You Guys, Let's Have A Videogum Video Pizza Party For Real!
Monsters! It is time for you to come out of your secret caves. Just for one night, and then you can go back into your secret caves, no questions asked. No one will ask you "Hey, where is your secret cave?" or "Why don't you ever leave your secret cave, don't you get lonely?" That is your business!
In two weeks from tonight, Tuesday, December 15th, we are having a Videogum Video Pizza Party! You will have a chance to meet some of your fellow monsters and, well, that's mostly it. I mean, we're not planning any mandatory games or anything. If you want helicopter rides and seminars, you know where to go. Besides, we're all adults here. We're especially all adults in two weeks, because the Pizza Party will be held at a bar called Heathers, in Manhattan USA, so this is a 21+ event. Sorry, baby monsters, but you have to be adult tall if you want to get on this big boy ride. (Yikes. Sorry! Please don't let what I just said deter you from attending!)
Details after the jump!
Where: Heathers Bar, 506 E. 13th Street, New York, America
When: Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Time: 7PM until QUESTION MARK (duh)!
And more!
There will be drink specials and the aforementioned pizzas, as well as DJ'ing from the Stereogum iPod. NEAT! I really hope that you will join us. iMark your e-Cals! I am sure that I did that right.
Now available in Facebook! See you there!
UPDATE: Thanks to Videogum reader Tatyana, Two Boots will be providing all the pizza for you monsters to consume. Three cheers for Two Boots, Official Sponsor Of The Videogum Pizza Party For Real '09.
Posted by Gabe at 5:30 PM in Events
Tags: Monsters | Party | Pizza | Videogum
I wish I could go. :(
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I'm going to bring HELLO, MY NAME IS stickers for everyone. (Optional icebreaker!)
While Gabe and I were planning this, the imaginary scenario was always, "Oh, YOU'RE werttrew." Now I need a new example. :(
Also if you write Da Cake Eatur on your nametag, you don't get pizza.
How many pizzas is enough pizzas? Keep in mind our budget is $0. Does anyone work at a pizza wholesaler? Coolforsale?
Score = 20
If we write it, do we get cake?
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No you get a stupid lamp.
(Soon we will be making inside jokes in person!)
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2 Bros Pizza on St. Mark's Place has $1 slices, so their pies must also be dirt cheap. I'm willing to bet we're talking Ellio's quality.
Score = 5
ELIOS?! I'M THERE. Gots ta get my soggy middle, doods.
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I guess I just wish we could get all the videos to come.
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What if somebody goes as AnAmPat? I think this should be allowed, provided they randomly yell out certain words in their speech to simulate caps.
Score = 24
NO ONE can go AS ME BECAUSE I am in FUCKIN Texas. DAMN IT.
Score = 5
I am flattered/weirded-out that I was a source of an in-joke between you and Gabe.
Score = 11
No, a joke just in my head.
I'm not sure where Gabe stands on my nametags idea. I'm sure you will all recognize him, though. He looks just like his user icon.
Score = 11
I would go... But I'm not gay.
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* Over 19 years-old...
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Me too! Under-age monsters in the NYC area unite. :-(
It sucks, because I can just take the train in and see monsters. BUT INSTEAD I WILL BE AT HOME WATCHING BARNEY AND FRIENDS BECAUSE I AM A BABY.
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your username is so perfect right now.
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I know seriously i got excited at first, I live in Connecticut and i visit my sister in the city twice a month from the train. It doesn't matter anyway it's a tuesday night so instead of getting to actually meeting Gabe in person i'll be at SAT prep and then probably typing a paper on The Glass Menagerie
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Trade some of your Pokemons for a fake i.d.
Score = 33
This timing is awful! I get paroled on the 16th.
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Did you know that in Vermont you can get outta of the death penalty for double murder if you just say you're a "conscientious objector"? Well I know that.
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I call shenanigans on that statement.
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Cool
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why can't YOU?!
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1) I'm getting married Dec 29, 2) my disposable income is gone (see reason #1), 3) I'm giving two finals on that day and one the next morning, and 4) I live 18.5 hours away. But I've got the cell number of somebody who'll be there, so I'll call around 10 that evening and chat WITH MY VOICE with whoever wants to talk to me.
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Congratulations! That is soon.
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While all of these reasons are 100% acceptable, I am still disappointed...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2undJyRCzOY
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I hope everyone leaves their sarcasm detectors at home.
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Yay! Wait... no! I'm not as witty IRL.
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Why a Tuesday? Do most of the monsters live in NYC? Seems like a weird day to travel.
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Have a pizza party in Austin, Texas! I'll be there and I can guarantee at least three (3) other people too!
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Make that 4.
Austin-area monsters should just get it over with and fuck (eat pizza) already.
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5! I say we hit up Chuck E. Cheese
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What about Gattiland? (I originally typo'd this as Fattiland. Teehee.)
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Homeslice. Doy.
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But Homeslice doesn't have a ball pit :(
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I'd suggest Highball for the obvious Monster's Ball pun, but I'm not gonna pay 12 bucks for 6 wings. Fuck that place.
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The one time I tried to go the Highball I was told it was closed for a private "zombie" party. I was all, "Fuck your stupid zombie party, I wanna bowl." Then they ate my brains. :(
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As much as we all love Homeslice-actual-delicious-pizza and we all hate Gattiland-ketchep-cheese-garbage, Homeslice has 1600 people waiting to get inside and like 10 parking spots where there is always some jackass who does not know about the secret back alleyway exit and tries to exit the entrance that is only big enough for a single car and on a busy major street so ofcourse at that moment some car is trying to enter. No way. Unless there are only like 5 monsters in Austin, no way. Gattiland has crappy arcades and they don't mind if you poke your finger in all the silces in the buffet. Forget it Jake.......its Gattiland.
