Thursday night I threw a Founding Fools reunion/party. All of the original Fools showed up, except one who was working at school two hours away. Some of the Founding Fools I had not seen in over two years, so it was great to see them. I made pizza and calzones, including the brilliant move of forgetting to put cheese in two of the four calzones that I made. I claimed that it was out of consideration of lactose-intolerant people, but really I was just an absent-minded dork. The Fools themselves brought chips, dessert, and lots and lots of sodas. We certainly had plenty to eat. Mer always accuses me of assuming that everyone eats like we do, and she is right – there was only the equivalent of three pieces of pizza per person, but there were still leftovers for us! Yum!

We had general chatting and eating until everyone showed up, and then I put in the movie o’ the evening – The Gods Must Be Crazy. Mer had introduced me to the film years ago, and it seemed like a good film to show the Fools. I did give the same disclaimer that Mer gave me – you have to give Gods a chance, since it starts kind of slowly. The Fools seemed to enjoy it very much. Not too bad for a movie made before any of them were born!

I ran over to school quickly to get my list o’ games, and we provided to have a good hour of improv. One of the fun things about these parties is that doing improv is for our amusement. We have no audience – it is doing improv just to have fun, and fun we had! The Founding Fools still have it – there were some fantastic moments of heightening and a fantastic “yes, and” where a Fool agreed that he very much wanted an elephant trainer. Some highlights of a very funny evening:
– Ranting and raving about college food
– A wife giving her husband an elephant and an elephant trainer as a present
– The superhero Perfect-Teeth Girl getting the “special floss” from Floss Girl
– A location-vocation-means of death that had Mer on the moon filling in craters while being attacked by plants
– Various advice on how to tell your kids about Santa
– Listening in on answering machine messages about being snowed in (including many messages from Aunt Tillie!)
– A paperback scene where one of the Fools ended up with tetanus
– A blind line scene where a Fool was being sold cheap hair care products

We wound the evening up with a little Wii action. I got smoked by a Fool who is also a tennis player. I guess I have more work to do.

It was a fun evening, and I even managed to stay up until midnight! Great fun!