I gave a sermon about The Little Prince and The Pink Panther and did an impromptu interpretive dance to a poem by A. A. Milne because the reader said, and I quote, "This is a poem by A. A. Milne, and while I'm reading Rossi will do an interpretive dance."
"Shit. I mean, shit. Sorry. Go ahead." And then I vogued with my flowing sleeves and the awkward grace of a dancing bear on a tricycle, and only gave the thumbs up once. But never in my sermon did I directly bring up how many men Xtine has slept with, which was hard to do because Paul stopped by before the wedding for a beer on my porch and left me with this: "just don't say anything about that time that she fucked those two gay dudes on my couch." Which is my couch now, by the way, and I silently blessed myself for washing the cushions.
She and Kevin had popcorn vendors roaming around while we sipped a meet-cute of champagne infused with cotton candy (invented by Adam Moby-Statham during a happy accident) and sang karoake. We went to a bar afterward where Adam and I teamed up against another co-ed team of attractive pool sharks (I was his wingman, because my dress had wingsleeves) who took their eight ball very seriously. My sleeves kept on getting in the damn way. Fucking pool.
I dislike playing pool at bars with people who insist that we follow professional rules. Recreational softball is nothing like the major leagues and touch football isn't nearly as convoluted as the NFL, but tall hipster males take their sharking very seriously. At one point I yelled, "Who the fuck are you, Minnesota Fats? This isn't a goddamn Paul Newman movie." And then he tried to get me to play again, which in retrospect was a good sign but me and Adam were through with trying to woo these people and besides all I could think about was how rugged and lumberjacky Kevin's little brother had grown in the past two years after fighting wildfires in California and I really wanted to touch his arm and talk to him about spaceships and conspiracy theories as a continuation of our last conversation in 2009 after we played Risk on his birthday. Which I won, by the way.
But alas, I have gained - ho-lee FUCK - 22 pounds in the last two years. That was the last time I stood on a scale. I've decided to blame my stolen bike and my friends who left me (I am looking at YOU, MoLinder and Gyna) for this weight gain, because even though I know the bulk of it is bite-size Butterfingers in groups of seven and 2am pizzas (which I blame on CrazyLiz), I refuse to accept responsibility. Something will have to be done, and I will have to find more obscure things to blame until I am either (a) satisfied or (b) amazing-looking.
Despite how awesomely I glowed in my dress, how I felt like glamorous Batman on a winning streak in Vegas, I was not mentally capable of starting that conversation and was afraid I would make some joke about how much both of us had grown in two years and come off sounding desperate, which technically I was. Alas.
Weeks and weeks ago, after hearing about the dress, the Smith Sister Savannah said to me, "Ross, for my wedding? I would never, ever, ever make you wear something like that," which was her kind way of saying "don't you fucking dare pull that neon circus-garb out again for my wedding."
Coincidentally, Savannah's wedding was the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, so after I woke up the next morning I had to get my ass in gear to officiate another wedding, which will, of course, be discussed in a later post, because I have run out of wine and it is time for bed.
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EDIT: Aaaaaaand there's the dress. I don't have any pictures of me in it where you can really see it in all it's glory.
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9 comments:
It would have been cool if you woulda just suddenly whipped out a pocket knife and cut off those sleeves and tossed them and Minnesota and Willie and said something cryptic like "gauntlet bitches", annoying hipster pool players uh annoy me, and in my book my sweet you will be forever known as Glamorous Batman... technically shouldn't it be Batwoman? whichever you prefer is fine by me though.
That's the thing about Batman - yes, it would be Batwoman - but reading and hearing "Batwoman" doesn't remotely carry the emotional and behavioral connotations associated with "BatMAN." It's a shame, really. What would be the female equivalent? There isn't one. Superman has Wonder Woman, and Batman has Catwoman, but I am nothing like Catwoman. Life is hard.
A photo of the dress..... pleeeeeeze
Can you script my life?
Wow I loved the priestess who married my husband and I, but I SO wish you could have married us instead.
your dress was fucking amazing! i showed pics of it all around to the peeps here in san diego. also, made mention that you may bring your amazing batman self out here for comic-con. peeps are a-flutter, including chowderhead.
anywho, i blame you right now because i gained 7 fucking pounds whilst in chicago. that city is determined to make me fat. so we can have a mutual blame of weight gain. (ha, that rhymed. i rule).
laughed out loud (i refuse to use LOL. it pisses me off) when i read your conversation with the smith sister savannah about the dress - because i can totally see her saying something like that. looking forward to your next post about that wedding. even though i was hungover as FUCK, it was still good times. and scooter made an appearance, which is always amazing...
Thanks for putting up the pic!
That's like a sorceress dress, like you should casting lightning spells on a horde of sword-wielding marauders from a top of craggy hilltop.
"Can summon the primal forces of nature" is now going on my dating profile of what I'm looking for in a woman.
Did you get more wine? What a tragedy running out of wine is. Sometimes, depending on the wine, I wear a dress while I drink it. A green one.
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