Dec 22, 2010 - JoCo Cruise Crazy Schedule Update

Subject: JoCo Cruise Crazy Schedule Update
From: "JoCo Cruise Crazy"
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:43:04

Dear JoCoCruCra's:

The sea is a harsh mistress. Even now the sails of our anticipation flutter and snap in the breeze of the sea’s blah blah blah, and scattered whitecaps appear on the waves of our etc. and so on. We see heavy weather ahead, but our crew is hearty and stout and something something something about the ocean. That’s how I see it anyway. News for you:

It is with great disappointment that I tell you Paul F. Tompkins will not be able to join us on this cruise. He was offered a good part on a hit TV show that shoots the same week, and believe it or not, that takes priority over hanging around in the sun drinking fruity rum drinks with a bunch of nerds. Apparently his career is important to him. WHATEVER. The rest of us don’t care about that sort of thing (obviously). He wanted this to be a murder cruise, well guess what, he got his wish because now he is dead to us. Actually we are not mad, we totally understand, and we wish him luck with the TV thing. Rest assured we have plans to fill his stage time with something else awesome. BY WHICH I MEAN: we will have some storytelling by none other than Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse, Director of Policy and Enforcement (read: Banhammer) for Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE gaming service. Plus another last-minute, late-addition mystery guest who is known only as “The Spoiler,” about whom the less is said the better.

On the good news front, we have a couple things that are being added to the schedule. Here they are in no particular order:

1. During the Opening Reception for the first 250 cruisers in the Crow’s Nest, we will also be offering free beer and wine in the Northern Lights Disco for everybody else (who is with JoCo Cruise Crazy). Because we care. That’s 6-7 PM Sunday January 2, right after the ship departs.

2. By popular request, the Rock Band session on Tuesday January 4 will be turned into a JoCo Karaoke session – we’ll have all the JoCo karaoke songs that exist on this page, and you will be able to sign up to sing your favorite (or whatever is left). If anyone has other non JoCo karaoke files they’d like to bring along on a thumb drive, we can add that to the mix as well, just make sure it’s MP3+G format because that’s what we need for the software we’ll be using. There is also likely to be an official karaoke night in one of the ship’s clubs, but that will be controlled by The Man and definitely free of JoCo music.

3. The Paul F. Tompkins Mustache Formal is still happening, just without that awful turncoat Paul F. Tompkins. Later, perhaps he will sue us for using his name. Place to be determined, but plan for 10 PM Monday January 3rd. We’ll have drinks and twirl our mustaches. Formal wear optional, mustaches required (mustaches will be provided).

4. Movie Nights: still working on this, there are a couple of issues with getting permission from the boat to do it, but we’re hoping to show something at 11 PM in the Culinary Arts Center on Sunday January 2 and Monday January 3. Movies to be determined/announced.

5. Group Photo: we have to work this out once we get on the boat, but we’re planning for somewhere between 11 AM and 1 PM on Tuesday January 4, somewhere near the front of the boat. Or something. We’ll announce the details the night before during the January 3rd evening performance, so you’ll have plenty of time to get ready.

6. There are a few things being organized by people in the JoCo forums including:
    * The Unofficial Dance Soterius Johnson Dance Dance, in which we descend on the Northern Lights Disco all at once some night and overwhelm them with our disco dancing. Time and day to be determined.
    * The As Yet Unnamed Swing and Ballroom Dancing Lesson, in which we hijack the Northern Lights Disco during the day and forum member “tiguh” teaches everyone how to swing and ballroom it to JoCo songs. Time and day to be determined.
    * The Fancy Pants Parade, in which David Rees organizes some kind of thing with pants? Or something? Everyone wears fancy pants? Dunno. All of the above to be determined.
    * JoCo Jam Sessions, in which people who have brought acoustic instruments on board get together and play music. Time and place to be determined, but the ship people tell me the Piano Bar is empty and unstaffed during the day and available for hostile takeover.
    * Werewolf sessions (in which people get together to play Werewolf). Time and place and werewolf to be determined.

All these semi-official/unofficial things are being organized over at the JoCo Forums, so if you’re interested in getting involved that’s the place to do it. We’re going to let you all work these things out, leaders will emerge, consensus will be reached (that always happens on the internet right?). But we’re also happy to enable these things when we can, so if you have questions about what’s allowed on board, where it might be best to gather for such and such a thing, just let us know through info@jococruisecrazy.com and we’ll see if we can help. We will post things to the calendar as they get scheduled, and if things don’t happen until the last minute we’ll also see each other every night for the big show and will happily make announcements there.

One more thing: Judge John Hodgman is still looking for cases to settle on stage during the cruise, email him at hodgman at maximumfun.org if you have a dispute. See here for more info: http://jococruisecrazy.com/2010/12/judge-john-hodgman-holding-court-at-sea/

That’s all for now. Twelve days!