DC Kokonvention Scrapbook, Continued

First installment: We take over Barnes & Noble. Slideshow: Day One (comment #47) Purple Panda's movie (comment #63) Slideshow: Day Two (comment #64) Warning: slow loading times ahead for some.

First installment: We take over Barnes & Noble.
Slideshow: Day One (comment #47)
Purple Panda’s movie (comment #63)
Slideshow: Day Two (comment #138878)

More pictures below. See comment #47.

Date: August 19, 2007

Author: Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Kokonventions, Nonrandom Craziness

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:26

Rebecca didn’t have time to write captions before she went to bed, but this was the initial rendezvous on the morning of ~~September~~August 10. (I wasn’t there; from the bookstore, they trooped up to the building where I work.)

Note ~~Twilight~~Midnight Fiddler’s amazing pie-shaped purse, with its visually punning “pied type” decorations. We’ll have to coax her into posting a pattern for it on the blog.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:29

Who’s who? Julieb/Sobriquet has very curly hair. She looks absolutely nothing like I imagined her. In fact, so completely unlike I imagined her that it’s hard to believe. Very nice hair, though!
Midnight Fiddler, on the other hand, looks almost exactly like I imagined her.
But I really have no idea about anyone else. This is ridiculous. I’ve even seen pictures of Pan and THF, I should be able to tell them at least!

Glassboro has long hair, no? Is he the person in the far left of the second picture?

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:30

1- Twilight Fiddler? Has she changed her name?

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:34

Oops. I must have been thinking about her and Twilight Rain at the same time — odd, because they’re very different people.

THF and Purple Panda are the ones inspecting the video camera.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:40

4- Seriously? I could have guessed THF, but Pan looks like she’s eleven! *is utterly weirded out*

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Glassboro

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:41

I have long hair… Yes. It’s nice to see people again, I’d forgotten what they looked like.

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The Skipper Nancy

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:43

That pie purse is amazing. I am in awe. I sorta wish I could have gone. One day, perhaps…

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:45

The Muse Academy shirt in the second photo is being worn by Rosanne. Rebecca isn’t in these photos, because she took them.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:48

Hey Fiddler, how did you make that pie purse?

An anonymous thing wants to know.

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Purple Panda

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:56

5 (Alice) – Eleven? I’m *fifteen.* I guess I could pass as 12 or so, but 11’s even younger than THF! Oh well.

FIRST PICTURE: I’m the one with braided hair and Muse Academy shirt on the far left of the 1st picture. (The far right is Curious and Questioning, and the middle is Capricious)

SECOND PICTURE: Curly hair is Sobriqet, braded hair on the right is Midnight Fiddler (you can only see the bck of her head) Glassboro is at the far left (blondish long hair), then comes Red-tailed HAWK’s mom and dad, then him (wearing signatures shirt), then Rosanne, and Taiwan Hippo Fan sitting down.

THIRD PICTURE: Taiwan Hippo Fan on the left holding the video camera, Purple Panda (me) on the right.

FOURTH PICTURE: Sobriquet, C&Q, Cappy, Lady Visala of Reverie. (That’s in order, from left to right. Visala is on the far right).

FIFTH PICTURE: Shadowkat (wearing signature shirt)

SIXTH/SEVENTH PICTURE: Midnight Fiddler and her flamablamablous pie purse

EIGHTH PICTURE: (Sorry, I don’t know some of these people) From bottom to top: Shadowkat’s brother is wearing the blue shirt, 2 dads (sorry, I’m not sure who they belong to), THF wearing white shirt, Purple Panda and THF’s mom wearing white shirt and blue-ish pants, Sobriquet, Lady Visala, Glassboro, Capricious (wearing blue), Purple Panda, Midnight Fiddler (covering her face), Red-tailed HAWK, Rt-H’s parents, and random B&N people.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 19th, 2007 @ 21:57

I’ve identified everyone but Shadowkat, c+q, and Lady Visala. And Capricious, but she just *might* be the girl in the blue shirt. But I really don’t know.

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Sobriquet

in August 19th, 2007 @ 22:16

Oh god, I’m smiling really strangely. Oh well. Yes, I am the one with the curls. I’m also wearing a “Mostly Harmless” shirt and carrying a gigantic “Bo Knows” bag, but you can’t tell from these pictures.

