March 26, 2004
Break on Through
As promised, Zach had a free hotel room Wednesday night. Sure enough, it was deep in Belltown, with a delicious view of the Sound. Sure enough, Seattle weather brought clouds and drizzle in, so (alas) there were no Olympic mountains to be seen. But, when we were walking from the elevator to the room, I became ecstatic: "Look, our room is 628! And the door to 628 is at the end of the hall on the TOP FLOOR; and the door is set at an angle to the rest of the hallway... you know that means it's nice and fancy!..."
Yeah, James. Way to be sophisticated. Just go back to your trailer.
But yes, the room (no, no... suite) was nice. No jacuzzi, but the tub could've fit three comfortably, and five uncomfortably (just by a visual estimation, not a controlled experiment). Kitchen, entertainment center, huge bed, the works. And how did we celebrate this new 12-hour grant of worldliness and elegance? Of refinement, style, and urbanity?
Why, we went to the Mr. Nude Seattle 2004 Contest, of course!
Seriously.
Oh my!
Don't ask me how we knew about it, because I don't remember. We just... did. While we were in the Quad Cities last week, we each reminded one another ("Oh yeah... Zach, remember that thing that's next Wednesday...") and decided, "Eh, what the hell." After all, you only live twice. The drag queens hosting the event were outstanding and side-splitting. The contestants, thankfully, were not all carved out of cream cheese - almost all body types and a variety of ages were well represented out of the seven contestants. Between giggles, whoops, and hollers, I thought, "Man, it takes guts to stand in front of a crowd of gay guys [and four hetero females] and... well... bare all." Alas, of the two brave souls Zach and I were rooting for, one [the soccer player] got runner-up, and the other [a new Seattlite from Montana] got nothing. We walked out of the Langston Hughes Cultural Center (what a place for a contest of that "style") arm-in-arm, aghast at our anti-sophistication... and on the drive back to the suite, resolved to go again next year.
So there!
And for something completely different tonight, we're going to a Seattle Symphony concert. How's that for Polar Opposite?!
Posted by James at March 26, 2004 09:54 AM