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Just curious, which northern rural suburb, Joygoat?

please tell me Bow/Edison, please.

NokiyaUp (jergins), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Hola! I'm doing Matmos thingies with 10 other friends (non-ilxor) that night, although fellow peeps here are welcome to say hi, hang out, and all that. (we're getting to the t-door right when they open basically, so we can get good seats, and have dinner there.)

Jaq, the 7 bus runs in Othello 7 days a week I think... maybe not as close as the 48 would. Don't know your exact location though.

I should be up for a Saturday morning/day thing.

So, beer battered waffles?

0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The 42 is a better bet than the 7 I think. With the 7, you'd have to walk through all the construction on MLK. The 42 has a stop at MLK and Othello, and that's maybe 3 blocks from us.

jaq i love how you post on a seattle thread knowing ned will read it

Ned is everywhere :) Shelve by color! Shelve by height! Shelve by the third letter of the author's first name! Each set of shelves can have its own theme. There are over 100 banker boxes full of books; plenty to play with. Mr. Jaq is more particular about the records.

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ust curious, which northern rural suburb, Joygoat?

Woodinville.

joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link

106 bus runs every day, and intersects with Othello and MLK, fyi.

NO
EXCUSES

WAFFLES, BEER, AND UNPACKING *SMACK*

0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

just curious, which northern rural suburb, Joygoat?

Woodinville.

the first time i ever heard rem and dead kennedys was in woodinville, skating at my friend's house. so big ups to you and your suburb! now come to a fap!

Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

why do beer waffles sound like the perfect food? ilc thread here i come.

Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Savory waffles

0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a great restaraunt in woodinville, actually, the _____ frog? expensive, but good. also i love the 100 year old fire station or old town hall or whatever that building is.

Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Mr. Jaq is more particular about the records.

i don't think i'd touch his records without expressed written consent:)

Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the _____ frog?

Crunchy?

Beer waffles = completely do-able. Also, waffles with bacon built in for the meativores.

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

This weekend.

Matmos is also playing a free instore at Easy Street records at 3pm on Sunday.

I am still available the morning of the 21st to help with the moving stuff... and for the waffle beers.

Also, we should all take this to e-mail. I'll be off ilx very soon, but I want to keep in touch with you guys.

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Not to be confused with the Matos in-store next month, where he'll be debuting his ode to the B-52s singer in amplified prose in The Fredgina Dialogues

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be off ilx very soon

eh?

jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

eh, indeed. sign o the times. should actually not jeopardize my reputation at work, have a gazillion other things to do.. which is why I want to keep the FAPS/get-togethers going via email as well.

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Alas, beer waffles must be postponed, as I got sent back to Irvine. Check for email tonight; sorry to have been incommunicado - being connectionless sucks.

Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

we are connected in our hearts

jergins (jergins), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

THERE AIN'T NO JOY IN IRVINE

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...
So I was gonna post on the sandbox Seattle thread but now here we are again and I do like this thread. We (me and Lxy) had a party on Friday, a sorta-FAP, and Jaq and Donut and Lingbert and Mr. Jaq came, and damn did we have a hell of a time. It started early with soups and a couple of tables of people, and turned into a full-on drunken, stumbling, joking loud-assed mess. And when i was hungry at about 3, there wasn't much soup left. Usually party food hangs around, right, people look at it but don't eat it. Not that night.

One of the things I woke up the next morning so happy about was thinking of Jaq and Donut and what they brought to the party. Getting to know someone through here, you learn their interests pretty early on: Jaq cooks, Donut spins records. But even if I were writing in 24-point caps, it still wouldn't convey how well Jaq can cook, how great Donut's track-selection was, how fun his 2-3 a.m. slot, in the basement was. ILXors can do stuff! Do it well!

jergins (jergins), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

BUT IT WOULDN'T BE A PARTY WITHOUT AN UNKNOWN OLD GUY TEXT-MESSAGING IN THE LIVING ROOM AT 2:30 IN THE MORNING

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/344929363_6c82692e32.jpg?v=0

jergins (jergins), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean seriously who the fuck was that guy?

jergins (jergins), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gonna post a couple more party pictures. I hope that's cool.

boys plus sparks light

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/344929354_e4f011c9a6.jpg?v=0

note the repetition

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/344929355_a26949e33a.jpg?v=0

dance scene

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/344929358_39c2cdc7fc.jpg?v=0

jergins (jergins), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha at old unknown texting guy! We obv. left far too early, but were much exhausted from general decrepitness. I will cook for your parties ANYTIME!!!

Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link

jaq, we will have parties for your cooking ANYTIME!

srsly, thanks jaq and donut and other djs and everyone.

best. party. ever.

lxy (lxy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Such a great town!

