The Show

The show went... poorly.
Promised: 70+ vendors, heavily advertised, venue convenient and easy to get to, all vendors required to sell only handmade stuff.
Actual: 25 vendors, 5 of whom didn't show up. Heavily advertised by direct mail to retirement communities and a radio spot on the soft rock station. Venue easy to get to if you have been there before. I was next to a guy who was selling As Seen On TV Taco Stands.
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The Show

The show went... poorly.
Promised: 70+ vendors, heavily advertised, venue convenient and easy to get to, all vendors required to sell only handmade stuff.
Actual: 25 vendors, 5 of whom didn't show up. Heavily advertised by direct mail to retirement communities and a radio spot on the soft rock station. Venue easy to get to if you have been there before. I was next to a guy who was selling As Seen On TV Taco Stands.
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Ask a stupid question:

Does anyone local have an old crappy microwave that I could use For Science? (Which is to say that it is a microwave you were going to throw away anyhow, so you don't mind if I blow it up?)

Ask a stupid question:

Does anyone local have an old crappy microwave that I could use For Science? (Which is to say that it is a microwave you were going to throw away anyhow, so you don't mind if I blow it up?)

Proposal for comment: Birthday Party

I've been thinking about my birthday this year -- I will be thirty, so it seems quite reasonable to have a ludicrous party. (Yes, I know, it *always* seems reasonable to me to have a ludicrous party. But anyway.)

So I'm thinking it's going to be a Time Travelers' Convention. Costumes required, must be vintage, historical, scientific, or futuristic. I want to do some psychogeography while it's light out -- throw a dart at the city map (or choose an area) and we all go there, and wander around with cameras and notebooks to record impressions. When we're done playing with that, I think we should go to dinner somewhere dark and publike (doesn't have to be McCoys -- we always go there, and it's my favorite, but we could go somewhere new and exciting). [I was also thinking it might be fun to have dinner at someone's house and do a potluck of food from various historical periods, but that seems like a lot of work.] And then, we go somewhere friendly for cake (by god, there will be cake) and further scientific inquiry and/or entertainment delights of the early 21st century, especially its amazing variety of alcoholic beverages unknown in other times.

Does that sound like fun to anybody else? Anybody have thematically appropriate ideas for other fun we could have? Does anyone know where one can get absinthe, a tesla coil, or victorian dancing girls? Was that my outside voice?

Proposal for comment: Birthday Party

I've been thinking about my birthday this year -- I will be thirty, so it seems quite reasonable to have a ludicrous party. (Yes, I know, it *always* seems reasonable to me to have a ludicrous party. But anyway.)

So I'm thinking it's going to be a Time Travelers' Convention. Costumes required, must be vintage, historical, scientific, or futuristic. I want to do some psychogeography while it's light out -- throw a dart at the city map (or choose an area) and we all go there, and wander around with cameras and notebooks to record impressions. When we're done playing with that, I think we should go to dinner somewhere dark and publike (doesn't have to be McCoys -- we always go there, and it's my favorite, but we could go somewhere new and exciting). [I was also thinking it might be fun to have dinner at someone's house and do a potluck of food from various historical periods, but that seems like a lot of work.] And then, we go somewhere friendly for cake (by god, there will be cake) and further scientific inquiry and/or entertainment delights of the early 21st century, especially its amazing variety of alcoholic beverages unknown in other times.

Does that sound like fun to anybody else? Anybody have thematically appropriate ideas for other fun we could have? Does anyone know where one can get absinthe, a tesla coil, or victorian dancing girls? Was that my outside voice?