7 Things

A while ago, Odd Facts tagged me to write seven random things about myself that I haven't blogged about yet. Here goes:

1. I can touch my nose with my tongue.
2. I was crowned Miss Congeniality and 1st Runner Up at the 1979 Miss Guilford Fair Pageant.
3. I've been to at least 15 Ramones shows.
4. I can speak Spanish.
5. I do a pretty good Chrissie Hynde imitation. (Anybody want to start a Pretenders tribute band?)
6. My favorite book is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
7. I have a piece of the Berlin Wall.

I would have added some good links to the items listed above, but this computer doesn't want to cooperate with this typist. Whenever I try to add a link, the letters just type over themselves. I wrote most of this post on TextEdit, and then pasted it onto the Blogger editor.

According to the rules, I'm supposed to tag 7 other bloggers to write 7 things about themselves. However, since most of my blogging friends have already written their memes, I'm only going to tag one person. And that lucky blogger is Connecticut Teacher!

Sea Hags

Back in the eighties when I was working at Cutler's Records in New Haven, I entered (and won!) a coloring contest for grown-ups. I read about the competition in a national magazine for music retailers. The purpose of the contest was to promote the rock band, the Sea Hags. The ad was accompanied by a blank, coloring book-style of the cover of the Sea Hags album. (The actual album cover artwork, pictured below, was done by Rick Griffin and Dave Heffernan.) The winner of the coloring contest would get to "hang with the Hags" in San Francisco.

For some reason, I took this competition very seriously. Every day after work I would go straight home to work on my coloring project. First, I took a bunch of porous watercolor paper and splattered each sheet with a different color of paint, making sure that the brush strokes were visible. Then I cut the colored pages into tiny mosaics and glued them into place on the coloring sheet. I added some gold leaf flecks, waited for it to dry, and shipped it off to Chrysalis Records. A couple of weeks later, I got a call from a Chrysalis rep saying that I had won.

The prize was a 3 day, all expenses paid trip to San Francisco to see the Hags play at the Fillmore. I brought along my good friend, Kim, who also was with me when I met Bono a few years earlier.

Kim and I had a great time in San Francisco. We rode the cable cars, explored Chinatown, and met lots of really nice, friendly people. On our last night, we went to the Fillmore to see the Sea Hags. After the show, the Chrysalis rep brought us backstage to meet the band. The boys were very sweet, and they even told us that we were pretty. We didn't end up "hanging with the Hags," though; we were too scared.