Alice-That’s ok, I still picture you as the Disney Alice from Alice in Wonderland. I try not to, but I do anyway. Thank you. Shadowkat is the one in the fifth picture (on the right) by herself, wearing a signature shirt. Capricious, I believe (and I totally hope I don’t screw this up) is the one in blue, and c+q (again, sorry if I get this wrong) is on the far right of the first picture. Lady Visala is wearing the “Resistance is Museless” HPB shirt in the third picture. I’m petrified of mis-identifying anyone and am completely sorry if I have.

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Purple Panda

in August 19th, 2007 @ 22:26

1 (Robert) – I think you mean August 10th, not September 10th.

Thanks for putting up the pictures, they’re great!!

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 19th, 2007 @ 22:29

10- I KNOW you’re fifteen! You ACT fifteen! But the pictures make you look really young. Only these ones, oddly enough. In the other picture I saw of you, you looked the proper age.
But bear in mind, I’m really bad at guessing ages. Sometimes I can’t even tell a small grown-up from a kid!

My natural guesses proved to be correct, though Shadowkat gives me nearly as much of a shock as Julieb. I expected her to look different, somehow…

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 19th, 2007 @ 22:32

(13) Yes, August. Washington is bearable in September. I’d probably better go to bed before I make any more mistakes.

Rebecca posted these photos.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 19th, 2007 @ 22:35

12- Seriously? I look like the Disney Alice? That’s really funny! *is trying very hard not to laugh* I don’t mind, though. I haven’t even seen that movie.

I think if I were to pick an Alice illustration that looked the most like me out of all I’d seen, it would be Arthur Rackham’s Alice. Though that might be wishful thinking.

Off topic? Maybe. Slightly more on topic: I can hardly wait until next summer.

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widdershins (e~a)

in August 19th, 2007 @ 22:44

whee…!

pictures!

wheee!!!

… yes DC is boiling hot in August. I’ve relatives who live there and when I visit in August I boil. But actually, I get used to it quickly. Yup.

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Glassboro

in August 20th, 2007 @ 08:18

12- You were right.

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The Insane Blue Sage

in August 20th, 2007 @ 08:27

Sweet.

Still wishes she was there. Sigh.

And I could at least have been closish to there earlier in the summer, I was in PA. GRRRR

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Cinnamon Moon

in August 20th, 2007 @ 10:04

Purple Panda looks fifteen to me. THF looks about eleven though.

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Purple Panda

in August 20th, 2007 @ 13:09

I guess in pictures age is hard to tell – I don’t really see eleven, but I guess that’s because I know what I look like in pictures. *ponders*

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Vendaval

in August 20th, 2007 @ 16:08

Wow, it’s so weird to see everyone’s pictures! I expected RTH to be “louder looking”. It’s funny to hear Purple Panda&THF’s voices in Musecasts now and be able to picture them talking, but i think I’ve seen pictures of them before. And I thought Julieb/Sobriquet had straight, brown hair! Perhaps she reminds me of a friend with the same name.:)

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Capricious The Great and Terrrible (cappy)

in August 20th, 2007 @ 16:33

11- I’m the girl in the blue shirt and HPB hat with glasses, shorts and weird knees.

I’m in the middle and my arms are spread out strangely in the first picture.

If anyone watches Foster’s home for imaginary friends, the character on by shirt is Blooregard Q. Kazoo.

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curious and questioning

in August 20th, 2007 @ 17:12

I’m on the far right in the first picture, looking absolutely horrible (also slightly awkward), and I’m in the fourth picture down, in the middle, with my duct tape purse. That one’s OK-ish. I’m also just barely visible in the last picture, below Capricious (in blue, easy to spot) and above Glassboro. I think I’m reacting to something Capricious is saying, but it’s hard to tell. Which is basically what Purple Panda said (10). This brings back memories.

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 20th, 2007 @ 18:44

Hey all! I’m back for tonight only, then I have to endure 4 more days away from the computer, *sigh*

Anyway, thanks GAPAs for posting these!!!! Yeah, I look like an idiot in all thes pictures, ugh. It does bring back memories though. what a great time, I loved it, I’m still talking about it to anyone who’ll listen. (Not too many, by this point, mind you.)

I was so surprised when Glassboro had long hair, although for some reason I always pictured him with long hair. Bizzare.

23~ My knees are weirder, beleive me, I never wear shorts, precicely for that reason….

