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Who: OPEN to all!
What: Movies, movies, movies! And games and food too.
When: All day Saturday, June 7th (starts 11ish)
Where: Rec Center
Summary: Ginia throws a movie marathon at the rec center for entertainment and post-draft distractions.
Rating: PG-13 for some of the movies shown, but let's keep it around here or lower.

On Thursday, flyers were posted around the village with another notification of the movie marathon and the list of movies that will be shown:

The Sword in the Stone
Grease
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Moulin Rouge
The Princess Bride
Jurassic Park
Clue
Rocky Horror Picture Show

Come Saturday, the list can also be found outside the rec center. Inside the center, there are tables set up filled with food: fruit and veggie platters, cookies and cake from the bakery, sandwiches, packages of popcorn (with a microwave nearby), and an assortment of packaged candy. As food begins running low, runners will be sent to the stores to bring back more. There are also drinks - water, sodas, juices, tea, and coffee. Alcohol is bring your own, but Ginia also has a small table set aside with some gin, whisky, vodka, and mixers.

Besides what seating is already in the rec center, additional chairs, large cushions, and even two beanbag chairs have been brought in. For those who want to hang out but not watch movies, there's still pool, board games, and a few deck of cards.

Enjoy, relax, and try not to think about the draft.

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[ Oh, it was a two player game? He looks at the table, the stick the man is holding- ]

I've never played before... [ Um ] Do I just have to hit all balls into the holes with the white one?

Everyone gotta start somewhere.

Oui, that be the main goal, but when ya playin' 'gainst someone, gets a touch more complicated. One person aims to down all the solid colour balls, the other aims for the striped ones. [Remy explain, pointing each out in turn.] Whoever gets theirs gone first, then sinks the black, wins.

Mais, bein' a friendly game, 'nd ya learnin', ain't that big an issue to start with.

[ He sees the differences. He hadn't noticed the stripes before, but. ]

So I can try to hit any for now? But the black one is for last always. [ Right? ]

Tell ya what, give a go at 'ny of them. Can take a bit of practice to get the feel of how to use the cue, [Just in case Red didn't know what he referred to, Remy pointed to an extra cue that sat waiting to be used.] 'nd how the balls react dependin' where ya hit them.

See how ya go, then we can set up a friendly game for ya to try out.

[ Oh, thank you for going easy on the complete and utter newbie. Red goes for that cue pointed to first, picking it up and feeling how awkwardly weighted it is in his hands. He looks at it, then at the table before he walks up to it.

Okay, so. Time to do the awkward fumbling one does when they have the barest idea of how to hold a cue. The end part definitely didn't go over the shoulder, so uhhh, let's just put that under the arm, and... wait, if one hand goes somewhere near the front of the cue, where does the second hand go? Under the other arm? But I can't move now??

help i am 10 years old and what am i doing ]

[Hey, the kid had to learn somehow, but it didn't mean Remy was going to leave him to figure it all out by himself.]

Ok, hold it in ya- are ya right handed or left? Whatever be ya dominant hand, hold the cue 'bout here, []Remy held his own cue on the lower half of its length.] for now, may need to adjust it as ya go.

How ya hold ya hand on the table be different for each person, give it a go 'nd see what feels best. [Leaning over the table, as if to shoot, Remy showed Red how his own preference, using his knuckles as a rest for his cue.]

Like this, [He flattened his hand out, resting it against the table top and sitting his cue on that.] Might be easier to start with. [Worse case, Remy would grab the cross rest for Red to use.]

[ Red hoped that he might've been able to do it by himself, but he's not going to turn away the man's instructions. He follows by eyes and ears, watching how he holds it and trying to copy it in his own hands. He's left handed, and what feels best on the table -- well, a little early possibly for the newbie to know, and while both of the positions are strange to the touch, he goes for what's meant to be easier. Best to start off with that.

He moves the cue stick gently back and forth -- without much grace, -- trying to get a feel for the way it might move. As long as he doesn't end up screwing up when actually trying for shots. ]

Does the stick always feel weird when you start?

Oui, it ain't the most natural thing in the world. Give a couple of shots a go, if ya still havin' trouble, will grab something else to help ya out.

All be 'bout practice, no one masters this in one game.

[ He'll try it first without the extra help, though lingers on that back and forth moment before hitting the white ball. It turns out clunky for him, and while the ball hits the one he was aiming for, everything to how the ball rolls, how lightly it ends up hitting and not causing much movement into the one it does takes Red's interest than feeling accomplished that aw yeah, got it to hit!

(It wasn't a really amazing hit anyway.)

But he takes the man's advice to try for a few more hits, the first go leaving the white ball in an awkward position that makes him have to judge how to place his cue stick on the table. The knocks he makes aren't fantastic, still very very clunky in how they look and feel, but Red gets that maybe it's just how it's supposed to feel.

Anyway, he doesn't want to take the whole game away from the man. After two more tries he backs from the table looking at the positions of all the balls, then over to the better player. ]

What is it called again -- the game? [ He said, didn't he? ] Mais?

[Hell, it was better than Red hitting it too hard and either sending a ball off the table, or missing and tearing up the felt.]

Quoi? Non, mais means 'but'. This be pool, or billiards. Once ya get the feel of how the cue works, then be all down to geometry. [Leaning over the table, Remy took his own shot, sinking one more but also trying to position some of the others to make the next shot easier for Red.]

Give a go at gettin' that one into the corner pocket.