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"Forget it Jake....It's Gattiland" deserves an LOL. And an upvote.
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I said I would go to the NY, but their RSVP list looks so far like a bunch of IRL comedians who know each other, and I see myself standing there, not knowing what to do with my hands. No amount of xanax in this world would help me figure out what to do with my hands.
Can you guys start RSVP'ing to the Austin event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=189025778167 Cause as of now, it's just gonna be an awkward date between @jimjbollocks and me.
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Whoa Whoa Whoa, Austin Monsters??? Hooray!! What about Salvation?? They're pretty good over on Guadalupe and like 35th or something.
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Never been there (is it new?), but I do lurb me some The Parlor pizza.
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6!
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Let's do this, you guys:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=189025778167
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I think I broke Facebook. I tried to RSVP to that, and it says I'm attending, but I can't write on the wall? I was going to suggest Salvation Pizza, where we've had several after-work get-togethers, and their pies are pretty big and their ingredients are really fresh:
http://www.salvationpizza.com/
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Or the Parlor is good, too. OR Mellow Mushroom. OR East Side Pies. The list is endless!
(Well, actually it's not endless. It ended right there.)
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ARE PEOPLE in fuckin TEXAS really MEETING up?
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well this is kind of exciting because i live in NY now and am moving to Austin after Christmas. MLIV(monsters?)
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Aw. :[ I'm an adult monster, but I'm an adult monster all the way over in Seattle (hey, that's near Forks, right?!?! OMG!?!? MEGAbass! You must know werewolves and vampires!)
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Hey, baby monsters live in Seattle too (and a few of us are aren't named Edward!).
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I'm in Seattle too.
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but how will you guys take my dickishness seriously after you see my cute face? i don't know about this...
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You pick the one place I am banned for life from.
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i am experiencing major social anxiety right now.
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Me too, it's okay, we can all be anxious together!
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Me too! And I'm not even going!
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I'm not sure where you found that picture of that pizza, but it's truly disturbing. Low-res garbage bag = delicious? Just for that I'm staying in Chicago.
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As a Chicagoan, you were probably confused that the pizza wasn't a fucked up quiche. (I love you, Chicago, but what you call pizza is weird.)
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I hear ya, sister.
The deep dish pizza stuff here is too deep for me. I'll forgo the waterwings and stay in my shallow ended thin crust.
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Chicago! I always wondered what the number of Chicago monsters was. Now I know.... 4?
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IT. IS. FIVE!
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Six
but this is my fifth post so I am just an Apprentice Monster
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I've counted 10 more throughout this comment section plus me and Moonmaster - That's AT LEAST 18 Chicago monsters - and wondergrrl is close to Chicago.
If this is too many people for a professional basketball team, it's surely PLENTY for a meetup, you guys.
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Let's all build a secret clubhouse.
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I am also from Chi City (Common!) / Windy-and-she-likes-to-blow-trees (Kanye!). Ugh we need better rap nicknames. Anyways you can add me to the Chicago list, where we can have a beer-and-shitty-weather party or something.
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Detroit? Anyone? Bueller? How about...a Midwest Pizza Party in say...Kalamazoo?
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im in michigan, 30 or so outside the D... 2! wow
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As a Chicagoan, I gotta stand up for our pizza. It's the best. There're plenty of variations on thick, stuffed, whatever. You need to come take a tour. I don't know if there are tours, but I have a list.
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(I was in Brooklyn for ten years but now I am in Chicago and w/r/t the pizza I have to admit it is smart to have pizza that also works as a flotation device due to Lake Michigan)
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I missed the one year anniversary party because I was away. I am so there this time!
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We should start a Los Angeles chapter. But I'd probably be the only member.
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Me too.
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I would also be the only member. We should do it.
It's Tuesday in Southern California and it's sunny in December but it doesn't matter because I'm actually really upset that I won't be able to go to the New York pizza party with my monster friends who I only know via the Internet. (MLIT.)
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DITTO. I think the L.A. monsters should make it happen.
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me three
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yep. we'd all be alone. together.
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Videogum everywhere!
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Let's Videogum wherever, but not on a Thursday night, cuz that's reserved for Liz Lemon. Also, jazz hands.
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Jazz Hands is my nickname for Michael J Fox, who starred in the popular sitcom Spin City, of which I will enjoy copious amounts on any given Thursday night post 30 Rock.
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No I'm a member too! I just moved from RIGHT NEAR THAT BAR in New York to NO WHERE NEAR IT in Los Angeles. So I've got a big case of the :( right now. But only because I'm missing the party. The weather here is as good as you've heard, you guys.
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any time i feel like telling my friends on the east coast the i hate them i just tell them the high temperature of the day-
hey new york! you planning on having an awesome pizza party? that's cool. it was 78 degrees out yesterday!
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Let's have an In-N-Out party Los Angeles!!!
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Agreed! Those are good burgers.
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and "grilled cheeses"!
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But not actually at In-N-Out, right? The lighting there is too bright, it will make my skin sparkle.
Maybe... Boardners?
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i was going to nominate White Horse because it is so dark & divery. but maybe that's more creepy. boardner's isn't bad, though i have a general dislike of hollywood in that area. umm. yeah. yeahhh. would we really do this? sure? same day as nyc?