The pie shaped purse: As I’ve said before, I told my Mom what I wanted it to look like and she figured out how to do it.
It was made of felt, and the “filling” was just a round piece that I drew o with sharpies. The “crust” was a long wavy strip that we sewed to the filling, while tucking the woven stripes into it. Then we did the edges of the pan, sewing them to the crust and filling. Then sew the bottom of the pan to the edges of the pan. The opening was a cut into the bottom of the pan, and a gap in where the edges of the pan met.
I hope this all makes sense, but the pics are pretty good, so you should be able to figure it out if you want to!! Robert said we should sell them on the Musery loves Company. [|}
Oh, and the design, in hand set type, if you drop a tray of letters it’s called “pie” since there is no other word horrible enough for it, thus the letters all over the “filling” of my pie. Semi abstract.

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Shadowkat

in August 20th, 2007 @ 20:18

Eh…I look really fat in that picture…blaaaahhhhhhh. Oh well.

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kt the gr8

in August 21st, 2007 @ 08:53

when are we going to get the pictures from the 15th?

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 21st, 2007 @ 10:38

23- My sister noted that (about the shirt).

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Margaret

in August 21st, 2007 @ 12:06

I want to be at the next one. Seems like you guys had an amazing time! You all are so gorgeous, too. ;D c&q and I are talking about trying to organise one farther north at some point.

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Dancergirl13

in August 21st, 2007 @ 15:24

Cool pictures!!!!

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 21st, 2007 @ 21:04

It was so much fun. Looking at the pictures brings back a bunch of memories…..

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 21st, 2007 @ 21:11

Finally had some time to work on photos tonight and will post more tomorrow.

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 21st, 2007 @ 21:30

They’re great. The escalator picture is funny, it was a big group!!

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 21st, 2007 @ 22:07

Why were you covering your eyes? Are you afraid of escalators?

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 21st, 2007 @ 22:09

No, afraid of cameras, and people that carry them!! I like escalators.

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 21st, 2007 @ 22:18

Aha. I assumed you weren’t afraid of bookstores.

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 21st, 2007 @ 22:27

NO!!!!! NEVER!! I LOVE THE BOOKSTORE!
Actually, I don’t mind cameras, I just don’t like having my picture taken. I always look stupid, expecially when I’m wearing really unflattering 17th century clothes. Which, ironically, is when most people take my picture. Jamestown again.
I was mosly just being a brat when that picture was taken though.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 21st, 2007 @ 22:51

37- Ditto.

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Capricous The Great and Terrible (cappy)

in August 21st, 2007 @ 23:38

I have the worst slouch evah…

It makes my shirt go wrinkly. /:-/

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widdershins (e~a)

in August 21st, 2007 @ 23:40

*coughs*

…why Barnes and Noble when you could have gone to Politics & Prose?

or… there should be a kokonvention in Portland, OR, just so people can go to Powell’s (the store I’ve sadly never been too…)

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Lizzie

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 09:15

40 – I’ve been to Powell’s! it was really cool.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 10:09

40- YES YES!!!!! POWELL’S! I’m CLOSE to Powell’s!

Sorry for the capitals.

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'Dotty-kay

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 11:31

10: Yay, thanks for typing that out! I think you skipped c+q in the last picture… Oh, wait, she said that.

She looks different than in the math thread picture. Maybe because the hat covers her hair?

Very nice, everyone! I noticed that a lot of the girls who have purses have the kind with a long strap that you put over your head and one shoulder so the strap crosses over the front. I used to wear one like that, but the bag was bigger than I liked so I stopped using it every day.

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Margaret

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 12:58

37 ~ You look so nice in the picture of you with your pie, though.
I understand, though. I rarely look good in photos. Ugh.

40-42 ~ What is Powell’s?

43 ~ I like bags like that, too. My school bag is a big stripy Lesportsac (birthday present ♥) which I wear like that. The only thing is that I wear it over my right shoulder, which is the one I’m in the process of destroying with the sousaphone, so now I’m afraid that I’ll have to wear it on the other shoulder, and small changes like that drive me insane. (Like if I don’t have my watch, I tend to be antsy.)

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Jadestone

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 14:00

I don’t carry a purse, but if I did, I’d probably use a bigger one with a shoulder strap.

It’d have to be big, because I’d fill it with all sorts of useful stuff. Like needle-nosed pliers.

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Sweet Melpomene

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 14:38

45- Heh, that’s what I do. People always comment on how heavy it is. But I really need pliers and pens and my graphing calculator and an umbrella…*continues list*

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 21:48

Here’s a slideshow of the DC Kokonvention Day One. If you mouse over the image, you’ll find controls in the lower right corner to move forward, back, or pause.

