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Sober and Amused

Your Hero has just returned, sober and amused, from the first of Dallas' two Holiday milongas, this one at that most excellent Ethernopian restaurant, the Queen of Sheba. Sober, because it's truly difficult to get drunk when one is dancing non-stop, and amused because . . . well . . . because it was a DFW tango event, and the entertainment factor is always high at any event where delegations from multiple TangoCliques are forced to intermingle.

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Tonight's QoS milonga was hosted, as usual, by Nazrin Barmaki and Hassan Parsa and received a hidden and unexpected infusion of Tangueros thanks to the Tango Terroriste, aka me. Which is to say that the Valerina twisted my arm behind my back until I cried like a little girl and agreed to make Fred and Ginger aware of their inadvertent scheduling faux pas, which I did--with requisite haste--indeed do. The good part is that I regained usage of the arm in time to dance a little bit tonight . . . no thanks to Nurse Ratched . . . and that there were, by my count, nearly twice as many people at the milonga than there otherwise would have been.

Damn I'm good!

Of course much of Your Beloved cast and crew were on hand for the evening's festivities: Fred and Ginger, Rocky and the Bullwinkles, Don Vito y Mama Carmella, the Sadistic Nurse Ratched, Anal Bede and his Hedonista, Pei Ghi Su, Don "Bringing Sexy Back" Roberto y Mimi and their lovely daughter, Lizzy Borden (sans axe, sans whacks), and thousands of others dressed to the nines and waiting to bust their moves (or throw out their backs, depending upon the age of the attendee in question).

The DJ for the evening was Phyllis, of Bullwinkle fame, and although she did an adequate job, she was a little short on variety this evening--a definite step backwards from the last QoS milonga I attended. She did step it up a little bit after midnight, but it was a case of too little too late. The PseudoLatino has heard her do a much better job on the podium, and hopes she'll mix things up a bit more next time. On the positive side, she did recommend Gorilla Spit for my shoe problem, and is always cordial to Your Vicar of Verisimilitude despite His past criticisms, of which she is unquestionably aware. Props to Ms. Bullwinkle for being a stand-up kinda gal.

So . . . aside from the tremendous entertainment of people-watching, I was able to snag some wonderful dances . . . Pei Ghi Su, the Evil Nurse Ratched (who's in the middle of growing some holiday love handles to make it easier for me to lead her in certain tangic machinations), the inimitable Ginger (love that Vals, grrrl!), Mama Carmella, and even Jemima Olsen, long lost sister of Spiderman sidekick Jimmy.

All in all a nice event. And after 3 years of dancing, which include 4 holiday seasons, it's nice to take stock of just how far I've come out on that dancefloor. And I've barely begun!

A big thanks to all you ladies for putting up with me thus far (except you, Valerina, cuz you know it's the other way around with you . . . right? Right.)

Happy Holidays.

Your One and Only,

---PseudoLatino

Posted by earwicker at December 8, 2007 11:59 PM