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08 August 2006

A Bunnystock retrospective. We Bunnystockers have combined our collective best-of-bunnystock photos into a Flickr group. Please check it out, and come inside for a final Bunnystock retrospective.[More:]
By now, I do believe that all in attendance have uploaded the entirety of their photos, so if you are interested in seeing all the photos, either visit here or go to each individiual's photostream from the group page.

The weekend exceeded all expectations. It went amazingly well, and I now have insatiable crushes on each and every person in attendance. This semi-national meetup thing has the danger of becoming addiciting; in fact, I'm already convinced that I will be hosting one next year at the beach. Mark your calendars!

I cannot thank MGL and moonbird enough for sharing Asheville and its environs with us this weekend, especially MGL for giving us all a place to sleep.

Finally, I think I speak for all of the bunnystockers when I give this special shoutout to chewatadistance. Saturday afternoon we were all tuckered out and lazy and lying around the house. Chewie, you swooped in with your contagious energy and enthusiasm, snapped us all out of our funk, stole all of our hearts, and flitted back to Raleigh after a few much too short hours. We spoke about you in awed, hushed tones for the rest of the weekend. You are wonderful!
posted by mike9322 08 August | 08:26
Awesome and lovely! Wish I could have joined you all.
posted by tr33hggr 08 August | 08:33
Seconding the chewie experience (from email contact). She rocks!

Also, when is the Aussie meetup? You guys would love it here. (It's a little more expensive to get to than Asheville or LA though).
posted by GeckoDundee 08 August | 08:37
Wow, you guys look good! And the creative shoutouts are keen.
posted by JanetLand 08 August | 09:02
Great pics everyone! The handful of photos I took are still on my camera...I'll try to get them up tonight. I also wanna post a rundown of all the stuff we did later, more my own memory if nothing else.

Mike, BP, matilda, rainbaby, chewie and moonbird: that was such a completely great weekend! Thanks so much for sharing it with me and putting up with my quirks. You'll always have a special place in my farts.

MGL: I've always respected you, but now I think I love you and shit. Thanks for opening up your house to us. I'm really happy to have gotten to know you better. Thank your kids for us too!!!
posted by danostuporstar 08 August | 09:35
Uh, I thought the intertrons were for porn. WHERE ARE THE SKIN PICS, PEOPLE?
posted by eamondaly 08 August | 10:20
I wasn't able to attend, eamon. Sorry.
posted by jonmc 08 August | 10:20
Thanks for the shoutouts! Looks like ya'll had a wonderful time. I stained my deck. Which is not a euphemism. I'm still sore. Also not a euphemism. I suspect your weekend was superior.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 08 August | 11:19
Wow mike, that's quite a compliment from you & the gang, thanks! :D And dano I'm sublimely honored to always be in your farts. And a belated and well deserved thanks to mgl, the hostest with the mostest. I am ordering my own copy of How to Survive in the Woods thanks to you.

I'm also ECSTATIC that my NYC shoutout is represented!
posted by chewatadistance 08 August | 11:27
Hey danf!
posted by chewatadistance 08 August | 11:36
OMG, bunnies at bunnystock!!!

This is hilarious... and the shoutout gourd is just wonderfully obscene. So wonderful.
posted by taz 08 August | 11:37
It was about the awesomest weekend EVAR - I am so glad I'm from the internets and y'all are too. It's been lonely without everyone! Theo is sad. I want to thank all of you for being such great guests, and so much fun, and such good sports about the heat & bugs & dimensional time warp plumbing. And thanks so much for the beer and the tequila and the ribs and the papertowels and of course the laughs and the chance to show off my fair city and go places I had never been before. I'm totally going back up to that tower - probably not any higher up it than I went this time, but back to it!

It was seriously a fantastic time, and, as we were saying, a new thing in the world: do you think we were the first travel-a-long-way houseparty meetup? One for the record books, proving that friends are friends no matter where you meet them - I swear it felt more like a college reunion than a gathering of sorta strangers. Not that y'all aren't strange - every one is delightfully strange in the best possible way. Man I had a good time - I must have, because I just collapsed yesterday and did nothing. The tequila shot glasses are still on the front porch, dag.

