Saturday, March 8, 2008

THE SEA TRAVEL MENAGERIE: As a companion to Isaac's prior post and to update you on my week of vacation on the high seas, I provide you with a selection of folks I encountered over the past week on the lovely Norwegian Gem:
  • Large hordes of Quebecois (apparently, last week was Quebec Spring Break)
  • Excessively perky cruise director (named Julie, natch)
  • Overly friendly middle-aged couple
  • Old people attempting to play Wii Sports offered as activity by ship staff (and, amusingly, not being particularly successful at doing so)
  • Comedian who desperately wants to be Lewis Black
  • Production show singer with frightening resemblance to Jack McBrayer (among the songs he sang were "Pinball Wizard" and multiple Elton John pieces)
  • No, You Should Not Be Wearing That Bikini
  • People who want free t-shirt, and will do anything to get it
  • Decent slight-of-hand magician
  • Older woman who insists on describing everything decent slight-of-hand magician is doing to her male companion during the show
  • Solid group of folks from The Second City
  • Seriously drunk girl and seriously drunk boyfriend who manage to highjack Second City "adult" show with description of their day, punctuated by moments such as rubbing the Second City performer's chest and shouting "I love your boobs!"
  • People who, after a week on board, still cannot figure out which way they need to go to reach their stateroom/the casino/the pool
  • Large group of drunk Spring Break-ers complaining about excessive difficulty of trivia questions
I'm tanned, rested, and ready to clean out my TiVo (even if I lost a few things, including my recording of Great Performances: Company and the antepenultimate Wire due to my travels).

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