This past Saturday I rendezvoused with Agent Courtney and other Friends of Leisure to experience the new undercover mission of our own Secret Agent Spork. Traveling the country under the auspices of a certain liquor company, joined by several plexiglass setpieces, a gaggle of vinyl hotpants and bouffant wigs, a few scantily clad performance artists, and a juggling bartender, Spork will be providing optic stimulation at a series of promotional parties intended to attract thong-wearing clubgoers to a new variation on a famous alcohol brand.
This tour, which will travel the East Coast before moving on to the Midwest, California, and Miami, provides an opportunity to study a wide swath of humanity, most of which we Leisurely, in our attempts to avoid twenty-dollar covers and pelvic thrusting, don't see that much of.
Secret Agent Spork would like to take advantage of this rare glimpse into the lives of many by developing a short survey for the partiers she encounters, a kind of "state of the nation" checkup which might reveal interesting differences or similarities among people who live in various regions. She is interested in hearing your ideas for questions, with the following guidelines:
-The survey should be short (perhaps three questions total).
-The questions should be simple for tipsy people to understand above the din of four-on-the-floor beats, but provocative enough to elicit thoughtful answers.
-Spork would prefer to ask questions that give us insight into people's lives beyond the Saturday night club circuit.*
Please submit your ideas for questions in the comments below, or e-mail me if you are shy. Spork will be selecting the questions, or using them as inspiration, as she sees fit.
*For example, though I very much wanted to ask everyone at the venue I attended "Why are you here?" and "Do you think pants will continue to get lower and lower, and if so will you go there?" these questions are insular to the club environment itself.
Posted by hilatron at September 9, 2003 10:38 AM | TrackBack