You will now have to sit through my Family Dinner Re-cap. (I'm pretty sure my sister will be doing one soon too, and she has a knack for doing family impressions, but in the meantime, you'll have to read mine.)

Saturday Aug. 9, 2003

To keep up with my family, you need a thorough knowledge of old movies, books, broadway, Buffy, Mormons and my sister's brief but enduring stint at Potiphar's wife in West High School's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

We get the ball rolling with dinner conversation that consists of literary criticism of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck and then...

Kathryn: "I must visit the necessities." Walks by my dad and heads for the bathroom.
Dad: "Kathryn, passes."
Family: Laughter, laughter, laughter.
If you are unfamiliar with "1776" (and by unfamiliar I mean "do not have entire script memorized") this will make no sense.

After dinner we head to the CD player.

Listening to Footloose soundtrack.
Kathryn: "Which pair of shoes did you always want to be?"
Mom and Sister simultaneously cry out: "The one with the foot that turns backwards!" Proceed to catalogue each pair of feet from the opening credits of Footloose.

Listening to Queen.
Kathryn and Me: "All the words to Bohemian Rhapsody. la la la"

Showed Grandma how to line dance to Sean Paul's Get Busy.

My sister opens her birthday presents.
1. Buffy: Season 4 on DVD. Leading to a discussion between her and my mom of the pros and cons of owning Season 5. A pro being Buffy the Musical, a con being Willow becoming a lesbian. My mom will not own it. My sister will.
2. Mormon Doctrine. The first word she looked up was, "exorcism."

Grandma interrupts, "Remember when you played Potiphar's wife? Do we have that on tape?"

Listening to "Tramp Tramp Tramp" full blast so Grandma could hear.
A conflict arose over the words to the Nelson Eddy song, "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," from 1934's Naughty Marietta. I thought the words were "bramp, bramp, bramp," and I think Kathryn thought it was, "stamp, stamp, stamp." She redeemed herself though by pointing out that the plot of Singing in the Rain was based on Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald movies, "if you've seen one, you've seen them all." Our family hemmed and hawed and finally agreed that she had a very good point.