NOTE: There are 9 pictures total. The last one is the group around the piano reading copies of Muse. Depending on your connection, it may take some time for all of them to load. The slideshow will keep cycling through the ones it has already loaded.

There are a few quirks in Photobucket’s delivery system. If a given slide presents an error message saying the picture has been removed or deleted, click on it, and a window with the still photo should open.

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Alice

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 21:52

Cool!

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Sobriquet

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 22:30

Awesome! Great job, Rebecca!

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 22:37

Thanks! Sobriquet, you’ll notice your pie makes several appearances.

I’ll try to get Day Two posted tomorrow, along with Purple Panda’s video.

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widdershins (e~a)

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 22:39

whee! I love Robert’s shadow puppet, And the koko gifts, and the muse reading photo.

I must congradulate the organizing GAPAs. Amazing Kokonvention (from what a non-attendee gathers by photos and videos). Thank you for providing it for those who could attend! (sadly, not I)

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Gimanator

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 23:04

wow…i wish I could have been there…

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Kiki the Great

in August 22nd, 2007 @ 23:39

-slideshow not working-

aw man…

That looked sooo fun. Let’s have a humungo one in Chicago next.

Anyone live in San Francisco? Need to know now, because I’m leaving tomorrow.

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Shadowkat

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 08:32

Shweet shlideshow!!!

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 11:22

(53) Kiki the Great, did you get the slideshow to work properly? When I switched computers this morning, I noticed a few, um, peculiarities and have added some notes to comment #47.

If anyone else has other problems with it, let us know. This is a first attempt at using this feature, so we weren’t sure what to expect.

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Fefnir Red Lord and Commander of the Jin'en Army

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 11:37

awsome slide show

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Lady Cinnamon Moon of Orange

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 14:27

I liked the slideshow, but it was a bit fast. I had to pause each slide to look at it.

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 15:05

(57) Unfortunately, I didn’t see a way to control the speed. This particular format at least allowed a pause button, which the others did not.

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Purple Panda

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 16:29

57 – I had to do the same thing.

Rebecca – Thanks for making the slideshow, it’s awesome!!

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 18:40

Wow, those were really fun pictures! I had so so so much fun, I hope we can do it again!! Yes, the first thing Robert did was make the Koko sign, everybody just started cheering. Ah, such great memories!
My Grandma enjoed hearing about it and seeing the pictures too.

Hugs to all, untill I get on a computer again! (wow, I only thought I’d get on ONCE this whole trip!) See you later!

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Sobriquet

in August 23rd, 2007 @ 21:32

Oh, no! I missed the massive muse-reading! And I had brought a couple of issues, too.

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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)

in August 24th, 2007 @ 15:23

61- Maybe Rebbecca could edit you into the picture from another picture taken at the kokonvention! You wouldn’t be reading muse but…

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 24th, 2007 @ 21:27

For your viewing pleasure: Purple Panda’s movie of the DC Kokonvention (Day One).

The first section is roughly nine minutes, and the second is just a couple of minutes.

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 24th, 2007 @ 22:11

And now the slideshow from Day Two. Before lunch we toured NPR, and later Ivars Peterson guided us through the Mathematical Association of America.

The images move pretty fast, but mouse over the picture and you’ll see the controls in the bottom right corner. See comment #47 for other technical details. There are six pictures.

From Purple Panda, this photo in which she and I practice the Kokopelli handshake:

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I, man-gator

in August 24th, 2007 @ 23:34

woah.

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Sobriquet

in August 24th, 2007 @ 23:44

It needs to be said. Flamablamablous!

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Purple Panda

in August 25th, 2007 @ 06:26

Weird – the sound on the movie got all un-synchronated. That’s weird. Thought it doesn’t really matter that much – it’s funny

Thanks for posting these, Rebecca!!

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The Insane Blue Sage

in August 25th, 2007 @ 11:22

coolishness

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Agrrrfishi

in August 25th, 2007 @ 12:13

omigosh WHY WASNT I THERE!!!!!!!!!!!

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kiwimuncher

in August 25th, 2007 @ 14:00

Awesomely Awesome.

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Kagcomix the Special

in August 25th, 2007 @ 14:43

wow. thanks. that was awesome!

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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)

in August 25th, 2007 @ 15:56

(67) Thank you, Purple Panda, for your videography and editing labors. It’s so much fun to see these and to hear all your voices again!

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Jadestone

in August 25th, 2007 @ 16:43

Hey, I posted last night saying how cool they were. Oh well, they’re awesome! It’s sort of fuzzy, but very good. Yay!

