#Bonnie Julep
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Hello! Welcome to the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Papa Louie!!
My name is Miles (@sunsetcorvid ) and I am here to offer a tournament of the best Papa Louie character!!!
There are 204 characters in my google doc. A majority of which have flipdeck cards. This post may update before the tournament date with more characters without flipdeck cards. I will randomize pairs and put them against one another. All characters range from each Papa Louie game, and I mean each one.
Only one will remain.
There will not be a bracket, as there are many characters and it stresses me out trying to make something as big as that. So, it will be a surprise on which ones are paired up.
I made this for fun and I hope yall have fun, too!!
We will begin May 15th.
Below are the list of characters.
Wally
Jojo
Kingsley
Pizza Monsters
Quinn
Timm
Sarge
Sarge Fan
Little Edoardo
Papa Louie
Roy
Captain Cori
Gino Romano
Big Pauly
Party Subs
Greg
Marty
Hank
Nick
Rico
Foodini
Yippy
The Onion Ring
Kahuna
Doan
Olga
The Tomatoes
Georgito
Mindy
Boomer
Penny
Bruna Romano
Akari
Pinch Hitwell
Carlo Romano
Johnny
Clover
Hugo
Allan
James
Zoe
Mitch
Connor
Utah
Robby
Rita
Radley Madish
Shannon
Kenji
Wendy
Dill Weeds
Tony Solary
Matt Neff
Prudence
Alberto
Burgerzilla
Peggy
Taylor
Cheddar Macks
Santa
Sliders
Professor Fitz
Scarlett
Awesome Saucer
Edna
Bacoburn
Vicky
Pepper Jack
Maggie
Cooper
Willow
Mandi
Radishes
Chuck
Cheese Wheel
Scooter
Lettuce Lark
Radlynn
Blue Shroom
Cletus
Dill Worms
Ninjoy
Crystal
Jellybacks
Gremmie
Swiss Zack
Lisa
Brussel Larks
Deano
Dill Wheels
Ivy
Luau LePunch
Mary
Sundaesaurus
Mayor Mallow
Thorn Shroom
Nevada
Rocky Road
Bertha
Gummeel
Hacky Zak
Cooladas
Sue
Mallow Men
Kayla
Powseekers
Iggy
Kaiser Onion
Tohru
Cherry Bombs
Rudy
Xandra
Brownie Bop
Ember
Mr. Sherbet
Rhonda
Splashberry Derps
Franco
Sasha
Spearmint
Trishna
Julep
Disco Plumm
Chester
Cecilia
Betty Pecan
Joy
Brody
Cookie Doughmen
Sienna
Clair
Hucklebat
Austin
Skyler
Winter Onion
Whiff
Perri
Chip McMint
Duke Gotcha
Janana
Strawbuzzy
Guy Mortadello
Cherrisa
Jill Berry
Olivia
Vincent
Scuba Radish
Emmlette
Ripley
YUM n’ Ms
Xolo
Wylan B
Banana Pants
Koilee
LePete
Swizzlers
Cameo
Chocomint
Indigo
Gummy Onions
Moe
Fernanda
Coco Cooladas
Mousse
Whippa
Bow Shroom
Skip
Mangoby
The Dynamoe
Liezel
BotWursts
Mr. Bombolony
Okalani
Drakson
Evelyn
Boopsy and Bill
Kasey O
Chase
Daniela
Rollie
Sprinks the Clown
