2 5-3s and no 6-3

[fflo]

My recently-acquired swanky set of bones---like these:


---turned out (upon play this past weekend) to have a duplicate of one domino and none of another. Wouldn't matter if these were for standing up and knocking over, but they're not. Hoping to get it ironed out soon. In the meantime I do have other sets, including my fave red bakelites with white pips.

Good time with Legos and Ginger and rockets and keyboard and peteralway last night. Grown-ups who like to play are a blessing, when they come along.

I still don't understand, on some fundamental level, why fun isn't the shared value it was for most of us in childhood. What happens? Fun was an end in itself. Still seems to me that it should be, but I don't think most of my acquaintanceship shares that notion. Or maybe the definition of what's fun narrows, or is infringed upon by Experience, or tyrant Taste?

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[madush69.livejournal.com]

Things I find fun (lets see if we share any):
playing with the kitties
chess
watching movies
taking pictures
frisbee
catch
riding my bike to White Castle...or even beyond
flying a kite if I can get it to work
listening to music
kareoke
Scrabble
Battleship
Mad Libs
eating with chopsticks

[fflo.livejournal.com]

You know, I have never tried karaoke, but it seems as if it could be really fun. I can't sing well and I don't care that I can't sing well; in karaoke, to a point, warbling oddly might even be virtuous. Do you do this thing often? Is drinking involved? I always picture karaoke crowds drunk, or at least good 'n' tipsy.

I like most of those things, actually. I really like catch. That's one of those fun things it's hard to get grown-ups to do.

Can you play battleship by e-mail?

We oughta do one or three of these things some time. Maybe you can help me get one of the bikes in my garage fixed up to work. Are you good at that kind of thing, by any chance, or know somebody who is?

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I can fix bikes.
Kareoke is best when I'm sober and everyone else is drunk.
I never played Battleship by e-mail, but I bet it would be awesome!
You ever heard of battle shits? (See Harold & Kumar go to White Castle for details)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

The tyrant known as Taste strikes me as a likely suspect. For isntance, I learned about what music sucks in college, and have had to work hard to unlearn that.

Also, it seems that there is a tendency for our culture to relegate creative activities either to children or specialists. I've often been annoyed that travel writers will tell you that a science or space museum is great for the kids, while the art museum will be interesting for adults. That division is another pet peeve of mine, but the next division address te pet peeve at hand: Tha art museum recommended for adults might have a special event where visitors can make stuff, but that special event would be specified as a children's event. Now adults *are* allowed to be creative, but they have to be recognized as especially talented to do so in public.

What I admire about the FIlk community is taht it is a place where adults can get together and be creative, and if they aren't the greatest, that's fine.

There just aren't many places where an adult can get together with other adults and invent.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am totally with you in this gripe. Though it's not one that's been prominent in my consciousness in an articulated way.

Learning taste in college reminds me of "cool"---my but I was aware in those days of there being a good list and a bad list that way. The connotations of a childlike pleasure were no less ignominious (or not much) than a childish one.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of how much I enjoyed "Pooh's Heffalump Movie," but Joey refused to see it because he's at an age where it's not cool to like Pooh.

[elmur-fudd.livejournal.com]

dom-dominoes?! i haven't played in aaageesssss. we should. at that euchre thing. you know.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hells, yeah! Okay, let's get off our collective ass and organize something. We'll get David and ---who? one more for Euchre, right?

For dominoes 2 is plenty, and 3 is good, and 4 is okay but less good.

[elmur-fudd.livejournal.com]

I've got peops who like a little bit of euchre here and there, and we can always have some sort of tournament.

play on!

[squirrelykat.livejournal.com]

why should i have to `borrow' some kids to go the way cool `Hands on Museum'?
we should go as a group of adults. buy marbles and rubber lizards and rocks in the gift store on the way out.
yeah, fun for funs sake. my folks and i were talking about that while in florida. remember going on car rides just to look at nature, different neighborhoods, and not being a destination? i think people with motorcycles still just `ride'. and i know people with boats (like my parents) just go
out to navigate the waters and cruise around. if i drive to detroit, i often
drive all the way in on Michigan Avenue just for fun....

Re: play on!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a great idea about the Hands On Museum, J! Let's organize it. I was jealous when Holly took her little sister & I had to work---but who needs a kid? (There's an up side to being somewhat accustomed to being perceived as eccentric.)

You, I must say, are not part of the part of my acquaintanceship that seems not to be interested in fun for fun's sake.

Hey, I'm now going to figure out what that would be in Latin...

Re: play on!

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I love the A2HOM, I'll go, and buy some Astronaut Ice Cream!