swingchickie | awww, now i'm all weepy and schmoopy.

a few weeks ago, i had posted about the passing of frankie manning, one of the pioneers of lindy hop. well, this weekend was a big event in NYC for what would have been his 95th birthday (every year a different city hosts frankie's birthday party, which is a long weekend filled with dancing around the clock at different venues). i couldn't afford the $600 for the ticket, but over 2,000 lindy hoppers did, and the videos that have already been coming out of the weekend have been awesome. the one below especially brought a tear to my eye, it's wonderful... it's people all over the world doing the "shim sham", a really fun swing line dance. some of the clips are laugh-out-loud funny. enjoy.

between this video, a jaunt to whole foods to get nummy gazpacho ingredients, and a couple of hours of weeding in the garden, i'm feeling much less cold-y now. perhaps healthy food, sunshine and exercise, and a good laugh was all i really needed.