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White Horse could work. But I can walk to Boardners -- I nominated it for completely selfish reasons. That's how I roll.
Wow. Would we really do this?
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and i can walk to white horse. so we're both monsters. anyone else? nominations? (no one can hear us in the replies) HELLLLOOOOO!?
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I would do this even though I don't know what places y'all are talking about (Alondra HOT WINGS!)
I can bring my mobile arcade setup! Because fun.
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So the LA Franchise of the Videogum Pizza Party might include... Bird, me, Raisinbran, Skillet, Tibmalian, Meaverly, Chumbo, and CocoNotYoko? That's 8! At (so far) either Boardner's or White Horse. On the 15th. Right?
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Oh -- and yapplebee, RunBMC, ondal, Loz and brrrrrian. That brings us to an even 13. THAT is a party.
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I looked up that Boardner's place. Seems like there is food and stuff. Things that are very important to me.
I don't think they'll let me bring my crap inside :(
I also need to take my pedophile trench coat to the dry cleaners on Monday. I also need to refill my xanax prescription.
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I also need to take my pedophile trench coat to the dry cleaners on Monday.
Isn't it better filthy?
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i'm scared. also excited. also scared.
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Ugh. I just learned that I probably can't make it. I am in negotiations now to finalize that. It is a heartbreaker.
Is anyone still checking this thread? I looked on the Videogum Facebook RSVP page but it is lousy with New Yorkers.
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Let's meet at a New York-style pizza place IN Los Angeles. There are plenty of monsters in LA... and some Videogum commenters, too. (Badump ching!)
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Gabe - this makes me sad. You could have at least done a test-run when you were out here in LA a few months ago (selling your sitcom spec/getting that extra lipo/franchising a medical marijuana collective). California Pizza Kitchen at the Beverly Center is awesome (it is completely not awesome) and there would have been at least five of us there staring at each other in awkward silence.
Now I will have to settle for sitting on front of my computer while I cry into my personal pan pizza as the live-blogging of festivities unrolls.
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Me too, too
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Holy Twilight I did not think my reply would end up all the way down here.
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Any NY monsters out there? Maybe we should have some kind of a NYC meeting party? What's that? We have one already? and Gabe's the community organizer? and he's going to spend the meeting party sitting at a folding table while NY monsters line up for Gabe to autograph our laptop computers?
.......rest of the world: YA BURNED.
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I am envious of the real & IRL Videogum Pizza Party New Yawk, but I just might go to an LA IRL Monster Mash. That is, if my wife lets me out of the monster cave. I mean, it'll have to be explained as "going to meet people from the internet," so I'd hope she'd be pretty skeptical.
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I'm in Long Beach and would come to wherever in So Cal - but that very day I will be on a flight to bloody freezing cold Colorado. Everyone miss me very much and say things like, when there's a pause (pause.) in the conversation and giddy joy, just sigh and say "I wish that Blondie were here. She would have the perfect witty comment to make." (no I wouldn't.) Have fun, Monsters!
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make sure you all have your PDA of choice available so those of us not in NY can feel like we are.
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I'll start eating a blurry pizza out of a garbage bag at 4pm PST so I can feel like I'm part of the cool crowd. Hopefully, my office doesn't ask questions.
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good idea. i'm going to start shouting phrases that make no sense to anybody but me at that same time. well, actually, that's no different than usual, but hey, i'll still feel part of the group.
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Gabe, your facebook pic is so disturbingly furry-like!
(That is not stalkery like, right? I just looked at the pics of the people that are going to attent this event!)
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Geez, you NYC monsters are late to the game on this one! Here in Portland, we* have Videogum Pizza** Parties*** every night! It's so much fun**** to get to know your fellow monsters*****, and talk about some of your favorite Videogum posts******!
*I
**beer & whiskey
***pretty much just me slowly drinking myself to death
****not fun
*****inner turmoil
******drunkenly spit out a comment at 2am and never hit submit because you can't remember what you wrote and your eyes won't focus so you can read it
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In all seriousness, I'm not really an alcoholic, but I drink like a fucking fish when I'm in awkward social situations.
It's a good thing I live 3500 miles away, because I would most definitely make an ass out of myself and probably hit on one of you.
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I like how everyone is totally assuming this will be an awkward situation.
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yeah other than us possibly not having anything to talk about, i don't think this will be that awkward... (seriously, what're we gonna talk about??)
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Awkardness Levels of a Blind Date
X
However Many Are Going
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People wearing name-tags that read "Sarcastically Misunderstood" and "hotspur" eating pizza in complete silence.
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You say something to me. I accidentally reply at the end of the night instead of right away.
We could all make t-shirts with our icons on them.
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doesn't anyone on this site have friends IRL to bring with you...
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No. We all live in independent caves in Antartica with internet access that can only access Videogum. For all I know, the world really will end in 2012, Gwenyth Paltrow and Topher Grace are the only actors in the known universe, and Eric Warheim handles every 'music video', as you call it.
I take it by your post that you live in the really real world. So tell me, do people actually communicate with their mouths? Do you speak with each other merrily while feasting on meals you hadn't yourselves warmed from salvaged cans over the dying fire of a cruel world? Does the sun shine in this wonderful place, and is at as glorious as it sounds from the eloquent wordings of my only true friend, Mr. Gabe Delahaye?
I hope for your reply soon, dear friend. I've been carrying this fire for far too long. I am tired and in need of the knowledge that this trying journey will ever end.
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that's weird, i majored in independent caves with a minor in mouth communications... are you going to be there? we have much to discuss.
