#monomeat

9:51-11:19 – Masha and I spent basically the entire time playing cards. I invented a card game called Fisticuffs the night before so I was teaching it to him. It kind of worked, but kind of didn’t… I kept forgetting my own rules :P. We played a few other games while talking as well: Crazy Eights, a horrible attempt at Bullshit, and we tried to come up with a playing card RPG which failed miserably…

11:20 – Train arrived at Town Hall and I had no idea where I was. Somehow we managed to make our way through all the fancy shops to the outside street… and then I still had no idea where I was. We saw the Monorail track above us, so we figured we would just follow it until we got there which… kind of worked. We made it to the wrong station, anyway. Masha and I considered riding the Monorail around until we got to the meeting point; making a triumphant exit to meet the other TAYbies. We decided against it and just looked at a map. :P

11:30 – We finally made our way to the correct station (after Masha being held up by a guy asking for money) and met a circle of people! -insert list here- I don’t want to forget anyone… All that’s important was they were a dapper bunch! We were bringing down the dapper levels with our regular, non-dapper clothes!

11:31-12:30ish – Over the next hour the group doubled in size as more people arrived. We pondered whether the reason there was no seats at the station was because nobody ever rode the Monorail or because the Massage Parlour next door was forcing people to have to go inside to rest. Also reasoned that the nearby Japanese travel agent either specialised in Japan destinations or was for Japanese people…

12:31ish – We finally bought our monorail tickets! I expected it to be absolutely deserted, but surprisingly we had to wait for a few mono’s to go past before there was enough room to even get on! Even then we had to split up. Our carriage, also known as the “Actually, this is pretty boring” carriage, were over it before we even made a full loop. It’s just a slow train! I still feel that if they made it faster and added safety harnesses they could market it as the Sydney Rollercoaster. Maybe add a loop or something. Bish and I used the time to clear out our Streetpasses. I also came to realise how little I have accomplished in that game when everybody else seemed to have every puzzle piece ever. :P After the first loop, we got off the Monorail and waved/stuck-fingers-up at the other group as they left.

1:something – Walked around the bookshop while waiting for some people to join us. Can’t really remember what happened here but it involved a lot of talking and waiting. We also pondered whether the “Free Comic Book Day” was a day for free comic books, or that Comic Book Day was free to attend… Come to think of it, we seemed to have a lot of these type of conversations. xD

1:30ish – Finally lunchtime! I was starving. After a few false starts we finally decided on a restaurant simply because they had tables big enough to fit all 16 of us. I’d never been there before so I had no idea what I was looking at on the menu. I had to read the descriptions thoroughly… Ended up choosing Yaki Soba or something which was quite nice! I almost died at the end of the meal though because I inhaled a mouthful of ginger (I didn’t stir it through! D:). Had a coughing fit, etc.

Some time – Also finally, Galaxy World! We rode the monorail again to Paddy’s Markets while the other group mysteriously left to do something or other. Half of our group made a beeline to Galaxy World while the others looked at dapper hats. Eventually everyone met up again and the fun began! I battled Flu in my first game of some weird Animal fighting game. I lost the first round horribly, made a comeback in the second, only to lose the third. Damn you, sky-egg-bowl thing! You killed my Lion! Alexpants and I struggled with basic maths while dividing up our money, but we got there in the end. I versed Nova in a game of Basketball, which I did poorly at. I versed Masha in a car racing game, which I did well at (first place, oh yeah). I tried to verse #35 at air hockey but kept getting foiled by pesky kids stealing the machine. The real mayhem was in the Bumper cars. So intense! I was using my body weight (which admittedly is not much) to increase the power of my bumps! Highlights included me and someone else (didn’t get a good look) cornering Flu and ramming him into a wall, a three-way collision between me and two others (it’s hard to recognise most people in such intense situations!), hanging around the outskirts waiting to strike unsuspecting victims, etc. Finally I managed to grab the Air Hockey table. Had great games against Nova and #35. Air Hockey is the shizz.