Oh, and the lack of orgy pics? Bunnies never kiss and tell. ;-)

P.S. Did anyone, by any chance, go home with an extra cel phone charger? I seem to be missing one - although my bet is that it went off to some teenagers house with my son & he forgot. . . sigh.
posted by mygothlaundry 08 August | 11:46
friends are friends no matter where you meet them

Amen, sister!
posted by Miko 08 August | 12:31
mgl and moonbird were superior hosts. The whole event indeed exceeded expectations, and everybody was wunnerful wunnerful.

I admit I slept with Theo.
posted by rainbaby 08 August | 13:41
(It was kind of a 3-way actually. The kind where the one participant, uh, participates with everyone, but the other two never touch each other.)
posted by danostuporstar 08 August | 13:51
I just put matildaben on a plane back to Seattle, and came home to crash and catch my breath from this whole incredibly great weekend. Let me "second" everything said above: I feel like every one of y'all is a friend now, not just somebody I know online, and I really want to see all of you again and stay friends with every one of ya.

Also, because we can't say it enough: MGL is an amazing person to open her home like she did, work as hard as she did to take care of everyone, AND (with moonbird, who may have the biggest heart of anyone I've met) to make everyone feel so welcome in their great town. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

posted by BoringPostcards 08 August | 16:55
Great pictures, everyone!
posted by redvixen 08 August | 16:56
All good things come to an end. Drat.
≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by mygothlaundry 08 August | 21:30
Bless you for capturing that, mgl. I LOLed and LOLed.

I still haven't completely unpacked.
posted by mike9322 08 August | 21:33
That shot would go soooo fargin' well in a panel with the other shot of the line of beverage coolers.

Before...and after....
posted by croctommy 08 August | 23:06
Hey hang, allow me to testify to the fact (a lil' late) that these "people from the internets" are truly beautiful and spectacular humans, who I now most definitely count as friends. I was a little nervous heading over to the initial party Friday, and soon found myself so relaxed. I'm so psyched that I've got peeps in Seattle, Virginia Beach, Atlanta, Richmond, DC, Raleigh, and the entire planet of Mechaville.

When shall we do it again?
posted by moonbird 09 August | 06:12
Best. Meetup. Evar.
posted by matildaben 09 August | 09:36
*is holding mike to the beach hosting offer*
posted by gaspode 09 August | 09:56
I'm totally serious, gaspode. And not just because it means I don't have to travel anywhere.

The trick now is going to be waiting a while before I plan it. You guys want to come next weekend????
posted by mike9322 09 August | 10:27
I'd like to have a winter meetup somewhere warm. What's the weather like in Virginia Beach in February?
posted by matildaben 09 August | 10:48
Warmer than where you are, certainly, but not beach weather by any stretch. Probably 20s-30s.
posted by mike9322 09 August | 10:55
Mike, we actually have quite temperate winters in the Northwest. Usually in the 40s-50s.
posted by matildaben 09 August | 16:16
Oh. Then I'm coming to visit you.
posted by mike9322 09 August | 16:19
do you think we were the first travel-a-long-way houseparty meetup?

I'm gonna have to say no. My friend Kiko hosted "Kikoween" a few years ago, and I think people drove from Tennessee to Pennsylvania to be there. Also, DexCon (a Toronto fan-fiction writer's convention) just had their ninth meeting and while many get hotel rooms, many others crash in the host's apartment for free who travel from around the world, including Australia.

I was also a part of the SubrealiCon crew in Southern California, and for the 2001 edition, we also had people coming from Australia.

Personally, I've also flown to the middle of the U.S. to Lawrence, KS to attend a weekend Amber DRPG Throne War, but then again I am a huge geek, so we may discount that one.
posted by TrishaLynn 09 August | 18:09
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