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"Minor in Mouth Communications" = daymaker. Thank you.
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I'M SORRY FOR MY TOTALLY OUT OF LINE JOKE. YOU ALL HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS.
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If someone writes my name on their nametag it's a fraud, I'm not going to be there.
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I voted you up, but I'm also a little worried about you.
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THIS IS SCARY!!!!!!!
Im going to go and pretend that I'm just a random person there
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exaclty
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Ok this is weird. I know someone with a name VERY SIMILAR to Milpool and he can't spell. If I show up and you are him I will pee myself.
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I hope that you know him and that we get to see a pic of you with wet pants. :)
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Hah sorry didn't see this until today. No, I am not your friend with a weird name, my real name is Natasha! If you wet your pants it will (probably) not be my fault.
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But obviously I am terrible at spelling!
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That would be TOO WEIRD. i live in chicago! jealous!
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Oh man, I live in California. But I have an adult real-person job interview in NY that week. Maybe I can make it out early! I have never met anyone from the internet before, but if there are any bizarre creepy web people who I would maybe like to encounter in their skin-shells, it would be you weirdos.
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aw, cass! i lovelovelove preacher!
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i'm not gonna say who, but two monsters that are going are twins human beings. you'll probably figure it out pretty quickly.
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one of them read their comments more carefully than the other....
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You guys should take your laptops so you can sit around awkwardly, staring at your computer screens while speaking only in Vgum comments/chat to one another. That would be AWESOME (that would not...etc.)!
I'm in for the ATX party. We could start a Vgum world wide tour. The opening act would be Lady Gaga, of course.
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I am down, gonna be in the TX for the holidays. Except I vote Bangs instead of Gaga. He will take us to the movies!
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Let's meet up at the Highland Mall food court!
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I live really close to there! Or better yet, the Dobie food court!
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Grown up monsters suck.
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take it easy. i heard you and howard are the same age (old.)
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I like picturing you all as stationary and animated gifs a lot better.
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When was Papa Hemingway on Sesame Street?
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I live in Portland but would not go to a Portland pizza party. The pizza here is terrible.
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Really? Ken's Artisan, Apizza Scholl's, and al Forno Ferruzza are all great. I'm even a fan of Old Town and Hot Lips (on occasion).
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Hot Lips, sir!
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Holy crap. There's a lot more PDX monsters than I would've thought. I'm pretty sure disgruntled hipster lives here, too. Anyone else?
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before he disappeared into the depths of a french goat farm, my friend lived on couch street and I visited him as often as humanly possible. gotta get my daily voodoo, even though it's a 4-hour drive from walla walla.
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Tom Cruise goes to Voodoo all the time, as long as nobody orders this:
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WHAT? Another Walla Walla Monster? I think I know who this is. Because small towns.
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WHO ARE YOU, DR. CRENTIST???
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Apizza Scholls is grub. Ken's and Dove Vivi are excellent, too. (But there is some terrible stuff that should not be allowed to call itself pizza.) Mostly, I was just being difficult, and yes, inciting Portlanders to show themselves. Ya burnt.
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Portlanders are epic cave monsters.
We would probably ditch out on this pizza party for a cooler pizza party you never even heard about.
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I don't know if you heard but im throwing a vegan pizza party in my basement. I'm pretty sure like Mattress/Panther/chooseyourownlocalindieact will show up and shout over a boombox.
also-drake is invited.
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Dear That One,
I do live in Portland on the off-season. I'm in Denver for school. But if there's a Triple-P (Portland Pizza Party) two weeks from now, I will be home and I am so down, as long as it is not at Rocco's. I will not tolerate Rocco's.
I second Dove Vivi, but it'll probably be in some warehouse in NE, with some noise band soundtracking an anarchofeminist performance art piece, and we'll all be eating pizza ironically, ("This is vegan, right?")
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I should have known. The only other Denver Monster is a fraud. I guess I'll have to have a lonely VGum video pizza party with balloon boy.
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I am no fraud, sir! Benny Blanco's is within stumbling distance!
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Mmmm... Benny Blanco's. Would a Colorado Videogum video pizza party date be too weird? We could talk about snow! There's gotta be more Denverites out there (here?). Fraudulent local pizza activity accusation rescinded/redacted.
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I don't understand the h8 for roccos. how can you hate 4 dollars for a slice the size of your head and a drink? I nominate Eat Pizza or Pizza a go go.
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damn, replied to the wrong post.
RE: PDX PIZZA PARTY
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Buckman, represent. That One, I think your Pizza** **beer & whiskey is more appropriate for Portland, so I'll be down at the B-Side. 'Cause I'm always there anyway. The only difference is this time when I sit by myself at the bar, I'll be wearing a name tag that has a dumb name I came up with when I was 17 (Summer of '69). And I'll sit a little jointed halloween decoration Dracula with Edward Cullen face on one side of me and a life-size cardboard cutout of Topher Grace on the other.
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Effing mother effer. Why don't I live in NYC? Oh yeah, b/c Chicago is better. Come to Chicago, Gabe! Let's have a deep-dish pizza party!
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In other news, I now have a pic. Remember when vampires were cool?
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Is it creepy to go if I don't comment all that much but read the site (and the comments) religiously?
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Man, I hate the ever-increasing currency of "creepy."
Surreptitiously sniffing your best friend's dirty underwear: creepy. Peeping toms: creepy. Hanging around a kindergarten naked under a trench coat: creepy. Attending a public meet-up of commenters from one of your favorite websites: NOT CREEPY AT ALL! Liz, I hope you go and have fun.
