So....you goin'?

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Answers

hooker, you know I caiiiiiin't. Freakin' HS reunion is *that* weekend.

[f-bomb spoiler] But, the more I hear about it at 3WA and Vodkatea, the more it sounds like a big clusterfuck. But, still I'm sad I'm not going.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

I'm going!

But uh, you knew that.

I also have a case of hiccups right now. This excitement is contracting my diaphraghm (did I put enough h's in there? sure...)!

But yeah. I'm there, and so are waaaaaaay cooler people.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Look at P with her "f-bomb spoilers." Hee.

Yes, Keli, you did know that, as I am rooming with you, you silly.

Who's going to rock the house? We are.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Can I rock the house, too?

How about if I bring a box of wine?

Uhhh, I'm going. And as one of the organizers, I feel that I must now let you know: there will be no clusterfucking allowed.

F bombs, however, are quite all right.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

If you bring a box of wine, it's on, Jess.

I'll even drop the "f-bomb" a couple times in memory of Pineapple.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Aw, damn, Jess! I was just funnin'!
Honest I was. I'm just so sad I can't go. Because I really would tear it up Pineapple-style. With all the vodka (no tea) and the craziness and the rager hangovers.

And all the seminar-attending too, I mean it.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2001

Jessie -- I think we ought to have some clusterfucking ... might prove an interesting and well attended event ... y'know, just for shits and giggles ...

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Well, if pineapple isn't going, I'm not going.

Heh. Actually, I'll most likely be too po' to go. But if I can scrounge up the airfare, I might.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Well, if Pineapple AND the sometimes naked Hannah aren't going, I'm certainly not going.

That, plus my having to sink $700 into my crap-ass car (on top of this Europe trip) guarantees I'll be too poor to go unless I hit PowerBall.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Mike, don't discount the power of the Lottery Fairy.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Yeah, but asking her for help might require me actually purchasing a lottery ticket, right?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

No, she's a FAIRY. She can just drop the ticket off under your pillow. You may have to pull out a tooth in exchange, though.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Sadly, no. All my travel funds right now are earmarked towards three funds: the Smoker Fund, the Family Fund, and the fund for the interval between the time I buy work-related plane tickets and the time I get the money back.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Can't make it. Too far away and I have all of these adult responsibilities. Damn them.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

I'm still not sure... but more than likely not. It's too hard for me to plan that far in advance with my crazy fucked-up work schedule.

Plus, there have been some teensy new developments in my life as of late. I may end up needing that money for uh... traveling to visit um... someone.

But if I can swing it, I'll try to be there. Sleeping on the street, most likely, as all the hotel rooms will be taken. But maybe I can take a guitar case and a tambourine and recoup some of the travel money?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Well, if Pineapple AND the sometimes naked Hannah aren't going, I'm certainly not going.

Oh, well, thanks a LOT, Berman. Hmph.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

You know I love you AB, but I have to think of my poor liver.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

You know I love you AB, but I have to think of my poor liver.

Haaaaaaahahahah HA! Sometimes Berman busts them out of nowhere.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

He's like the stealth bomber, Berman is.

And he's right. Not only your liver, Mike, but your lungs as well.

I guess I'm not going, either. No money, limited interest, an aversion to the city of Chicago. All of these are good reasons, I think.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

All right, fools, that's just fine. Like I was going to make him drink and/or smoke.

Al, I thought you loooooved Chicago?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Evil, thy name is Anna Beth.

If I go, I'll stay with my brother, which of course mean telling him about my journal. So, eh.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

AB, I actually bought you cigarettes from Italy, which I'll mail as soon as I can figure it if I can do so without getting arrested.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Aw, Berman! Italian cigarettes?

I'm a lucky, lucky, girl. And not evil, no, no.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

At JC, you can't smoke near as much as at Chao House since you can't smoke in the conference room, and I do believe we can't bring booze in the conference room either.

Sadness! Of course, only the cool people sneak out of sessions to go smoke and booze it up, so there's that.

The only thing evil about AB is when she measures the booze for chocolate martinis in a COFFEE MUG.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

She will also make you a mixed drink of vanilla vodka and coke that will burn out your nosehairs as soon as you bring it up to your face.

What goes on at JournalCon anyway? Have any of you guys been before? How long has it been going on?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

I went last year, which was the first year. It's only a little wild, nothing like an FOP convention in Manhattan.

