Thursday Night

Shock rang through the crowd during Hands On’s No Talent Talent Show Thursday night. It was quite the interesting spectacle. One dude from Bard College in New York (there are about 30 students here from Bard) sang a couple of original songs while strumming his guitar. One song was about cloning himself into an army of zombies, and the other was about his love affair with the red goalie from the foosball table. Yeah.

Unfortunately that wasn’t as weird as it got. One of the groups from AmeriCorps is leaving Friday so they did a “togetherness” sort of thing for their act. They sat in chairs, each nibbling on an oreo cookie, then passed a toothbrush and toothpaste down the line each taking turns brushing with the same brush. When each finished brushing they spit into a common cup. We were all dreading what would happen in the end. And our worst fears were realized when the last gal in line proceeded to drink everyone’s spit. I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to shake that sight from my memory. I probably could’ve lived life without seeing what I saw tonight.

After the show a few of us went to Winn-Dixie just for kicks to buy some food and drinks to bring home with us. Then we ended the night with some good hot coffees and beignets at Café DuMonde.