BY JIM KNIPPENBERG
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Not to get all personal or anything, but would you eat off a plate full of squiggly things that look a heck of a lot like, well, some pretty tortured amoeba taking a swim?
Wellsir, somebody's going to. And they paid $70 bucks to do it.
That from the Junior League, which threw a little fund-raising do with the Kiln, a do-it-yourself pottery palace in Hyde Park.
What the JL did was get 20 local celebs (arts, media, sports) to decorate plates. Then Kiln owner Carol Philpott did the glaze 'n' fire bit and showed them off in her window. The idea was to build interest in last Saturday's auction and fund-raiser.
You know the bit: Bid furiously, buy a plate and, we don't know, stash a Rick Minter in your pantry. And so they did -- the event raised $1,300 for Fernside Center for Grieving Children; Family Friends, a group that fights child abuse; and F.L.I.G.H.T., a mentoring program at Washburn School.
Highest price, for those keeping score, was a platter by the Enquirer's Jim Borgman: $300. Lowest was a tie: Channel 5's Terry Daniels and WKRQ-FM's JohnJay Van Es: $25.
GET BENT: Well fine. As soon as you hit the remote and get tuned in to cable's QVC, you might want to wrap your legs around your elbows or something.
Do it in honor of Lilias Folan. As opposed to doing it in honor of QVC, and the 20 gazillion cubic zirconia they've sold to ladies in Iowa or somewhere.
Turns out Lilias has a May 22 date (8 p.m.) selling her Lilias! Yoga Workout for Beginners tapes ($14.95).
Lilias, recall, is the local yoga expert who made a national name with Lilias, Yoga and You on Channel 48 and PBS. Her thing in life has always been "if I did it, you can do it," a message she always backed up with personal stories, namely tales about her long-ago life as a housewife addicted to jelly doughnuts. She turned that life around through yoga.
We may or may not get those stories on QVC. All she's promising at this point is to "wiggle my ears for Cincinnati" -- something we understand she do whilst inserting her toes in them.
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