YOU ALL BETTER BE ROUND IN MAY

oh yeah oh yeah

omg so jealous i miss seattle :(

RUBY!!!

do guys have some pro tips for travelling from the bay area to vancouver?? we are doing a two week road trip, with definite stops in portland, seattle and vancouver, but would love some ideas for stuff to do in between!

The Oregon coast is pretty darn lovely. Robert’s Books in Lincoln City A++++ used bookshop. Gracie’s Sea Hag in Depoe Bay (and tiny Depoe Bay itself) is awesome in its own completely unique way.

may is good!!!

what should we do in seattle???

should i bring hokey pokey biscuits??

<3 i wish i was going to be there.

ruby, you can measured up for the new house doorway!

you can measured up!

5 things to do in seattle:

1. see jaq’s lovely house

2. drink on the porch with me and lxy

3. go up in the space needle. no really it is awesome and worth $20, i love it

4. neighborhoods neighborhoods neighborhoods: georgetown, capitol hill, fremont, ballard, wallingford, u-district, lower queen anne, belltown etc etc etc. (jaq have you ever been to leschi? lol lived here most of my life and had never been until last month, great turkish food in a shishi area)

5. go see some art. we live by this place http://www.westernbridge.org/

biscuits yes!

btw you are welcome to stay the night(s), we have the room and would love to have you guys over, it would be a treat and you could save some $$, hotels are expensive here

one possible route: 101 to florence and then over and up i-5

I did that very route! I loved the total rainforest feeling on the road between from Florence to Eugene, giant drippy ferns etc.

I lived in Madrona, just north and above the part of Leschi that is down on the lake. Have eaten down there (Bluewater bistro, Daniel’s broiler mostly) and shopped in the Leschi market, but haven’t really explored it. I think the part that is up the ridge and south of the Madrona fault has a different feel, more CD than shishi.

Definitely go see art—if you are here for second Saturday, the whole of Georgetown throws open its doors. Also—Fantagraphics.

thanks for all these hospitality offers but as i explained to jaq: i get really weird about staying at ppl’s houses, idk why but it gives me major anxiety. so we’ll just stay at motel or something.

jordan is PSYCHED for fantagraphics!

and i am PSYCHED for lxyjergzjaq!

tomorrow i’m gonna try making hokey pokey biscuits with this lyle’s golden syrup BUT i read somewhere that it doesn’t taste the same as nz’s chelsea GS. if successful i will bring a batch with me! also: chocolate afghans and anzac biscuits.

this is off topic but smoove i just ordered some books from chance press and now i’m so excited.

It is no worry smoove! Let us know if you want hotel/motel recs.

estela, those chance press books are put together with so much <3! I’m excited for you to get them.

they are! when i saw j&j in sf last year they gave me a beautiful book, and also showed me other things they were working on.

i mean the year before last.

thanks for ordering <3stela! i will throw a little something extra for you!

<3

!!!

ruby, please will you send me your mailing address?

yes! <3 also you should be getting your envelope of books v v soon—i think we mailed it a week ago??

i emailed it to your yahoo address

<3 got it.

counting down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK HERE IT IS:

we get into seattle sometime in the afternoon on thurs may 26th, and we are staying at the maxwell hotel, 300 Roy Street

Seattle, WA 98109,

and we leave early sunday morning for vancouver.

we don’t really have any plans for seattle at this stage, apart from a visit to fantagraphics, so we are totally open to hanging with all you guys whenever.

i will try not to eat all the ANZAC biscuits before we get there!!

OMG this is really going to happen!!!

fantagraphics is in our neighborhood (and jaq’s) so is convenient for combining with faps.

i want to cook for you, and last weekend i got all kinds of funny vegan ‘meat’ from the adventist market in walla walla so, can i cook 2x for you? because i also want to make for you my specialty tacos.

unless you eat the ANZAC biscuits in which case, well, i just don’t know if we’ll be available. ;)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is so nice of you to buy weird vegan meats!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

you can def cook for us, we would love that! i was thinking that maybe we could go pick rodney up on one of the days and force him to be our tour guide and then bring him to a fap?? i need to actually let him know i am planning to kidnap him, first.