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You are a nice person, Exene. I will see you there! Unless you live in Chicago like seemingly the rest of Videogum in which case I won't.
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Did you name yourself after Exene Cervenka?
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I've been reading the site and comments daily for months, and didn't make a profile until this week. We should start our own club. We'll be a part of all these inside jokes, but no one else will even realize we're in on it.
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I didn't even know I'd actually made a profile until just now, but yeah -- I've been an invisible monster for months and months now too. We can show up with "Relax, technojeremy" shirts and everyone will embrace us into the fold.
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I'm a new(ly registered) monster too! But I won't be there - I'll be in Cincinnati instead. Because I live there.
(I got so excited when this post went up forever ago, by the way. I live like a mile from that park! Yay for cool Cincinnati stuff getting mentioned on websites!)
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I'm in Cinci too! Queen City monsters, represent!
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I'm there.
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No, but it would be weird if you went and just eavesdropped all night without actually talking to anyone.
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me too, except at the end I'm going to bust out Gene Parmesan-style.
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That's exactly what I'm doing! See you monsters there!
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I read videogum/comments religiously and rarely comment as well (everyone is so intimidatingly clever!) but I would love to go and today is my 21st birthday so I am no longer a baby monster and actually could! But alas I live in FL. . . :(
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I sure wish I could go, but unfortunately I don't live anywhere near New York, so in honor of this blessed event, that night I'll throw on my best pair of Winkers and watch a pizza turn as I drift off into oblivion.
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Everyone should have name tags, but no names, just a printout of your user icon.
So, when is everyone coming to Mississippi for a pizza party? I'm guessing probably never.
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Does mine get to be a fancy one with LED animation?
*SPIN KICK*
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Yes.
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i wanted to go when it was just a glimmer in my eye, but now that it's real I am having panic attacks about being the real me in front of the strangers i hold so dear.
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I don't think we have to speak to each other right away, or at all. Just come with a comfortable friend group and then after three or four hours of drinking we will get in fist fights about who Gabe likes the most. So bring muscle.
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OK Question: is this place Heathers cat friendly? To calm my nerve I will need some cats, and a nerve pill.
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I once hosted a baby shower for a friend of mine, and got a call the day before the party from one of her guests asking if she could bring her cat because "everyone there would know him." :/ I'll admit, I have two cats myself and border on the fringe of being a crazy cat lady (just one more cat and I'm there), but I sadly had to turn her down.
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As if you are Blofeld, in the Valley of the Dolls.
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Oh my! I will be there. It is actually on my walk home from work!! I am going to start writing some material so I can impress you guys. Does anyone have Billy Crystal's phone number? Or fax number?
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Or does he have a blog I could download or something?
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I got Bruce Vilanch's profile on Manhunt if that will help?
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Kenny Powers will be there with a suitcase full of uncomfortable photos.
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At least it's not in Brooklyn! Because hipsters. Also, I think we should come dressed as our avatars! And only talk in Videogum memes.
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Nice list, Wertrew! You should be the official Videogum Cultural Historian, in addition to being the Lord of the Gifs.
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Hah!
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just so you all know, i fart in crowds.
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obviously we're all* going to RSVP "Not Attending" right?
*all of us who are not in NYC.
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I responded maybe, but that's a lie. I'm too cool(pathetic) to leave Philly on a weeknight. Plus, everybody knows that Friday is pizza night!
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Hey! Fellow Phillygummer! I thought I was the only one! I seriously may have to hop on the Bolt Bus for this if I'm not too bogged down with finals and real life adult stuff.
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Yeah, I too would make the trip up from Philly but I have a final the next day. Oh and I'm broke. MLIT?
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Well, at least you haven't rubbed off on your 5 year old son? MLIT?
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So, why is it that the Philly Gummers, most of whom are too lazy/wary of the Bolt Bus to go to NYC, aren't planning our own Monster Mash? I'd come, even if I ended up lurking in a corner like I do on Internet Videogum.
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I have no problem Bolting up to NYC, just not on a Tuesday. You know, because of work.
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i am very excited for this! i will see you guys there! yayy!
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When's the Ann Arbor edition? COME HOME.
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Ah damn, I have work that night! And I live 3500 miles away in London :(
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Yay, this won't be awkward at all!
Definitely planning on being there, provided I can get from central Jersey through the dreaded gauntlet of guidos fist-pumping everywhere further up north.
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I might even drive down from Albany for this.
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Any Canadian monsters? From Montreal, specifically? (You only have to be 18 to play adult games here!)
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Toronto is only a road trip away!
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Hold up! Another Toronto monster?!
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Yes! I thought there would be more but maybe not!
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I rep Montreal. Though a meetup would not be in the cards, cause I once saw something very shocking on the internet and I don't trust it in my real life anymore. Also, the nametags would have been english and/et francais, and I'm lazy as fuck all.
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Wow! I suddenly don't feel so alone. Do you want to have a private party? (That is different from a privates party, which we can save for the second date.)
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from montreal too! im totes down for a poutine party! (thats our equivalent to pizza right? or is our equivalent just "la pizza"?
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Haha. I wish there was a private messaging system so that we could work this out without bothering everyone. LOOK AT US TALKING LOUDLY ABOUT OUR OWN PARTY. E-mails? Facebooks? What should we do?
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Alright, I'm organizing it! If you're interested in attending, send an e-mail to funtastik_one (at) hotmail (dot) com. We're three so far, but haven't set a date. Send me your availability!
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wow, i had no idea there were Montreal monsters outside of myself. Sign me up!
