Okay, I got the flashlight and went out to my lemon tree and plucked a gorgeous fresh lemon off, brought it into the house and made myself a Sidecar and am sipping and enjoying.
TP2000 Sidecar Recipe (healthy portion version);
Juice of one fresh squeezed lemon
2 Shots of Cognac
1 Shot of Cointreau
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice, ask Siri to play Smokey Robinson's "Going To A-Go-Go" and shake vigorously while also doing the Jerk to the music in that dorky way only older white men can do, pour into chilled cocktail coupe, garnish with lemon peel, savor and enjoy.
Thinking back, some of the
absolute worst street shows appeared when Disney's California Adventure burst onto the scene in February, 2001. This was the park that Disney executives openly claimed was supposed to be "hip and edgy", from a 2001 Disney executive point of view. Unsurprisingly, it was disastrous.
One of my most vivid memories of DCA's opening was of this early 1950's Mercury station wagon they had acquired and painted a deep purple and then hooked a flatbed trailer onto the back of it for a band to play from. So far, so good, right? Except the band was... not good. It was like the band that might perform in the cocktail lounge on a Saturday night at an Airport Sheraton in a small Midwest city. And this old Mercury drove all around DCA with this band on a trailer, a band made up of creepy middle aged men, playing bad cover versions of what were once good songs.
It surprised me how quickly I found an example of this awful street show on YouTube, but here it is from an Annual Passholder Preview day on February 3rd, 2001.
Meanwhile, there was also this horrible street show called
Le Feet!
It consisted of hip young kids in baggy 2001 clothes (but fashion-wise it was still the late 1990's in '01) who would walk out into the mostly empty park and set up these giant drum things on the ground trying to act nonchalant. Then they would proceed to start stomping on the drums and jumping around, in their Old Navy clothes someone in TDA bought for them. The kids had talent and physical coordination, bless them, but the result was more baffling than entertaining. It was painful to watch.
And since DCA in the spring and summer of 2001 was mostly empty, it was one of those awful street shows that you would randomly stumble across and accidentally make eye contact with one of the performers and then have to stop and smile tightly and pretend to be entertained by them because you felt bad that no one else was caring about them.
Le Feet!