Do you like China Mieville? because he is doing a reading at a bar on 5/28 and it will be awesome.

My house is so not vegan, but I would like to offer our yard/grill for pitch-in bbq fapness with all and sundry.

oh i would have bought them anyway. y’all are just lucky with your timing!

sure sure, the rev is welcome too.

i can’t wait to see you! though i guess technically i should say ‘meet’ you, but that seems weird cuz how is it possible we’ve never met before?

xp (lol THAT doesn’t happen very often over here, does it?)

so, why don’t we do an all-included fap at jaq’s on the kidnap night (and i can contribute weird vegan meat for grilling), and then we’ll have a smaller J&J&J&L dinner where we talk about art and stuff at my house on the other night?

or something. i guess there’s a 3rd night to consider, too.

sounds good to me!

may I claim Friday 5/27 evening for bbq then, b/c I am going to that Mieville reading on 5/28.

oh i forgot to say—i’ve heard the name but never read the books

p.s. i am bringing anzacs instead of hokey pokey as mentioned earlier up thread because 1. anzac biscuits are better 2. my hokey pokey biscuits were a huge FAIL 3. and if you like brownies i will also bring a pan of my AMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAZING VEGAN BROWNIES. yes.

should i bring trivial pursuit?!?!?!?

rodney is only free thurs or saturday :/

ok rodney can make it friday but he’s busy till 5pm, so we’ll see if we can plan to be doing something where he is, pick him and bring down

and email me your addresses so i can start googlemapping that shit

oh you are staying in my old hood! please to say hi to queen anne for me <3

jealous of seafapping!

ps ruby, bring all the baked goods you can manage and why not also bring trivial pursuit!

so excited!!!

i’m counting down!!!!!!!!!!!

i’m so wistful.

it’s not too late to buy a ticket and meet us there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

do you really want to miss out on my amazing fudgey super chocolatey brownies and awesome sugary buttery anzac biscuits???????

now i’m even wistfuller.

how i wish i could be there, crunching on an anzac biscuit and towering over you in my stockinged feet.

ruby. is it time yet?

sooooooooooooon!

now?

really really soon!

p.s. i’m worried about the baked goodies getting stale—the latest i can bake them is saturday, and we won’t be in seattle till thursday... will they be gross by then?? i don’t have much experience in this area, bc baked treats usuallly only last 2 days max in our house

anzac biscuits were purposely designed to not go stale, during WWII women in nz and australia used to bake them and mail them to the troops in europe who sometimes wouldn’t get them until months later.

i can’t vouch for the brownies though.

so ruby, if you can’t resist digging in during the trip, go for the brownies first, since they’re an unknown.

and since i’ve never had an anzac biscuit.

Is Friday still okay for general free-for-all-bbq-madness at Jaq’s house? b/c I will send out a pile of invites if so.

yes i think i will make a double batch of anzacs instead—i mean, my vegan brownies are fab, but you can get brownies all over the place.

friday bbq is still good for me!

Invites sent! (Plz forward to anyone I missed)

i didn’t get one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sent to books @ chance—is only email I had in my contacts ;_;

will also do FB event :)

ruby, sorry you’re hurting. you get here, i’ll hook you up with some painkillers.

we’re in portland!!! not long now!!! AND OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE IT: WE HAVEN’T EATEN EVEN ONE OF THE ANZACS!!!!

ok so i had a pretty big cry last night and today bc i was in such excruciating pain and nothing was working and it seemed to be getting worse, but jordan set me up in the car so my leg was propped up and i’m feeling much better now.

also: holy fucking shit i didn’t know oregon had like this HUUUGE mountain range!! and also these crazy rock formations that make you feel like you’re in arizona!!

oh my god i can’t believe you’re so nearby!!! and you’re going to be here tomorrowwwww!

do you have a plan for seawa, beyond fapping at jaq’s on friday? will you come over tomorrow night for a meal?

no plans for seawa! visiting you tomorrow night, jaq’s on friday—and bringing buckets of good cheer in the form of anzacs! that is all! i think jergins said we should visit the space needle, so we’ll probably do that. we’re in seawa for 3 nights so we have lots of time to use up.

it’s raining in portland today :( so we are having a lazy morning and then going to my favouritest sock store in the whole world and then probably back to powells.

why is jergins not on this thread getting excited about seeing me?! i’m starting to think he just doesn’t EVEN CARE.

yay, dinner tomorrow, then!!! i emailed my phone number; did you get it?

good that you’ll have new socks, since it’ll be shoes-off for measuring. maybe you can go to a hair-flattening store, too, to expedite matters.

