TNL Across America: New York City 2008

[Cowutopia]

Full credit to Mezz, and Burg too, for holding this shit down. Minus points for Ramon cutting out early for some superstitious grudge against Brooklyn.


I want to assemble a list of people who actually made it to one event or another. This is in no particular order:

Cowutopia + 2 (RappinRafi + chronoso)
Cowdisease
ShinJohn
Thief Silver
Burgundy +Girl
Razor Ramon + Girl
Destin + 2 (Shellac + Stranger)
Atlas + 2 Couchsurfing friends
Rhydant
Advocate
Trialsword
Galaxia
ChaoOfNee
kingoffighters
bahn
Dolemite
Mezz
Sinista
Netwurked
K3V
SSJN
Rich
Portnoyd
Frogacuda
Rama

Am I missing anyone? I probably am. It was hard to remember everyone's name, but seriously when in doubt just call the guy "Chris." There were like five goddamn people named Chris.

If we do this again I seriously want to have a day where we just rent a hall and set up tv's and bring our own cases of beer.

[Cowdisease]

If anyone is interested in getting together for one last event, Rhydant and I are heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a little culture experience at around 3PM. I know some people expressed interest in doing this last night, so lets meet up out front of the Met! Send me a text or give me a call if you are going to meet up.

Dammit, I told you to call me if you were hanging out. I'm reading this now and I probably would have hung out with you guys if I had known earlier. Oh well.

I'm still tired from the two days of awesomeness of TNL. It was great meeting everyone, some again, some for the first time. Especially the B-LO crew. 6 HOUR CAR RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, Thief Silver was light on the memorable quotes for Saturday as opposed to Friday, but I will say that it was hilarious to see drunk Thief walking the streets of New York when we were headed to Cheap Shots. It was also funny how Burgundy tried to name as many things as possible that Thief looked like. All he got though was Iceman Chuck Liddel and Shaun of the Dead. I threw in Joust Williams, as the two could be mistaken for brothers.

Big thanks to Mezz for picking out the places to meet. You are the man, Mezz!

Dole, I'm glad you got home safe. I was still uneasy leaving you off 34th Street, but you assured me repeatedly that you could get to Penn Station no problem.

And LOL at KOF receiving text message excuses from the TNL unicorn, Biff. The best was when he texted the excuse, "my cellphone is running out of batteries."

Ramon, it was cool hanging out with you, but you should have said 'goodbye' to us before we split up on Saturday. We would have given you a proper send-off.

If anything else comes to mind, I'll post it later.

TNL!!!! WHAT WHAT!!!!

[Frogacuda]

It was only by the grace of god and the obliviousness of Advocate that I didn't get ticketed too because I was trying to pull that same shit.

Important detail: this particular subway stop didn't have machines to buy a ticket.

[Cowutopia]

Well, it did but like, on the other side of the street or something. It was all bullshit.

[Opaque]

Love to give you a huge excuse, but the truth is a fell asleep when I got in, and then got hooked on mass effect.

This is the worst excuse for anything, ever.

[Cowdisease]

This is the worst excuse for anything, ever.

OMG, I forgot to call him out in my post when I read that. That is really, really lame. Probably beats saying that your cellphone is running out of batteries in a text message.

Oh, I almost forgot! So at the Beer Garden, while we were all standing outside (by the way, boo to the person who suggested we leave the air-conditioned basement to go stand outside. Sure, there was an ugy, fat, and annoying harpy (or as KOF called her, a 'triple whammy') with a skull-splitting shrieking voice down there, but at least it was nice and cool and not ballsack hot), we noticed a lone pitcher filled with an unknown liquid and black specs all around.

I told Thief that I would pay him $5 to drink the pitcher. Netwurked threw in $5, and soon other TNL people put some money in, bringing the pot to $40 or $45. Thief caved in to the pressure and chugged the pitcher with us and a bunch of random people cheering him on with a 'chug' chant. Thief claims that it was tea and that the black specs were tea leaves, but even if it was, that was still $5 well spent. Some security guy came by thinking we were gambling, but he let us be after we told him that he were paying Thief back for the beer he bought for us.

[Cowutopia]

This weekend was really

TNL: Adventures with Dumbshit Security

[Dolemite]

then this morning I find out Andi's car got towed.

Oh, fuck. That just totally sucks.

[Dolemite]

GOD DAMN is dolemite awesome, there was just an aura of a B-Action movie all around him, I was expecting high octane fights to break out all around him in the middle of drinking.

lol!

Destin is the fucking man. I was serious last night, set up another Maryland get-together and I'm there.

[Dolemite]

It was also funny how Burgundy tried to name as many things as possible that Thief looked like. All he got though was Iceman Chuck Liddel and Shaun of the Dead.

I can maybe see Shaun of the Dead, but I didn't get the Chuck Liddel thing at all.

Dole, I'm glad you got home safe. I was still uneasy leaving you off 34th Street, but you assured me repeatedly that you could get to Penn Station no problem.

Shit, was I THAT drunk?