C.J. Friskins
Simone
Didar
Budwin
Treble
Yuko
Amiria
Isadora
Petrona
Pally
Kaleb
Makaila
Lloyd
Steven
Elle
Mesa
Bonnie
Kenton
Hope
Nye
Yalanda
Gabitha
Numarcus
#character tournament#papa louie#flipline studios#papa's cluckeria#papa's pastaria#papa's wingeria#papa's freezeria#papa's sushiria#papa's scooperia#papa's bakeria#papa's hot dogeria#papa's taco mia#papa's burgeria#papa's mocharia#papa's pancakeria#papa's cupcakeria#introductory post
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🍕Updated Next-gen Character Name List🍕
Timm+Quinn:
Lynn💘
Liamm🎵
Duke gotcha+Shannon:
Raymond📰
Sarah🔎
Joy+Moe:
Jamie🐦
Maya💮
Roy+Olivia:
Rolland📋
Hollie🍍
Hank+Kayla:
Dannah🚨
Safiyah💅
Cameo+Cherissa:
Sandy🍉 (previously known as Cairo)
Cori+Robby:
Russell🎣
Coralina🎏
Ember+Hacky Zack:
Burnett🚒
Axel👔
Zack🚧
Vesta✳️ (previously known as Ambar)
~~~
Romanos🇮🇹:
Guy Mortadello+Bruna Romano:
Marianna🚔
Gavin🍷
Clover+Carlo Romano+Koilee:
Kōi🐠
Lotta🍜
Bento🎸
Ginevra🥁
Gino Romano+Okalani:
Georgina🍳
Kalea👑
~~~
Mindy+Whiff:
Rebecco💄(also known as Becky)
Iggy+Sasha:
Haley🔬
Taylor+Peggy:
Stella📷
Marty+Rita:
Matilda🏈
Arthur📽️
Brody+Skyler:
Brandon📚
Abel🎨
Cielo🖌️
Emmlette+Kingsley:
Anastasia🎬
Kellen📹
Sarge fan+Radlynn:
Randall🍠
Sweety🎮
Radha🌟 (Adopted,Failed Offspring Harvest Experiment of Radley Madish)
Alberto+Penny:
Pilar🏵️
Benny🎤
Houton⚽️
Noemi🌼
Scarlett+Rudy:
Adonis♦️
Kore♥️
Cooper+Prudence:
Carrie🐈
Brooklynn🐕
Greg+Yippy:
Courtney🌻
Lily🐞
Johnny+Boomer:
Bloom🍀
Arán🌰
Autumn🍁
Chuck+Nevada:
Helena💐
Fawn💍
Snow❄️
Utah+Gremmie:
Caspian🐚
Genaya🌠
Hugo+Janana:
Tanner🎼
Maggie+Mitch:
Magnolia💼
Gunther🌮
Mousse+Sienna:
Gelatta🍦
Syrup🍮
Julep+Deano:
Tulip🌷
Leandro💉
Willow+James:
Jhonnen🛵
Whitney👻
Jenni🔧
Kenji+Zoe:
Eijirou👾
Amanda🦋
Scooter+Austin:
Roopert🌟
Audrey🛍️ (changed from Adrianna)
Connor×Wylan B:
Iza-B🎋 (adopted)
Deckard 🎧 (adopted)
Cassidy🥇(adopted)
Whippa+Georgito
Créme🍬
Graham📋
Drakson+Kasey O:
Kate🥋
Diego💌
Pinch+Bertha:
Paula⚾️
Abraham🏋️
"Ace"⭐ (real name is Jack, changed from "Jack Derby" due to the nickname not making sense)
Rico+Rhonda:
Roberto🏺
Jazz🏆
Xolo+Sprinks the Clown:
Xefferson🤹
Xandra+Rollie:
Xanna💥
Romeo⚗️
Professor Fitz+Edna:
🍀Jerry & Betsy☘️ (Clones)
LePete+Tohru:
Petra☀️
Koko🥊 (previously known as Kumako)
Ryu🎐
Haru🕹️
Cletus🐰
Pablo🪴
Pally+Trishna🍊:
Nina🍊 (adopted)
Nick🛶
Michael💙
Wendy:
Wendyl🔩
Índigo+NuMarcus:
Magenta👗
NuMabel
Cecilia:
Josefina🎒 (surrogate kid)
Allan+Akari:
Allison💰 (In custody of Allan)
Kuro🍋 (In custody of Akari)
Allan+Ivy