6:00ish – After everybody had had enough, we left for dinner. Indecisive as the group is, it took a while to decide on a restaurant. A few members of the group broke off to get a very non-dapper pie while the bulk of us got seated at some fancy place. Not much to say here, I had one drink and left to catch my train. I felt kind of guilty leaving so early though! My train station isn’t exactly the safest place late at night though so I figured I better leave. I’ll have to get accommodation next time so I can stay longer!

9:00ish – Finally got home. The train gave me a massive headache for some reason. Luckily there was no weirdos at the train station like there usually is and I got home safely. :P

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2. Powalen is a nice dude and we played card games the whole way through. Beats silently staring at each other for one and a half hours. He actually invented a card game called ‘fisticuffs’ which started off well but we both agreed needed work.

LOOK OUT TAY ‘FISTICUFFS’ WILL BE COMING SOON TO STORES NEAR YOU (probably not )

3. The card games helped time fly and we were in Sydney in no time. Before we arrived however, Powalen hit me with this bombshell. You might want to be seated when you read this if you are unaware. You’re seated? OK.

PEOPLE ‘TALK AMONGST THEMSELVES’ ON OTHER PLACES OTHER THAN TAY. ON TWITTER FOR EXAMPLE. THERE ARE CONVERSATIONS GOING ON ELSEWHERE THAT ARE NOT SANCTIONED BY MARK/ELLY. I don’t know what to believe anymore.

4. Reeling internally from that revelation Powalen and I arrived in Town hall and got our bearings around Sydney before finding the monorail stations. At first we went to the wrong station but luckily the meeting point was at the next station – a 2 min walk from where we were. We finally met up with the group of early TAYbies (what is the collective noun for TAY? A flock? A herd? ) and introduced ourselves. The early birds, from what I remember, were Bish, #35, Effluvium boy(flu), Ruffleberg and Nova. Everybody was polite and enthusiastically said MASHAAA when greeting me which was kind of cool.

5. At this point the whole group continued with their conversation and as I stood there I thought to myself “TAY people actually look OK and they are certainly well dressed.” Alex (Alexpants) was the next one to arrive. He had some train trouble with some track work and silly kids on their bikes. We then stood there and waited for Pez, Hugo and Doc What as bish and flu argued about who was more dapper. The dapper theme or rather the argument about dapper-ness seemed to permeate most of the conversation as we waited. In fact arguments about dapper-ness always seemed to come up from what I could hear throughout the day. Sorry guys I have no dapper clothing. Maybe I’ll buy some. Also doing a Google image search for ‘dapper black guy’ brings up pictures of Zac Efron for some reason.

6. Bish left the group to pick up harli. MorkaiAu arrived soon after. Bish had left behind his hat which was soon manhandled by Doc What once he arrived with Pez and Hugo. Actually in my head PEZ looked like a mini mob boss because he was flanked by Hugo and Doc What who are taller than him. Turns out he isn’t. Bish’s hat continued to be manhandled as we stood there. Nova made a joke about how TAY meat ups are usually just people looking through their phones and like clockwork most of us took out our phones. Pez and Doc What hassled bish and Shiggy respectively over twitter. Shiggy arrived soon after and Pez didn’t like his tie.

PSST TAY, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT I THINK SHIGGY IS A ZELDA FAN. HOW DO I KNOW? MAYBE IT WAS THE ZELDA BAG AND BELT BUCKLE!! SERIOUSLY THE BELT BUCKLE WAS PRETTY COOL.

7. The ticket lady at this point was staring at us for being there too long. I admit we did look shifty. She must have telepathically done something to us because we bought tickets soon after. Bish arrived with Harli who also greeted me with a MASHAAAAA. Harli had dapper-ed up with some suspenders and Flu tried to argue that he had suspenders as well but it doesn’t count if you hide your suspenders with a Vest, flu. Sorry. He did reveal his suspenders later in the day so we’ll forgive him this time.