I had fun and met a lot of great people.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Y'all are going to make me have a bad reputation. Or a good one, depending on your viewpoint.

I have never been, Al, but I am most excited about it.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

What goes on at JournalCon anyway?

That's what I wanna know too. Are there just a lot of readings? Workshops?

Or is it all nasty gossip and drinking?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

She will also make you a mixed drink of vanilla vodka and coke that will burn out your nosehairs as soon as you bring it up to your face.

Coke usually burns out nosehairs, I'm told.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

From what I hear, it's a little of both, H. I'm hoping there won't be all kinds of crazy scandal this year, though. Scandal sucks.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

But if I can swing it, I'll try to be there. Sleeping on the street, most likely, as all the hotel rooms will be taken. But maybe I can take a guitar case and a tambourine and recoup some of the travel money?

Dawn, quitcher talk about sleeping on the damn street! :) Seriously, people. If you have trouble finding a place to stay at the hotel, LET ME KNOW. We will find you a place to stay. Yup. Oh, yes, we will. I want to meet all of you crazy Texas people.

I didn't mean to drop the "no clusterfucking" bomb and then abandon this discussion, I'm just having a hard time adjusting to the fact that I am working again, but my work environment is (sadly) computer- free. Not for good, just for now. It's been ordered. (Is that crazy? How the hell am I supposed to kill time without a computer? I ask you!)

Anyway...clusterfucking in rooms only. Official drinking not in conference rooms, it's true. If you happen to pour a little vanilla Stoli in your big ol' cup of Coke, though, how'm I gonna know? I mean, assuming you stay sober enough to remain upright and somewhat coherent. Don't ask, don't tell. That's my policy.

And I promise that some of the seminars will actually be fun. No, really. Yup. I mean it.

Jessie

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

I sort of want to go, but I don't know. Can I decide at the last minute?

Jessie - What's the registration deadline?

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

okay, yall - need suggestions.

If Omar can't go, I'll just cry. But, he needs a roommate. Do we know any guys going that need to share a hotel?

And, I guess I forgot to mention, it looks like about 92% certain that I can go. Yay! I'm SO excited.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

Yay, P!

Did you check the Delphi Journalcon boards? There's a "need a roommate" topic there. Also, here's a list of the people officially going:

http://www.glitterbook.com/jcon2001/you.html

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

Omar is always welcome to stay in the Keli/AB room.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

I think he's trying to get Greg of musicwhore.org to come also. Omar just e-mailed me in hysterics because Bjork is going to be in Chicago on Oct. 14. I think he will probably try to go to that.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

Woo, Omar is coming! Or at least that's what he tells me. And Pineapple! And the rest of you, who have already told me so and sent your little emails!

Hannah, right now there's no official registration deadline. HOWEVER. I'm going to ask Krystyn, our official webmistress, to put one on the website. That date will be....(drum roll)...October 1.

And even then, people, if you let me know you want to come, but for some reason you can't pay the whole $50 until October 10th -- all you can come up with before the deadline is $42.50 -- just let us know. I'm here to tell you right here, right now, that deadlines will be extended in individual circumstances.

Y'all also know that for now, we're adding names to the list whether or not people have paid, right? So that we can all take a nice long gander at all those who plan to come. Later on, we'll start cracking down on the non-payers.

(Y'all, this board forces people to say y'all, I swear it. I couldn't help that, up there. It just happened.)

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

Jess, if there were ever a board ANYwhere that forced people to say y'all, you are so right - it's this one!

Y'all, maybe that should be a requirement for posting here. If a new poster doesn't get a "y'all" in in the first five posts, we ban him / her.

...you know, 'cause I'm all up on y'all like this is the MAPTH + 1 forum and I can make declarations or somethin'. um, okay, going for that coffee right now.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

May I just say how much MAPTH + 1 cracks me up?

Thank you.

Also, I am even more excited about JournalCon now that I'm going to get to hear Dana call somebody a cocksucker.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

AB - I am going to bring a gallon of Texas Red Eye mix. I'm just warning you is all.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

Calling someone a cocksucker to their face?

How did I miss this? Does anyone know who?

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

Nevermind. I thought that was going to be something really juicy.

Carry on.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

No, Robyn, she just made a reference to JournalCon and the word "cocksucker" in her entry the other day.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

everyone is so, so worried about it. will it be me, dana? will it? will you do it again? will you? hah! only i know for sure, and i'm not telling!

