Gayle Selden was an easy interview seeing as we’re good friends who met during our first days together in the Junior League of Tacoma back in 2004. In 2006, with the help of a few JLT co-members, I embarked on beginning a little fund-raiser called Bib ‘n’ Bid — a crab feed and auction that raised a keen amount of money for one of the oldest and most historic nonprofits serving the greater Tacoma area. This year, Gayle Selden acts as Bib ’n’ Bid Chairwoman. I met up with her to wish her luck, and throw in a few predictable crab jokes.



STEPH DEROSA: Hey Gayle. Hey. Hey. Hey Gayle. Guess what? You have crabs. Tee-hee!


GAYLE SELDEN: I know I do! Tee-hee!



DEROSA: Crabs. That makes me giggle.



SELDEN: Me too.



DEROSA: So just how many crabs are you going to get this Saturday night?


SELDEN: We’ll have 300 pounds of crabs.



DEROSA: Wow Gayle, that’s a lot of crabs. Are you ladies going to let the guys know that you have crabs?



SELDEN: Well, it would be only fair. Of course we won’t give them crabs until after they’ve drank the beer we’ll have on hand from Doyle’s Public House.



DEROSA: Good thinking. Beer, men, and crabs — this totally reminds me of high school. Do you think there will be people making out in dark corners?



SELDEN: Probably not. But if anyone is interested in making out, we do have some single ladies in the Junior League.



DEROSA: You sure you want me to put that in the paper?


SELDEN: Actually, you better not.



DEROSA: No problem. What else will be available to drink besides beer from Doyle’s? If it’s anything like my high school days you’ll have plenty of wine coolers on hand for the ladies.


SELDEN: We plan on playing “wine roulette.” For $20 they get a random wine bottle valued between $15 and $45.



DEROSA: Sweet. I’m in. Now back to the crab. How do you plan on getting rid of all those crabs? Are you going to ask the men to come clean-shaven?



SELDEN: What? Why would I do that? Oh, gross. I just had to swallow some vomit from that thought. Thanks.



DEROSA: My job here is done.



[Bellarmine Student Center, Saturday, March 7, $45 (door or Second Closet at 10th and Pacific Ave.), 2300 S. Washington St., Tacoma, 253.383.9269]