Eva🛩️ (child from second marriage)
JoJo+Louie:
Johann✒️
Lauren🥘
Mayor Mallow:
Molly💎
Crystal:
Shard🃏
Fila-sophie📚
Luau Lepunch+Betty Pecan:
Toasty Coconut🍨 (Scoopian+LePunch Hybrid,Looks More like Betty)
Gala Donut🍩 (adopted Scoopian Child)
Shelly Coir🌴 (Scoopian+LePunch Hybrid, looks more like Luau)
4th of July Scoopian:
Stardust🎆
Rocky Road:
Terrance Milch🍡
Jill Berry+Chip Mcmint:
Cranberry Jelly💝
Bianco Ciocco🍫
Sue x Mary:
Susan☎️ (adopted)
Sarge×Radley Madish:
Onnelious & Brown (Adopted/Used to be Two of Sarge's youngest soldiers)
💜Pines and Payne💙 (Mutated+Adopted Pinacoolada Twins)
Annana💛(Mutated+Adopted Bananapants Daughter)
Radetta💗(Sucessful Offspring Harvest Experiment)
Mr. Sherbet
Tiger Dail🐯
Tomatoe Lady:🍅
Campari🥫
Foodini:
Gabriel🎩
Ripley+Chase
Rodrigo🤓
Stephen🐍
Sprout:
Horia🥕
Skip+Daniela:
Railey🛎️
Kahuna+Makaila:
Koa🏄♂️
Big Pauly:
🧂Salt & Pepper🧂
Gabitha:
Tessa🐔
Bonnie & Yalanda:
Klaus💤 (Adopted grandson/apprentice)
Liezel+Kaleb
Scoops🍦
Hector🐻
Treble+Perri:
Damon⚙️
Geezer📻
Budwin+Lisa
Bucky💭
Zandro👾
Boopsy
Barnum 🪆 (Son)
~~~~~~~~~
Possible new Nextgens:
Simone:
Shira🎥
Didar:
Noah🎙
Yuko:
Ichika
Chester
Gordon ⛺
Petrona
Roman
~~~~
Roger GearSpeed🏁 (Real Name: ???)
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hi so im not cis and feel a disconnect from my birth name and I have a huge giant list of names that I like and feel free to snatch a name from the list I’d love to help! ALSO if you come up with any suggestions please comment then I really appreciate it thanks :) the names I’m considering have a little star beside them*
•A: aspen, adrian, aloe, angel, aurelia, adona
•B: bliss, brin*, bonnibel/bonni(e), blu(e)
•C: casey*, cloud, clover, caelen
•D: delta, doe
•E: eden
•G: ginger
•H: hazel, haven
•I: ivory
•J: jess, juniper, ja(e)dyn, julep
•Kasee (another spelling of casey), kiki, kit*
•L: loren*, laz(uli)*
•M: meadow, magnolia
•N: Normandy, ness(a), nicolette
•O: Ocean
•P: pax (Latin for peace)
•R: rae, ro, rhae
•S: summer, shae, sage, sorrel, sunny
•T: thea
•V: val (maybe short for valley?)
•W: wren
now that I have this whole thing typed out I’m now realizing that it isn’t that long but please feel free to pick one if you like it and also PLEASE give me name suggestions thank u and have a nice day!!!!
^edit please refer to me in the comments as whatever name(s) is/are in my bio thanks :)
also im trying to figure out how to make replies and comments and such work so please be patient with me thanks!