(you only have to be shoes-off for measuring, not for coming in the house.)

anzzzzzzacs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From: lxy

Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:27 AM

Subject: IMPORTANT: ACTION REQUIRED!

To: jergins

dearest,

please go to ruby’s thread in the sandbox. she’s beginning to worry that you’re not excited about her visit, and we cannot risk her turning around or skipping seattle. we HAVE to get our hands on those anzac biscuits!!!

thx.

luv,

me

I CARE DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!

it will be great to meet you ruby.

i’ve already started cleaning house.

we’ve been strategizing on what to cook.

fun fun, we will have fun fun

a few live updates would be good.

seawa better be good bc i think i <3 portland!!!! this town is soooo cute! **just out of curiosity** i looked at aptmts on craigslist and goddamn it’s cheap to live here!!!

i bought about a million pairs of knee high striped socks so i will be attired appropriately in the foot dept.

jergie i thought maybe you had left town for a while in order to avoid meeting me and i was v v </3

a few live updates would be good.

i will have drinks tmrw and then if i remember YES YES.

yeah portland’s cheaper than seattle. one of my best friends (he lives in portland) has been looking for places up here and i think it’s discouraging him that he’s going to have to pay ~30% more in seattle.

lx pull out ur cutest socks, make this a competition.

not competition. exhibition.

so. should we just turn up at your doorstep at a prearranged time tomorrow eve?

yes!! 7 pm okay by you? that’ll give me time to get home and get organized.

you have the address and my phone number, right?

OMGGGGG YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok!!!!!!!!!! we are here!!!!!!!!! see you in 3.25 hrs!! i have google-mapped this shit so hopefully we don’t get lost going 6mi to yr house!!!!

You are here!!! No wonder the sun is shining! :)

the live updates must have been written in invisible ink.

lolly no we are too busy eating anzac cookies

ytth and ruby are driving up first ave right now, what do you think about that

well we got photographic evidence of this encounter, which i have just emailed to you, estela!!

we fully intended to liveblog but we were too busy smoking too many cigarettes.

i got the photos, they are lovely:

<3<3<3

and i got another photo, a photo of a piece of paper with some names and lines scrawled on it:

lololol

...olololol

i’m surprised to be laughing so much about something i knew all along.

no we are too busy eating anzac cookies

omg these things! so good! and so so wonderful to finally meet ruby and ytth!!!

well seattle was GREAT—couldn’t have asked for better hosts!!!!

highlights:

- dinner at lxy&jergz YUM

- WINNING the height competition*

- getting to spend tons of time hanging out with 2 of my fav ilxors

- getting a guided drive-by tour of the city (my favourite kind of tour)

- impressing everyone with my anzac bickies (?biccies?)

- this hotel bed

- jaq’s rhubard & strawberry crumble

lowlights:

- didn’t get to spend nearly enough time talking to jaq :( :(

- saying goodbye to 2 of my favourite ilxors :( :(

*i decided that girth counted too, SO I TOTALLY WIN!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<3 i’m glad you all had such a lovely time, i knew you would all <3 each other.

nonetheless, the old girth defence does not and will not wash.

it was great to meet you and show you around, ruby. we had fun. i kind of hate my stick shift car, so god damn jerky, so i was glad to hear everyone liked the drive around and it wasn’t like ‘ok i am car sick let’s finish this shit.’

