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- From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: BLAZE-FEST '93 -- the TRUTH emerges!!
- Date: 3 Jun 1993 19:09:57 GMT
- Keywords: BLAZEMONGER, nougat
-
- Another year has passed, and another BLAZE-FEST has come and gone!
- "What is a 'BLAZE-FEST'," I hear you cry? Oh, just the ULTIMATE, SECRET,
- BY-INVITATION-ONLY social experience on the PLANET!! The most recent one
- was held in May in California's DECADENT South Bay area, and gossip
- columnists worldwide are speculating on what happened. Now, YOU can know
- the UNBELIEVABLE truth!!
-
- The TOP-SECRET meeting place for this year's BLAZE-FEST was Fontana's
- Italian Restaurant in Cupertino. The Amigans in attendance were:
-
- Dan Barrett (wearing the legendary BLAZEMONGER T-shirt)
- Jonathan Cano
- Bob Cosby & Marsha Kohl
- Andy Finkel
- Gleeep
- Dale Luck
- David Masterson
- Mike Meyer
- Leo Schwab
- Mike Schwartz
- Dan Zerkle
-
- plus a few of my other friends from the music world:
-
- Ranjit Padmanabhan
- Rob Rosen
-
- A few SNIVELING INFIDELS were RUDE enough to miss the BLAZE-FEST at the last
- minute due to incredible stupidity or car trouble:
-
- Mike Haas
- Mike Smithwick
-
- and they have both been beaten senseless with concrete slabs and "Nerf"
- weapons.
-
- And now the tale begins.... Even before the dinner started, there
- were signs that trouble was brewing. First, Bob and Marsha mysteriously
- vanished, leaving behind only a barely legible, handwritten note saying
- something about "boiled walrus." Next, when Leo and I DARED to ask the
- waiters for separate food and alcohol checks, this was greeted with icy
- stares, mad laughter, and a flying cleaver from the kitchen, barely missing
- Gleeep's jugular vein. Undaunted, we ordered appetizers.
-
- Against everyone's better judgement, the trio of 3DO Amigans (Andy,
- Dale, and Leo) got ahold of a few gallons of wine, and then things REALLY
- started happening. Andy LEAPED up onto the table, brandishing a sharpened
- CD-ROM disc, and demanded pasta IMMEDIATELY. As the shocked serving crew
- tried to accommodate his urgent desires, Dale started covering the windows
- of the restaurant with toilet tissue and duct tape, and Leo whipped out a
- full-scale model of the Starship Enterprise and fired photon torpedoes at
- random diners.
-
- Somehow, the restaurant staff managed to notify the police, but
- Mike Schwartz kept them baffled and at bay with sordid tales of the GNU
- C compiler and assembly optimizations. A few officers nearly reached our
- table, but David Masterson was there with his "Amiga" hat, fooling them
- into thinking this was a DevCon and they had reached the wrong place.
-
- In the midst of this confusion, the main courses arrived, and
- Jonathan wasted no time in swapping everybody's food around, while Dan Zerkle
- began a maniacal speech on the state of Californian politics. (Soon to be
- posted in c.s.a.announce!) Ranjit and Rob tried in vain to keep order, but
- they were thwarted as Mike Meyer, swinging a wrecking ball above his head,
- laid waste to half of the restaurant.
-
- Needless to say, we skipped dessert.
-
- The final bill was nothing short of astronomical (not to mention
- gastronomical), but we sent a few "Customer Service" representatives to
- "discuss" the matter, and it was quickly resolved.
-
- Not content to end the evening so early -- it was only 4:00am at
- this point -- about half of the partygoers went out for ice cream at a local
- establishment called "The Meltdown." There, we learned the finer points of
- how to stand on both ends of the serving line simultaneously. Afterwards, we
- descended on an innocent bookstore, read everything in the shop, and shook
- the place to its foundation. Best book of the evening: "Goat Mascara, My
- Way" by Spiro Agnew.
-
- Finally, we parted ways, tears in our eyes, swearing eternal
- friendship and fire-branding "Amiga" logos on each others' butt cheeks.
-
- Yes, it was history in the making, Amiga fans! Sites of the
- previous BLAZE-FESTS have been:
-
- March 1993: Vancouver, British Columbia
- August 1992: San Francisco, California
-
- WHO KNOWS when a BLAZE-FEST may show up in your hometown? Heh heh heh....
-
- Dan
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- This article may be freely distributed as long as it is distributed in its
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- permission of the author. So nyaaah.
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