THIS IS WHEN I BEGAN TO FEEL BAD ABOUT MY QUIET NATURE. THE THING IS WHEN SOMEONE SHOUTS YOUR NAME I THINK IT’S CUSTOMARY TO SHOUT THERE’S BACK. I DIDN’T. SORRY ALL.

8. Harli bought her ticket as well and we all walked to the platform. This was it. The reason we had all come here, to ride the Monorail. 9. The Monorail seemed busy for some reason. I thought it was shutting down? So we split into two groups since we would never have got on otherwise. I was in the carriage with Bish, #35, Rize, Powalen and Ruffleberg. Once we were inside we were all like Woooo \o/ \o/ but then two minutes in our carriage realised it’s just another train so we were all meh. 5-10 min later we were off the train. Ruffleberg later told us that it might be 3 years before they even tear it down. What?

THAT’S TAY FOR YOU. EITHER WE’RE TOO EARLY OR TOO LATE. SO WHAT NEXT FOR A MEAT? I HEAR THE PS4/NEXT XBOX IS COMING OUT IN TWO YEARS LET’S HAVE A MEAT NEXT MONTH. :-)

10.Even though the Monorail ride might have been ‘meh’ while we were there Powalen and Bish exchanged street pass puzzle pieces. #35 showed me his cool pocket watch that has no battery. I guess he uses magic to guess the time and then physically change the setting on the watch. I don’t want to scare anyone but #35 might be a wizard. That or he is so dapper he doesn’t need batteries to tell time.

ALSO #35’s WATCH IS KIND OF BARE. IT NEEDS A PICTURE OF SOME SORT TO COVER THE INNER FACE OF HIS POCKETWATCH. I SUGGESTED HE GET A MISTRESS AND PUT HER PICTURE ON THERE BUT I THINK A PICTURE OF MARK WOULD WORK JUST AS WELL.

11. The other TAY group stayed on the monorail for 3 more loops around the track. What? That’s dedication folks. Morkai Au tried to take a picture of us from inside the train but it was too dark :-( While those guys were on the train we walked to Kinokuniya, then Bish disappeared again. He seems to do that a lot. Turns out he was doing some cupcake hunting for Freyr. The cupcake had a flag on it and everything. He even took photos of it. I was thinking to myself that Bish was a good guy for going to all that trouble for Freyr but I must have thought too soon because he ate the cupcake.

12. The other group caught up with us and we proceeded to block the walkways two different times once outside ICHIBAN, which had a long waiting time, and again outside Wagamama where we eventually had our lunch. It was my first time using chopsticks *shock* I fumbled with them for a while before deciding to use a fork instead. Also despite my perpetual silence, the group of guys in the corner (Pez, Alex, Harli, Hugo etc.) of the table still let out a hearty MASHAAAA which was always nice. Bish almost burnt himself with some hot tea. We all paid for our meal and apparently Bish is the one who does all the counting but we don’t trust him with money. This must be one of TAY’s mysteries

FORKS STILL BEAT CHOPSTICKS BY THE WAY. YOU CAN’T STAB SOMEONE WITH A CHOPSTICK.

13. After lunch we decide that the guys with bags should go to the hotel so we get back on the monorail and split up again. Woooo. This time I was in a carriage with Flu and Alex who seemed to be having a staring contest with Shiggy and I think Doc What. Bish now had a cane for some reason and he was limping very convincingly. We split into two groups as one group went to Galaxy World early and the rest of us went to the hotel. I was in the latter group which proved to be the wrong group as Shiggy lead us on a gruelling search for this mysterious hotel. Doc What told me about Shiggy’s Zelda back tattoos. Don’t ask me how Doc What knows that.

