May 16, 2008

Mah? Izzat You? It's me, Little Jongg.

Who: SANE members
What: Next Meeting
When: Tuesday 20 May 2008, 7:00 pm EDT
Where: Pam A's Convention Center
Why: Asian Dominoes, Canton Canasta, Ceramic Rummy, Kong Pong Jongg Phooey, Throw in the Tile, That Game They Played in Joy Luck Club, Another Brick in the Wall - whatever you want to call it, just don't call it late for dinner.
What?: That's right, the inscrutable Bitsy San, TileMeister Extraordinaire, will wheedle and cajole us through a game or three of Mah Jongg. No scoring, just click and clack our way to SANE Satori.
But...: No butts, ifs or other conjunctions! Get your butts over to the meeting and get ready to take a direction (N,S, E or W), and then take some direction (about how to play).
N.B.: If there are only seven of us, Bitsy will have to take part as the fourth person in two four-person games. If we come up with 10 people, she'll have to play three games (which would be fairer than playing two positions in a single game). What will happen? Will the dominoes all fall down? The only way to find out is to be there! (or be a six-sided polygon).

On a separate note, this week Dy and I went to a fancy-schmancy MFA presentation thingus and saw a movie by animator Karen Aqua and her musician hubby Whatsis Shade O'Blue and at the end of the film there was a big thanks to... Mr. Flip! Yay to Flip! We stood up and interrupted the whole proceedings and yelled "We know him! He's in SANE!" until we were beaten up and thrown out of the building.*

On another note, also separated, I am informed that there were people at the last SANE meeting who did more beadwork than they were credited with in my largely dismissive summary. I won't mention any of them by name, but they all worked like little beady beavers and made more beadage apiece than I did, so there! I'd apologize for having been flip, because I'm not Flip, I'm...

Richard "No-Tiles" McBeadly

* Some of this story may have been slightly exaggerated, to enliven the narrative.

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