From spcecdt Mon Jan 14 00:46:27 1991 From: spcecdt@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us (John DuBois) To: /dev/null Subject: Party! Cc: belal@sco Bcc: newparty Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 0:46:27 PST Yes, it's another Armory Party! Yes, so soon! What, you haven't fully recovered from the one last October? NONONONO... actually that's a more recent party you're recovering from; the substances you partook of at it erased your entire memory of the preceding two months! Anyway, we got away with the last one. Heck, the landlord probably doesn't even know it happened, and so can't carry out his promise to sic AKGs (Amazon killer gnats) and other assorted evilries upon us should we ever ever ever again experience fun and revelry at this abode. So, we're going to indulge our innate desire to push our luck beyond any reasonable bounds by setting into motion the machinery to bring he 7th Armory Party into existence. Why, you ask? O, you benighted, desolate masses, that you should think such a query belongs in the company of such worthy party interrogatives as Where, When, Who, How and What (to be discussed later)! Nay, let us not be subtly drawn into the supposition that we need justify such an intrinsically valuable and purposeful event! If you still need a reason after that bold, flowing, thought-provoking, inspiring drivel, the reason we chose this particular point on the timeline is that it's the Second Anniversary (or is it third? no... no, second... time is *so* confusing) of the Founding of the Armory. Also, we will be celebrating Spiff's birthday, which fortunately for him happened to occur at the same time of year as the Armory Founding. As we approach the eve of 3 AA (Anno Armory), we find that only one of the original Armorites (your humble author) still resides in that illustrious abode. Dierdre and Mike have scattered to the four winds, departing this very State itself, Elizabeth... Heaven only knows the wherabouts of, and Penguin is still in town and will hopefully show up so I won't have to regale people with Fascinating and Historic Armory legends by myself. What is there to see? Not a whole lot that you haven't seen before, actually. There's the bloody spot on the carpet where Mugi accidently drove the Armory Pogo Stick off the edge of the kitchen and got his tail inhaled by the heating system intake while plummeting to the treacherous shag below (or did we just spill some ketchup there and invent that story so we wouldn't have to clean it up? I forget now...) But who needs to see *things*, there'll be lots of fun people around. Themes: The theme for this Armory Party is Lack of a Theme. Please do your best to avoid doing, bringing, or wearing anything that might be unreasonably misinterpreted as something that a Theme put you up to. If more than three people are found to be passively propagating a particular precept, they will be summarily reprogrammed in an entertaining (to the bystanders, anyway) manner. And yes... here it is... that part about... those NeiGhBOrS!!! First off: as usual, (in fact, as at every party here since the second one) NO incindiary or explosive devices will be allowed. Remember, *I* can go to OTHER people's parties and loose all the aluminum incandescense and perchlorate dust decibels upon the world that I please, because hey, I do that sort of thing, y'know, but NO ONE can come HERE and do it, because we found that our neighbors object to it, so there. As we all know, the formula R = Y^(2/3) embeds within it the reason that a large number of small Atomik Bombes are to be favored over one Big Atomik Bombe. As I sat on a throne one day pondering this equation, it occurred to me that the principle could be applied as well to Musike as Atomik Bombes. I naturally yelled "Eureka!" and leapt from my comfortable position, whilst simultaneously causing a fluid to be displaced by a (semi-)solid mass in a manner that would probably have quite gratified Archimedes. The liquid that was released unfortunately didn't displace much of anything, so after I had calmed down a bit I went back and cleaned it up, lest I hear complaints of "you reeka!". Meanwhile, the concept that had birthed within my brain festered a bit, and eventually (as things that fester are wont to do) congealed. The upshot of which is that we'll have a few boom boxes lying about so we don't have to turn any one of them up too loud. If you recall, we experimented last time with artificially enhanced air movement in an attempt at avoiding the necessity of having any windows or doors left open in a manner which might allow acoustic energy to escape and torment the neighbors. This was moderately successful, so in the spirit of true Experimentors we will not do the same thing at this party, at least not exactly the same, but actually, the general principle will most likely be embodied in whatever we do, so the doors and windows will again have a resting state of Closed if we have anything to say about it, which we probably will, and if you don't like it (or run-on sentences) please remember the name that was bestowed upon this domicile by someone in the Know. Along these lines, we will also try to keep things (people, whatever) inside. Other assorted notes which don't warrant their own paragraphs: * PLEASE do not park on McMillan. According to the landlord he gets calls from the neighbors when the street is filled up by partyers' metal thangs. Park on Nobel and walk down. You're a geek; you need the exercise. * Please bring foodstuffs, drinkstuffs, and any other comestibles that you can think of a way to stuff. * Bring your instruments if you feel like it. The interpretation of "instruments" is left up to you, within reason. The interpretation of "reason" is left up to me. Let's see, which of those five initial questions haven't I answered? Ah yes, Who, Where, and When. Who: you. Where: see below. When: Saturday, January 19th, 8:00 P.M. Yes, I've doublechecked, and there is indeed a Saturday, January 19th this year, so that's when we're going to have it. See ya... John Instructions for getting to the Armory, which are essentially unchanged from last time, except that after two years and 020x people pointing it out to me, I have finally taken note of the fact that you will be on Iowa Dr. if you turn LEFT when coming down Bay. But nevermind that, you don't want to do it anyway. From Campus: Go down Bay to the first stoplight and turn right onto Nobel Dr., which is actually the only way you can turn onto Nobel since if you turn left you will be on Iowa Dr. Continue on Nobel until you come to McMillan Dr. and turn left onto it. (If you turn right you will be in someone's living room and The Armory will not be held liable.) The Armory is on the right in the middle of the first block, #305. It is a two-story house, off-white with brown trim, and an Automatic Yard Light(tm) with a bulb in it that I would change to some interesting color to help the especially bwain-damaged find the place, except that the color would be rather hard to see since the lamp hasn't worked for at least a year and we're too lazy to call the electrician to fix it, let alone fix it ourselves. Humorously annotatted map follows. | ^-- Campus Meder St. | ------------------------------------------------------| / | / Peach Terrace O | Bay St. / Nobel Dr. | | / minor houses | | / | | / That Other Place Nobel Dr. | | Iowa Dr. / + black spot on road -------------+---------------- | | / various & | STOPLIGHT | V / sundry other| \ Nobel Dr. *I* / places of no| ----------------.----------/ particular | | M | S | consequence | The Armory -> *A*| c | e | | 305 McMillan Dr. | M | t | | | i | o | Alta | Bay St. Donna Ct. | l | n | Vista | --------------| l | | | | a | | | | n *H*| | | | ^ Yet Another Place (which it seems is going to go *poof* before long) 
From umlaut Mon Jan 14 12:40:02 1991
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 12:39:52 -0800
From: umlaut (60059000)
To: batish, spcecdt, thud
Subject: Ooooooh!