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The old guy was my crusty personality there in spirit. Perhaps.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps we should be considering an April EMP pop conf-centric party - though that is a busy time with its own schedule of events.

btw, any ILXors in town for that needing a place to stay, we've got a room you're welcome to, though we are rather far from Seattle Center.

Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

ILXors can do stuff!
what's my special ability?

A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link

staying up very late without the help of drugs or (much) alcohol. also, can listen to dumbasses for long periods of time without smirking. manly presence.

jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys think that guy is OLD?
I want to come to the next party! Unfortunately, our West Coast travel plans have been temporarily shelved as we've been putting a lot of money into the house. Maybe next fall...

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

you're the only drug i need jergins

A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

beth: he acted old is why. and he was craggy = old seeming. also: yes, come to our next party! lots of cheese will be served!

lingbert: lololololololllll

lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

So this dude showed up and nobody knows who he was?

Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link

He got there after we left, is all I know.

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

And Beth! Come out here! My tiny totally sun-free front yard needs an extreme makeover! Also, I signed up for a pea-patch and will desparately need a garden mentor.

Didn't Lingbert have special ringer-istic croquet-winning powers?

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

If by "croquet-winning" you mean "croquet-losing," then yes, I am quite special.

To say that the old guy was "unknown" isn't totally accurate. We know his first name and that he was the father of one of the other partygoers, a partygoer who I think one other person actually knew before the party started. I just thought it was weird that the guy would bring his dad to the party.

A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I think all I remember is that you beat me (me! who was doing so well! until the third glass of wine...) at croquet, which counts as winning. It is pretty weird to bring your dad to a party and then abandon him to his text-messaging next to the empty soup bowls :(

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i have to say, though, jaq, you have the swankest one-handed croquet shot (so as not to have to put your wineglass down on the grass) i've ever seen. who cares if you don't win when you look so good!

lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

about Pat the Dad:

he was brought to the party by an Unknown Party-Goer who was invited by a Known Party-Goer. this person (the Known Party-Goer), who is known at least by reputation to a number of Party-Goers and is, in fact, related to one of the Party Hosts, is responsible for bringing the oddest party guest (Pat the Dad) and, i'm told, the most annoying party guest (The Animator aka The Talker). the Known Party-Goer will be forgiven. at least she did not bring John Tesh, Jr. this time.

lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

NOW: don't all y'all wish you'd come?!

lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

ps jergins thx for posting the pictures. basement now is officially amazing instead of perpetually annoying.

lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

The main thing about Pat was that at the time i didn't know who he was and i'd been drinking and i couldn't stop looking at him, imagining him having walked in off the street. All this straight-talk about who he was isn't doing him any favors (or making him any younger).

Lingbert: please download or cue up The Frogs 'I've Got Drugs (Out of the Mist).' It is officially our song now.

jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link

hey wtf we're all friends here why not and you get to see more of the soup, too

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/346370152_ea6c193f67.jpg?v=0

jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Seattle! Tell me about your monorail! I'm coming to town for a conference in a week or so, and ended up getting a hotel near the Space Needle. I'll be heading to the Convention Center everyday. Is the monorail the best choice in getting to and 'fro?

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not broken any more! You'd have about a 3 block walk from the end of the monorail (5th & Pine) to the convention center (7th & Pike). Depending on what hotel, it might be more than 3 blocks to get to the start of the monorail. ($4/round trip for monorail)

If you take the bus, the closest stop is probably at 3rd & Pine. ($2.50/round trip for bus)

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

ps. bring umbrella and waterproof shoes :(

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, if yr. going from the Space Needle to the Convention Center you could do a lot worse than the monorail. Runs every 10 minutes or so, from Seattle Center (where you'll usually find the Space Needle) to, like, fifth and something? Three or four blocks from the Convention Center at most.

Bunch of buses will get you there, too, but none quite as close. And welcome to town! Don't get any rain on you. Ha ha. Because we have rain here sometimes.

P.S. Don't read this post if you've already read Jaq's post. That one is better. Oops you already read it. Sucks.

Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, if you like indian food, try to have dinner at Roti on lower Queen Anne. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, thanks Jaq and Adam! I think the hotel is on 5th and Roy (Hampton Inn). I am not averse to walking (or rain), and the idea of the monorail is quite alluring.

Be prepared: 15,000 librarians will be infiltrating yr city.

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Essentially, my goal is to avoid other librarians like the plague, as they're totally irritating en masse. If you see a bunch of sensibly dressed women or men, carrying maps, and imbibing a bit too much booze, they're probably librarians. So, yes, restaurant recommendations are welcome! And, I do love foods of all sorts.

molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link


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