Please Do Not Stand Up Or Lean Out of the Car While the Roaster-Coaster Is in Motion

Huzzah! Field reports indicate that Roastafarian Strike Teams are even now converging on the staging camp for Roastacon 2010, where they will rest, regroup and prepare their phased, lightning assault on High-Value Liquor Vending sites throughout the Disputed Territories.

Consider this an open thread for arrivals, check-ins and progressively more chatty, philosophical and fat-fingered glass-by-glass updates from the ground…or, more likely, the floor.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/04/10 at 11:23 AM • Permalink

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Sad to miss it. I hope for frequent updates.

Comment by justlen on 06/04/10 at 01:21 PM

Whose art work?

Comment by HumboldtBlue on 06/04/10 at 01:45 PM

Humboldt, that’s the back-glass from a ‘70s-vintage pinball machine that was always one of my faves. I just goosed the chroma and changed the counter displays.

The original (pointy) art is by Christian Marche, who I’m pretty sure was one of Williams’ busiest illustrators in that period. Lotta games had that look.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/04/10 at 02:00 PM

Well it works and it works well, strange

Comment by HumboldtBlue on 06/04/10 at 02:05 PM

Well Mr. Gimme and I made it. Trying locate our fearless leader and marindenver now.

Comment by gimmeabreak on 06/04/10 at 02:33 PM

THE KETTLE IS ON. REPEAT. THE KETTLE IS ON.

THE SUN IS SHINING, BUT THE ICE IS SLIPPERY.

WHERE YOU VACATION, THE ASPENS WILL ALREADY BE TURNING. THEY TURN IN CLUSTERS, BECAUSE THEIR ROOTS CONNECT THEM.

That is all.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/04/10 at 05:07 PM

Hanging in Chevy Chase with one of my best friends from college. Will catch you all tomorrow—I think Gimme has my number. (In every sense!)

Comment by Oblomova on 06/04/10 at 08:24 PM

Broadcasting live from the Holiday Inn in Parsippany, it’s You Favorite Bloggers. Kevin has somehow managed to allude the authorities, but the donkey will never be the same. Things can only get worse from here. Axelrod is picking up the tab, but it’s coming out of our paycheck(s).

Comment by Tom65 on 06/04/10 at 10:26 PM

Wait? What? THIS IS ALL A FABRICATION!

Thanks, “progressives”!

Comment by Kevin K. on 06/04/10 at 11:52 PM

As much as I regret not being able to attend, clearly I was not intended to travel this weekend. First my other half was felled with appendicitis, and now that he’s recuperating nicely and probably fine to be left on his own, I developed an excruciating toothache this week, and spent the time I probably would have been in the air today having a root canal instead.

So I’ll probably have enough vicodin in me to make me the most intoxicated participant in tomorrow’s liveblog.

Comment by Allan on 06/05/10 at 12:42 AM

Allan, I wish you and your SO were having less of a white-knuckle ride. Here’s wishing you both a soothing fog of pharmaceutical relief.

Oh, and don’t envy the Con-attendees. “Naked Twister” sounds fun on paper, but they’ll all be hurting in the morning, believe me.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/05/10 at 12:57 AM

Strange, oh, and how. The last round may have resulted in a few bruised sacroiliacs and a dislocated hip or two. And the barstools in the Parsippany Holiday Inn weirdly all point downward, so we were sliding out of them at the beginning of the first night of Roastanalia. Really, a girl likes to slide out of her barstool of her own accord.

We did enjoy performing Living Tableaux of the 2008 campaign, but are Living Tableaux supposed to be performed lying down? I think we may not be doing it right.

The artwork gracing the top of the thread is absolutely smashing, btw. You have racked up 10,000,000 bonus Rumpoints!

@Allan, we need to Fed-ex you and your SO a candy-striper. Feel better! We will be missing, and toasting, you and all our absent friends. A lot.