Ahhhhhh, yes. Love for Fools! The Hodgepodge Society was invited by Thank You Felix Productions to perform a short lecture series after the Sam Shepherd play, Fool for Love. The Hodgepodge Society, always eager for another chance to educate the masses and being completely unable to say no to properly filled out paperwork, lept at the opportunity to perform. But what would we talk about? Microwave cookery? Been there. The films of Russ Meyer? Done that. Then we looked at the title of the play we'd be following. Fool for Love. With it's sultry title and publicity photo of foxy people doing foxy things, we figured love and courtship would be the topic of the evening!

This would be, of course, the completely wrong idea. For you see, due to our questionable practice of not reading anything that has not been written by a Hodgepodge Society Member, the play Fool for Love turns out to be about incest. Yep. Oh! There's a lot more themeatic layering behind it...but...you know...still a brother and a sister getting it on. So there we were, armed with our musings on love after a play about incest, or "Alabama Dating", in the common vernacular. But, by cracky, we would get through the performance and we weren't going to be doing it alone.

Yes, we were joined by Lady Laurie Bolewitz Bordeaux, last seen at the Hodgepodge Society Ball! We were delighted to be grace by her charming presence and she was there completely on her own free will....and Sir Joseph and Lord Robert certainly DID NOT kidnap her cat, Ghengis McCuddles Kahn, and hold him captive until the end of the show, in exchange for her participation. With the assistance of Lady Laurie, Sir Joseph read the rules from the Hodgepodge Society's How to Date! Yes, dating. An intricate dance of intra-personal relationships and something the Hodgepodge Society are experts on.

Well, at least the society as a whole are experts, Sir Joseph and Lord Robert, however, are not. You see the fiar sex mystifies us. Their attractive, complicated, fast runners, and they're quick on the lawsuit. Not even carefully sccripted hilarity would help either of them get lucky this evening. Could it have been the waxing position of the moon? Could it have been the legion of hipsters who insisted on talking in the back during our show? We're not sure, all we know is that we couldn't get lucky even if we were King Leprechaun at a Lucky Charms convention in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day.

Aside from learning how to date, the Hodgepodge Society offered nuggets of wisdom on how to tell that pretty girl you like that you like them (as seen HERE), the complex history of dating, and Sir Joseph's disturbing family history of love affairs with inanimate objects. The evening ended with the Hodgepodge Society's Dating Game! Yes, the game show. Nothing has influenced the art of dating more. Lady Laurie would be the contestant and she had her choice...of any and all of Sir Joesph's multiple personalities. Sir Joseph's convenient condition gave Lady Laurie her choice of a sexist cad, a foppish dandy (the crowd favorite) and a charming young man who enjoys drowning cats. She didn't want any of them. Go figure.

Well, at the end of the evening we found that our evening had ended. We didn't lear a single thing and all we had to show for it was another evening alone and a sever aluminum can based concussion. Lady Laurie left with her cat, unaffected by the love song Sir Joseph and Lord Robert had for her...the Proclaimers' "I Would Walk 500 Miles...". Well, FINE! We don't need a realtionship right now. We've got all sorts of things going for us right now. Really. We don't think your neat....AT ALL! {Sniff} So yes! Dating! We don't know a blastted thing about it. This was a magical evening that would be remembered by literally a small number of people. Now we must return to our TiVo'd Cinemax programming. Till next time!