The Eponymous Gong List
Posted by
Molly Beth
| Posted on
4:20 PM
The Gong List, besides being an awesome name and how we identify ourselves, is an actual list. We've been compiling things to do for about a month and now that all the final projects and exams are over, it's been suggested that we get down to crossing things off the list.
There are no set rules, this is a fuckit list afterall, so any of us can do any of the activities. Sometimes we'll be able to cross them off together. Sometimes they'll be things we do on our own. Sometimes activities will break down along gender lines (I'm pretty sure that the hair braiding, eyeliner application, and "Ramona and Beezus" watching isn't going to interest the guys.) Items can be crossed off in any order and can be done over and over again. Items can (and should) be added as we come up with them. This is our summer fun list and I cannot wait to start having adventures and leave on quests and gain new skills.
And now...
The Gong List 2010
1. Learn to French braid pigtails
2. Make s’mores with marshmallows we make ourselves
3. Grow beautiful and/or tasty things in someone (or everyone’s) backyards
4. Visit the Japanese House and Gardens
5. Teach Loki fun tricks
6. Make all recipes from a cookbook (ala Julie and Julia but less douchey)
7. Go to Eastern State Penitentiary
8. Fly a kite
9. Learn the art of scherenschnitte
10. Have homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Pie and Ice Cream for dinner11. Visit the Herr’s and Utz factories
12. Write, illustrate, and publish an anti-library book
13. Knit beautiful things
14. Perfect the alcoholic ice pop recipe
15. Go to Rice’s Market
16. Create a mural in sidewalk chalk
17. Weave elaborate friendship bracelets
18. Make pickles
19. Take photos in the
20. Start a Gong List Book Club
21. Learn to play cribbage
22. Celebrate birthdays & graduations with both cheese & chocolate fondue
23. Ride roller coasters and the carousel at Knobels Grove
24. Watch Michael’s “The Wire” DVDs
25. Learn to successfully apply eyeliner
26. Make homemade seitan
27. Camping!!
28. Watch “Planet Earth” and/or “Life” on a big screen
29. Create a signature Gong List cocktail
30. Herbie Hancock @ the Mann
31. Make your ultimate mixtape / playlist to share with the group & the blog
32. Homemade sushi
33. “Toy Story 3”
34. “Ramona and Beezus” (probably girls only)
36. Kane house cookout
OK I haven't posted anything yet but let me just say I'm excited about a number of these, particularly teaching Loki Tricks and publishing an anti Library book. Maybe I will have a chance to break out the video camera after long dormant years, and certainly I will hope to break out the still camera, which I used twice since buying in 2005 and still probably has a half-shot undeveloped roll of film in it. Summer is also going to suck for me in addition to all this great stuff because I will be in class and have no summer break from work. Now that I've depressed and bored everyone, let me just say again that this list rules and I like turtles. And dogs. Road trip to Taiwan!
Also, my Wire dvds are downloaded bootlegs so they won't play in a lot of dvd players. But if you have a Phillips player or a computer you can watch things on, that will work.
Sorry, that should read, 'teaching Loki tricks,' not 'teaching Loki Tricks,' which would mean teaching each other stuff that Loki already knows.
I must say, I personally feel great affection to both Ramona and Beezus. And Henry, and Ribsy. I had a long-time crush on Ramona Quimby, age 8, and she always left me wanting to travel to Oregon, long before my brother and all my friends migrated thataways. Damn.
Also, Ruth, I like her too.
FOR Ramona and Beezus, that should say.