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Lizzie

in August 25th, 2007 @ 17:14

ah cool! I especially like the part in the first movie where it goes all slow-mo and backwards and everything.

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~a cinder quoting sinuous~ (c+q in anagram)

in August 25th, 2007 @ 18:15

I wish I had seen Ivars Peterson. It looks like an environment conducive to making hexaflexagons. Möbius strips are boring.

I wish I was back at the kokonvention now, too. Great video, Purple Panda.

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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)

in August 25th, 2007 @ 21:37

On the first vid, when we’re going around ‘Science’ you can hear me say: “Look! Look! It’s a garden in the sky!”

Really great vid! Most of the time, I don’t think anyone knew you where filming!

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Purple Panda

in August 26th, 2007 @ 06:25

76 – I have so much more footage than that, too – but if I had put it in it would have been way too long. I’m just going to put the audio in a MuseCast.

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 26th, 2007 @ 13:21

I’m trying to download the first video right now. It’s taking forever!! But it’s so much fun to see everybody again!
does my voice REALLY sound like that?! It’s always weird, to see or hear yourself in a movie.
All the pictures are really great. I like the one with PP and Rebecca doing the Kokopelli handshake!
Very goo. I had so much FUN!!!

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 26th, 2007 @ 14:00

*good. I ask you, how can I have so many typos?!

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Beavo the Online Stalker

in August 26th, 2007 @ 14:03

Yay! They all worked for me!!!

Purple Panda, that was truly da pwnage. You should seriously consider a career in film. Maybe you can work with the famous hollywood actor Beavo the Online Stalker some day…

I was on an air bus bound for Oakland CA when all this hullabaloo was going on. Yay, hullabaloo!

I had really no idea what everybody looked like ’till now. Probably the most surprising was RtH. Don’t ask me why.

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 27th, 2007 @ 20:39

My Dad thinks that he’s seen the “Pwt Pwns” license plate. Scary, eh? For some reason he thinks it’s familiar.

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Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas

in August 28th, 2007 @ 18:04

GAH! We totally need to have the next Kokokon in Charleston. Then my parents might consider letting me go. I think the Musers would like Charleston. Beautiful city. Lots of history. When it’s not mid-summer and hot enough to be cooked on the asphalt if you lie there, it’s pretty nice weather. And you can ignore the ignorant redneck prats if you try hard enough.
We should have a debate about where to place the next location. One could present their argument as to why it should be held in that place, and so on and so forth. Is that a new thread I smell, possibly?

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kt the gr8

in August 29th, 2007 @ 07:39

that was cool!
i liked the videos and stuff!

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Alice

in August 29th, 2007 @ 13:45

The first movie is taking a thousand years to load. Blah. But the second one was good, as were the slideshows. Yay! It looks like so much fun!

82- Washington, because I live there. Or Oregon, because I live there too. But Washington has lots of wonderfully fun things, like the Pike Place Market and the [snipped because I live to close to it]. Oregon has cool things too, like OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry). So yeah. Really those are the best places, especially if you consider the pristine, uncrowded landscape and the great historical merit. Yup. You really couldn’t have a better place for a kokonvention. And my dad’s even a kayak guide, so he could guide us in our lovely kayaks through the maze of blackberry-encrusted islands in our little portion of the countryside, while telling us enormously helpful things that we can then write down and publish in Muse.

There. If that wasn’t a convincing enough argument, then nothing will be. It would have been better if I had been able to do more than merely allude to the wonders of this region.

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Alice

in August 29th, 2007 @ 13:56

Ooh! It’s a good video! Nice slow motion pieing!

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 29th, 2007 @ 21:26

Yeah, the slow motion and then way fast pie-ing was really funny. I liked the sound effects!!

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Beavo the Online Stalker

in August 29th, 2007 @ 21:41

Sorry peoples, but Ron will torture me into maddness if I don’t post a HPB, PoPoPo, I am announcing an official PoPo. Here’s your choklit already.

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Lady Visala of Reverie

in August 30th, 2007 @ 19:58

Not to state the obvious or anything…but these are bad pictures of me.

Maybe when I upload mine I’ll send them?..

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 30th, 2007 @ 20:09

Fast-forward 20 five years into the future:

“Who are those odd-looking people?”

“They call themselves Musers. They’re a sort of cult. Nobody knows very much about them. They seem harmless, mostly, but it’s hard to be sure.”

“What are those things they wear on their hands? Pincushions?”

