Real World RI

[lightningBugout]

I met a guy at a party last night who is a long-time lurker here. Kind of incredible when you actually meet someone in real-time but share the connection of this place. We had a tremendous conversation.

The title of my post has given me the idea for a reality show in which a bunch of RIers live in a house for some period of time. Hugh and Op Ed and Annie Anarchy would have to be there.

[Project Willow]

(Removed, apologies.)

[Code Unknown]

IOW, it's not that unusual an occurrence, if you get out of the house and circulate.

Maybe not in your circles.

[sunny]

A few years ago I went back to school to get my degree. My Gov't professor had a brother she described as being like me-a conspiracy buff. I gave her the web address of RI and told her to pass it on to him. I think the guy was et in Arcadia ego but he never said. This is the closest I've come to another RI'er, though my son does lurk here from time to time.

[beeline]

Cracking up at Code Unknown.

I think we should put together some sort of a conference, if we could collectively get past the paranoia such an event would incur.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I think we should put together some sort of a conference, if we could collectively get past the paranoia such an event would incur.

I've had a shameful fantasy for a while now, where I invite all the members of the board to come and visit my huge historic mansion on my expansive landholdings ("I'll pay your airfair, my dear - it's not a problem") for a relaxing week or two of boozing, talking, hunting and shooting (for those who do), and football and fishing for them who don't.

It's got a great library, this mansion of mine, and loads of the old esoteric architecture (specially in the old Templar chapel).

The fantasy kind of falls apart at the point where a quarter of the board believe it's a sick government trap, a quarter protest it as bourgeoius and capitalist because it's a "board meeting", another quarter get arrested at the airport as enemies of the state, and the remaining few turn up at my door to find I'm too fucked to answer it (lying spark out on the kitchen tiles, after having got a bit excited the night before).

And it's not a country mansion, either. Not by a long shot.

There's more to it, but it's embarassing enough already. A man can dream, though, eh?

There's no reason folk shouldn't meet up, though, really. If they want.

I recommended the place to a taxi driver not long ago after he started on about weather manipulation. He knew his stuff, but I doubt he joined. I always phone his firm now, though, hoping to meet him again - the journey gpes a lot faster if you can talk about HAARP and DARPA with somebody informed rather than how great the BNP are supposedly going to be with some moronically self-defeating fuckwit.

[Jeff]

That's not a shameful fantasy, that's a shameful Peckinpah movie!

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I KNEW IT! I'M RUTGER HAUER!

The only way that could've been better for me is if there was a remake starring Christopher Walken.

I've been hearing some stories about Walken lately - the man undoubtedly deserves a thread of his own for his sheer reptillian otherworldliness.

I like to imagine him lurking here sometimes, but no, that would be too small a role - he lurks everywhere.

[Peregrine]

Well I know there tends to be a few people posting here that are in my neck of the woods. I always am curious about the other folk here on the other end of the keyboard.

And it's always nice to meet locals in the flesh that share your point of view on the world scene

[daba64]

Hmmm, maybe this thread should be merged with the "Advice on Men" thread and we should plan a Paranoid Singles Weekend....

I know I would enjoy it from the safety of my car across the street. Sorry, too paranoid to go in.

[annie aronburg]

There's always this to start.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Could merge it with the Saloon thread as well. Some paranoiacs get more relaxed with a drink in them, others get even more paranoid - but all become more likely to attend.

It's an immutable law of nature: As a paranoiac consumes alcohol, the probability of that paranoiac interacting with other people (especially other paranoiacs) approaches 1.

[OP ED]

sorry lbo, you can't afford my salary, and i'd probably be the first voted off the island anyhow. [fortunately i've planned well in advance and seeded the island with my sockpuppets, some of them equally convincing in person]

but if you could convince Hugh to show up, i'd probably drop through just to see what he looks like in person.

[Project Willow]

Annie, where did you get that idea?

You think you're invited to the RI art show opening April Fool's weekend?
(Especially if, maybe, it's your birthday?)




Shh, don't tell anyone else, more beer for us.

[Alaya]

Anybody (well almost) who is down my way in southwest New Mexico is invited for a visit.

You can explore the Gila Cliff Dwellings and DH will put you on horse, unless you've got your own.

- nice old adobe built in 1880s on a sweet little creek.

At 6,400 ft., the days are warm and the nights are brr...