09.15
That’s right! Day 2 and I’m dressing like Elvis and running errands around Austin. I’m not pussyfooting around with this blog. Sure, there may be some more tame posts, but my “new” thing isn’t going to be seeing a new movie or some crap like that. I have always wanted to dress up as Elvis. I wanted to dress like him for my bachelor party and specifically instructed my Best Man to get me an Elvis costume. Instead, he made t-shirts for everyone that had a terrible picture of me, a tagline that said “I’m With Stupid” pointing to said terrible picture, and on the back a line that read “Becker has a little pecker.” Thanks, jerk! Needless to say, no girls talked to us the entire weekend.
So, as any Austinite wanting to rent a costume, I visited Lucy in Disguise, and had an Elvis costume in hand in twenty minutes, thanks mostly to the amazing customer service. I couldn’t resist starting Day 2 early and wore Elvis to my friend’s potluck dinner group, now appropriately named the Supperfly Society. Walking up to the door, I felt nervous and self-conscious. But when I entered everyone had a good laugh (probably more laughing at me than with me, but whatever), we had a great dinner, and by the end of the night, I felt like a completely normal human being.
Maybe today won’t be as embarrassing and shell-shocking as I think it will… Stay tuned for an update later tonight, after I run errands all day, go for a run around Town Lake, and maybe a little karaoke! And I’ll be tweeting all day long with updates. If you’re in Austin and running errands today, let me know, and maybe Elvis can join!
Couldn’t find the gold glasses. My apologies to the King.
This is just so awesome. You better get your ass over to my office while you are out and about GTD.
1. Not once was an Elvis suit mentioned with regards to your bachelor party.
2. The shirt we did make kicks ass
1.Some risque references here, Elvis. Not sure Nana would approve..
2.I appreciate that Uri’s tshirts prevented girls from approaching you at your bachelor party.
3.It’s kind of fun being married to Elvis for a day; guess that makes me Priscilla?
would a full hippie at hippie hollow be too much for Nana?
hey david! betsy’s idea filled officemate here with some ideas of things to do on your forty days. i gotta say, what you’re doing is really awesome! i hope you enjoy your funemployment to its fullest.
aerial dance class (http://bluelapislight.org) – you can join us for our sunday private session – $65 for an hour and a half class for up to 6 ppl (usually it’s full up, so just $11/person)
monsterlove w/ sarah hasslinger (http://www.sara-hasslinger.com/monsterlove/) – make giant paper mache monster head and parade around town
poetry slam (http://austinslam.com) – pour your heart out for 3 minutes and be judged on a scale of 0-10 by an audience of your peers
animalesque (http://animalesque.eventbrite.com) – burlesque and variety show that i’m co-producing on october 16th – proceeds go to benefit austin pets alive, hence the animal theme 0 we’d just be happy for you to come as an audience member, but we would love to have more audience members dressed up in crazy animal costumes!
circus day – every sunday at 5pm at barton springs (on the robert e lee side) a bunch of awesome folk get together to hula hoop, partner balance, aerial dance and more! all free.
got lots more ideas if you’re interested!
Good ideas winnie! We definitely need to talk about some of these! I’ll get your number from Betsy and call you sometime this week.
Wish I was there to see Elvis in action. Hope you are taking lots of pixs.
Can’t wait until we play Bingo together in Big D!
Read the blog to Nana and she laughed!
Good luck in your endeavors, from your first autograph fan.
David
You definitely need the glasses! ha ha Would loved to have seen you walking around in Austin. It must have been crazy. When I see folks in Memphis walking around like Elvis, I still step back and watch them.
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