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LOL. You crack me up, Matt.
»» Submitted by »»» s4xton at 8:56 AM on May 18
The only crime about this post is that people actually say/type "Nordeast"
*sigh*
»» Submitted by Matt W at 9:09 AM on May 18
Who fights with pillows at 2 pm? That's almost as crazy as my upstairs neighbor doing her boyfriend last night during Lost. I could make a thousand jokes about opening the hatch, finding the hatch, make a rhyme out of hatch and snatch, wandering the thicket, juicing the mango, etc etc. But I won't.
»» Submitted by »»» kwatt at 9:25 AM on May 18
Who fights with pillows at 2 pm? That's almost as crazy as my upstairs neighbor doing her boyfriend last night during Lost.
Today is going to be a good day for comments, I just know it.
»» Submitted by »»» taylor at 9:34 AM on May 18
I find this ridiculous. Do people ever grow up anymore?
Getting married in jelly bean stores, proms of various types for people well out of high school, and now this.
This is Peter Pan Syndrome stuff.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 10:08 AM on May 18
Which reminds me. I better load up on 'pixie dust' before the pillow fight.
Oh, lighten up, Lilith.
»» Submitted by Zix at 10:25 AM on May 18
Growing up is extremely overrated, Rat. No matter how old you are, you should always jump on park benches when you get the chance. As for the jelly beans and proms, well... whatever gets you tingling, I guess.
I just ate some jelly beans.
»» Submitted by »»» kwatt at 11:03 AM on May 18
I just ate some jelly beans.
Is that a euphemism?
»» Submitted by »»» ben at 11:14 AM on May 18
For what?
»» Submitted by »»» kwatt at 11:35 AM on May 18
I'm with "Lillith" on this one.
Being a huge dork is great - but this whole pillow fight thing just reeks of trying too hard. If I were a screenwriter, I would depict this scene with a bunch of cheesy people running and jumping around with pillows and blowing bubbles (some of them wearing fairy wings and tutus to accessorize with their black-rimmed emo glasses) yelling "Woo-hoo! We're capturing our innocence! This is just good, clean, inner-child FUN!"
And then a plane would crash into the ground, killing all of them.
»» Submitted by Amber at 12:21 PM on May 18
Bubbles are a great idea, actually. I'm going to bring some bubbles on Saturday.
»» Submitted by »»» taylor at 12:36 PM on May 18
I'm the *king* of Peter Pan syndrome, so I gotta say: the pillow fightin' sounds frickin' cool.
>>> Do people ever grow up anymore? <<<
Nah. Like the above poster said: they don't, and they shouldn't. What's so damn good about growing up? I have a mortgage, a job, a child, a wife, a car, and bills. That's grown up enough, thanks. I'm gonna enjoy all my un-grown-up stuff as a tonic to all the nonsense I have to deal with on a daily basis.
Rat, I bet you're a sports fan. Yeah, THAT's really grown up (eye-roll)!
»» Submitted by »»» jonny at 12:34 PM on May 18
(and I didn't mean to imply that either my wife or child are nonsense -- I was referring to the nine-to-five grind, which is pretty damn grown-up!)
»» Submitted by »»» jonny at 12:43 PM on May 18
After the pillowfight party, let's have a party where we all get to show up in diapers and and scream and soil ourselves.
»» Submitted by Ahmad Rashad at 12:41 PM on May 18
Like this?
Or this?
»» Submitted by »»» jonny at 12:54 PM on May 18
Sorry, this?
(if you're gonna make a snarky joke, check your link first!)
»» Submitted by »»» jonny at 12:58 PM on May 18
I'm in, Ahmad.
»» Submitted by Amber at 1:07 PM on May 18
I'm with the never grow up crew. I've got the job, the bills, the mortgage, the single parenthood (with a kid who is the most amazing person on earth), so forgive me if I (or anyone else) gets enthusiastic about a little escapism and hearkening back to times where the phrase, "Shit, I forgot to send in the insurance check" never crossed my mind. Bring on the comic books, the XBox 360, game nights at Chatterbox, bobbing merrily in the ocean, eating cereal out of the box on the couch on a Saturday morning.
I don't want to be cliche and turn this into a Lifetime movie with some epiphanic moral, but come on...isn't life way too short to worry about whether you're too old to be doing something? Granted, there comes a point when tube tops and board shorts are a bit passe, but pillow fighting seems like something fairly timeless. Just don't break a damn hip.
»» Submitted by »»» richg at 1:09 PM on May 18
amen
This is for people who must have actually enjoyed Jr. High School. This is taking place in my neighborhood. A quiet Saturday afternoon, and we'll be overrun with wierdos.
"Rat, I bet you're a sports fan."
I watch baseball. That's grown-up entertainment. Football isn't.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 1:18 PM on May 18
richq, you do have a point. There are certain things that I think all of us do for a little escapism. Mine happens to be making up cheerleader-esque dance routines to songs by the Pussycat Dolls.
