Rantings from the bonfire
Will make this quick as I am currently at work:
FRIDAY: The Olympics Opening Ceremonies were truly amazing.. officially cool, and yet gave me such a yen for aromatic crispy duck pancakes.. AUGH! Too far from the Dragon Inn, the most blessed restaurant on earth!
SATURDAY: I got up late, in fact, yet a bit too late (as if) and scrambled to get flyers done for next Friday's Those Who Munch: a those_who_mourn event as you know.. but if you don't:
Fri Aug 15 8PM Mehak Indian Restaurant, 817 7th Street N.W. DC near Gallery Pl/Chinatown Metro (Yellow/Green/Red).. mmm.. CURRY
So anyway at Kinko's I discovered that I couldn't get the flyers created (hence the earlier LJ rant) and even the Kinko's associate couldn't get the flyers created, thus, we all gave up, no flyers for dcmidnight, and I felt like I failed the entire event, were it not for the very encouraging phone call from dmcindc, that is..
So off to dcmidnight I go and hang with awesome freaks like dmcindc, Staton, Joseph Blackfeather, djpanic, dharmata101 and valdyr, the awesome Gothic goods of DJ Lost and his Gothic Shoppe crew, my Gothic neighbors Daniel and (augh what is her name again?), Rob (Vamp), rivingmass (welcome back) who seemed to bring the entire U.S. military with him (when not bravely fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, they're hanging with their fellow freaks! Makes me feel safer being an American nowadays) - in fact, literally at least one from Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines were all there that night!! Also got to see Kristin for the last time for a while as she's moving back to school in Philadelphia (cool Metro ride back, sorry for the drunken normies).. meeting Warren (who's in the Army hehe) who was blown away by my Zune pictorial portrayal of events such as The Black Orchid, Freak Mini-Golf II and other blackened gatherings..
Oh, and a personal note: When advertising a certain texting for VIP treatment, please advertise the TIMES they are valid for texting in whatever manner you advertise, especially on that big sheet of paper right on front of the venue for all to see; I did not appreciate texting in only to find out I was too late to do so; that was very uncool and I am very unhappy..
SUNDAY: I hung out with Ryan for a bit and then later on scrambled to meet up with dmcindc, fortyhumans and pragma_x for the Thrift Store Bonanza, the Ziti Dinner (mmmm) and to see The Orphanage, but it was a blast, also met Brendan of Red This Ever and a few other people, and very friendly cats.. and mmmm crab dip mmmmm.. again proving dmcindc is the Queen of Event Planners (i'm just the court jester)
That is all. Back to work. And last night's Olympics party was fun! Don't worry, I'm only like this once every 4 years.. wait, Joe and I get along?? GET ALONG??????? [Shut up, Scott.. and you and Stacia are one of us, stop fighting it]
Phil
FRIDAY: The Olympics Opening Ceremonies were truly amazing.. officially cool, and yet gave me such a yen for aromatic crispy duck pancakes.. AUGH! Too far from the Dragon Inn, the most blessed restaurant on earth!
SATURDAY: I got up late, in fact, yet a bit too late (as if) and scrambled to get flyers done for next Friday's Those Who Munch: a those_who_mourn event as you know.. but if you don't:
Fri Aug 15 8PM Mehak Indian Restaurant, 817 7th Street N.W. DC near Gallery Pl/Chinatown Metro (Yellow/Green/Red).. mmm.. CURRY
So anyway at Kinko's I discovered that I couldn't get the flyers created (hence the earlier LJ rant) and even the Kinko's associate couldn't get the flyers created, thus, we all gave up, no flyers for dcmidnight, and I felt like I failed the entire event, were it not for the very encouraging phone call from dmcindc, that is..
So off to dcmidnight I go and hang with awesome freaks like dmcindc, Staton, Joseph Blackfeather, djpanic, dharmata101 and valdyr, the awesome Gothic goods of DJ Lost and his Gothic Shoppe crew, my Gothic neighbors Daniel and (augh what is her name again?), Rob (Vamp), rivingmass (welcome back) who seemed to bring the entire U.S. military with him (when not bravely fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, they're hanging with their fellow freaks! Makes me feel safer being an American nowadays) - in fact, literally at least one from Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines were all there that night!! Also got to see Kristin for the last time for a while as she's moving back to school in Philadelphia (cool Metro ride back, sorry for the drunken normies).. meeting Warren (who's in the Army hehe) who was blown away by my Zune pictorial portrayal of events such as The Black Orchid, Freak Mini-Golf II and other blackened gatherings..
Oh, and a personal note: When advertising a certain texting for VIP treatment, please advertise the TIMES they are valid for texting in whatever manner you advertise, especially on that big sheet of paper right on front of the venue for all to see; I did not appreciate texting in only to find out I was too late to do so; that was very uncool and I am very unhappy..
SUNDAY: I hung out with Ryan for a bit and then later on scrambled to meet up with dmcindc, fortyhumans and pragma_x for the Thrift Store Bonanza, the Ziti Dinner (mmmm) and to see The Orphanage, but it was a blast, also met Brendan of Red This Ever and a few other people, and very friendly cats.. and mmmm crab dip mmmmm.. again proving dmcindc is the Queen of Event Planners (i'm just the court jester)
That is all. Back to work. And last night's Olympics party was fun! Don't worry, I'm only like this once every 4 years.. wait, Joe and I get along?? GET ALONG??????? [Shut up, Scott.. and you and Stacia are one of us, stop fighting it]
Phil