“They call them ‘pies.’ They’re like little pillows. Whenever they meet, they tap each other on the nose with them. Sometimes when they’re embarrassed they’ll ‘pie’ themselves in the face.”

“Weird. What about those pink handkerchiefs sticking out of their pockets?”

“Those are their ‘towels’ — that’s what they call them. They never go anywhere without them. It’s from some holy book they’ve all read. Sometimes they’ll drape them over their hands and twist the ends up between their fingers to make bunny puppets.”

“Bunnies? Now, that’s scary.”

“It’s true. I’ve seen them do it.”

“Wow. Musers, huh? It takes all kinds to make a world, I guess.”

“You can say that again.”

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Ebeth The Titleless

in August 30th, 2007 @ 20:15

89-Words cannot express how hard i am cracking up right now. you need to do a fanfic like that.

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the man for aeiou

in August 30th, 2007 @ 20:19

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Alice

in August 30th, 2007 @ 20:20

89-

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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)

in August 30th, 2007 @ 21:13

89- I can see us like this. I can TOTALLY see us like this. Wait… I’ll be… THIRTY THREE?!?!?! I’ll be OLD! Well, not really… sixty is old…

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 30th, 2007 @ 21:30

Oh. I didn’t realize that age would be so upsetting. The conversation could just as well take place five years in the future. Most of you will be able to vote then — world, watch out! I’ll go back and change the number.

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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)

in August 30th, 2007 @ 21:54

94- Naaww… Thanks for reminding me- I’ll be able to VOTE!!!

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agagabagabag

in August 30th, 2007 @ 21:58

90- There is.

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Jadestone

in August 30th, 2007 @ 22:54

89- AHH New movie idea. Skit. Thingy. This year for FallFilmFestival at the library we’re likely just going to do a bunch of mni-skits. I’ll convince them to let me do that and send it in if I can, hehehe.

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widdershins (e~a)

in August 30th, 2007 @ 23:04

84- and, in Seattle, the Science Fiction Museum! ^_^

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Alice of the Blackberries

in August 30th, 2007 @ 23:52

98- REALLY????

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Purple Panda

in August 31st, 2007 @ 05:09

That’s GREAT! I love it!

You should write more!

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in August 31st, 2007 @ 05:53

No, I think I’ll just sit back and watch it happen.

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Jadestone

in August 31st, 2007 @ 11:05

Well, I might not be able to resist writing more at some point. I can smell the story in there…

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the man for aeiou

in August 31st, 2007 @ 16:23

were is it?

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Capricious The Great and Terrible (cappy)

in August 31st, 2007 @ 17:13

102- I feel an RRR coming on…

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the man for aeiou

in August 31st, 2007 @ 17:21

new therd or this one?
104- no! we don’t want to use up are rrr therd on something like that!

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Midnight Fiddler

in August 31st, 2007 @ 17:44

89~ I love it!! Very good. My Dad is convinced that in 5 years I’ll be all, “Why did I think that was good? I can’t beleive I actually did that, what was I thinking?!” But I know better. In 5 years I’ll still know whay I am a muser. Because it’s a great kind of person to be!! (not that I’m great, or anything, but it’s a good group.)

Visala, those aren’t bad pictures of you! I like them.

My nose looks awful in the “who’s here” thing in the first video. I hate my nose. My voice sounds weird too. I’d better stop before tis becomes a rant…

Just out of curiosity, PP, did you get any videos of THF or I playing music? Or will that appear in a MuseCast?

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in August 31st, 2007 @ 22:33

Okay, I couldn’t resist. Different year, different speakers:

â€œSorry Iâ€™m late. I started watching the Kokonvention on holo and lost track of the time.â€

â€œWhat was it like?â€

â€œIt was AMAZING. Huge crowds as far as you could see, loudspeakers, speeches, pies everywhere — dry pies, real ones, what a mess! Total cathassus, simply unbelievable. Who ever would have thought, back in the old MuseBlog days, that what we started would be such a success?â€

â€œSuccess? Is that what you call it?â€

â€œWhat do you call it? Three hundred thousand people, they said — three hundred thousand! — all cheering and pieing themselves at the same time and singing â€˜Have a Pieâ€™ at the top of their lungs. Yeah, I think Iâ€™d call that a success.â€

â€œYou think so? Really? Is that what we were all about? People doing things all at the same time? Listening to other people give speeches? Conformity? No. Itâ€™s all wrong, all backwards. They donâ€™t know what theyâ€™re doing. Iâ€™ve got a very, very bad feeling about all of this.â€