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Auld Lang Syne - Booker T & the MG's • Alexander - The Boots • Put A Label On It - Booker T & the MG's • Calypso Boogaloo - Sparrow • Fancy Feet - Tito Puente • One Mint Julep - Ray Charles • It Ain't Necessarily So - Barney Kessel • Mambo Burger - Jack Bongo Burger • Mucha Muchacha - Esquivel • T.P.'s Shing-a-Ling - Tito Puente • Bees Knees - The John Barry Seven • The In Crowd - The Ramsey Lewis Trio • Church Key - The Revels • Trophy Run - The Super Stocks • Goin' 88 - The Grand Prixx • Toes On The Nose - Eddie & The Showmen • Elektron - Tanzorchester Des Berliner Rundfunks • You Came a Long Way from St. Louis - Barney Kessel • Top Score - Keith Mansfield • Richard Diamond - Buddy Morrow • Hammer Blow - Skip Martin • Wie A Glock'n... - Marianne Mendt • I Got A Feeling - Tawny Reed • Hippy Hippy Shake - Pat Harris & the Blackjacks • Super Good (Parts 1 & 2) - Myra Barnes (Vicki Anderson) • Parrty (Part 1) - Maceo & the Macks • Save Me - Nina Simone • Rouge Rouge - Christie Laume • The 2000 Pound Bee (Part 2) - The Ventures • Club Of Lights - Oscar • Right Track - Billy Butler • Comin' On Strong - Tony Ritchie • I Surrender - Bonny St.Claire • If I Really Bug You - Jose Feliciano • Partie De Dames - Liz Brady • If I Had A Hammer - The In Group • Beat Girl - John Barry Orchestra • Bring Down The Birds - Herbie Hancock • Blow Up A Go-Go - James Clarke • This Is Soul - Paul Nero • I Can See For Miles - Big Jim Sullivan (Lord Sitar) • Outa-Space - Billy Preston • Machine Gun - The Commodores • Şu Samsunun Evleri - Arif Sağ • Supercolpo Shake - Nico Fidenco • Happy New Year - Mabel Mafuqa • [download]
original broadcast 12.31.20
#new years eve#new years#partymusic#lawn party#pop#1950s music#1950s aesthetic#1960svintage#1960s#1970s aesthetic#1970svintage#go go jazz#go-go dancer#loungemusic#soul#jazz#jazz rock
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QRKY Radio Playlist For 04/26/20
QRKY – Quirky Radio Playlist For 04/26/20
Listen Free. Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, Old Time Radio Shows & More.
Click on the individual song titles in BOLD below. They’re linked to music videos or to online audio files of the old time radio shows. Or, if you’d prefer to autoplay the music video playlist, just click HERE. It’s all for fun and for free, so enjoy.
Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More -- Allman Brothers Band
Hey Bartender -- Koko Taylor
Let’s Work Together -- Canned Heat
Snatchin’ And Grabbin’ -- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Why Don’t You Do Right -- Jessica Rabbit (Amy Irving)
Young Americans -- David Bowie
One Mint Julep -- Ray Charles
Texas Rollergirls Roller Derby (Retro Commercial)
I Wish You Hell -- Sarah Vista
Ghost Riders In The Sky -- Johnny Cash
Gentle On My Mind -- John Hartford
After All -- Ed Bruce
We Can Work It Out -- Beatles
Constant Craving -- k.d. lang
Foggy Mountain Breakdown -- Earl Scruggs with Steve Martin, Leon Russell, Paul Shaffer, Albert Lee, Vince Gill & Marty Stuart
Audio Video Plus (Retro Commercial)
Proud Mary -- Ike & Tina Turner
End Of The Line -- Traveling Wilburys
Tusk -- Fleetwood Mac & the USC Marching Band
Wild Injuns -- Neville Brothers with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Havana Moon -- Santana
Hips Don’t Lie -- Shakira
Abaniquito -- Jack Costanzo & His Afro-Cuban Band
Witch Doctor Head Shrinker's Kit (Retro Commercial)
Wrap It Up -- Bonnie Raitt, Brittany Howard, Gary Clark Jr. & Jimmie Vaughan
Luxury Liner -- Emmylou Harris
Cry And Moan -- Eddie Hinton
Low Rider -- War
I Put A Spell On You -- Samantha Fish
Can’t Find My Way Home -- Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton & Derek Trucks
Last Call -- Ronnie Magri & His New Orleans Jazz Band
Buttercup Popcorn (Retro Commercial)
Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover -- Sophie B. Hawkins
Delta Time -- Hans Theessink & Terry Evans
Take Another Road -- Jimmy Buffet
Walkin’ After Midnight -- Patsy Cline
God Bless The Child -- Blood Sweat & Tears
Save The People -- Laura Nyro
GI JIVE Radio Show #417-- Armed Forces Radio Service
