Chaise Lounge

We will host a party tonight in the showroom of the furniture factory to celebrate all of our lazy summer achievements. We are especially proud to announce that the Crooner Crackers, our newest four piece kamp band, will premier at the event.  Their harmonies are not tight, their repertoire is lean and they only have a tenuous grasp of phrasing, but boy do they have heart!  Come one, come all! Please remember to dress like gentlefolk.

Karaoke

Please stop spreading rumors about Dominique Strauss-Kahn taking over the DJ booth tonight.

Stormy Sunday

This Sunday we will have a four piece Rag-Time band and Sazerac Cocktails* on the main terrace where we plan to welcome Irene and all of the new Kampers.  Boater hats suggested.  All are invited.

*We will provide root beer for the teetotalers and HI-C for the Racket Ball League.

Red, White but Mostly Blue Lazarus

In light of the volatile rhetoric that is bubbling out of the Republican presidential primary race, we chose America as the recurring theme for the new Koop semester, which begins in just three days.  We highly recommend the following reading/viewing for insight into the country's ever-changing character:

1. Franz Kafka's Amerika

2. Jean Baudrillard's America

3. Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America: World Police

4. Alex de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

5. Nancy Pearcy's Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity (a Bachmann favorite)

Duck, Duck, Zoloft

A number of members of the Androgynous Advertising Association  found a sense of empowerment Tuesday night while reading select Baudrillard passages aloud around the nightly kampfire and s'mores roast. Specifically, they were fond of the idea that advertising represents "degree zero of meaning" within current societal structure.  Even so, the empowerment quickly dissolved into an open quarry of existential angst when they analyzed the current iteration of their advertisement for the upcoming Koop Film Festival that has neither a location nor any selected films.  The ad was shot in stop-motion and involves a complex narrative about a lonely duck that gets caught in the rain.  It is tongue-in-cheek yet "cute" all at the same time but it has nothing to do with a film festival.  If their ad has nothing to do with something that is horribly incomplete, then they have stepped behind degree zero into a world of unrealized understanding.  Sound familiar?

Green Thumb

The kampers have thus far proven themselves as savvy investors.  All the participants profited and three notable members were so skilled as to treble their principal on a compounding daily basis.  Of those three, two will run a small hedge fund for the kamp out of the long abandoned and newly renovated powder magazine north of Koop Pond. The third member chose to continue on with his Koop Grant Project to build a reverse osmosis lab in order to source "perfect" water for his agricultural experiment entitled "Plant Parenthood" where he plans to coddle fruits and vegetables with ideal growing conditions in warehouse three.