<3 your car was fine, jergz!!

also: hi from canada

5 things to do in seattle:

1. see jaq’s lovely house CHECK
2. drink on the porch with me and lxy CHECK
3. go up in the space needle. no really it is awesome and worth $20, i love it CHECK
4. neighborhoods neighborhoods neighborhoods: georgetown, capitol hill, fremont, ballard, wallingford, u-district, lower queen anne, belltown etc etc etc. (jaq have you ever been to leschi? lol lived here most of my life and had never been until last month, great turkish food in a shishi area) CHECK
5. go see some art. we live by this place http://www.westernbridge.org/

how is canada, do you see alice munro aspects?

everyone said vancouver is a shit hole, but we loved it!! wish we’d had another day tbh. really wanted to bike around stanley park but didn’t have time.

not v alice munro-y, unfortunately!

home now!!!

my absolute favourite part of the trip: we spent a night in yachats, splashed out on a fancy hotel room that had a jacuzzi overlooking the sea.

oh jaq: we made it to robert’s books and OMG that place is crazy! it’s so huge! i bought a few books there, mostly trashy mystery/horror.

ruby i forgot to tell you that whenever i leave a cupboard open i think of you and “things guys (men? can’t remember) do”

and then i laugh and close the cupboard

<3! ytth will never learn

my absolute favourite part of your trip: _______ about popular ___ (and sometimes _______) ______, ______ (aka ____ __________), and _______ the ____ about the ________ _______.

<3 you both, even beyond the _______ of ____.

/innermost circle of the circle

i’m so confused

ruby, i wish you hadn’t already come to visit so that the ‘i am coming to visit’ part of this were still true.

plz say hi to ytth for me.

aw me too!!!! we miss you guys :(

Have been thinking this morning abt ruby walking up my front steps bearing anzacs.

aw

<3

stevie d is on his way to my house as we speak.

!!! i think we are hosting steve the weekend after this one

we totally upped you guys to him last night, but he already knew how great you are. we did it anyway. sang right to that choir. and the choir sang right back! it was fun.

i got your text! i’m super excited to see steve—i have to spend the next 1.5 weeks thinking of exciting bay area activities. all i got so far is going to the drive-in.

you will love him, smoove!

steve is here!!

aw stevie d! hugs to all!! <3

^^^^

otm!

<3

i’m coming columbus day weekend, i decided while the sandbox was off. we so excited! i’m getting extra tall for my visit

beanpl

i am, as estela would say, chuffed.

jergins asked this weekend did i have harbl’s phone number. he was going to text to ask what kind of food does harbl like.

i said i think she likes halal meats.

oh i like all kinds of food but i do not like pork. so yeah halal. i don’t really eat beef either. anything!

our house is going to have all its windows out, but maybe they will be back in in time for your visit harbl!

i don’t need windows, just wine

5 days :)

XD

2 days!

i wish i could meet ole harbly.

have fun, harbl!!

i didn’t leave myself enough time to do all the things before i go! i’m getting off the computer i promise

omg today yay!

i will be greeting our harbl in the transit tunnel (international district/chinatown station) in 5 hours

!!!!!

4 hours to go!

3!!

yay! jealous!

2! TWO! II!

she’s on the ground and headed to the ID!!!

oh my

i am at the meeting point. next train arr in 2 minutes!!!!

saw an old guy w a big white beard & a suitcase lurking at the meeting point, and kinda freaked for a sec.

train now arriving!!!

Hooray! Jarbl masterclass time!

hi i’m harbly posting on lxy’s computer

haha i saw the thread had been updated — by me! — and i couldn’t remember posting this morning loll.

harbl, how is your visit going? how do you like seattle?!

harbl sez: my visit is going well. i like seattle.

we desperately needed a jarbl set up at dinner tonight :( I don’t know where all those rotters came from, but suddenly they were everywhere.

my visit was so fun and lxyjergins are so nice

but i love baltimore :D

aww harbly. i miss you! thanks for coming to visit, it was super fun!! <3<3<3

harbl what was your favorite part of seattle?

where did you go?

we went everywhere you can go in two days, i think. i liked georgetown! i also liked the beach. most of all i loved the produce market though! i was thinking about it just now. we also went to kubota garden which was great. and tacky flea market, we got a sambusa from a somali lady and it was delicious. also the best public library. i did go to mine yesterday and did not lament its lack of things, i like them both.

also jaq’s shower is awesome :)

<3 kubota!