Post # 100! Woo – Hoo! 7/21/07 Sedona Green Blog’s 100th Post!!!
Welcome to Sedona Green Blog’s 100th post! No balloons or cake, but the century mark is always a good excuse for a candid and forthright speech about the object of the celebration. In other words, I would like to talk a bit about what exactly Sedona Green Blog is, and what it isn’t.
Sedona Green Blog is a whimsical, daily brief on local events and 
topics that constitute the local “buzz” in Sedona. It is not a Sedona-facts resource. Sedona Green Blog presents opinions, often based solely on my personal experience, often based on hearsay. Sedona Green Blog is not journalism. Sedona Green Blog attempts to share the humor, frustrations and triumphs specific to this bizarre, beautiful, world-famous, small city. Sedona Green Blog does not intentionally slander any person, group, business or industry. Sedona Green Blog attempts to share th
e comedy and absurdity of running a business in a tourist town; the point-of-view represented is typically that of the owner/manager of Sedona Green, whose wit is occasionally questionable due to long hours in the shop and lack of sleep. Sedona Green Blog is not a 100,000 word advertisement; in fact, the vast majority of the events I discuss in this blog occur “outside” Sedona Green at venues with which I have absolutely no financial relationship. Sedona Green Blog is primarily of interest to persons who are curious about our curious, little, world-famous town, people who want to read the real buzz, not the Chamber of Commerce fact sheet.
topics that constitute the local “buzz” in Sedona. It is not a Sedona-facts resource. Sedona Green Blog presents opinions, often based solely on my personal experience, often based on hearsay. Sedona Green Blog is not journalism. Sedona Green Blog attempts to share the humor, frustrations and triumphs specific to this bizarre, beautiful, world-famous, small city. Sedona Green Blog does not intentionally slander any person, group, business or industry. Sedona Green Blog attempts to share th
e comedy and absurdity of running a business in a tourist town; the point-of-view represented is typically that of the owner/manager of Sedona Green, whose wit is occasionally questionable due to long hours in the shop and lack of sleep. Sedona Green Blog is not a 100,000 word advertisement; in fact, the vast majority of the events I discuss in this blog occur “outside” Sedona Green at venues with which I have absolutely no financial relationship. Sedona Green Blog is primarily of interest to persons who are curious about our curious, little, world-famous town, people who want to read the real buzz, not the Chamber of Commerce fact sheet.
And now for something 
completely different: Went to a party for two friends-of-a-friend last night. Both guests of honor are moving forward /onward in their lives. (Happens a lot in Sedona.) One is taking a new job, the other is preparing to move back East, closer to her family. I’ve mentioned before the two classifications of parties you encounter in Sedona: the parties that are over by 9 PM so that all the guests can be home and in bed by 9:30, and the parties that don’t begin until 9:30 because most of the guests work ’til 9 every night. Well, this party was one of the late-night variety. I didn’t get there until 10.
completely different: Went to a party for two friends-of-a-friend last night. Both guests of honor are moving forward /onward in their lives. (Happens a lot in Sedona.) One is taking a new job, the other is preparing to move back East, closer to her family. I’ve mentioned before the two classifications of parties you encounter in Sedona: the parties that are over by 9 PM so that all the guests can be home and in bed by 9:30, and the parties that don’t begin until 9:30 because most of the guests work ’til 9 every night. Well, this party was one of the late-night variety. I didn’t get there until 10.
Then the Harry Potter Party at Well Red Coyote began at 10:30; I arrived about 11:30 — just in time to enter the raffle for a wizard’s broomstick and to hear Jen Valencia, David Vincent Mills and Gary Every perform. (Ms. Valencia read an original poem in which she summarized all six previous Harry Potter books in less th
an five minutes — not an easy task, but she did.) I didn’t win the broomstick, but I picked up a copy of Greg Lilly’s first mystery novel, Fingering The Family Jewels — a title that cracks me up, but makes me blush when customers ask what I’m reading. So, now I have two books to read this upcoming week: Jewels and Harry Potter. If you call the store and I don’t pick up the phone, I’m probably reading. 
an five minutes — not an easy task, but she did.) I didn’t win the broomstick, but I picked up a copy of Greg Lilly’s first mystery novel, Fingering The Family Jewels — a title that cracks me up, but makes me blush when customers ask what I’m reading. So, now I have two books to read this upcoming week: Jewels and Harry Potter. If you call the store and I don’t pick up the phone, I’m probably reading.
Returned to the first party after midnight and enjoyed the company so intensely that I stayed waaaaay too long. Out of self respect, I’m not going to say when I finally left, just that I’m sleepy enough right now to lie down on one of the benches in the store and drift off to dreamland … fighting the urge to do just that.
Tourists of the Day: Must have been 200 French kids — high-school age– sitting in the plaza earlier today. Not one came up and bought something!
Sedona Buzz: Everybody’s waiting for the monsoons. It’s like a betting sport. The forecast has told us to expect rain nearly every day for the last two weeks … we’ve received very little. Flagstaff, on the other hand, has had rain by the bucketful … but it stops somewhere along the 89A switchbacks.
Blogging break over. Back to work I go. Peace, War, etc.
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