FIRST! NYC Meet-Up 08 Pics

I AM IN LOVE WITH ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Kevin looks totally consternated to be standing next to the hottness that is Alex.

SOME ONE FRENCH KISS MOONIE FOR ME!!!!!!

you know what, pica?  I'm in love with all of them, too!!  i took the world's worst pictures...i didn't even get any of derek!!  but everyone was taking lots of pics so hopefully they'll post them as soon as they get home.

who´s dave btw? and where´s little derek?

he was looking HARD.  kevin's the bomb, btw.

ME JEALOUS.

dave is top gun.  i think those pictures were taken when derek and shana went back to check on melody who wasn't feeling so well.

WE NEED MORE INFORMATION!!!

how fun, you weirdo's !

Everyone was cool and chill.  Derek was really outgoing even though he claims to be shy.  Alex was very nice and soft spoken, great accent.  Moonie was awesome.  Not as quiet as I was expecting.  Shanna is very motherly, always looking out for everyone.  Very sweet.  Frank is Frank.  Glam was reserved and quiet.  Kind of how I expected him actually.  But he always went out of his way to hang with us, which was cool.  Dave showed up at the end of the night and bought us all drinks. 

My hair looks hideous, btw.

I missed meeting you moe!  I suck and could not come down on Saturday.  I also did not get to meet Moonie.  This makes me sad.

Not that this makes up for it, but here are a few pics I got with my camera phone...

This is Bethany (mexicretin), Vitaly, and half of Frank.  We are waiting for Derek to get through customs in Terminal 4.  I suck so I had not brought a "Welcome to the USA" sign for Derek and Alex, so Vitaly got some cardboard and a marker from one of the stands and improvised.  Yes, he wrote "TEH CULT" on it.

Derek finally came through and like an idiot I neglected to snap a pic.  He greets everyone and immediately starts emptying a suitcase full of gifts, including Cujo underpants for everyone!

At this point we're worried that we missed Alex because Derek's flight was delayed half an hour so we scurried over to Terminal 7 to meet her.  As luck would have it she was not through customs yet and we were able to greet her when she came out.  She works her way through all our introductions, finally reaching Derek, who says "and I'm IRONMAN!" and I almost fell over laughing.

Tom and Vitaly pounce on Mel at some random bar Thursday night. 

Wider shot to get Frank and LIz in there too.

A screwed up shot of Brother Jimmy's on friday night.  Kinda hard to identify anyone, left to right I can see Mark Grover, Tom, Mel, Alex, Liz, then on the other side of the table is Richard (wickerkat), Frank (i think), and Caleb (thirstygerbil). 

Sadly I had to leave a bit early on Friday to catch a midnight train.  Fortunately though everyone was heading from uptown to downtown at the same time so they all switched trains at Grand Central and let me snap this quick pic before running up the stairs. Again, hard to make people out, but from left to right you can spot Rob (anxious phoenix), Derek, Liz, Caleb, Mark Grover, Richard, Bethany, Shana, Alex, Mel, Kevin (GLAMHOTH), Tom, and Frank.

While I didn't get to spend as much time with them as I would have liked it was still a great time and I'm grateful to everyone who made the trip out here.  Apologies to those I missed, hopefully it won't be too long before another chance comes up.

jase, we were talking about you, so you were kinda with us in spirit  :)  i'm sad we didn't get to meet, though... we were supposed to come out for friday dinner but the weather was just too iffy to be driving. 

wow, you all look so fun! and i missed it

i hope mel is feeling better!

i can't wait to see more pics!

why didn't you come?  we were all hoping to see you 

You got Levi into the picture too !!

 Okay, this is just going to be a few of the photos, I don' t have the energy to do them all right now.  But, since I am still sick and in the hotel room I figured I would post a few.  I  just changed my flight, I don't know where I will stay tomorrow night, but I'll be damned if I spend the majority of my trip in the bathroom.  Fuck that.

Derek looks surprised.  He doesn't like pictures, the silly boy.  This is from the bar Thursday night (Alex, Derek, Shana)

Vitaly loves Frank, and suckers.

A bunch of lookers!  I don't know why Derek is so camera shy.  (Derek, Shana, Tom)

Alex, Jase's wife (I feel like a tool for not remembering her name), Jase, Derek, Shana.

Tom and Vitaly made a Melody sandwich. 

Dinner Friday night at Brother Jimmy's.  (starting from the left and going around the table: Mark, Tom, Me, Bethany, Alex, Kevin, Liz, Derek, Richard, Frank, Shana, Caleb)  The guy next to Caleb in the black is a friend of his whose name escapes me... And Jase is taking the picture.

Vitaly stuck part of his Heineken label to Bethany's face.

Tom and Vitaly's second hand shaking contest.  It went on forever, I'm not sure who won.

Vitaly and me looking stupid.

There will be more later!  Can't give it all away before the trip is even over!!

Oh my god. I love it.

Oh my goodness you guys, looks like soo much fun. I wish I could be there! Have lots more fun and post lots more pictures!

well, i love this one for obvious reasons, because my name is in it.