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I'm an Edmonton-ster. I wonder if I'm the only Albertan?
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I'm originally from Calgary! so I guess we're the only Albertans in these crowd of monsters.
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I'm a Toronto monster! But an only 18 year old one so I don't think I'll road trip it down to NY...
Anyone else? If it was on the weekend I could perhaps travel to Montreal for a Canadian monster mash!
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LET'S DO IT! If you're interested in a Montreal meet-up, send me an e-mail with the days/nights of the week you are usually free. I'm assuming everyone is at least 18? My e-mail is funtastik_one (at) hotmail (dot) com.
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wow, so awesome to see other montrealers on here!
i'll be emailing u funtastik!
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Sorry, I have to wash my hair.
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Yeah, your hair is looking totally dry and kinda fak-HEY WAIT A MINUTE.
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You have fun at your New York pizza party. I'm going to have less fun at my house in Sacramento. I might eat some toast so take that.
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You won't be the only monster in Northern California eating toast that night!
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that makes 3 of us. I'll just have to settle for some zeldas pizza
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Oh sweet Willow lives in Northern California. We are the coolest you guys.
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Don't forget about me!
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Wee, Northern California lurkers represent! Late to the party!!!!!
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nor cal, whatwhat!
should we be scheduling something?
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That is some commitment! But sure why not, we are six and mighty! Now where should we have it, and by where I mean "in what ZIP code," because our state is large and "northern" refers to a rather large swath of land.
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i'm in sonoma county, but willing to schlep a little bit.
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I imagine you looking just like your crying Charlie avatar as you eat your west coast toast.
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I prefer to imagine all comments are spoken by the characters in the corresponding avatars.
OMG DID A JELLYFISH JUST TALK?!?
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Sac-Town!!! I don't know why I'm so excited, esp because it kinda sucks, but I'll be there for the holidays.
We need a DC pizza party.
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I think DC monsters are the rarest. I would make the hikeup to NY but I'll be on a cruise drowning my sorrow in a Mai Thai on the mezzanine level.
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let's do it!
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Hey, I'm a (school season) DC monster, too! However, I will become a (winter break season) Arizona monster next week. Anyone else from ARIZONA??? I'm guessing no?
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Does this mean I'm going to have to get a Jumbo slice, because I still remember the last time I tried that ))>((
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I do love Heathers (both the movie and bar) so I'll most def be there. No one has asked the most obvious question...Will there be real pizza or just the pizza party video playing on the tiny flat screen at the bar?
Am I the only person here who lives in NYC and knows about Heathers? (That is not the obvious question)
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there's not enough xanax in the world to get me past philly, but i'll be there in spirit.
while there is an awkward pause i am in it; while there is a failed attempt at an inside joke i am of it; while there is a kitten in a box i am not free.
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Not cool. West Coasters like pizza parties too :(
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Howdy! I’m MR. HAUSFRAU on Videogum. My Avatar is as STUPID AS MY NAME but I’ve never changed it because GABE SAID NO. You can call me Joe. Sorry for my sweaty palms, I don’t really meet people well and let my anxieties CONTROL MY LIFE (hence my overdependence on the interwebs? hmm...self reflection). Also I’m not for really coming because I DON’T LIVE NEAR THERE. I’ll check back in a couple hours to see if anyone upvoted this comment. MLIT(oilet).
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You won't need Xanax to get past Philly, but you're going to need plenty of guns.
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Finals week, GABE! GOD MY LIFE IS SO TWILIGHT.
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UConn Videogum Video Pizza Party where you sponsor a concert? I can dream, right?
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Any Pittsburgh monsters? Not that I will in any way hang out with you....just curious.
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Born and raised.
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NERD ALERT!
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I'm concerned about this meet-up spawning a whole slew of new super-inside jokes that only NY monsters will understand. Please keep it awkward so this doesn't happen.
Thanks!
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Fuck this noise. Chicago meetup, you guys!
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I'm there. Plan it.
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plan one in chicago, and i'm in!!
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RSVP
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Chicago is the greatest city in the world.
I would gladly leave behind my convict colony homeland to attend the monster pizza party and stay there forever!
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woo!
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Hells yeah, we gotta rent an AV cart
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Word. We'll finally one-up New York at something, you guys! Second City no longer! World's Fair!
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Late to the party (as usual) but count one more for Chicago. And double upvotes for deep dish pizza, but hey, we also have thin crust pizza in this city, and it blows away anything I've had anywhere outside of NYC. And maybe Rome.
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Ok you guys, are we going to do this or what? Place/date suggestions?
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Oh mayne, this sounds like a blast. I would totally like to hang out with the monsters, and I can rationalize it in my mind, but then I think about my wife. "You're going to drive 600 miles in your 14MPG car (because Al Gore-one love) and miss two days of work to hang out with some people you met on the internet?" And I'd be all like, 'yeah!'. And then she would do that thing where she stares at me blankly until I stop smiling. *sigh*
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I'm an L.A. member too! But I hardly ever comment so I guess i"m like the weirdy in the corner getting too drunk too fast & not talking to anyone.
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oh shit, now i'm gonna have to comment more often so people might have any vague idea who I am... well, see you on every post from here on in, monsters!
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as a long time reader but infrequent commenter I echo those sentiments...
i'm off that week, and haven't been to the city in a while, maybe i'll drive in.. anyone going from providence (ri)?
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Same here. But I think we should all go. And just bring extroverted backup in case we chicken out at the last minute. Right? RIGHT!
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SEE YOU GUYZ AT THE PIZZA PARTY!!!!
