The NZA

rick astley covering the smiths! i gotta find a video but i hear he also did ac/dc

wait here's more

your day could always be worse

absolutely down for the next one, long as i have the day off!  working nights means i can prolly swing an hour that's decent for y'all too

for the meetup, we should absolutely see who can manage what (in terms of travel/etc) and plan what's best around folks then.  if we're really talking 2025, it feels a bit silly this far out, but might be worth it to see who's so inclined first? 

i was initially saying midwest because i thought a pocket of us might be out this way & down, but @tewibewi has been suggesting being open to a destination that's easiest/cheapest for all, even if i'm not sure what that looks like yet

so

i know the forum - much like many of the remaining forums i've browsed in the year of our lord 2k23 - is pretty dead these days, and that's alright.  i'd wanted to make a thread for a proposed midwest hondoscon for next year, but between me & @tewibewi, @Keth, @Visitant possibly @Stilly and maybe if we can reach out to @MetalHeart , @Iambaytor@FireDownBelow@Thelogan and such we could make a thing...but i don't know how everyone's doing these days, we're more than halfway through 2023 and even with that amount of time, i don't know how viable it is

then i got to thinking, if we really put some time into it, maybe we could do a bigger thing! or if not, at least something local, and try to have some kind of event to get more classic members to swing by, if even just to post on a catch-up thread and let folks know how they've been.  i keep thinking, with twitter going down the hole & meta failing, who knows what monstrosity social media will look like by 2025, maybe the charm of a web 1.0 forum will shine enough to interest people in checking in...like uh, how myspace did on its way out?  i've not workshopped this one much yet, granted.  it's entirely possible it'll come off like the beeper king in 30 rock

anyway, what do y'all think?  is it worth a go, or should we just do a smaller scale thing here with whoever swings by?  no hurry, i'll check back in a week!

okok i'm also playing this

funk night over here

holy hell that looks good

i must know more about these jack-o-turnips, and possibly asia (not the continent) as well

also i love that i was busting teri's chops for putting this here & not in general and she was like "the forum says hobbies!!" and i can't really argue with that

ma'am

it is mid july 

opening with werewolf bah mitzvah

haunting

had a good time with this first episode, it's a fun take - checking out the 2nd one now.  anyone else down for this?

can't find a thead i thought we had for spaced, so this'll have to do