How Much For Children?

Friday and Saturday evenings are ADULT events. Grads and a date, spouse, partner, prostitute, etc... I think my Mom's coming to J. Gilligans to say "Hi!"

Sunday is for families.

Everone 18 and over is $10 to cover expenses.

The von Trapp children (above), in fact anyone in LEIDERHOESEN will be admitted for free...

FEAR - Original Posting April 6, 2006

In 1818 Mary Shelley unleashed FRANKENSTEIN, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS on the literary world. This Gothic cautionary tale warned of an Industrial Revolution spinning out of control. Man, mad with arrogance, dared to enter the realm of God - the creation of human life! Victor von Frankenstein cobbled together pieces and parts (now pieces is pieces, but parts is parts) of discarded human remains to construct his monster. I've always thought he was particularly lucky to have found body parts of similarly sized men. Had he used Shaquille O'Neal's left leg and my right the poor monster would have just spun counter-clockwise when it tried to move forward.

But I digress, my point was that Ms. Shelley warned of the horror of patchwork living creatures at a time when harvesting the DEAD to save the LIVING was a dread thought. Today, we can participate in a process thought noble and compassionate by simply indicating our willingness to be "harvested" on the back of our Drivers' License. In the last 60 years, medicine has saved countless lives by attaching pieces and parts from the dead (soooo pig! sometimes even from the dead of other species) to the sick and dying. Medical ethicists, philosophers and theologians struggled with early transplants - thinking them "a step too far" and evidence of Man's arrogant attempt to usurp God's power. Luckily, those arguments abated and settled themselves as the lives saved bore evidence of God's will for Medicine.

They have resurfaced, however, as we have begun to master the Human Genome and all of the potential industries that might flow from the application of our new Knowledge. Stem cells and genes are just smaller pieces and parts, really. We are only just glimpsing the "blueprint" of human life - yet already the ethicists, philosophers and theologians have begun their emotional moral hand-wringing. Have we, at last, gone "too far?" Will God smite us for our prideful folly? Is there no end to Man's Curiosity and the lengths to which he will go to apply cutting-edge Knowledge to improve all of our lives?

I hope not.

It's Never Too Late To RSVP!

NOW WITH MUSIC!
POP MUSIK by M


Join this exciting Group! RSVP today! Don't see your High School BFF? Hook them up! Have an email address where I need one? Send it to me or post a COMMENT on this site!

RSVP LIST - Sunday is family, friends, spouses, children, grandchildren, the homeless...anyone with $10! My mother's coming to J.Gilligans to see all of the Drama Weenies that lived in our house on Saturday Night. Very relaxed, the more the merrier!

Timothy Hogan trhogan@comcast.net
Trisha Quirk trishaquirk@sbcglobal.net
Chip Mahaney chip@smartbusy.tv
Hollie Mahaney Schmidt hollie@acceleratedcure.org
Bobby Winters billybob99@sbcglobal.net
Linda Stacy lindastacy@gmail.com
Jonathan Newman jmnnmn@sbcglobal.net
Shay Trostel shay_n_dev@yahoo.com
Tina Kauer Tinakstep@aol.com
Tamera Davis kdaviscaudle@yahoo.com
Dori Plejdrup Sealeggin@att.net
Lisha Brown Brock labrock@prodigy.net
Kimberly Neal Tosello kbtosello@msn.com
Kelly White Wahl kwkanga@charter.net
Justine Trout Chapura justines_flowers@yahoo.com
Mike Daroche Daroche1@aol.com
Bobby Clendening no email cell#214-402-8466
Glenn Williams dholliday2u@hotmail.com
Dale Mershon dholliday2u@hotmail.com
Barbara & Joyce Tyson NEED EMAIL(S)!
Kelly Reilly kreilly63@msn.com
Carolyn Stout (Dinky Cate) mamastout@tx.rr.com
Eric D Hudson iceape@msn.com
Monica Lalpuis monica_coney@yahoo.com  mkapi@aol.com
Mary Marvin Kent Mkent467@aol.com
Wes Sutton jwestern@wesworld.com
Margie Quigley smurfy1964@sbcglobal.net
Todd Kelly todd@kellylawfirm.org
Georgia (Skousen) Greaves pdxgreaves@msn.com
Susie Stone susie.stone@nexbank.com
James Morelan jamesmm13@netzero.net
Rick Valentine rvalentine03@yahoo.com
Robert Aguirre rdaguirre@hotmail.com
Kevin Cozby kevincozby@gmail.com
Pat Crawley crawleyp@yahoo.com
David Dalley redriverguy63@yahoo.com
Russell Eller elsydtex@msn.com
Christine Haynes NEED EMAIL!
Karyn Hobbs Zapata karyn.zapata@aa.com
Jeff Honeycut jhoney63@earthlink.ne
Allen McSkimming NEED EMAIL!
Pam Reed errnwith3kids@yahoo.com
Shawn Scarle blondyshawnee@hotmail.com
Felice (Salpeter) Aisenberg Felicesa@aol.com
Patti Sienko pjsienko@aol.com
Dan Sinnott rmsinnott@aol.com
John Skarbek skarbek@ticnet.com
Kevin Spencer NEED EMAIL!
Gail Strong NEED EMAIL!
Gigi Usery NEED EMAIL!
Neil Staff HDFIX4U@aol.com
Lexa (Hrach) Kommor lexakommor5392@yahoo.com
Sally (Dye) Chew jschew@sbcglobal.net
Kelly Dechaine baysidecc313@yahoo.com
Tauni Griffin taunigriffin@gvtc.com
Scott Stewart scott@excaliburis.com
Wendy (Wadlington) Lambert wendy@doaklambert.com
Pam (Fletcher) Friday pfriday@eanes.k12.tx.us
Norie Newman nnewman0002@tx.rr.com
Kim (Davis) Caudle
Monica (Morgan) Coney
Jodi (Pullar) Bell
Rhonda Abbott
Perry Lowery

