How would you characterize the various regional hubs of ILX?

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Do you think that some of the larger geographical centers of ILX activity have distinct personalities?

I was just thinking about how when I first went to a FAP in early 2003, Chicago ILXors had this reputation for being super-intellectual, because it was like Nabisco and Amateurist and Sterling. And now I think, now that there's been some turnover and new folks on the scene, we have a reputation for being twee!

But what about London? NYC? San Francisco? LA? Melbourne? Glasgow? Do you ever think of posters from each city as being of a particular collective type?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

LA = we bake in the sun and say 'yeah, dude' a lot (this is not strictly true)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I find myself vaguely intimidated by the San Franciscans.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

THAT'S RIGHT BITCH! ON YR KNEES

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha I think SFers have a reputation for not showing up to FAPs and flaking like crazy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

dude don't harsh his mellow, bra.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

...the CO/MN massive seems low-key, to me. Although, chances are very good that I'll be moving to Chi, soon, so maybe I'll have to break out those old Belle and Sebastien albums, huh?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

we have a reputation for being twee!

I think we have a reputation for being kinda schlubby. And rightfully so. Chicago is definitely a schlubby kinda town. Loveable, too.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

But one day we all woke up early and rode our bikes through a park!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I think everyone on ILX has a reputation for being kinda schlubby, frankly.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

there's a CO/MN massive!?

the chicago & glasgow ilxors are muh peeps

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Chicago = the place I most want to go and the people I most want to be around. They're sweet and welcoming and funny.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

schlubby?! pfft I am a svelte motherfucker, if I do say so myself...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

they don't show up to FAPs!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

They're sweet and welcoming and funny.

i feel that way about the australian ILXers!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

are you talking about me, stevem? :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

there's a CO/MN massive!?

No. Not really. I'm just trying to fit in.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

it's okay jaymc i know you had a doctor's note.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

me, you and geoff c-nn are massive

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

and nabisco is originally from CO.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

CO/MN = Colorado/Minnesota?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Word UP. I'm back in MN now, so I'll have to team up with Hglsn or whoever else it is that lives in MPLS.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

y'know, I have never figured out what FAP stands for... Feeling All People? Flesh Abusing Pupae? Flexible Ass Putty?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

brooklyn ilx = DOZENS OF WHITE PEOPLE

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

(I don't actually know any ilxors personally. Except Fancy Bill, but he posts maybe once a year and lives in NM)

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

who's fancy bill?

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

exactly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

The new York crew is the most intimidating one; Chicago and London are the least intimidating. Then there's Dunedin, but that's such an old-skool ILX thing that I honestly can't comment on it much, it'd make for a great sitcom tho, that much I know.

I never realised that there *was* an LA or SF crew - like, I know about ILXors living on the West Coast, but somehow they seem to have less in-jokes/bickering/collective identity than the other city's guys.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Future Aureoles of Poland?
Forced Aerial Puking?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

SURELY YOU JEST MCSHAKEY

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

London = stuckist

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux, look up subgenius and John Justen on ILM, they went to HHS too ('91 REPRAZENT).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

They're all just alien colonies to me. I have worked out which ones are the slitheens.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I think that the Chicago people are nice and friendly. They *seem* like Chicago.

I would like to meet all of the glasgow people very much, when I consider the "hubs" of people that I have not met.

I have met many LA ILXers, but not often together, and thus I consider them very disparate and undefined (GREAT individuals, though!).

I have been to one London FAP.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

why are the chicago ilxors seen as twee? those gys are tough as nails.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

i'm in NYC, but i'm not part of the "NYC crew."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Ditto.

Shakey, Read the ~~FAP~~FAQ

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, they don't seem twee to me at all.

x-post

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

NICE.

(I am currently at the Home Office, btw. Star Gazette headline: "Hastings police see success with Tasers")

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

why are the chicago ilxors seen as twee?

sarah and n/a, silly!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

is there a "nyc crew"???

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

We don't have FAPS in SF anymore.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

why are the chicago ilxors seen as twee?
sarah and n/a, silly!

yeah and watching jaymc dance to nick & sarah's band. twee as fuck!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Australia = goths?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

oh you love it, phil.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Can you actually taser an El Camino? Otherwise I don't see how they'd help the Hastings police at all.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

LA = we bake in the sun and say 'yeah, dude' a lot (this is not strictly true)

Ummmm, what about Spencer?

