog, one which will be devoted to our upcoming nuptials. Why now, you ask.
1. Well, it's not like I haven't been planning to start this thing for the last two or three months, and no time like the present, eh? I mean, cleaning the living room, basement, home office, and kitchen (in preparation for the third night of our three-night bash), burning 300 copies of the now-obligatory wedding CD, finishing the vows for the first night ceremony and sending them to the minister, and everything else on my to-do list can wait, right? Hell, I've got sixty-six HOURS to do all that! It's not like it's all starting TOMORROW or anything.
1a. Sure, sure, I COULD have started this blog, if I were serious about it, when I first thought of it those two or three months ago, so that I could be providing a day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of an actual Dude Wedding, which I'm sure would be fascinating to at least six people on the planet, but let's face it: would YOU be one of them? Do you REALLY care about real-time reports on our various trips to the baker, the caterer, and all those other things everyone goes through when they get married, regardless of whether they are men, women, straight, gay, or otherwise inclined? Hell no! This is a DUDE WEDDING. You want to know things like, What IS a dude wedding, and what makes it different from any other wedding, and how can I get me one of them dude weddings of my own? And so on. And that is exactly what I intend to tell you here, and it really doesn't matter if I tell you all that as it is happening, or afterward. So I will do it all in my own sweet time, and then turn it into a best-selling book based on the blog, which is the only way book deals get made these days, and which is how we will eventually pay for THIS INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE THREE-NIGHT BASH. Again, more on this later.
2.But I have to at least START the damn blog NOW because the Eventual Husband is itching to send out an email to the folks attending the second night of our three-night bash, and this seems like a good chance to get their (your) attention, even though I'm not quiiiiite ready, but then
3. I will never be ENTIRELY ready, because I'm just that kind of guy: as I have said a million times this week alone, I think quite a bit faster than most people (this is not bragging) and I move quite a bit slower than most people (this is not a complaint). So I think of things like blogs, or getting married, and then when the time comes, I'm never fully prepared. Time management is not one of my strong points, as we shall see.
As an example of #3 above, our wedding is in fact, as I said, SIXTY SIX HOURS AWAY and we are (I am) STILL INVITING PEOPLE. And I'm not talking B-list or C-list people, I'm talking some of my oldest and dearest friends, the very friends I had in mind when it first occurred to me to get married.
But more of all this, and more introductions and explanations, later. When I'm ready, or ready-er. Or at least more awake.
Stay tuned.
1. Well, it's not like I haven't been planning to start this thing for the last two or three months, and no time like the present, eh? I mean, cleaning the living room, basement, home office, and kitchen (in preparation for the third night of our three-night bash), burning 300 copies of the now-obligatory wedding CD, finishing the vows for the first night ceremony and sending them to the minister, and everything else on my to-do list can wait, right? Hell, I've got sixty-six HOURS to do all that! It's not like it's all starting TOMORROW or anything.
1a. Sure, sure, I COULD have started this blog, if I were serious about it, when I first thought of it those two or three months ago, so that I could be providing a day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of an actual Dude Wedding, which I'm sure would be fascinating to at least six people on the planet, but let's face it: would YOU be one of them? Do you REALLY care about real-time reports on our various trips to the baker, the caterer, and all those other things everyone goes through when they get married, regardless of whether they are men, women, straight, gay, or otherwise inclined? Hell no! This is a DUDE WEDDING. You want to know things like, What IS a dude wedding, and what makes it different from any other wedding, and how can I get me one of them dude weddings of my own? And so on. And that is exactly what I intend to tell you here, and it really doesn't matter if I tell you all that as it is happening, or afterward. So I will do it all in my own sweet time, and then turn it into a best-selling book based on the blog, which is the only way book deals get made these days, and which is how we will eventually pay for THIS INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE THREE-NIGHT BASH. Again, more on this later.
2.But I have to at least START the damn blog NOW because the Eventual Husband is itching to send out an email to the folks attending the second night of our three-night bash, and this seems like a good chance to get their (your) attention, even though I'm not quiiiiite ready, but then
3. I will never be ENTIRELY ready, because I'm just that kind of guy: as I have said a million times this week alone, I think quite a bit faster than most people (this is not bragging) and I move quite a bit slower than most people (this is not a complaint). So I think of things like blogs, or getting married, and then when the time comes, I'm never fully prepared. Time management is not one of my strong points, as we shall see.
As an example of #3 above, our wedding is in fact, as I said, SIXTY SIX HOURS AWAY and we are (I am) STILL INVITING PEOPLE. And I'm not talking B-list or C-list people, I'm talking some of my oldest and dearest friends, the very friends I had in mind when it first occurred to me to get married.
But more of all this, and more introductions and explanations, later. When I'm ready, or ready-er. Or at least more awake.
Stay tuned.
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