Asian Buffet (Retro Commercial)
That’s The Breaks -- Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars with Nick Curran & Marlene Perez
Key To The Highway -- Freddie King
Wild Night -- John Mellencamp & Me'Shell Ndegeocello
Long Way Down -- The SteelDrivers
I Feel Lucky -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
If You Want To Get To Heaven -- Ozark Mountain Daredevils
All Jacked Up -- Gretchen Wilson
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Artist: Ray Charles
Title: 100 Hits
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: Not Now Music / NOT4CD019
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Soul, R&B
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 05:01:06
Total Size: 1.54 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
CD1
01. Hit The Road Jack (1:59)
02. I Got A Woman (2:51)
03. It Should've Been Me (2:42)
04. Leave My Woman Alone (2:42)
05. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' (3:46)
06. Hide 'Nor Hair (3:07)
07. This Little Girl Of Mine (2:29)
08. Hey Now (2:20)
09. You Be My Baby (2:31)
10. The Midnight Hour (3:01)
11. Sweet Georgia Brown (2:28)
12. Cherry (3:34)
13. But On The Other Hand Baby (3:12)
14. ’Deed I Do (2:26)
15. I Wonder Who (2:49)
16. Don't You Know (2:46)
17. You Won't Let Me Go (3:20)
18. That's Enough (2:47)
19. Tell Me You'll Wait For Me (3:24)
20. Nobody Cares (2:39)
21. Josephine (2:11)
22. Funny But I Still Love You (3:14)
23. What Kind Of Man Are You (2:48)
24. Roll With My Baby (2:36)
25. Ray's Blues (2:55)
CD2
01. Georgia On My Mind (3:37)
02. Mess Around (2:41)
03. Hallelujah I Love Her So (2:33)
04. Unchain My Heart (2:52)
05. My Bonnie (2:48)
06. See See Rider (2:36)
07. I'm Movin' On (2:13)
08. Just For A Thrill (3:25)
09. Early In The Morning (2:48)
10. Rosetta (2:29)
11. Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) (3:20)
12. She's On The Ball (2:32)
13. Heartbreaker (2:50)
14. Come Back Baby (3:07)
15. Sticks And Stones (2:12)
16. Candy (4:06)
17. One Mint Julep (3:04)
18. Lonely Avenue (2:33)
19. Mr. Charles Blues (2:48)
20. I Can't Stop Loving You (2:35)
21. Doodlin' (5:48)
22. Can Anyone Ask For More (2:51)
23. Careless Love (3:56)
24. The Ego Song (2:21)
25. Margie (2:43)
CD3
01. (Night Time Is) The Right Time (3:25)
02. Tell Me How Do You Feel (2:39)
03. Let The Good Times Roll (2:25)
04. Your Cheatin' Heart (3:31)
05. A Fool For You (3:02)
06. Come Rain Or Come Shine (3:45)
07. Rock House (3:53)
08. Ain't That Love (2:50)
09. You Are My Sunshine (2:58)
10. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) (2:56)
11. Am I Blue (3:38)
12. Them That Got (2:48)
13. When Your Lover Has Gone (2:50)
14. Sweet Sixteen Bars (4:06)
15. Hard Hearted Hannah (3:15)
16. Sinner's Prayer (3:23)
17. I've Got News For You (4:29)
18. Marie (2:19)
19. I Believe To My Soul (3:01)
20. Two Years Of Torture (3:24)
21. What Have I Done (2:33)
22. Sentimental Blues (2:31)
23. Tell All The World About You (2:01)
24. Guitar Blues (2:33)
25. Alone In This City (2:57)
CD4
01. What'd I Say (5:06)
02. Drown In My Own Tears (3:21)
03. Yes Indeed! (2:15)
04. It Had To Be You (2:43)
05. Mary Ann (2:48)
06. Alexander's Ragtime Band (2:52)
07. Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (2:19)
08. I Wonder (2:31)
09. All To Myself Alone (2:01)
10. Stella By Starlight (3:47)
11. Blues Before Sunrise (2:50)
12. The Sun's Gonna Shine Again (2:36)
13. All Night Long (3:07)
14. Diane (3:47)
15. Jumpin' In The Morning (2:45)
16. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (3:41)
17. You Don't Know Me (3:15)
18. I Found My Baby There (3:28)
19. Nancy (3:03)
20. Losing Hand (3:13)
21. Someday Baby (3:00)
22. Black Jack (2:20)
23. Ruby (3:52)
24. The Danger Zone (2:23)
25. I Got A Woman (Live) (6:15)
These compilation represent the most creative period of Ray Charles’ life - roughly 1954 to 1962. He died in 2004 and, at the time of his death, was working on a duets album which was released, very appropriately, as Genius And Friends. When the excellent bio-pic, Ray was released with Jamie Foxx, one of the straplines was a quote from Frank Sinatra, “Ray Charles is the only genius in our business.”