Bring Your Own Meat! Sunday August 5 Stovall Park

Quit thinking dirty thoughts. We've decided overwhelmingly to bring our own hotdogs, brats, burgers, chicken, shrimp, spitted goat, alligator, snake, portobello mushrooms, etc...to our day at Stovall Park.

You will also be required to bring your own Beverages as long as they are NOT IN GLASS CONTAINERS! Cans, plastic drinkware, sippy's, big bowls of liquor.

I will provide charcoal briquettes, lighter fluid and matches for the grill(s) in the Pavilion area and coolers of ice.

Here's the hard part. Everyone attending will need to volunteer for one of these categories IN ADDITION to the meat and drinks for themselves or their group. With more than one person per category, you need not bring enough, let's say COLE SLAW for 80 people (my guesstimate). Work within your budgets and use common sense. To pay for the Park Pavilion, the Beer Liscence and Name Tags/Program we will be collecting $10 a head on the weekend of the Reunion. Here are the categories, please pony up on this site in the COMMENTS area. Once a category has 4 or 5 contributors or so, please select another.

1. ***Paper/plastic plates, flatware, cups ALL by PAT CRAWLEY! Thanks Pat!***
2. ***Buns (hot dog, hamburger, brat) ALL by Justine Trout Chapura - THANKS JUSTINE!***
3. Condiments (salt/pepper, mustard, mayonaise, ketchup, pickle relish)
4. Veggies (crudite, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, olives, onions)
5. Fruit (platters of mixed fruit, water melons, etc)
6. Sides (cole slaw, potato salad, beans, chips, salsa)
7. Desserts (use your imagination)

It is my hope that we can sign up for things in the next 2 weeks so I don't have to assign individuals to specific categories. Since our cost for the weekend is so minimal, I anticipate that everyone will participate generously. Every pot-luck I've ever been involved with has ended up with way to much food. I doubt this will be any different.

Please COMMENT on the blog what you intend to bring or email me with your decision by JULY 15. I'm REALLY looking forward to this.

Remember, Friday night at Margie Quigley's is BYOBeverage & J. Gillians is CASH BAR so don't forget your plastic money! Maps will be distributed in soft copy (email) by the end of July.

trhogan@comcast.net

What Kind Of Kids Eat Armour Hot Dogs?

Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks!
Tough kids, sissy kids (Hey!), even kids with chicken pocks (sp?)...

Okay! Time for another "audience participation" posting on the Reunion Blog. So far we have:

Friday August 3rd at Margie's (directions to follow, BYOB)
Saturday August 4th at J. Gilligan's (Buy your own Whatever)
Sunday August 5th in the Stovall Park Pavillion with James Bowie (BYOB - NO GLASS CONTAINERS!)

WHAT SHALL WE EAT ON SUNDAY? Please COMMENT on this site to register you're vote for our Sunday meal.

a. Bring your own weenie (or chicken, brats, burgers, goat on a spit) we'll organize the grills at Stovall Park.
or
b. Cater something like fajitas & sides at about $15 a head.

I predict that our entire three days we can probably swing for $25 per person. I hope that will be do-able for everyone. I may need a sponsor since I have to book a flight to Texas...kidding.

Please vote your will or your fate will be arbitrarily decided by me, er I mean the Executive Commitee (me.)

Timothy! You're Back...And Not To Mention Your Front!

