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[celina63]

Rose, a Post-Fest Post-Mortem would be a great benefit to the organizers of future ARGFests, esp. since they now have HUGE SHOES to fill

Speaking of which, I've decided that San Diego should NOT be the next place to host ARGFest, since I have NO desire to try and follow YOUR act

It doesn't need to be anything spectacular or huge, just a "Lessons Learned" sort of thing would be FABOO.

C

[mysteryjones]

Big thanks!

[Guest8]

Re: Big thanks!

[Cortana]

Re: Big thanks!

[Giskard]

I've read lots of reports, saw lots of pics (thanks Mysteryjones, great job!), witnessed the saturday presentations "live", chatted with a lot of attendees and members of the organisational committee and all I can say is even though I did not attend, ARGfest sounded like a total success and a great three days.

I am truly sorry that I could not make it in the end, and am already looking forward to the next edition, kudos to everyone putting effort into ARGfest, great job!

[bagsbee]

Wow. That's all I can really say right now.

I'm still decompressing, I'll post in more detail tomorrow.

And yes, there are still some ARGFest T-shirts for sale. And yes, you will buy one. I'll have that set up in a few days.

[krystyn]

Guys, I had a great time. I was so nervous and worried about meeting you all, but yanka kept me supplied with chilled beverages, which helped take off the edge every single danged night.

btw, it was me that called Giskard "sassypants." I took over xn's laptop when I was in the hotel room. MYSTERY SOLVED!!!

[addlepated]

Thank you, thank you, a million times thank you! We had a really good time at ARGFest, and I was so glad to get to see everyone there. Mr. Pated asked me to be sure and pass on his thanks and congratulations on a job very well done. We just got home, so I wanted to make sure to post this before I padjhsaklgak;hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[colin]

[Giskard]

[rose]

decompressing

[yanka]

Everyone's already said this, so there's no reason for me not to say it again - this was loud, hilarious, absolutely great fun for 4 days... or, rather, 4 nights non-stop. I fell a little bit in love with everyone, and I miss all of you guys already, and I wish so many more of you could have come!!! I am so very sad this is over, and I'll remember this trip for a long, long time.

Some random memories and favorite moments:

- calling Giskard the first night (yeah, there was the second night too, and he still didn't pick up!). I think it must have been around 2am, and we (though it was probably just me) were so drunk that we couldn't figure out what time it was over there, so we decided to keep calling every hour. Btw, I think I am in all 4 of those waves, but I cannot hear (or remember) anything I was saying!

- 6 drunk people having pizza on 8th and 34th at 4 in the morning.

- we're in Wishi's room, it's nearly 5am - Joe, Brooke, and Krystyn have to go back all the way to 181st street. Krystyn's asleep, and she refuses to get up. We try to reason with her, and pull her up, and reason some more (everyone had to be up at around 9), but nothing works. Until we utter "October 1st"!

- we're smoking outside the Korean restaurant when 2 tripped out guys start stirring shit with Joe. Joe's being extremely diplomatic, but I am freaking out nonetheless. And they WON'T go away! Out walks Jamesi, they stop in the middle of the sentence, give him this shocked look, and ask whether he's with us. He says "yeah", and they're gone within a minute. Jamesi, you rock!

- I don't even know how to describe this experience, but it involved the bathroom in Wishi's room, a door opened at a very inopportune time, and Joe's naked butt

- talking to ThaJinx on krystyn's phone in the middle of the night on Times Square about her naked fanboys.

- toasting to BriEnigma at... well, actually, we toasted to BriEnigma everywhere we drank, I think. All over town. Brian was probably the most toasted person at argfest (hee).

- LouMac singing at the Belgian bar - dude, what were you singing? I can't remember - I just vaguely recollect it being something very patriotic. This is a pre-singing photo: Marquis.

- doing shots to Project UM in the middle of the Pioneer bar with xnbomb and Wishi

- missing Omnie. At least 20 times. Though I only have 2 of them. Omnie, there were so many people missing you, and they all tried to climb the walls and each other to fit into the "missing Omnie" shot. They're all floating around somewhere (the photos, not the people).

- 5pm cosmopolitans at the Marquis!

- Fi and Wishi laughing their asses off as I yell at the crazy cab driver outside the hotel Penn.

- woo, more pizza on 8th and 34th at 4am!

- !amarettostraightup

- standing in front of the Plaza while waiting for everyone to gather for the MU meet. When everyone finally got there (*cough*), it was just about time to go back. So, we swung by the Whiskey Bar for refreshments, and krystyn gave us lollipops!

- Adrian falling asleep all over the Pioneer bar. Where are all of those photos?!

- mygod, the surreal night at the park in Washington Heights.

- smoking with Joe and imbri in Wishi's bathroom (btw, how do I end up with so many memories from Wishi's bathroom??). It's night, the lights are off, and you can hear the city through the open window. I'm sitting on the edge of the bathtub, listening to cabs driving by and to imbri talking about sexy hackers.

- Monday afternoon: we're sitting at a so-called-lunch in hotel Penn's restaurant - hungover and underslept. Being this delirious is the best time to read Ehsan's hilarious "Seen Steve?" credits.

- same time, same place. "This is your brain on ARGfest".

Thanks to everyone who made this possible - especially rose! I could not have had a better time. I heart New York, especially with ARGfest in it.

P.S. Anthrax is HOT!

[joebrent]

What, no img link on "naked butt"?

So, uh, I blame Steve.

[Omnie]

[konamouse]

Re: Big thanks!