DEW (distant early warning)

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Friday, 16 June 2000

Dear Marvin, You'll never believe what you missed last night, you loser! It was one of the best TNSC meetings ever! Here's what happened: Everybody met at around 7 or 7:30 at the Irish Bank bar. You know, it's that place in the alley? Look here, it's called

The Irish Bank Bar And Restaurant
10 Mark Ln San Francisco, CA 94108-3703
Phone: (415) 788-7152

The cross streets are Grant and Bush. Its in the alley. Not too hard to find. That guy Rosey was there and I don't think he even had a map. Can you believe that? CRAZY! But that's NOTHING compared to the rest of the night.

Okay. That guy Alan (or is it Allen)? You know, the really nice guy with the long curly hair who always buys everyone drinks even if they're not wearing a tie? Well it was his birthday. (He was telling everyone he was 25 but I think that's total bullshit. He's 25 and I'm a 55 gallon barrel of United Arab Emirates crude.) Everybody there seems to have had this information in advance because they plied him with a lot of great stuff. Cufflinks, lighters, smokes, gin, Volkswagens, Folgers coffee (yum) and tons of domestic light beer from Golden, Colorado (super yum!). There was a special celebrity guest (not telling who) and lots of list members who haven't showed up in a while actually came. Matt Fassberg, for one. He ditched his wife and kid for a measly little bitty HOUR and came by for one. He brought his employee Uriah Lovelycolors (don't you love her name). She hasn't been for as long as I can remember. There was one new person added to the list: BJ Bateman, and no one removed.

The contest was fun: hopscotch. We chalked it right on the alley and played for a long time. There was a fight. Carl and Todd. Too bad. The arts and craft was finger painting. Kinda messy, but you should see the finger paint portrait that John Metsker did of a guy sleeping by the dumpster. It's really colorful and nice. The singled out list member was me! Why the hell was I singled out? I go to the meetings all the time! I thought the whole "Singled out list member" stuff was supposed to make people feel bad for whining about not being on the list then not coming.

Yeah, well ... the party moved to the Top of the Mark (for Alan's birthday) where Bud E. Luv's band was playing. TotM is in the Mark Hopkins Hotel. People who wanted to go to this dressed appropriately. It was fun. Here's a website to see what you missed: www.budeluv.com I'll send you pictures later. You're a total jerk for not coming. Alan asked about you and I lied and told him you were at the Giants game. Lucky for us he didn't know that the Giants played a day game. I said hi to Moss and Shuba and Bobo for you. Susan Smith is still pissed at you.

Okay bye-ee