View From the Bushes

I'm still getting used to the new software. Like all new things in some respects it's actually more difficult. Anyway on the announcement front my good buddy Wil Upchurch is the guest on Mortality Radio tonight. So head on over once they get the show posted and listen to it. He promised to mention my "god-like grace and beauty", and prevarication on that scale doesn't come along very often unless you work in politics, or marketing, or sales, or well just about anything where you interact with other people. I actually didn't get a chance to drop by I had a wedding to go to, and there was a line.

Allow me to explain the concept of a line, you may think I'm talking about some sort of queue, but in Utah we have a peculiar institution (and no I'm not talking about polygamy though we have a little of that too) at most wedding receptions there is dancing and mingling. In Utah there is no dancing or mingling, the entire wedding party lines up on one side of the hall and then the guests move past in an orderly procession. There is a certain sterile efficiency you have to admire, but overall it's kind of unromantic for something associated with a wedding.

My friend brought a girl from South Africa and I was trying to explain the mysteries of the line to her. When its sinister purpose finally dawned on her she was shocked. She was sure that the only reason for the entire wedding party to be lined up against one wall was so that someone could take a picture of them. I have no idea where this tradition came from perhaps it was so that in the early days of the state when someone took a third or fourth wife the previous wife's wouldn't feel left out.