Spcecdt, Thud, Batish,

Well! I sure am glad that I'm not the only one
to get pre-empted by POMPOUS, OVERBLOWN Armory
parties. I mean, sure, the Armory party may
not be nearly as COOL as Thud's, but they've
got the ADVERTISING DOLLARS to STEAL YOUR
CUSTOMERS!

My advice, born from exerience, is to GIVE IT
UP. Besides, the Armory is walking distance
from my home.

So there.

 - Umlaut

(B. F. Smiley)
------------------
(For Space Cadet's sinister bemusement...)

You are all invited to a PARTY!!!!
Host: acct. thud
Time: 9:00pm saturday 1/19
Place: thud's apartment. 6202 College 8 apartments. Its the 2nd building up
       from the bottom of the hill. 2nd floor.
Tunes: thud's 18" 300 watt dj system! Bring CD's and Tapes!
Fud&Drink: we can provide some but please bring as MUCH AS YOU CAN!!!!
Bouncing: by the Basement Reekers

Yes, its another WILD GEEK PARTY. ucscb invites & immediate friends only.
All b accts welcome. We are buying fud, drink, and non-alcoholic drink but
please bring as much of your own as possible or $ for donations.

Thundering sound provided by thud's massibe dj ensemble. Bring tapes & CD's
.

GET NAKED! PARTY HARDY! BWILD! GO CRAZY!

geek parties are the best, hope to see ALL OF YOU there....

-bill atish