...I'm not sure what that means...Golly, has it been two weeks? Feels like longer in a shorter kinda way (breathe, stop typing). The Reunion is still ON for the weekend of AUGUST 3, 4 and 5. So we have a month and change to commit, come up with our price (around $20 a head?) and make our plane reservations! Here is the plan so far:

NEW DATE FOR OUR REUNION! For GRADS of 1981-1983. Friday, Saturday & Sunday AUGUST 3, 4 & 5, 2007! Spread the word! Email me at the address listed below and check out our blog for Reuinion information.


1. Friday August 3rd. We convene at Margie Quigley Murphy's from 6PM to 9 or 10PM for A "COCKTAIL HOUR" For those of us those of us who want to go to Six Flags Friday night to get our roller coaster fix it's open until 11PM.

2. Saturday August 4th, J Gilligan's let's say 6PM til you get tired. I think we should all wear white shirts to help recognize each other...maybe name tags or arm bands. Something to help. I'm not carrying yearbooks. Dan will reserve the room for Saturday.

3. Sunday August 5th, we tailgate at the Stoval Park Pavilion - Bobby Valentines Fajitas?, Volleyball and swim if we're thin or drunk. Maybe start at 10 AM and go til people have to leave to return home.


Timothy Hogan
trhogan@comcast.net
www.jamesbowievolunteers.blogspot.com
www.epistleoftimothy.blogspot.com
BOWIE82.com

UPDATED RSVP LIST! June 9

RSVP LIST. Am I missing Anybody?

Timothy Hogan
Trisha Quirk
Daryl Adams
Chip Mahaney ?
Hollie Mahaney Schmidt & family ?
Bobby Winters
Linda Stacy
Jonathan Newman
Shay Trostel
Tina Kauer
Tamera Davis
Dori Plejdrup
Lisha Brown Brock
Kimberly Tosello
Kelly White Wahl
Justine Trout Chapura
Mike Daroche
Bobby Clendening
Glenn Williams
Dale Mershon
Barbara & Joyce Tyson
Kelly Reilly
Carolyn Stout (Dinky Cate)
Eric D Hudson
Monica Lalpuis
Mary Marvin Kent
Wes Sutton
Margie Quigley
Todd Kelly
Georgia (Skousen) Greaves
Susie Stone
James Morelan
Rick Valentine
Robert Aguirre
Kevin Cozby
Pat Crawley
David Dalley
Sydney (Duffin) Eller
Christine Haynes
Karyn Hobbs
Jeff Honeycut
Allen McSkimming
Pam Reed
Shawn Scarle
Felice (Salpeter) Aisenberg ?
Patty Sienko ?
Dan Sinnott ?
John Skarbek
Kevin Spencer
Gail Strong
Gigi Usery ?
Glenn Williams
Neil Staff
Lexa (Hrach) Kommor
DSally (Dye) Chew
Kelly Dechaine
Tauni Griffin
Scott Stewart
Wendy (Wadlington) Lambert
Pam (Fletcher) Friday

The Second Thing To Go

There's this realy hilarious joke/bit you can do with people when you're talking about ageing where you announce,

"Well, the Memory is always the Second thing to go."

And they ask," What's the First?"

And You say, "I can't Remember..." (stare blank into the distance).

Hilarious - until you really start to live it (he typed, staring blank into the distance).

UPDATED RSVP LIST!

Here is the RSVP 'Yes' list, 'Maybes" have a ?. Timothy

RSVP LIST

Timothy Hogan
Trisha Quirk
Daryl Adams
Chip Mahaney ?
Hollie Mahaney Schmidt & family ?
Bobby Winters
Linda Stacy
Jonathan Newman
Shay Trostel
Tina Kauer
Tamera Davis
Dori Plejdrup
Lisha Brown Brock
Kimberly Tosello
Kelly White Wahl
Justine Trout Chapura
Mike Daroche
Bobby Clendening
Glenn Williams
Dale Mershon
Barbara & Joyce Tyson
Kelly Reilly
Carolyn Stout (Dinky Cate)
Eric D Hudson
Monica Lalpuis
Mary Marvin Kent
Wes Sutton
Margie Quigley
Todd Kelly
Georgia (Skousen) Greaves
Susie Stone
James Morelan
Rick Valentine
Robert Aguirre
Kevin cozby
Pat Crawley
David Dalley
Sydney (Duffin) Eller
Christine Haynes
Karyn Hobbs
Jeff Honeycut
Allen McSkimming
Pam Reed
Shawn Scarle
Felice (Salpeter) Aisenberg ?
Patty Sienko ?
Dan Sinnott ?
John Skarbek
Kevin Spencer
Gail Strong
Gigi Usery ?
Glenn Williams
Neil Staff
Lexa (Hrach) Kommor