Tom and Vitaly clearly made melody sick,

and look at frank's face in the background here!!! hahahahahahhahah!

in the picture of the melody sandwich...mel, are you grabbing your own boobs? or is one of them propping them up? haha

moe, i couldn't meet up bc... friday night i had a show for charity in honor of my brother who passed away...but i figured it was fine, bc i was meeting up saturday... however, i was just about ready to leave, and my mom called me and said my grammie was rushed to the hospital...so i had to go there to the ER to be with her bc my rents were't in the area.  of course it took them 8 hours to admit her.  so that is why, and it sucks and i am sad... really sad.  all the pics are so fun! and i am a total camera ham and would have made dumb faces and taken thousands of photos.

damnit.

^^ im pretty sure that's a sleeved arm, shotgun..

a sleeved arm?

Great photos, it looks like we're all missing out on a lot of fun, but from here on out pictures should list Cult Usernames, not real names, unless you're an icon like Frank.

That's not her boob, it's Tom's elbow. Thus: sleeved arm.

Lovely pictures guys, looks like you all had a great time. I'd say more, but frankly I'm not in a good way. So instead I'll say a little more, but not much more, though it's all still more, I guess, I'm just saying you all look lovely and seem like you had a great time. Also, yes, more usernames, less real names. And more talk on funny happenings, recountings, etc.

I think I'm going to drop out of college again.

ohhhhhhhhhh yea haha...thanks cor.

corellion!!! unignore me in chat.

Oh god you guys, this is great! All of you look PRETTY. It's really weird seeing all of yous together and shit, but in a good way.....

And Moe! We do indeed have the same hair! Woo!

Yes, I am wrecked in this picture.

Who is Caleb?

Melody, Jase's wife's name is Natalie.

You guys can't even comprehend how jealous I am right now.

thirstygerbil

a little, but mostly I was totally consternated to be standing near to the hotness that is Frank.

Also, i just woke up. i missed out on hanging out with culties again, but on the other hand, i now don't feel like falling asleep where I stand.  Everyone was ridiculously nice. Although if I were to do it over again, I would have brought a camera so I could be taking pictures instead of in them (this is why you may not see as many pictures of Synnove as you damn well should, she was always behind the camera).

Oh, so it looks like Alex Pallix is as gorgeous in real life as she is in those fancy ebay photos?

 Kay...

WOW.  I love everyone!  I'm going to make a thread about this sometime soon-ish 'cause I have an Exciting Special Thing I want to do, but yeah... meeting people was... great.

Who the hell is Bethany? And goddamn I'm jealous I'm on the other side of the country.

Wow awesome you guys!  Great photos.  I hope I can make it to a meet up some day.

Brilliant photos guys, looks like a good time had by all. Insane jealousy being felt over here.

Are we 100% certain that Glamhoth didn't send Jonathan Safran Foer in his place? Sneaky devil.

Also, looks like fun!

I knew there was somebody he reminded me of! Glam and Derek should show there faces around here more often, they are very nice to look at.

Actually, I have to admit, looking at those pictures I thought, 'oh, jesus, I do look like mclovin'.

also, if you were perhaps wondering what Jase meant when he said Cujo underpants:

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Frank also brought awesome Cult meetup t-shirts which i don't have a picture of because I put it in the laundry to wash. Maybe someone will fashion parade both of these things when they get back to their homes.

Those underpants are brilliant.

derek you're a real cute fecker, and if one of these happens again i won't allow myself to miss it, too much fun!

derek was totally hoping you would just randomly pop up unannounced during some point of the meet, morey.

We've had a great time. I have had way too much fun and probabaly shouldnt drink for awhile. My flight just got cancelled so I get to stay a little longer than expected. YAY!

Whenever the next meet up occurs, you know I will be there.

frank when are you scheduled to leave nyc???

mel and i are meeting for dinner tonight, and i think jt and tom are coming with.

Everything went fine until I got into Chicago.  My connecting flight was delayed for an hour, and when I got into Moline, IL, it was like white out conditions. Roads were covered with snow and ice and everyone was driving like maniacs.  I got lost because I couldn't read the road signs.  I decided to check into a hotel because interstate 80 is all snow and ice covered.

I had a great time!!  The cult has really helped to merge generation X and generation Y.  Richard, thanks for all nice gifts you gave me and all the encouragement and talk about writing.  Caleb and Jase, thanks for your expertise with questions I had about publishing.  llBarca, thank you for the care package you brought me.  The next time I come to Ireland I will definately let you know! The disposable camera worked out great because my own camera wasn't working properly at Brother Jimmies.  I will send you something in the mail to give you a little taste of Iowa.  Tom, thank you for putting together dinner on Friday night and being the hostess with the mostest.  Frank, thank you for lunch on Saturday and the snazzy t-shirts.  I'll send you a suprize one of these days!  Everyone else I didn't mention by name, thank you for your graciousness and  just being who your are.

They always say that when you die you won't remember your acomplishments or the money you spent, but  what you did.  This was something I will always remember.

I was gonna post in that thread you made about what happened when we went home, but i just took the train and went to sleep, so I decided not to say anything.

I probably should have decided to do that just now as well.

Looks like everyone had a blast (master of the obvious)! 

I'm not gonna be here then.

Melody has a gift for you from me, though.

awww...thanks big bro!

and speakingof melody...i texted you mel, we need to make some plizans... also, do you know if anyone else is coming? or is it just an intimate evening for two?