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Please tell me that's photoshopped so I don't feel bad for laughing.
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I might be there and I'll be making my avatar's screamy face the entire time.
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6!
rad, dudes! pizza party!
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OK. I'm supposed to give a final exam that day, but I'm a horrible teacher AND I DO WHAT I WANT. I have a few friends in NY anyway, so prepare to see some Angelaaaa up in your monstrous FACES! I'ma go. Btw, I'm still working on my male VG wall of tits. You twitter monsters know what I'm talking about, so GET TO WORK and DM me. I hope to have this completed for a formal presentation at the pizza party.
You'll know it's me cause of the mask I'll be wearing #H2N2, TX strain
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I won't be there, but please promise that you'll wear a surgical mask...
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Sigh. Living in Cincinnati=Sad, and not for the first time.
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Living in Dayton=Sadder.
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too soon
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Am I the only monster from Montana? I'm so lonley and cold............MLIT
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no dude, im from the big empty too.
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Montana Monsters unite!
You're not totally alone out here, although you may be separated by the next closest person by 3-8 hours.
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I propose a Midwest Monster Pizza party - We'll have it AT THE SAME TIME as the NYC one and you know... party together... only not together... but you know we'll all be live tweeting it so sort of together... er...
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Oh how I wish I could be there. Meet up in Ohio someday, Monsters?
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I'm not going because I am not 21 and live on the other side of the state, but if I was going I'd be so scared that this scenario would happen:
I enter and everyone runs up asking who I am. "Are you one of the funny ones that make us laugh?" they'll say. And I'll say "No, I'm Jon1331, I don't comment much nor am I particularly funny or charming". And then they'll say "Oh, ok, you're boring" and ignore me the rest of the night and I go home :(ing.
I'm getting nightmares just thinking about it.
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Yeah, that's how I see it playing out, too. I'm not a frequent commenter, nor am I particularly funny, so I'd probably spend the evening staring at people and feeling awkward. Kind of how I feel every time I post a comment. Hm.
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Let us - those who do not comment on each single post and multiple times in it -have our very own Random People From The Internet Who Are Not That Particularly Clever party! No name tags or anything. Hmmmm.... the more I think about it, it sounds more like a regular party, but we'd only tell people from the blog so we'd know we all at least read it. Then we'd watch "Death Sentence" and try to dissect whether it was actually worthy of inspiring The Hunt
We could also invite people under 21.
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well, that's definitely my plan for the evening, and I fully embrace it. Anyone wanna join me in the corner for a good cry?
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Minneapolis Pizza Party anyone?
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i second that.
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Oops sometimes we're underage and getting educations :(. Going broke for your future always gets in the way of things you like (pizza parties in strange bars)!
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I'll be there, and you have no idea who I am*, but I know who you all are!
*I'm a creep.
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Again, another comment that's better when you imagine the avatar saying it.
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♪♫ Pizza and beer and beer and pizza ♫♪ (sung to the tune of ice cream and cake and cake and ice cream)
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Just left New York last week...
Any monsters in the 'couv?
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Somebody in this thread is gonna get impregnated by another person in this this thread on the night of December 15, 2009.... and I'm not so sure it's gonna happen in Manhattan.
South Jersey, anyone?
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Already feel like an outsider, don't know if I wanna experience the "real life" version... I may do a Fizz... if I go. Show up, stand in a corner and say "video-what?" if someone inquiries about my identity.
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There'd better be a photo gallery in it for the rest of us.
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No doubt. It needs to have detailed captions just so we know Kenny Powers spent the entire night interjecting conversations with marginally related one-liners.
Kenny, if you're going, you better have a fucking stack of pictures that you randomly lay on the table and/or bar.
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I love living in Chicago, but deep dish pizza is gross. I'm all for any other style videogum pizza party!
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would you like to be boyfriend and IRLfriend?
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Is it mean that I'm sort of excited about all the girls that have a crush on Gabe meeting Edith and then being all Twihard/K-Stew about it? I know that's really mean, but I can't help it.
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN EDITH?!????1!
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Um....nothing. NOTHING! (oh dear god, i cannot believe I am going to miss it! gonna be sooooo good!)
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is there such a thing as another Little Rock Arkansas monster? Because it's really hard finding anyone cool to hang out with around here, and, you know, it might be cool to meet. Maybe? But only if such a thing even exists.
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Sigh. I was just in New York and just at Heathers several times as it's across the street from the apartment where I was staying. Dammit! We Birmingham monsters (all two of us) will just have to continue having Videogum Video Pizza Office Parties (because we share an office) for real and dream of your potentially awkward (but wonderful) get together.
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RSVP! I live within stumbling distance.
Very ready to combine some of my favorite things into one evening (pizza, whiskey, Videogum, and whiskey).
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I would go but I am about as popular in real life as I am on this here blog. Which means I am just a sad lonely lamp.....and I gotta get this yogurt cup off my head....and I try too hard.
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Hello Trenchcoat Street Peddlar. I would like one fake I.D.
No, I'm not going to a club. Its for a Pizza Party with funny people from the internet.
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I really just upvoted your username/picture combo. Birmingham is for funny people!
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I moved to LA from new york a year ago so I won't be there but I will be sending this man in my stead...
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I LIVE NEAR THAT PLACE. DAMN UNDERAGE BANS!
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I LIVE NEAR THAT PLACE. DAMN UNDERAGE BANS!
NEED OVERCOAT AND A BUDDY/STILTS FOR UNRELATED PROJECT.
