It’s nearly here! It’s tomorrow! Well, we leave tomorrow to get the SpeakEasy tent ready for some high-minded, lowbrow, truthy, challenging and ludicrous fun. Tomorrow, we just leave and set up camp, charge up our solar-powered hairdryers (which I learned last weekend are not the same things as curling irons), and chill the sparkling elderberry cordial. But Saturday and Sunday, we are all yours.
We’ve been hard at work in the Chaosette Crevasse: packing our trousseau, practicing our high-heeled struts, and perfecting that pageant wave. Someone told us that all we needed for Electric Picnic was a plug for our ears and some wiped babies, which we’ve got. We’ve also got our ball gowns, frilly animal-print bikinis for the swimwear round, and we’ve honed our party tricks (Jane’s reading the death notices, Amiee is doing something she calls ‘crunk’) for the talent portion. We’re stumped when it comes to ‘interview’, but our pageant coach told us just to punch the jerk in the stomach before he can ask anything that would call our ladyhoods into question. Knock the wind out of ‘em, then go off on one about the dangers of opposite marriage.
Are we forgetting anything?
But before we start campaigning for the crown (there is a crown, isn’t there?), we’ve got to tell you something: our storyteller lineup is a stunner. If it were a pageant queen, she’d be at least first-runner up. At least.
We’ll tell you more about our storytellers tomorrow morning, but there’s no way we can do them justice. We’re just so chuffed they said yes.
You can see the running order on the Leviathan site, or you can just look back up there at the top of this post, where most of them are on our flyer. Follow us on twitter, or try @janeruffino for minute-by-hour, all-delay-all-the-time updates in unreal time.
We’re so excited that we have to go be sick now.
While we’re dealing with the consequences of entirely too much sugar, cheese, coffee, and excitement, you should watch this important public service video.
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