-- Anonymous, August 13, 2001

It will really hurt my feelings if Dana doesn't call me a cocksucker. Then I'd think she didn't like me or something.

Will it be me?!? Huh huh?

-- Anonymous, August 13, 2001

I know it's still on, but has anyone heard about people pulling out etc.?

Anyone worried they won't actually be able to physically get there? Was AB's dream of the underground journalcon railroad prophetic?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I think XeneyBeth has changed her mind about going, but I haven't heard about anyone else. I was just today checking how long it would take to drive to Cincinnati (to Keli) and then drive to Chicago from there.

It would take a very, very, very long time. Almost as long as walking the Journalcon Underground Railroad. So I am leaning towards booking a flight, even though I really don't want to.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Even though I'm not going, I'm still excited that it's this weekend!

What are y'all doing to prepare? Updating like mad? Making swag?

Upon your hungover return, you will come here and spill the deets first, right?

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2001

I just finished making part of the sussies I'm giving to a very small and select group of girly-girls (because I just can't afford sussies for everyone). I'm making mix CDs as I type, and I'm trying to figure out what to pack in the suitcase and what I really absolutely need to take in my carry-on.

I'm excited. Very excited.

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2001

Please take lots and lots of pictures, and don't forget to get yourself in those pictures too!

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2001

rog is doing the writing part of my swag, I'm doing some other swag for a swell person, I'm trying to figure out how I'm getting all this shit to chicago. I may have to buy another seat.

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2001

I'm a swell person! I'm a swell person!

I'm making things. Pretty things. For pretty people. I'm so excited I think I just might burst.

Plus, Omar is going to stay with us, and that's worth the trip right there.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

I do believe we're going to have the funnest room.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Oh, was there any doubt that we would? What with our sussies and cowboy hats and miniature tequila bottles and all...

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

And the wigs. Don't forget the wigs.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

And the hot monkey love, don't forget the hot monkey love.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Damn it! And with me stuck at the office -- and on the overnight shift, no less.

I expect a drunken phone call, AB.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

And the hot monkey love, don't forget the hot monkey love.

HA!

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

And the videocamera!

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

And the hot monkey love filmed on the video camera while we're wearing wigs and hats and drinking tequila!!!!

That's what JournalCon's all about, people. Crazy wack funky drunken fun.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

One more day, kids!

What are you wearing? No, really.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

I was going to wear jeans, a long sleeved shirt and my university hoodie on the plane.

As for at night, I'm packing some long skirts. Lots of black and pink. Two sweaters. Clunky shoes. More jeans. Girly pajamas. Slippers. And unmentionables that you hope everyone else is wearing.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

Cool. I'm packing my whole closet, so that way I will have something to wear no matter the occasion!

God. I'm scaring my own self.

Y'all know Buffalo Bill is going, right? Man, I can't wait to meet him!

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

He will make you into a lovely hat.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

How sick am I that I'm all pouty that Buffalo Bill didn't give me a shout out? I'm consoling myself with the knowledge that his post- JournalCon entry will be all about how he tried to drug me and drag my fat ass back to the well because I'm an even bigger girl than Catherine and will make a lovely car cover.

I'm wearing, uh, clothes. I dunno. I did switch my sleeping shirt from white to black so that Omar can't see my nipples. My nipples are a one man woman. Women.

Also, I'm taking 4 cardigans so that I can change them twice a day because I do NOT want to see entries about how I never changed my sweater.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001

Be careful, JConners, and be sure to note all the juiciest details. Don't eat the brownies.

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2001

I'm so sad that I'm not there.

No, I don't anything about it, but I know that there are a lot of people there I'd like to meet. And I could drive there! It's only about 3-4 hours away! But no, I can't afford a hotel room, or food, or the entrance fee.

Maybe I could crash it.

Fred

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2001

All right. Start fessing up!

We want DIRT!

Did Buffalo Bill make AB into a nice saucy hat?

-- Anonymous, October 14, 2001

It's been two hours since I saw Miss Anna Beth.

I miss her. I do!

Uh, Miss Anna Beth TOTALLY almost got her ass kicked last night at the karaoke bar by these chicks who wanted to sing Summer Nights, because AB grabbed the mike from the Large Muscular Woman in a Sleeveless Dress to sing Olivia's stuff. The bitches asked for a Karaoke Do-Over because they were so jealous of the lovely AB.

-- Anonymous, October 14, 2001