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Ugh. Why does California have to be so far from New York? Hopefully when this state breaks off in 2012 we'll float around the world and end up right next to NY. Then we'll be neighbors! (This is a perfectly scientifically plausible future occurrence. Trust me. Whale biologist.)
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That makes perfect sense because science. :] Maybe all the various videogummers' locations will link up to form a new continent. Then we can have one massive post-apocalyptic pizza party! nom nom nom!
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Pangeagum
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I'm thinking how much fun it would be to drive up to New York and hang out with all the cool people on here, using my charm and wit to go from someone who comments never to "Hey, that guy was pretty fun".
But then I remember how I'm not nearly as suave and cool in reality as I am in my head, and realistically, I'd mumble my way through a few pleasantries before getting nervous and making a confused and vaguely racist conversation starter like "Mexicans. Am I right?" and then I'd have to leave early.
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Its racist, not racist-racist.
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Love to, can't, etc. ...I am willing to bet serious money I am the only one in Japan. Tokyo meetup anyone?
Incidentally, anytime anything from Japanese TV is posted here, I have to take a moment, put a cool cloth over my eyes, and whisper "You don't know the half of it".
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All of you guys are my heroes. I make it a point never to meet my heroes.
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I could book the Omaha Marriot. Pumpkin Head can be the keynote speaker. Dinner will be catered by KFC double stack sandwiches.
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gahhhhh. this would be so FUN! except i live in the dirty dirty. and srsly, the idea of going north in december for any reason is terrifying. it was 50 degrees here yesterday and i cried like a little baby while huddled under a goosedown blanket. y'all should come down here for mardi gras. no joke. you can drink on the street! the bars never close! and you won't get shot! (one of those things is not a guarantee.)
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Another New Orleans monster! All that scrolling through the comments finally paid off!
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dude. let's just go get some daiquiris from big pink genes and get smashed on the mississippi. bars? WE DONT NEED NO STINKING BARS.
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i take that back. there are many, many, many bars here that i need like i need sun, like i need air, like i need high life.
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Hi, other NOLA monsters! I have to agree that there are many bars here that I couldn't live without, but I definitely feel like being able to go to the fly, get hammered, and hit golf balls at passing container ships is one of the things that makes this city truly great.
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I live in Pittsburgh, and the smattering of "I am not of age/ have SAT prep" comments above lets me know that 1) I should question identifying as a "Monster" and 2) Meeting Avatars IRL is never a good idea.
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I'm with you on this. There's already a pizza party being organized in my city, but I'm worried I'll be at least 40 years older than everyone else and they'll all wonder which monster's mom I am.
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If that is creepy then I am the creepiest. Or just terrified of internet rejection. I doubt there are any other monsters in Oklahoma because it is the WORST so I will have to pizza party by myself.
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And that was in reply to Liz. I'm terrible at the internets.
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I'm here in Oklahoma. We could pizza party, I guess.
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It'll take everyone 5 min. to think of something funny to say. I don't have a good feeling about this.
And wow. How many new users since I last posted in 1999.
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Pfft. Not all deep dish is good, but when it's good it's GREAT. And you must admit, there's something wrong w/ that JPEG. It's all puffy.
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"What do you want on your Tombstone?
"Pepperoni & botulism"
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i AM BAD AT fACEBOOK. Whoa, and CapsLock. I am bad at Facebook; I can't come, but can I be friends with the party? (this is a mostly serious question)
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When Gabe originally talked about this in chat I figured I could probably just catch the bus from DC. Unfortunately the Tuesday thing killed it since I work on Tuesdays but I hope every one has fun. Also if any one in DC ever wants to hang out with KTP and I let me know.
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Lucky doods. At least you guys have a pizza restaurant in your town (which is also not a VHS movie rental shop).
I'm gonna buy myself a few pizza pockets in honor to this event. (Raises pizza pocket up as a toast, and then places back into his pocket.)
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Has anyone put any thought into what they'll do if Topher Grace shows up? He is from NYC (I checked it up). I think there should be a contingency plan of some kind.
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you mean besides shouting toasts of, "HELLO, WISCONSIN!!" over and over all night long?
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I will definitely be there. Another semi left out always reader, infrequent commenter. And I was kicking myself for missing last year's shindig.
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20 years old,although it would be awkward anyway because i'm not a functioning adult outside of the internet.
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So are their any Canadian monsters out there? Because I'm feeling no love here north of the 49th
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Look up! Search the page for "Canadian." ;)
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There's Canadian monsters (I'm one of them.)
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Oh hey, I could go to this.
But I wont.
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I will be there, jerkbags.
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I will be there, jerkbags.
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kansas city meet up? anyone... anyone? nope. okay.
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FINALLY. i was hoping there'd be at least ONE other monster from the KC area...
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Make that three.
Though now I am at college in Manhattan...Kansas.
So, Manhattan, Kansas meetup anyone?
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I'll call Papa John's you guys
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i want to go (from Montreal) just so i can tell customs that I'm entering you country for a pizza party/
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I'm right there with you being an invisible monster. This is actually my first post. I guess we all have to come out of our caves eventually. Now I just have to work on that hole "be funny" thing. :)
I live in Brooklyn, so I'll be there
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Yeah! Brooklyn! Me too!
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Baltimore?!
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oh boy i am gonna smash
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check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2undJyRCzOY
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How many NYC Monsters coming? Is there an actual tally? We should have a tally?
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Since i'm not going to be there, i will do what i do every tuesday night: Pop in the VHS of the last episode of Saved by the Bell, organize my Beanie Babies, and drink myself unconscious
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