â€œBut the Prophet said–â€

â€œThe Prophet! Heâ€™s part of the problem. Who is he, anyway? He came out of nowhere, talked the talk, seized control of the movement, made a fortune selling pies and towels and holding rallies. Heâ€™s not even a Muser — never went on the blog, admits he never even read the magazine. Didnâ€™t need to, he says: He just groks it. Can you believe he actually said that? He â€˜groksâ€™ it!â€

â€œWell, maybe you have a point. Maybe.â€

â€œAnd then he had the nerve to say that knew all the Musesâ€™ secrets, like whether Pwt was male or female, but that he wouldnâ€™t reveal them because they were sacred mysteries. And poor old Larry Gonick came charging out of retirement to tell him off, but all his followers put their fingers in their ears so they couldnâ€™t hear him and shouted Larry down and pied him to within an inch of his life. He was lucky they didnâ€™t tear him to pieces. Success? Oh, yeah, Iâ€™d call that success, all right.â€

â€œOkay, yes, what they did to Larry Gonick was unforgivable. But still– Are you sure what youâ€™re feeling isnâ€™t just, or mostly, well, sour grapes? I mean, you were there at the beginning. Generation Zero! People looked up to you. You had special status. And then this new guy comes along, talking about things that we never dreamed about and doing them, and all the old-time Musers wind up sidelined. Itâ€™s only natural that youâ€™d resent that. I know I do. But we canâ€™t let that color our judgment.â€

â€œI canâ€™t believe you. Do you think for one second that the GAPAs would have let any of this happen if they were still around? Would they be up there on the platform cuddling up to â€˜Kokopelliâ€™s Prophetâ€™? Can you even imagine that?â€

â€œBut theyâ€™re not here, are they? Theyâ€™re gone, vanished, pffft. The Prophet, whatever you think of him, is the only game in town. Heâ€™s even talking about reviving MuseBlog as a virtual-reality community on the Tesseract.â€

â€œSo youâ€™re with him?â€

â€œItâ€™s not a question of being with him or against him. Youâ€™re either with him or youâ€™re nowhere. If you want to call yourself a Muser, thatâ€™s the only choice youâ€™ve got.â€

â€œThe only choice… No. No, I wonâ€™t accept that. There must be something else we can do. Thereâ€™s got to be another way…â€

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Alice of the Blackberries

in September 1st, 2007 @ 01:22

Oh my god! I actually burst out laughing while reading that! Robert, you’re wonderful!

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in September 1st, 2007 @ 06:46

Thanks, Alice. There’s one more short round of voices still to come.

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in September 1st, 2007 @ 10:46

Right, one more: four voices this time.

ONE: â€œIslands! Donâ€™t talk to me about islands. Sometimes I think weâ€™re doomed to spend the rest of our lives on this blasted rock.â€

TWO: â€œNot that long — just long enough. And it will all be worth it in the end. Youâ€™ll see.â€

ONE: â€œOddâ€™s blood, woman, is there no end to your infernal self-assurance?â€

THREE: â€œSilly boy. Surely you must know by now that sheâ€™s never wrong, and she always tells the truth.â€

FOUR: â€œThat pair of ineluctable facts is the source of our strength. Meanwhile, this rock is shaping up very nicely indeed. Oh, yes, a most agreeable rock.â€

…which puts the story on track for MuseBlog fanfiction.

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Jadestone

in September 1st, 2007 @ 10:54

Love it, Robert.

Incidentally, while the link doesn’t work, I found the fact that the error report had in error trying to tell us there was an error highly amusing.

I still think I may take that first bit over to the Muse Fanfic thread and do something with it

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Alice of the Blackberries

in September 1st, 2007 @ 11:24

You’re good at this.

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Midnight Fiddler

in September 1st, 2007 @ 16:45

He’s on a roll. Th last one wasn’t quite as good though. I liked the first best. But they’re all good, don’t get me wrong!

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in September 1st, 2007 @ 16:57

Squeezing four GAPAS into five lines is hard to do.

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Beavo the Online Stalker

in September 1st, 2007 @ 17:18

113-Yeah, I liked the first one best, but they’re all great.

It kinda depresses me, though, that some dude who’s never read Muse can call himself Kokopelli’s Prophet.

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Midnight Fiddler

in September 1st, 2007 @ 17:40

114~ Yes, but you did it admiribly. Who was who, though? Sorry if I sound stupid….
What was the thing about the towels? I wasn’t a regular on MB when that happened, so I never got the entire thing. Would you mind explaining it?