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Chilaxing with Bonnie at Santa Anita LA Weekly Brunch at the Races for the @thelabeat Mint Julep madness with Makers double shots! #makerswhiskey #whikey #whiskey #mintjulep #cocktails #santaanita @santaanitapark #labeat @bonnietseng (at LA Weekly's Brunch at the Races 2015)
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Dear Jenn
Do you remember planting the mint patch? My mother had decided to grow a vegetable garden in the back corner of the yard but soon became too caught up in living life to follow through, so I went out back one afternoon and planted in the dug-up earth the small potted mint that lived on our kitchen windowsill. I thought it was a very brave thing I was doing, something akin to releasing a caged bird. I patted myself on the back - and then immediately forgot all about it. But my mint plant didn't die, it took root and thrived, growing over the weeds, overwhelming the overwhelming. My mint plant - because of course I took - still take - credit for its gumption.
The space between our houses. A grassy glen, a pastoral space, hushed, the breeze there always gentle. I'd come out from around the back of my house, stomping hard to alert and warn away snakes, and come across you, crouched in the middle of the green like a garden sprite, moistening or mulching the ground or picking out the biggest leaves.
(Even when I was old enough to know that we never got snakes in our backyard, I still did a stomp-dance on my way to the mint patch. For tradition's sake, as a salute to my childhood fears, as an acknowledgement that I was still scared, just in case.)
It was our meeting spot, and it always felt like a neutral ground where the troubles of the world only reached so far as they could be complained about, sighed over and then forgotten in the sharp tang of the breeze. Late at night, I still think of about how lulling it was.
I don’t remember many of our conversations with that much specificity - after all, we talked so much over the years. But one night stays in my head in particular. I remember one fall afternoon when I wandered there, ruminating on nothing, haunted by everything, suffering teenage aimlessness. It was an unusually cold day, and I spent the whole afternoon ambling around the neighborhood with my hands stuffed into my pockets, the Little Match Girl in Ugg boots. My feet by habit took me to the mint patch. I stomped over, and I saw you sitting, not spritely, not delicate nor fairy-like. You were hunched over, weary and heavy, sitting cross-legged on the dew-damp grass, tying grass stems to dandelions.
"You're supposed to tie the dandelions to the dandelions," I told you, sitting down across from you. You nodded but kept tying your slipshod knots. I started making a dandelion chain in the right, neat way. And we sat there for half an hour; I kept tying wispy flower to wispy flower, and you kept tearing at grass stems, and the silence was antsy on my end and distrait on yours. My hands held three feet of chain to her mass of tangled weeds before at last -
"Such awfulness occurred tonight." You didn't really say it to me, though it had to be addressed to me; I was the only person with you. But you said it more to the space around you, as if confessing, as if you needed to say it or implode. As if purging it from yourself. You talked casually, but each word had such a resounding ache to it.