However...that information - or at least the demonstration of which - tends to be on the DL. Not because I'm ashamed of it - hells no, the routines are damn good - but because for some reason, doing that kind of stuff in a park on a Saturday afternoon...well, it just seems sort of...pathetic? Show-offy. Like "look at us, look at how carefree we are! Whee! WOO!" Pretentious, if you will.
Plus, I just think it sounds stupid and it would never be something that I would personally do.
»» Submitted by Amber at 1:32 PM on May 18
The reason baseball is considered grown up entertainment is because you need alcohol to enjoy it. I'm sure someone will tell me I'm missing something, but I have no clue what the allure of baseball as pure sport is. Sure, it's fun enough to play (if you can call the sheer amount of waiting involved in the game playing), but watching it usually seems akin to golf.
It's nice enough to go sit outdoors in the stands at a Saints game and take it in, but as a sport, I find its entertainment value more than a little questionable. I have plenty of respect for the fact that they can throw, hit, and catch far better than the average mortal man, but I fail to understand why baseball is so romanticized and justified as a "grown-up pastime" when it's really no better than any other sport. It's a game and it appeals to the kid in us (or some of us, anyway). Don't talk to me about the gamesmanship and mano-y-mano duels between pitcher and batter, the strategy, the purity of the game -- it's all a fairly transparent way of making you feel better about watching overpaid kids run around out there. I've got no problem with that -- I do it too. But let's be realistic. Sports are sports, whether it's NASCAR, football, soccer, or baseball.
»» Submitted by »»» richg at 1:37 PM on May 18
Amber: I totally see what you mean on the "show-offy" front. We'll see how bloody it gets, and then I can decide whether its lame. If there are broken limbs and large lead weights inside the pillows, well, now, that I can get behind in public.
»» Submitted by »»» jonny at 1:43 PM on May 18
Oh, and Rich: word. As usual.
»» Submitted by »»» jonny at 1:45 PM on May 18
"Overpaid kids"
I don't know. I always figured you were worth whatever you can get.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 1:52 PM on May 18
Meh, this sort of situation is what kids are for.
"No sir, I wasn't there for my own amusement. I brought my son."
But Amber, I get it. Most of my escapism takes place inside my twisted little head and within the confines of my own home. But I don't see much of a problem with people making a spectacle of themselves for the sake of catharsis either. Especially given that maybe this'll provide an outlet for some people who wouldn't otherwise find one. There are far too many people wandering around with the same problem Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller's Day Off had. So if it takes getting pummeled by bedding to yank that lump of coal out, so be it.
Though personally, I think the Pussycat Dolls routines sound like a much better show.
»» Submitted by »»» richg at 1:47 PM on May 18
Rat -- what you're worth and what the market will bear are two very different things.
»» Submitted by »»» richg at 1:54 PM on May 18
If you're really interested head over to the boxing gym on Quincy Street, a couple blocks away.
You'll find some people to wound your Inner Child.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 2:09 PM on May 18
jonny, you and me both - if there's blood...well, lemme know and I might have to rethink my stance on this. Lead weights inside the pillows...that's just good entertainment right there.
And richq...we understand each other. We have made a connection. Not in a "sharing the moments of our lives" way, but in a satisfying sense nonetheless.
»» Submitted by Amber at 2:11 PM on May 18
I can't make it Saturday. It's too bad, because I would have been right up in your ass with a pillow resurrection.
I just got a new camera and this is close by, so I think I might stop by as an observer and take pictures of the ridiculous show.
Amber, glad to hear it. Glad to hear we could connect in a non-Maxwell House commercial sort of way.
Lead weights are good, but I'm still voting for pillows rolled in hot wax and broken glass -- a la Bloodsport.
»» Submitted by »»» richg at 3:03 PM on May 18
I have it on good authority that Rollergirls will be present. Wear a helmet.
»» Submitted by Foster at 4:03 PM on May 18
Chalk it up to performance art since it Art-A-Whirl weekend.
Go for the fight, stay for the open studios crawling. gulp gulp.
»» Submitted by »»» ray at 4:56 PM on May 18
I hope everyone (at least the females anyway) participating in the pillow fight will wear the appropriate pajamas.
»» Submitted by bud jr. jr. at 2:28 PM on May 19
I drove by this p.m. No one in pajamas. About 50 white people standing around holding pillows.
»» Submitted by The Rat at 4:09 PM on May 20
This is what it looked like after it was done.
»» Submitted by »»» s4xton at 6:31 PM on May 20
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Pillow Fight Details: Erica:. Pillow Fight Club MSP. The details of the Pillow Fight Club location were kept secret (or possibly undetermined) until just this morning. Saturday, May 20th, 2:00pm Logan Park, at Broadway and Monroe. That's Northeast, yo. ...
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