A2IRV Event
A2IRV, which promotes instant-runoff-style voting, is having an event at Arbor Brewing Company tonight featuring a talk by Larry Kestenbaum and a five-candidate race for the most popular beer.
A2IRV, which promotes instant-runoff-style voting, is having an event at Arbor Brewing Company tonight featuring a talk by Larry Kestenbaum and a five-candidate race for the most popular beer.
As it’s been kind of quiet here, allow me to interject with a bit of trifling gossip that has nothing to do with Larry or beer, but does have to do with the Mayor, and Elvis Costello, and a possible case of St. Vitus’ Dance….
A friend writes: “We watched the (Costello) concert from fabulous center-stage seats in the 2nd row of the balcony, which became obstructed-viewing about 15 minutes into the show…. After they arrived 15 minutes late, the group of 45-50 year-olds in front of us quickly showed their true colors as professional, and truly horrible I’d like to point out, chair-dancers. One woman in particular was seriously out of control. Her routine featured the most unpopular of dance moves, including the ‘Backstroke’, ‘Billy Blank’s Tae-bo Routine’, the ‘We are the World arm sway’, the ‘We’re not worthy arms from Wayne’s World’, ‘Raise the Roof arms’ and bad knock-offs of the dance routines from Saturday Night Fever and the opening sequence from the Dharma & Greg sitcom (the circular wrist-flip). Keep in mind that she kept this up for three hours, incorporated all of the moves (and more) into each song…whether or not the tempo was appropriate.
The lead chair dancer had her hair in sort of a librarian bun/clip thing, funky glasses and was wearing bright orange pants.
As I marveled at the spastic manner in which her arms, head and eventually her body were flailing about, the scene became even more interesting to me when I realized that one of them (this group of groovy boomers) was the Mayor of Ann Arbor. He lacked the chair-dancing skills of the rest of them….
Oh, and the guy on my left kept extensive notes of the whole evening in a little notebook. My original guess was that he was going to write a review of the concert, but I now hope that he is just some strange Ann Arborite who is going to use the notes for his blog entry on AnnArborisoverated.com.”
She goes on to explain that while the music was quite good, her husband’s base cowardice in the matter of pushing this woman over the rail of the balcony pretty much spoiled the night.
posted by Parking Structure Dude! on June 15th, 2006 at 9:56 am eWhy didn’t she do it herself?
Chair-dancing in my section was sparse, thankfully. But, as luck usually has it, I did have a big, bald dude with a 10-foot torso sitting directly in front of me…
posted by Dave on June 15th, 2006 at 10:19 am eWhat’s so funny about peace, love, and chair dancing?
posted by hale on June 15th, 2006 at 11:16 am eArbor Update and I are in a bidding war for the chair-dancing exclusive.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on June 15th, 2006 at 11:18 am e