115~ It hasn’t happened, yet! So we can gaurd against it becoming a reality. then, of course, Robert’s prophesy won’t come true, but I’m sure he won’t mind, if it means not following a person who’s never read muse. Will he?

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in September 2nd, 2007 @ 07:32

(115) I thought the Prophet might make a good villain for the MuseBlog Fanfiction thread. The writers there have been floundering around trying to invent one. They’re free to use him if they like.

(116) Paul, Rosanne, Paul, Rebecca, and me.

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Midnight Fiddler

in September 2nd, 2007 @ 14:32

*laughs* Ah, now I see…. So it was the Prophet that stuck you all on a rock? Hmm, not very nice of him, the posts would take forever to get moderated….

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in September 2nd, 2007 @ 23:12

(118) No, no, the “rock” is the new island off the coast of Iceland, where the GAPAs went to build Muse Academy after they vanished. The Prophet doesn’t know about it. Paul is just griping because he’s thirsty. I left out the next part of the conversation:

Paul: “It would be more agreeable if someone would build an alehouse on it. The nearest pub might as well be on Mars.”

Rosanne (brightly): “There will be pubs on Mars. Do you want me to tell you about them?”

Rebecca: “Later, dear. Right now we have to talk about dormitories…”

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Sobriquet

in September 3rd, 2007 @ 19:57

Oh, perfect. Lol!

Thank you, Gapa dear, it’s brilliant.

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the man for aeiou

in September 3rd, 2007 @ 20:35

oh! this is great!

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Alice of the Blackberries

in September 3rd, 2007 @ 22:40

Yay! I love it!

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Midnight Fiddler

in September 4th, 2007 @ 12:15

Why isn’t this on the Muse Fanfiction thread? Ah well, it’s funny. I agree with Paul though, there should be a pub, because pubs often have sessions, and sessions are good!! And Mom thought the Logic would make a difference for me…..

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Alice of the Blackberries

in September 4th, 2007 @ 13:09

Is Rosanne psychic?

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Midnight Fiddler

in September 5th, 2007 @ 22:09

Eh? What do you mean?

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Alice of the Blackberries

in September 6th, 2007 @ 19:33

Clairvoyant. In the story.

“Surely you must know by now that sheâ€™s never wrong, and she always tells the truth.”

“There will be pubs on Mars. Would you like me to tell you about them?”

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in September 6th, 2007 @ 22:22

I’ve dropped several hints that there is something special about Rosanne, but it’s subtle and affects mainly the back story, I think. But I could be wrong. Anyway, MF (123) is right: this all belongs on the MuseBlog (not Muse) Fanfiction thread.

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Alice of the Blackberries

in September 10th, 2007 @ 21:00

Sigh… My attempts at fanfiction are awful.

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Midnight Fiddler

in September 14th, 2007 @ 17:40

Of course I’m right.

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E2MB

in October 3rd, 2007 @ 18:12

Woah. So THAT’s what you guys look like! Now I feel I’m talking to actual people instead of just blognames.

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Red-tailed HAWK

in October 3rd, 2007 @ 18:31

130-That’s sort of what I look like. But my hair was weird becuase of the heat. Phooey.

As I said on the old thread that is still open, We just had a mini kokonvention! On the 30th!

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MissSwann2223

in October 4th, 2007 @ 18:33

Why did you take over B&N? it’s my fave bookstore!

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Cedar

in November 11th, 2007 @ 17:52

I really wish I had been able to come. I wish I’d known about it.

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Agrrrfishi, Holder of the Diamond Keyboard

in December 7th, 2007 @ 18:35

WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE I WILL BE COMING

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ï£¿ Â¡Red-tailed HAWK! ï£¿

in December 7th, 2007 @ 18:57

134-Great! I’m not sure, if the theater events happen I won’t be there, but not many people seem to be getting excited about them… But there will eventually be one, as Robert said of our latest mini-kokonvention, we always have to be out there posing for silly pictures

Speaking of silly pictures, talk about me being caught at bad photo moments! I either look grumpy, startled, or in the case of the one with me looking at something in my hand, overly intent on something This thread is really funny

Red-tailed HAWK

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Gimanator

in December 7th, 2007 @ 21:10

*sigh* I so want to go, but expenses, expenses…you can’t just travel across the USA without expenses

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Midnight Fiddler

in February 8th, 2010 @ 13:10

Good times, these.
Have a pie!!

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