14. Some TAFE students were taking pictures of the road. It looked odd since some of them were taking pictures of themselves taking pictures. YUP. Shiggy continued to lead us on and we soon arrived at the hotel which didn’t have the best entry way. It looked okay on the inside though and the room wasn’t too bad. I was tired at this point so I just sat there slumped on the couch watching people. Shiggy hid Doc What’s 3DS under the TV which was kind of funny as Doc What tried to lift the TV looking for it. It was in a drawer under the TV. Pez curiously asked if the hotel TV had any adult entertainment and Rize was scared of his bed which may or may not have killed him. I wasn’t there so I’m not sure; I think Rize is still alive.

SO PEZ? DID THE HOTEL TV HAVE A SCRAMBLED ADULT CHANNEL?

15. After everybody had a breather we all agreed that we were not walking back to galaxy world, so we took two cabs. I was in a cab with Ruffleberg, Doc What and Shiggy. We talked about cel shaded games, PS2 RPGs and the Wiiu. Our cab was in the lead for most of the journey but the other guys arrived there before us. Weird. I think Rize must have scared the cab driver with his scary soccer stories.

16. At Galaxy world we met up with Ben. Yes, that Ben, Ben White. Looking back we should have asked him to take us for a visit to the Allure offices. Oh well, maybe next time. Galaxy world was really fun. Powalen and I raced against each other. I was crap and finished last even though Harli tried her best to cheer me on. We then went on the bumper cars which was so much fun but be warned they can be really hard on your knees if you’re tall. Afterwards Hugo and I played some Tekken 6 against each other. He won twice but I managed to win a match.

17. After most of us were ready to leave, Ben and Rize were not going to give up so easily and we all went back to watch them play. They were actually pretty good. Once we were all done at Galaxy world it was time to decide where to go. Pez tried to get some ideas for a restaurant to eat at but Bish complained that he was too short to be heard. Ha. So Pez stood on top of a bench and some TAYbies actually went on their knees to listen to him which was pretty funny. There was actually an old woman there who was watching us. She must have thought we were all crazy. There was also a married couple in the shopping centre for some reason.

AT THIS POINT ALEXPANTS HAD TO LEAVE. HE CLAIMS HE WAS GOING TO A DINNER PARTY BUT I THINK HE IS CHEATING ON TAY WITH ANOTHER FORUM. SO WHAT IS IT ALEX? IS IT GAMESPOT, IGN?

18. After saying goodbye to Alex we walked up the street and decided on dinner at Yard House. Doc what actually called Harry’s café de wheels, which was outside Yard House, café de whee which I thought was pretty funny. We sat down for dinner and some beers. While we sat there FLU told us about all the endangered meat he’s eaten and he explained the origins of his name. Bish doesn’t know how he came up with his username. Rize’s beer mysteriously disappeared and he came up with a new scale of richness a. Millionaire b. Billionaire c. Packing tape.

19. Batgirl joined us for dinner and Powalen left thereafter. Bish tried to take a picture of Shiggy and me on the 3DS camera but I don’t think it turned out very well. (I hope you still have the pic Bish, crappy or not I wouldn’t mind having it.) Shiggy explained the origins of his phone dongle. You see, Shiggy has a weird yellow dongle on his phone which he claims does nothing but it’s obviously there to mesmerise you. Disappointed by the picture we made fun of MorkaiAu’s camera which was admittedly awesome but, you know, it doesn’t do 3D. 3DS wins this time!! The group across from where I was sitting let out another MASHAAAA, which was still nice to hear. 20. The fun day we were having so far was unfortunately ruined by the jerk who stole Harli’s bag, which put a damper on the mood for a while. Harli seemed distressed but OK. We all paid for our meal and proceeded to have drinks next door. Pez bought a round of drinks for all of us which was very kind of him. Nova, Ruffleberg and Freyr talked about parents and computers as Pez let out another MASHAAA. At this point I’m beating myself up for not replying to any of the MASHAAAA shouting. (I’m sorry everybody)

21. I met batguy for 2 seconds (Adam I think) Hi. Apparently he’s a very smart dude according to Ruffleberg. He looked the part.

