whirlwind weekend

[bironic]

How can I begin to express what the first 24 hours of this weekend were like?




















             










(See also: three crappy clips on YouTube)






Or, to summarize with words:

Friday night: We went to see Robert Davi (a.k.a. Kolya on SGA) sing a Sinatra/American Songbook tribute in Dupont Circle. He apparently trained to be an opera singer before he became an actor, and it showed -- he has a wonderful singing voice and comfortable stage presence. It was a great performance, except that the room of 1,000+ Italian-American something something anniversary celebrants would not shut up. Davi stopped his monologue a few times to ask them to be quiet, but to no avail. Really rude. On the bright side, afterwards we tracked him down in the hall and had a lovely conversation. I secured an autograph (when I pulled out the photo of Kolya, he cracked up and said "Oh, my God"), photo and a kiss on the cheek.

Saturday afternoon: I took a stroll through the USA Science & Engineering Festival that was going on on the Mall and randomly encountered Bill Nye the Science Guy! Way cool. Another photo op and autograph.

Saturday afternoon+: Made those braiiiiiiiins cupcakes, which turned out well, I think, even if the squiggly brain folds were thinner than in the original blog photos. Plus, cherry pie blood clot filling FTW.

Saturday night: Brought the braincakes over to alpheratz's, where friends were gathering for the third annual Silver Spring zombie walk, which ended up being hilarious. Costumes and gaits were impressive, the city brought a fog machine and spooky noise soundtrack, and a few impromptu skirmishes broke out between the zombies and the Nerf-armed zombie hunters. One zombie even attacked a pedestrian, who played along and fell to the pavement as his brains were consumed. Afterwards, you could see clusters of zombies gathered in the bars while street cleaners mopped up all the fake blood splatters. Even the guards got into the spirit of things. Instead of telling people to stop loitering like they do every other night, they said, "Zombies, go home! Go back to your graves!"

Sunday: Did I mention I also worked 17 hours this weekend? And that last night a former classmate came to visit and we went out for Ethiopian?

Yeah. I took today off.

And now, for festivids.

Comments

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

ZOMBIES!

Those cupcakes look like they turned out great and I'm jealous I didn't get to say hi to Bill Nye, but what a cool autograph to have.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

DUDE, awesome zombie walk! You definitely know how to weekend. And! I had no idea Robert Davi was a singer, but thinking about his voice on SGA, I can see it.

Today off sounds like the best idea ever.

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Thank you for forgetting the cupcakes at mine. :D I forgot to bring the rest of them to work today, and now I'm thinking I may as well just eat them all myself, if that's okay with you.

Kolya seems very sweet!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I didn't forget them -- you know I brought that many so you could have the leftovers. Mm.

I'm sure he has many faces for many audiences, but he was very sweet with us that night. :)

[roga.livejournal.com]

Everything is so awesome! OMG Koyla. OMG brains. OMG ZOMBIIIIIES. Seriously, SO COOL :D

[synn.livejournal.com]

YAY!!
I have weekend envy.
Hurray for autographs and pictures (and kisses on the cheek : D )
I love that he laughed when you brought out the picture.

Brains cupcakes still look excellent, and the zombie walk sounds like much fun. I'll have to go to one, someday.

[i-sanguinity.livejournal.com]

Omg ZOMBIES. That is so awesome! I wish I had known about the zombie walk when I lived over that way. And the brain cupcakes are made of win.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

What an awesome weekend! I'm so glad you posted pictures! (It's funny to see Kolya in a tux, though. *g*)

Those brains cupcakes look like the perfect snack for a zombie walk.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIINNSS