CHRISTMAS AT LIBERTY VALANCE

Entertainment By The Bean Dip

Liberty Valance held it's employee X-mas party sunday night,Dec.19th,and for the second year had Bean Dip supply the music.It was a great party! All the employee's and other invited guests had a wonderful time! Of course,some had a more wonderful time than others,depending on the quantity of Shane's purple passion they had ingested----hahaha. Ikey,Shirley,Shane,Donna and Shawn laid out a wonderful spread of goodies to munch on.This year it was Ikey(not Shirley)who kicked off his shoes first. Even though he had been sick,he proceeded to get the party going almost single handed.Must have been the wonder drug medicine he started imbibing almost immediately upon arrival!!(hmmmm--my doctor never prescribed booze for me!).Greg did his part to empty the purple passion cooler in an attempt to try to keep the others from drinking too much.He put forth a hurculean effort. It wasn't too far into the evening when Bean had to stop playing so the gang could recieve their x-mas presents.There were 2 presents that i think were the highlite of the evening. One being a lottery ticket that the Bartender opened stating she had won $10,000------was she ever jumping up and down and screaming.Upon finding out later that it was a gag lottery ticket,she screamed even louder and chased Shane all around the restaurant!!! And she was fast!! Old Bush-boy had to really scoot to get away from her---hahaha.The other present that stands out was an inflatable chair that Shawn had recieved.After inflation it was kind of discarded and just sitting on the floor. Later in the evening,the life of the party( Ikey Mason)kinda-sorta-while dancing-accidentally-listed to starboard and toppled backwards into it! It was a scream. Being unable to get back up(Help me i've fallen and can't reach my drink!!) the head of the Mason clan started laughing so hard and so long that his sides hurt ,"I can't get up! I can't stop laughing! My sides hurt! Help me!!!". As Shirley called for help,numerous guests and family came to his rescue and-------promptly went back and got their cameras and took very artistic shots from all angles,they then laughed at him---and returned to what they were doing! Finally,Shane's wife Donna(with some help from the Bean Dip)rescued Santa Ikey from the green monster chair and sat him in the corner! It only took 20 minutes for him to be rescued.That was not the only casualty of the evening either! Ms. Brenda(Liberty's chief waitress and all around fount of knowledge)while attempting to regale the crowd with her vocal talent,lost her footing among Bean's equipment and did a one-and-a-half gainer off the microphone stand and dove head first into Bean's peavey p.a. system and amplifier!! You'll be glad to know that the equipment wasn't hurt, and Brenda's head was ok too!!--LoL--- Not to be outdone,Ms. Gingifer,while dancing a conga line decided that the music would probably sound better if one of Bean's speakers were adjusted just a tad----so-------she decided to fine tune it's sound by adjusting it with her leg(which might have been acting independantly from the rest of her by then)and kicked it over.But, once again there was no damage done thanks to the quick reflexes of her date, Larry. A fine time was had by all, i do believe.

If all goes well,Bean's next gig is at the Cozy Corner on Dec.29th.Come on by and hear him if you can!!!