22. We changed seats and went to a corner of the bar. From there we watched Pez take too many photos of BISH and FLU. Rize told scary soccer stories. Also Rize and #35 can do weird things with their fingers, be warned.

23. Unfortunately I had to leave at that point and as I left I experienced one of the best things ever. Imagine a group of 10-15 people in a corner at the bar all shouting your name as you leave. It was beautiful as everyone shouted MASHAAAAAAAA for almost a minute. The other patrons on the bar looked dumbfounded but I was very thankful and over joyed.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SHOUTING MASHAAA. EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T RETURN THE ENTHUSIASM I’M STILL THANKFUL INSIDE. THE GOODBYE AT THE END WAS REALLY HEART MELTING.

THE END.

If you read all this I hope you enjoyed it. I apologise for any grammatical/spelling errors.

Finally, we didn’t have a Community Kudos last week and Mark implied this week’s would be huge. In that case I think we should all nom Harli for being awesome. Her weekend was dampened by the guy who stole her bag and I think winning Community Kudos would be good for her as she deals with cancelling and replaces any lost cards.

P.S. I’ve copied this bit from AlexPants meat write up. So here are my Mono-Meat awards:

MOST COMMITMENT: Pez for staying in his suit the whole time and not changing shirts.

CHEAPEST DAPPER: Bish. Plastic monocle and plastic cane made even worse because it was repaired using packing paper.

FANCIEST DAPPER: #35 with his sweet pocket watch.

GAMING DAPPER: Shiggy with his Zelda belt buckle.

DARING NAME CHANGE: Rize decided to change his name to the jelly guy or Rize: The jelly guy

BEST SUSPENDERS: Harli. I’m sorry Flu you hid yours for too long.

MOST SILENT TAYBIE: Me. Yes! I win something.

P.P.S

Question: Will I attend the next Sydney meat?

In a counterclockwise circle I meet: Powalen, Nova, Morkai, #35, MAAAASSSSHHHHAAAAAA, Bish, Ruffleberg, and Flu. I think that’s right, anyway. Lots of handshaking is done. We stand around for a bit before Bish leaves to pick up Rize. He leaves his dapper hat though. We find a pamphlet and a bowtie inside it. People contemplate wearing his hat, but decide against it, because we haven’t seen him wear the hat yet, and if you wear someone else’s hat before they do, it becomes your hat. Apparently that’s a rule. A little after that Pez, Doc What and Hugo arrive, they look suited up. Pez is really short. Doc What seems really excited about possible 3DS streetpasses, but if he ever got any I didn’t see them. Except for his twin, yeah apparently he found his twin! Pez abuses Shiggy over the phone because he is late, but then he isn’t! He has an awesome belt buckle but I couldn’t look at it more than once or else it would look like I was staring at his crotch, so I stay silent about it. Moving on, we decide that a bunch of semi-dapper people standing outside both a gym and a monorail station is looking awkward, so we all buy passes for the monorail and…stand around in front of the station waiting for people. The ticket lady looks worried.

Pez decides Bish is ruining the meat: There is more phone communicating as we wait for Bish to return with Rize, which takes like 40 minutes in the end. A bit before they arrive, Harli shows up! Freyr was apparently getting lunch so we decide to hop on the monorail at this point – we have been standing around for about an hour. The first monorail shows up, and it’s packed full of people. Everyone is confused, because we all thought nobody ever used this thing. We opt to wait for an emptier one, which fortunately comes pretty quickly. We have to split up, though – Pez, Shiggy, Harli, Doc What, Morkai, Nova and I hop into the back compartment, hereafter named AWESOMECARRIAGE. Flu sits alone in the adjacent carriage. Except not really alone, there’s loads of random people in there who are probably confused by his dapperness. He joins us in the AWESOMECARRIAGE two stops later.

