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10/14/2006

WELCOME TO DELAWARE, HERE'S YOUR PRODUCE CANNON

After the live recording last night In Knoxville, TN, Brian and I drove (Brian drove and I rode) to Cookeville, TN, about halfway to Nashville. We got about five hours of good hotel bed sleep in, drove to Nashville's airport this morning and took off for Raleigh-Durham. Then flew to Philadelphia. Then drove a short ways to Wilmington, Delaware.

All that traveling and we arrived to be told our show was doomed, we had some tough competition for Delawarians' entertainment dollars: Punkin Chunkin, our runner explained, was going head to head with us. Punkin Chunkin is an international competition during which pumpkins are chunked as much as a mile, using human power, air power and a host of other "extreme" methods.

But the runner had some bad intel. Punkin Chunkin is still 19 days away. Good. Good for two reasons really: First, I still have time to buy tickets or build that killer nitrogen powered gourd tosser I've been dreaming of. And, second, I'm not so sure I would have been more popular than flying veggies.

Who is?

posted by Shaun Groves @ 10/14/2006   3 comments

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Viva la Cookeville! Spent four years there at TTU. Viva la Raleigh! There now.

10/14/2006  
Blogger Amy said...

Technically, pumpkins are a fruit. Sure sounds like fun. Have to check my calendar for that one or find someone nearby to DVD it for me. What would America do without festivities such as this? <><

10/15/2006  
Blogger Shaun Groves said...

Thanks for having us, Bill.

10/17/2006  

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