"Just now," you continued. "A family-wide brawl. It was way too long and drawn out and excruciating and frustrating and terrible for me. But I pressed on. I don't know why I did that. I couldn't stop."
"You started it?" I asked.
"No, not really. My mother did, mostly by getting offended out of the blue. Very, very offended. Very, very out of the blue."
You waited for a minute, as if waiting to see if I would take sides against you, join forces with your mother and get offended or turned off by what you had said. You waited for me to ask why your mother often got offended out of the blue. We never discussed our families with each other and just assumed - or pretended, even though we knew otherwise - that the normal level of suburban dysfunction existed within both households. I didn’t say anything. I waited.
"What was it about?" I asked.
"It was about nothing. Except my mother getting to yell. All the same bullshit. It’s always the same. The subjects are different, but the bullshit never really changes.”
"Seems pointless."
"Right. I tried to interfere at one point, but no, mom is spitting out wine and becoming angrier and it's just a huge fucking mess."
"So she just started a fight for nothing?"
"No, she was offended. I ganged up on her. Because I just thought she had been...pissier than usual."
"More so than usual?"
Your mother was such a funny figure to me. I imagine she fancied herself in so many guises - the lady who lunched, the Southern belle sipping mint juleps from her front porch, the artist who was squandering her potential in the suburbs and would immediately begin a career in whatever field she fancied, the soccer mom who was now ready to cheer, a soccer mom who now disdained her lot in life, the Mary Kay saleswoman with eyeliner caked in the corner of her blurry but bonny blue eyes, the former beauty queen turned grande-dame-who-could-have-been. Whatever the rôle du jour she believed she was playing, she always presented to the rest of us as the star of a drunken tragicomedy, without realizing that we all knew she was playing at a variety of cliches because she had no sense of what her reality was or ought to be. She was often pissy, but no one mentioned it. I didn't know what constituted pissier than usual for you.
"So that’s why I'm out here feeling shitty,” you said.
"Were you right? Has she been pissier than usual?"
"I can't have my opinion too loud about it." I remember this in particular, I think of this phrase often. As if I should have gleaned something from this offhand statement.
"Anyway,” you continued, “instead of having a rational discussion, it becomes an argument about, 'Jenn always has to be right.'”
"Well, is that totally untrue? You do like to be right."
You glowered at me. "Totally untrue. And whenever she brings it up, the argument becomes about me. And that’s not fair that I have to tolerate her like that.”
“She's your mother. You should do more than tolerate her."
"No, that's just bullshit. God." You ran your fingers through your mane in frustration, leaving pieces of grass in the waves. It was a little glint of color in a dark world. The sky was turning to night. The last colors of the sunset, silver and black, moon throwing everything into shadow but itself. Your eyes were blazing, and then you blinked.
"Okay," you said, and your voice trembled a bit. "Yeah, you're probably right. She thinks that I have some warped perception of our whole relationship. She was actually shouting tonight, 'We are FAMILY, JENN.'
"It's personal with family, though. They're not just people. You can't treat them like they're just people."
"But If it's personal with family, then we're more entitled to our dignity than anyone else and it's not fair when she denies it to me in passing for no reason because she’s been drinking and thinks I’m trying to fight with her when I’m not. It wastes my time and energy. God. God, she exhausts me. I just don't get her."
You sighed. The moon shone through a gap in the branches of the trees above. The light illuminated our nearness; you had moved closer to me in comfort-asking, and I had moved closer to you in comfort-giving, and our weeds and flowers were tangled in both our hands and our heads were bowed over them. We sat for a few minutes like this, not quite holding hands, but dawdling over our weeds and herbs.
Then the dusk cleared and the houselights came on, the haunting ended. The twilight gray gave way to night and light. We had gone too far into your secrets, and we couldn't stay there, not for long, never long enough.
You sighed and yawned, stretching as if you had been asleep and were only now waking. "Whatever. I don't care that much. My parents and I don't have a whole lot to say to each other. I'm over this topic. I'm an official grown up and have zero philosophizing or perspective-forming to do about my family."