The Monorail is really slow: But Shiggy and I are still convinced we’re gonna die. This seems confirmed when it randomly stops in the middle of the track for a while, but then it keeps going. Despite its speed (‘this thing can go as fast as 40!’ ~ Someone), the trip is really bumpy/shaky. There are jokes that we should play corners, but genuine concern over potentially toppling the carriage persuade us otherwise. Our enthusiasm scares the people around us, and most filter out except for a young couple who seem to wish they would arrive at their stop already. Some photos are taken. Pez makes awkward comments and gets stared at several times by the young couple. They leave pretty soon after that. We make a full circuit and discover that all the other people in other carriages have decided to get off. ‘Stuff that’, says the AWESOMECARRIAGE, ‘We’re going again!’ And so we go around again. Thank goodness Flu decided to join us earlier, we needed his dapper vest with us for round two. We death glare anyone who looks to hop into our carriage, they all move away pretty quickly. Everyone discovers I’m recording things in a notebook for this writeup. Also, I feel like the conductor is judging us, the station announcements sound really angry, but they may be automated, in which case, I wonder why they recorded them to sound so angry. At the end of round 2, Freyr joins the party! Party gains +1 corset ability. Bish stands in the background with a cupcake. It looks pretty awesome. We go for round 3! Shiggy times the circuit, 16 and a half minutes! Harli is getting really hungry so we decide to get off and join the others for lunch.

Ichiban-WAIT NO WAGAMAMA: Seating 16 people at Ichiban was gonna take half an hour, so despite Harli and Pez giggling over our number being 69 we decide to go to Wagamama instead, where we just manage to fit everyone onto one long table. I am stingy and cheap and only order a side dish. So does Hugo, but I don’t know if he’s stingy or cheap. Bish spills some of his tea? Pez is the master of saying awkward things whenever the waitress gets close. I sit at the end of the table and listen to Pez and Shiggy bicker with each other, but it isn’t as passionate as their Twitter fights. A lot of money travels down the table. Pez and Bish yell at each other from opposite ends a few times. The phrase “speak taller” is used multiple times. Pez decides it’s time for people to dump stuff in their hotel room, so the party splits up again! Half go…I dunno…while the other half get BACK ON THE MONORAIL, BABY.

“I think that’s a bomb” ~ Flu: This is said in a crowded monorail carriage. I hope nobody else heard it. It’s really cramped on the monorail. Seriously, they’re gonna tear this down…why? Two stops later, we encounter Bish, but he has a CANE. CANE BISH. Others get back on the monorail, but in different carriages. This allows for an epic battle: FLU and PANTS vs SHIGGY and DOC WHAT; THE STARING CONTEST. Flu and Pants win because Shiggy and Doc keep looking away. This may be because they don’t know this is a contest. When we get off in front of Market City, the group splits up again, this time so that some of the people can go to the hotel for reals! I dunno what they did next, but we did this:

Market City!: We go into the markets because Harli and Freyr want to dapper up some more by buying cool hats. But they take too long and some of us are impatient, so we slowly head up to Galaxy World. They catch up to us pretty quickly, actually. I wave and scream “HI!” at them on an escalator and everyone else gives me weird looks because they can’t see anyone else. I am not crazy, I swear. We go into Galaxy World and I stare at the bumper cars and suddenly I’m ten years old again. While we wait for other people to show up a few games of Animal Kaiser are played. Powalen is slaughtered by ramen that falls from an egg in the sky.

Bursting into a kid’s birthday party: Suddenly we notice Harli, Freyr and Flu have vanished, but we find them on the bottom level in some seats behind a birthday party. When we join them they appear to be having hat contests. Freyr and Flu battle it out for best hat trick. Flu wins, Morkai photographs the event and vows to make it a gif someday. The table we sit at has a ‘RESERVED FOR PARTY’ sign on it, but screw that, we’re dapper! A bunch of kids play pass the parcel on the floor in the corner. We start feeling bad for taking the seats, but then decide that the game is best played on the floor anyway, so whatevs. Eventually, the party (TAYbies, not the birthday group) reunite, only now we have Ben! He says he was dressed like a hobo, but he has a cool hat, too! Also he kept talking about Pizza Hut.

