Afterwards, we cruised around some more hoping inspiration would strike twice and we're disappointed when we stumbled upon Maple Lanes (which has since closed!). I don't know if bowling can fix a freak-out, but it probably can't hurt it!
THE HOFF. NUFF SAID. (This is like the Abbey Road of bowling pin autographs. It's like, once he's signed a pin you might as well throw away the special ceremonial bowling-pin-autographing-pen they have, right? Who could possibly top this?)
Carson Daly! Macaulay Culkun! Drew Barrymore! Claire Danes! WOW!!!! I like how if you look in the mirror in the background you can see how totally starstruck I am by the caliber of celebrities Bowlmore has gotten to autograph bowling pins. Nicely done, also, Bowlmore Lanes.
Birthday friends at the scoring console! Also: Sean looks like a homeless man in this photo. ALSO: I wonder why Ellen is leaning away from him like that. It's almost like she's dodging a bullet or something. ZING!
Most of other photos of people walking away from "the line" after their turn are portraits of defeat. Here's Jamie marching back to the bench after NOT getting a strike.
Three words: RAW. ANIMAL. POWER. So it's a couple of frames later, and Posh has gotten himself another two strikes in a row and he's on the cusp of a SECOND TURKEY IN THE SAME GAME! I told him he looked a little nervous. And Posh Tony, well Posh Tony just smiled, slowly strolled up to the line and...
...BLAMO! Delivered! Since electronic scorekeeping came out, getting a turkey has been elevated to LEGENDARY STATUS mostly because people love the hokey "turkey animations" that the different bowling scoring systems throw up on the scoring display.
In bowling, if you get three strikes in a row, it's called a turkey. It's exciting because it's a pretty difficult thing to do (I mean, after you get two strikes in a row, the pressure mounts because everyone is watching and wondering, WILL HE BE ABLE TO PULL IT OFF?). Posh stepped up to the lane and...
You may not know this (in fact, why would you?), but in addition to being a singer/songwriter , small business entrepreneur and the only white man who can convincingly impersonate JB Smoove, Antony "Posh Tony" Ellis is also an EXCELLENT bowler. Here is getting ready to "roll" for the first time. (He got a strike).
Check out the birthday boy's MEDINA SOD shirt! (For any of you that are not huge Big Lebowski fans, this is the shirt that The Dude, the protagonist of the movie, wears throughout the bowling scenes in the movie.)
I'd been playing a lot of Wii bowling at home and figure I'd totally dominate, but it turns out that Leigh and Jackson were even more obsessed than I was and I totally got my ass handed to me.
Lawrence was waaaay to drunk to make it home from his party so he spent the night on our couch! We spent the next day working off our hangovers with a little Wii Bowling! Here's Lawrence showing off his bowling form!
I'm not sure exactly which weekend this was taken because bowling was one of our favorite things to do this summer. But not just any bowling, oh no, this was Rock 'n Bowl! Aw yeah boyeee.
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