This is the image I carry with me from that night: You got up and started to walk away, squaring your thin shoulders. I hadn't noticed before that you weren’t wearing a jacket or even a long-sleeved shirt. You were only wearing a thin white t-shirt and gray sweatpants. You arms were spattered with goosebumps and your skin had a faint bluish tinge. It made you look even thinner than you actually were. You were more deathly in that moment than I had ever seen. You turned back to me for one last second, reaching your hand out with porcelain fragility.
"This," you said, pointing at your house with the lights dimmed in every room, your home with its distorted shadow, your family with every member sitting in a dark of their own sort, "can't…." and your words trailed off and you turned around and strode off.
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By Melissa McKenzie
Picture hats, fascinators and bowlers were all the rage when Triton Fields opened for one night only on April 29.
As bidders raised the asking price for pieces donated by local artists and gift baskets full of treats and treasures, bettors clutched their tickets and listened to the races, hoping their chosen horse would come out victorious.
In true southern style, guests noshed on classics like shrimp and grits, chicken and waffles and garden vegetable white bean ragout while sipping on mint juleps and listening to musical performances by Notte Voci.
Although imaginary, Triton Fields was one part of the atmosphere the Triton Museum of Art’s staff created for the museum’s Kentucky Derby themed annual gala, which grossed over $50,000 for the museum.
“We’ve been playing with it as an idea for several years,” said Executive Director Jill Meyers. “[The gala date] is close to the derby and it’s just a fun one with the food and the hats and the mint juleps so it’s a good one to plan a fundraiser around.”
Duncan and Veronica Macfarlane of San Francisco attended with their neighbor, Dennis Gilchrist. The friends of Triton Board of Trustees Member Michael Niemi truly got into the spirit of the event, bidding on many pieces and anxiously checking in on their desired items throughout the night.
“I’ve bid on about six or seven pieces,” said Duncan Macfarlane. Among his bids were Bonnie Minardi’s “Marco,” a small painting of a rooster, and Sarah Peabody’s “Horses Sunning,” a larger oil painting featuring three horses in a pasture.
“Those horses are beautiful,” he said. “[Veronica’s] dad has a chicken ranch and there’s horses on it so either the [rooster] or the horses would be great. We also have a couple baskets [we’re bidding on].”
Gilchrist had his eye on a Yulia Naganova matte paper print, “Poppies” and a Thomas the Train themed basket for his son.
“Right away, I walked in and I bid on the poppies,” he said. “That was my grandfather’s name and I live in the house he lived in.”
As Gilchrist and the Macfarlanes watched bid sheets to avoid being outbid, artists Inna Zatulovsky, Olga Minkovich and Irina Shishikina watched bid sheets for a different reason–the three women, all engineers at Applied Materials, submitted art up for auction that utilized a Japanese technique.
“[Our work is] Japanese art called Oshibana,” said Zatulovsky. “What they do is use natural materials only and it’s incorporated with a background of watercolors. Nature already created the beautiful images and for us it’s only to combine them.”
Zatulovsky, Minkovich and Shishikina’s artwork crept up in price throughout the night, as bidders rounding the Warburton Gallery and stopped by the works just long enough to add their name and bid number to the auction sheet. Zatulovsky’s piece, “Light in the end of the Tunnel,” was sold for above its value, while Minkovich and Shishikin’s submission were sold well over the opening bids.
As with past years, auction items in the Warburton Gallery ended 15 minutes before auctions in the Permanent Collection Gallery, allowing the Macfarlanes to acquire all of the art they wanted to buy.
“We got the two pieces we were after and didn’t get into crazy bidding wars,” said Duncan Macfarlane. “We got those beautiful horses and the rooster. We’re really happy.”
Gilchrist also picked up his poppies, and another piece he said he didn’t know he wanted.
“I did get the jazz piece that I didn’t know I wanted and I got the poppies,” he said, pleased with his purchase. “My grandfather’s name and the reason that I am who I am – I got the poppies.”
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