Chicago 2013 Update #3
Cold, overcast, gray weather out there today but who cares? This hotel is so beautiful you don’t want to go outside. You’re too busy lounging on a plush couch in the lobby, with your notepad, watching the balconies.
Chicago 2013 Update #4
Remember the tall hairy bearded guy in the pink tutu and ballet slippers? Who crashed the party? At Swing Dance America 2007, I think it was, Saturday night? Hollering and making hellaruckus when security escorted him out of the ballroom? Tried pulling…
Chicago 2013 Update #6
SPECIAL NEWS! Arjay and Bridget have a baby boy! Born March 11! Which, as Arjay pointed out, is a cool palindrome…
Capital 2009 – Update #2
Sorry for not updating until now! Saturday the schedule had us in the ballroom from morning till 5:30pm for the “fantastic dinner buffet” (quite good, actually), the mad run several hundred miles in the pouring rain back to our room on the far side…
Capital 2009 – Update #1
It’s pouring. We’re several thousand miles from the ballroom. It’s freezing, The flight was six hours. The front desk staff said sorry we’re charging you $158 a night not the $99 Capital Swing rate – that block was sold out a year ago. Also…
Capital 2012 Update #9
… More Classic! Ronnie and Brandi to “It’s Not Impossible” (Ben Sollee). For a solid month after the Open I could not get this song out of my head, finally shaking it some time late January…
Capital 2012 Update #8
Classsssssic! Yaaaaay! Awesome night … TWELVE couples! That’s a lot of Classic couples! I counted four that, at least to me, were brand new. And the rest as new as the Open. So exciting!
Boston Tea Party 2012 Update #2
Here we are again, just like last year and the year before, and the year before that … saying,”That was the HARDEST I have ever laughed! Ever!” We’ve just seen the Crossover! Amazing dancing AMAZING!