Topic: THE WEIRDLY WEIRD DAY OF WEIRDNESS WITH A HAPPY ENDING (Read 5088 times)

bk · « **Reply #150 on:** March 16, 2024, 10:30:49 PM »

Most unseemly.

bk · « **Reply #151 on:** March 16, 2024, 10:31:00 PM »

Now we're down to page six???

bk · « **Reply #152 on:** March 16, 2024, 10:31:32 PM »

Slim pickin's around these here parts.

bk · « **Reply #153 on:** March 16, 2024, 10:32:09 PM »

Watched a terrible motion picture and got the bad taste out of my mouth by watching a Jack Benny Show with Gary Cooper as guest star.

bk · « **Reply #154 on:** March 16, 2024, 10:32:33 PM »

Have to write notes soon, but will try to write another page or two first.

George · « **Reply #155 on:** March 16, 2024, 11:53:34 PM »

Tonight, I ushered for the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella competition at the WCPA.

George · « **Reply #156 on:** March 16, 2024, 11:54:07 PM »

Aside from the great (usually) singing, it's just a fun evening.

George · « **Reply #157 on:** March 16, 2024, 11:54:55 PM »

There eight groups this year, and sadly, my favorite group didn't win. $:-\$

George · « **Reply #158 on:** March 16, 2024, 11:55:38 PM »

The group that won overall and audience favorite, was a Christian group from Utah.

George · « **Reply #159 on:** March 16, 2024, 11:56:16 PM »

They were good, but I didn't feel like they had the edge to be the winner.

George · « **Reply #160 on:** March 16, 2024, 11:56:31 PM »

Obviously, I was wrong.

George · « **Reply #161 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:04:37 AM »

So, in addition to seeing great (usually

) vocalists performing great (for the most part) music is the audience participation aspect of the evening.

George · « **Reply #162 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:04:58 AM »

Not the results, but the process.

George · « **Reply #163 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:07:14 AM »

What happens is that there are boxes in several stations around the Center, one box for each performing group at each station, so tonight, there were a set of eight boxes in three different places.

George · « **Reply #164 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:08:54 AM »

And to vote, people can either put their tickets in the box for the group that they would like to vote for, or there's some other way to vote if you had electronic (PDF) tickets.

George · « **Reply #165 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:11:23 AM »

You vote during intermission, and once that's over, people from Masterworks Choral Ensemble (the group that hosts the event) combine all the tickets for each group from the various locations, and they count all the votes for each group to get the audience favorite.

George · « **Reply #166 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:12:23 AM »

Once that's all done and they have the audience favorite, the tickets are all recycled.

bk · « **Reply #167 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:13:07 AM »

I didn't vote because I didn't hear them.

bk · « **Reply #168 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:13:23 AM »

Listening to Bach.

bk · « **Reply #169 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:13:36 AM »

But Bach is certainly not listening to me.

bk · « **Reply #170 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:14:11 AM »

Where'd George go?

bk · « **Reply #171 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:14:28 AM »

Eating a burrito in a rabbit hole?

George · « **Reply #172 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:14:39 AM »

SO, on the back of every printed WCPA ticket (but not the e-mailed electronic tickets) is a coupon for $1 off a half sub or $2 off a whole sub from Meconi's Italian Subs

bk · « **Reply #173 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:14:41 AM »

That doesn't sound right.

bk · « **Reply #174 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:14:55 AM »

That sounds like a Randy Vicar story.

George · « **Reply #175 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:15:20 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 17, 2024, 12:14:11 AM

Where'd George go?

Are you not paying attention?? I'm extemporizing about my evening!

bk · « **Reply #176 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:15:35 AM »

I assume you stopped at Meconi's and got the sub?

bk · « **Reply #177 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:15:51 AM »

Extemporize away.

George · « **Reply #178 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:16:04 AM »

I collect these tickets because I live two blocks from the Tumwater Meconi's and I love their subs.

George · « **Reply #179 on:** March 17, 2024, 12:16:41 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 17, 2024, 12:15:35 AM

I assume you stopped at Meconi's and got the sub?

Not tonight. They close at 7:00 pm, and are closed all day Sunday.

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