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Sep. 14th, 2002 04:41 pmSo, I went to the St. Demetrios Festival yesterday. It's continuing through Sunday, for Seattlites interested.
It was a bunch of fun. It reminded me a lot of the the Italian festes I used to go to as a small kid, in Boston's North End community. (I haven't been to one in decades, as we moved away from Boston when I was 9.) As I told my mom on the phone last night, I don't remember incidents from that time as much as feelings... and this felt right.
Hard to tell if good feelings from My Big Fat Greek Wedding added to the throngs at all. About the only two things I saw that acknowleged the movie at all were the CD stand selling the soundtrack amidst their many Greek titles, and the Lamb Sandwich booth calling their product "My Big Fat Greek Lamb Sandwich". Being on Atkins, the sandwich was a bit light on the lamb to bread ratio, so I skipped it... even though I've been hankering for some lamb for a while now.
(Sidelight, while the subject of Big Fat Greek Wedding is up: According to Entertainment Weekly, Jennifer Aniston attributes her getting a role on Friends to a piece of advice from her agent: Lose weight. "I wasn't fat, I was just Greek," Aniston protests, "and Greeks are round, with big asses and big boobs." Why Hollywood has this problem, I don't know, but I laughed a lot when I read that after having recently seen Big Fat Greek Wedding.)
Still, lots of families, and a sense that this was all some gigantic reunion. The folk dancing was mostly by kids in the church school, in sequentially older age groups. Between shows, kids of all ages would swarm the stage, and have mock duels with balloons twisted into sword-like shapes.
There are also such things as a Greek wine tasting booth; a religious items and books shop (I got an icon of St. Sophia and her daughters, a small wooden cross on a sting as a necklace, and Timothy Ware's The Orthodox Church); and the rummage sale, which sprawled over multiple rooms. Some of it was household stuff like dishes and glasses; some of it was woven goods (from the church ladies, no doubt) of doilies and scarves and tablecloths; some of it was kids' stuff; and then there was the ancient techie stuff, like an old bellows Polaroid camera, and shrink-wrapped boxes of DOS 5.0, and a '386 labelled "$5, AS IS", and the like.
To get to the shopping, you had to walk by the changing rooms for the dancers... and from behind the door one always heard either squealing, or teenaged boys thumping each other.
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I was planning on going to the housewarming![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meighan said she was having tonight... But I haven't heard back from her just where it would be. So I guess that's really a scratch. OTOH, tomorrow night Slaid Cleaves is playing at Uncle Otto's Oktoberfest down in Portland... Just why they're having it in September is beyond me, but hey. Admission's only $8, so the price is right.
It was a bunch of fun. It reminded me a lot of the the Italian festes I used to go to as a small kid, in Boston's North End community. (I haven't been to one in decades, as we moved away from Boston when I was 9.) As I told my mom on the phone last night, I don't remember incidents from that time as much as feelings... and this felt right.
Hard to tell if good feelings from My Big Fat Greek Wedding added to the throngs at all. About the only two things I saw that acknowleged the movie at all were the CD stand selling the soundtrack amidst their many Greek titles, and the Lamb Sandwich booth calling their product "My Big Fat Greek Lamb Sandwich". Being on Atkins, the sandwich was a bit light on the lamb to bread ratio, so I skipped it... even though I've been hankering for some lamb for a while now.
(Sidelight, while the subject of Big Fat Greek Wedding is up: According to Entertainment Weekly, Jennifer Aniston attributes her getting a role on Friends to a piece of advice from her agent: Lose weight. "I wasn't fat, I was just Greek," Aniston protests, "and Greeks are round, with big asses and big boobs." Why Hollywood has this problem, I don't know, but I laughed a lot when I read that after having recently seen Big Fat Greek Wedding.)
Still, lots of families, and a sense that this was all some gigantic reunion. The folk dancing was mostly by kids in the church school, in sequentially older age groups. Between shows, kids of all ages would swarm the stage, and have mock duels with balloons twisted into sword-like shapes.
There are also such things as a Greek wine tasting booth; a religious items and books shop (I got an icon of St. Sophia and her daughters, a small wooden cross on a sting as a necklace, and Timothy Ware's The Orthodox Church); and the rummage sale, which sprawled over multiple rooms. Some of it was household stuff like dishes and glasses; some of it was woven goods (from the church ladies, no doubt) of doilies and scarves and tablecloths; some of it was kids' stuff; and then there was the ancient techie stuff, like an old bellows Polaroid camera, and shrink-wrapped boxes of DOS 5.0, and a '386 labelled "$5, AS IS", and the like.
To get to the shopping, you had to walk by the changing rooms for the dancers... and from behind the door one always heard either squealing, or teenaged boys thumping each other.
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I was planning on going to the housewarming
meighan said she was having tonight... But I haven't heard back from her just where it would be. So I guess that's really a scratch. OTOH, tomorrow night Slaid Cleaves is playing at Uncle Otto's Oktoberfest down in Portland... Just why they're having it in September is beyond me, but hey. Admission's only $8, so the price is right.
