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Last fall we went to Seattle to visit Natalie friend Debbie for her wedding. The Friday night before they held a small gathering of their close friends. The ones that made a special trip to be there. This was held at The Rickshaw, a Chinese restaurant but the real reason we were there was Japanese.
We were there for the karaoke.
Come to find out Debbie is quite the karaoke junkie. Everybody knew her by name and she requested her Whitney Houston songs by numbers, not by titles. This is what regulars do. This is what professionals do.
From the classic lessons of Carmine Coppola, if you’re going to steal, steal from the best.
This is why on Friday, April 17 we will begin our weekend festivities at Colonial Lanes with a karaoke night.
Now I know what you’re thinking:
Jim, we’re already coming to your wedding, a testament that we like you and/or Natalie. Is it really necessary to subject ourselves to the two of you singing “Islands In The Stream?”
In a word: “Yes.” I want to see you people there. There is a bar which means there will be liquor and a karaoke machine which means there will be Journey songs and people living out their Steve Perry fantasies. It’s a dangerous mix that only gets better and better until someone is on a stage six mojitos in singing “You Oughta Know” with a little more bitter than necessary because when the lights kicked in and the chorus came up, someone touched a nerve.
Now you’re thinking:
This guy wants me to fly in a day earlier for karaoke?
No. That would be stupid. I am asking you to fly in a day early for bowling alley karaoke.
Yes. This karaoke is held in the bar of a bowling alley. Bowling. Drinks. Karaoke. If you’re lucky you’ll run into this guy.
And Natalie likes to perform Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” or as she calls it, “The Mannequin Song.” You’ve been warned.
Colonial Lanes
400 North Primrose Drive
Orlando FL 32803
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