What a week. Thanks to everyone who checked out my Freshly Pressed post on the worst dressed cities in America. That pleasant surprise hit less than an hour after my guest post showed up at Kristen Lamb’s site.
In the midst of all the writing activity I spoke for three days at a great youth event called Teen Madness. What an amazing experience that was capped off when a couple of sneaky peeps got me good by dumping an entire 5 gallon cooler of pink lemonade on me! Now I know how those coaches feel. So cold. I repaid one of the culprits with a big, wet bear hug.
You can’t help but experience raw joy during the closing spectacle called Muckfest. Here’s a short roundup video complete with some snapshots as well as the hilarious clip my friends made to introduce me each night.
Have you ever done anything like a Muckfest?
Great stuff! Love the intro clip.
I’ve never done a Muckfest. What the heck is all that goo you are rolling in?
It’s a combo of mud, water from fire trucks, and actual slime provided by a company that provides such things. Mucky!
I love the intro and can see you as Flynn Rider. If he knew 80′s movies.
It doesn’t hurt I’ve seen Tangled about 100 times…
Why does the muckfest goo look like the stuff from You Can’t Do That on Television?
Congrats on being “pressed” again.
It’s exactly like that Nick stuff Kelly. It’s a powder that mixes with water to make SLIME! Tx.
I can’t wait to hear your big announcement! I’ve never participated in a Muckfest but my friends and I had an impromptu mud fight during sophomore year of college after a big storm rolled through. It was a week before finals and the best stress reliever we’d ever experienced.
That’s the kind of thing I’m talking about, a random mudslinging fest. Those are always memorable.
Wow. Be careful not to get a big head, Clay, after that kind of trailer, LOL. Looking forward to Wednesday.
Thanks Kathy. I’ll keep my cartoonish ego in check
And what, pray tell, was your answer to the breakfast food question?
Oh, I knew you’d ask of all people. Okay, you know in my heart that Pop Tarts came to mind first, but I had to go with a known crowd pleaser based on earlier discussions. I said Cap’n Crunch.
What about “bacon”?
Mmmm…bacon.
We really need to try those Cap’n Crunch pancakes….
Indeed. Hook it up girl!
It’ll be my treat next time you’re in Baltimore!
Yes! Cap’n Crunch and bacon.
I LOVE the video! And yes I can see the resemblance, Hahaha!
Nice! I was asked to do the “smolder” or Flynn’s favorite expression about 30 times one night.
Of course the real question is are you allowed to cry at a muckfest?
To paraphrase Tom Hanks: There’s no crying at Muckfest!
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! We just finished a conference at church this week. I need at least a week to recover…:{
Yup, they can wear you down!
Wow! The strings you must have pulled to get to be a part of muck! *bows low and fans you*:-) I’m sure the message of Christ was brought in a whole new way! Thumbs up.
Are you allowing onlookers for operation de-flop? It should definitely be recorded! “how to say goodbye to your trademark”
Saying goodbye to my trademark? That puts some pressure on. Will I still be able to bring it without the hair? Kind of like Samson only I’m not super strong.
Love the video, Clay. I’ve never done a Muckfest. I’ve certainly mucked stalls, muckraked, and wallowed in the muck with a few pigs (figuratively) in my ancient days when I wasn’t such a nice person, but never a Muckfest. Looking forward to your big announcement!
Those farms will get you mucky indeed. That’s all work though!
Great video clip, and sounds like you’ve had an exciting week for sure! Looking forward to the announcement tomorrow.
P.S. Love the t-shirt.
You know how to make me happy Amanda, just mention the T-shirt
Video clip ruled. It totally got me pumped to hear you speak. Like everyone else, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the big announcement.
One day we’ll have the “everyone I’ve ever known through the internet” convention. Then I can speak there but only if I pay myself really well.
Of course I’ve done a Muckfest thing. Except we used mud. I went to summer camp. There was always one awesome storm each year and we all covered ourselves fromhead to toe.
Our parents would have killed us.
I just threw away the evidence.
Loved the Summer Intro-Outro. Fabulous!
Mud is always the easiest muck to mix up. We had the added delight of slime and temper-paint.
Wow I knew that guy in Tangled looked familiar, duh! A mucky good sport you are.
It was a blast for sure.
Awesome. I saw some of those mucky pictures on FB and was jealous. Congratulations on that.
Muck is my new favorite word.
Okay I posted that comment before I watched the video, and now I’ve seen it and have to say, was that a turtleneck you were wearing at the end there? I had no idea they still made those.
I KNOW WHAT I’M WEARING THIS WINTER!
Look at you replying to yourself. Your like that crazy person that walks around town and no one really knows who she is talking to. And what’s that you ask? Where’s the turtleneck shot from? Well, I might as well clue you into the clip you must’ve missed. You know I take a lot of pride in how I look on camera. Here’s my Christmas effort from last year.
http://educlaytion.com/2010/12/23/greatest-christmas-movie-ever-the-finals/
Muckfest looks like a blast.
Can’t say I’ve done anything like that. The closest I’ve come recently are dunk tanks and pies in the face (last year at school).
When I was a teen working on the farm, I’d often find myself driving old 5-tonne grain trucks, hauling grain in 90+ F temperatures, no air conditioning. When you deal with barley, the dust is fine and incredibly itchy. You have to wear long pants and sleeves. Even still, the dust creeps its way into the insides of your elbows and the backs of your knees. So, after 12 hours of doing this, I used to jump into our pond, clothes and all. There was some algae… I’d wander back across the road to the house, strip on the step, and shower. Only to itch again.
Not Muckfest, but mucky nonetheless.
That reminds me of the forsaken times I’ve had to work with fiberglass insulation. That pink stuff is miserable. Drywall sanding on a construction site sans AC during the summer is also up there. Muckfest is definitely way more fun than all of those things.
No muckfests for me. It’d be a strange day that I’d choose to get that messy, unless I was playing Ultimate Frisbee in the rain – then bring it on!