RUFFLEBERG VERSUS PANTS: Everyone buys/recharges their Galaxy World cards so that even more fun can be had! We get photo passes but we never use them. Or maybe they were used after I left. Either way, sadface. ROUND ONE: I have no idea what game we played, but the whole thing ends in a tie, which I think is pretty impressive because Ruffleberg knew what he was doing and I didn’t! MEANWHILE: Freyr is fake-mad at Bish because he bought her a cupcake and then ate it when she joined the AWESOMECARRIAGE earlier. Bish goes off in search of cupcakes and comes back with some for himself, Harli and Freyr. I am jealous. INTERLUDE: Some people have a go at the HAMMER KING game. I think Nova sets the best score in the end. Ben worries he’s going to do something embarrassing like hitting himself in the head with the hammer. People reassure him so he gives it a try, only to struggle to get the hammer out of its holding thingy. ROUND TWO: Air hockey! I prove I have hopeless reflexes and fail miserably. Ruffleberg wins!

BUMPER BONANZA: I am so excited for the bumper cars. People have been warning me all day that they’re rougher than any other bumper cars I’ve ever ridden. They are oh so very right. As the lights dim and a horrible pop song plays over the speakers I have a head-on collision with Doc What and nearly fly out of my seat. The only people in the cars are TAYbies so we can be as mean as we like to anyone we want. It is chaotic beauty. Just before the end Pez smashes into me and my knee smacks into my steering wheel. It is now a really pretty bruise. Pez says it’s an initiation into the way of the bumper cars. Some other games happen, but then people get on the bumper cars again. Not everyone, though, the rest of us stand on the sidelines and watch. Harli spins out two kids in a corner and cackles maniacally as she drives off (she may not have been cackling, but that sounds so much cooler). Then Shiggy completely destroys those same kids for the rest of the run (he may not have destroyed them, but that sounds cooler than just picking on them a bit). Also, #35 finds great amusement in two little girls who bash their heads together on collision at one point (he does find great amusement in this, and it sounds way cool). We are a sadistic bunch.

This has gone on for too long: As Ruffleberg goes to find Batgirl, who apparently doesn’t know where George street is, and people begin making dinner plans, I realize I have to leave as I have a family dinner to attend. Sadface. I high five Harli, but everyone else is fake-offended (I hope it’s fake) I wouldn’t shake hands with them so I just stare at them awkwardly and laugh for a few seconds before walking off.

And now, the 2012 Monomeat Awards! Most Disappointing Food: My ridiculously expensive satay chicken at Wagamama. I’m sure Hugo agrees with me here. Ten bucks for three little skewers. Ripoff! Delicious, but a ripoff! Best New Cult: The Children of the Rocket. Best Looking Cupcake: Freyr was standing next to me while she ate hers and it looked pretty good, so it wins. (this is a lazy award. I just like cupcakes) Best Hat Flip: Flu. Apology Award for Not Knowing Who You Were For the Longest Time: NovaCascade. You probably introduced yourself when we first met but processing eight/nine names at once was too much for my small brain and I completely forgot. I assumed you were Nova, but I didn’t want to ask without sounding rude! Please forgive me! Most Dapper: Bish (with cane, not to be confused with Bish [no cane]). Cutest Couple: Pez and Shiggy. Most Awkward Moment: There were too many. Notable mentions include; - “Pizza Hut is for inbreds” Pez, to the scared couple on the monorail - “I just barely managed to fit my junk in” Pez, referring to his pants in the presence of the scared Wagamama waitress - “Where’s my sake?!” Shiggy, demanding Pez’s sake right as the scared waitress was bringing it to him - “I think that’s a bomb. It’s ticking and there’s numbers and everything.” Flu, to a carriage of scared monorail commuters, which included children - Pez standing on the bench outside Galaxy World and people bowing in prayer as he discusses dinner plans with us, scaring the people sitting on adjacent benches Pez is clearly the winner because he is referenced in most of these nominations!