Can you hear me? Hello? Hello?

Yes indeedy, that’s what WE call site problems. Come back from Starwood, all happy and sun-poisoned and exhausted and dying to write, and curses! thwarted!

Anyway, here, for the second time ever, phrases only heard at Starwood:

1) “Mike, your skirt is caught on the drum.”
2) “My son’s first sarong. I’m so proud!”
3) “The secret ingredient is Pringles.”
4) “So, is your girlfriend in a relationship with your wife’s boyfriend?”

And, the three most important rules of Starwood….

“Hydration, hydration, hydration.”

I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.

Oh yeah, and many people totally rock, including the Utiliklan, the Brushwood staff, the entire Dalton camp, the folks at ACE, Charlie, Matt, the Parkers, Chris Penczak, LaSara Firefox, everyone from Kalamazoo, linguists, Patricia Monaghan, thorasic surgeons, the First Aid guys, and Sparky’s cow. Take a bow, everyone.

4 comments

  1. Dea says:

    I was thrilled no end, I was listening to NPR and they were taling with the folks from the american music assocation. These folks had commissioned 6 composers to come up with “hold music” for the telephone.
    One ofthe composers was Halleem ( from Starwood)

  2. deblipp says:

    Halim is so cool. He was dancing at the Rumble in the Jungle.

  3. Matt says:

    I may not be the Matt included in the group of those who rock, but I am from Kalamazoo so I most cetainly rock. Totally.

    It’s cold here in the Great Lakes region this morning but I am feeling warmed by memories from Starwood 2005.

  4. Matt says:

    The above comment was edited for content because I didn’t know if it would be posted automagically and then distributed in an RSS feed to the desktops of *millions* of Lippophiles worldwide. And a good thing I did too!