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Us lot from the mainland are EuroTRASH to the max. This could only apply to me.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

There should be more mittel-european FAPs.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

No one pays attention to Toronto.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

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Nice. Yeah, she is cool. Although I'm actually closer friends with her girlfriend Karen. Or at least was. I haven't talked to either of them in a while.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

in los angeles:

i dont think we have anything in common except we waste too much $ drinking.

and half of us are males with long, luxurious hair at some point of another

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

w/ mark and spencer and chaki's hairstyles from last year...hell more than half

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I met K4r3n maybe once and can't really remember much about her. I love that one of the most salient things 4ll3gra remembers about me (at least until we touched base again post-Friendstering each other) was when I made her get up at 7 in the morning to watch the Oscar nominations. She probably also remembers how aghast and unimpressed I was with that best picture nomination for Full Monty. We argued over breakfast. It was great.

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Spencer and Mark both have wonderful hair. I cannot speak for chaki's hair, though I came close to seeing it, about this time last year.

― the PSB signal (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

NEW YORK = SUPER DRUNK

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

and half of us are males with long, luxurious hair at some point of another

Hopefully not at the crotchular point, O King of the Kurus.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

No one pays attention to Toronto.
-- Sundar

hell yeah, but also a fact that (immediately after some FAPS) some of us can be rather thankful for!

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

The ILE Floridian contingent is very lonely, has manic tendencies (but thankfully not all the time), adores meta-referencing, and usually is very thoughtful -- which is more than you'll get out of other Floridians!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully not at the crotchular point, O King of the Kurus.

I'm impressed. Of course I have health problems and am going to abdicate shortly w/ little bro coming up...but for now i'm impressed

― Vichitravirya XI, Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

the new york contingent exist to me in a no-longer-there (if it ever was) gritty/shiny movie version of nyc, and carry themselves accordingly. london seems really smart – i'd like to go there but i'd wind up using slang that didn't fit my mouth properly, and i'd have to get a boring dayjob probably. i imagine everyone there being able to drink me under the table while having erudite conversations about pop and stuff. actually maybe i don't want to go there. dunedin remains a magic wonderland full of nice people i've never so much as said hello to. they rate everything! the other places are all made up, as far as i'm concerned, except sf which is always windier and chillier than i expect it to be, so whoever lives there must be either a nonstop k-way wearing motherfucker or one of those people who can wear shorts all year round without catching a chill. weirdos.

― jones (actual), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty anti-social basically, not really into drinking, or smoke, or groups of lots of people talking at once. I'm not a good, fun person. I also don't show up for union meetings and events, and Sara's (x-?) landlord/housemate could vouch for that. Maybe some day I will show up and see if the FAP looks approachable.

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Melbourne roll hardcore.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

i haven't actually *seen* any chicago ilxors save for nick and sarah for months!! anyway pretty soon i will be holding down the i0wa chapter w/j0hn "not around much anymore" darn!e11e.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

j0hn lives in n. carolina now!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

(but what's this? are you moving to iowa?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

iowa is great GOOD CALL AMST

― Jacqui Pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Those of us here in TX are very disjointed, un-united. Which is absolutely no surprise whatsoever, because our state is so massive it might as well be four or five different states. Actually, there are at least four or five varying regions of the state and none of them are like the other, so it's no wonder we're all so... lacking in unity.

I really wish I could find the time to meet up with Sam, though. Seeing as though she only lives about 90 miles away from me and her new home of Austin is in the part of the same Texas my home is in. One day, one day.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's a sickness. The Northern CA people refer to their freeways all businesslike with simple numerical designations (101, 280, 880). In Southern CA we elevate these mere numbers to TITLES (The 5, The 101, The PCH, etc.).

in new york we give our highways (expressways and parkways and such) real names, like Henry Hudson and Major Deegan!

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

why am i signed in as jacqui pickles?

― Jacqui Pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

strictly speaking, i'm not an NYC ilxor at all. i'm an NJ ilxor -- AND I AM NOT ALONE. (hurting, o.nate, mike a. [in exile], jbr [in spirit!])

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

okay that's better, i keep posting as my sisters.. damnit.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

YOU HAVE SISTERS?

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

uhh yeah, two of 'em. gunther heartymeal and jacqui pickles are the names they use on this thing.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

I am crewless, these days.

Just for you, then, Ally.....

http://photo.sing365.com/music/picture.nsf/Motley-Crue-photo/48256C71003578A2482568BB00086846/$file/MOTLEY+CRUE.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

how many carolina ilxors are there?

― latebloomer: We kissy kiss in the rear view (latebloomer), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

One day I am going to be a Seattle ILXOR.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

The CDepot dudes

Oh yeah! Zack and Peter and JD, right?

Don't forget Mike O., either. And Mat, you're an honorary CDepot dude at this point anyway.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Melbourne are goths? If anyone is, its only me, and I'm not anymore (yeah yeah sorry). DOn't call Mikey or Jim a goth if you want to live ;P

We're famous FAPPikers as well. Just ask moley/colin. He'll confirm this.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

"No one pays attention to Toronto."

That's great. The city which is constantly berated from coast to coast for it's superiority complex still manages to have an inferiority complex. You really can't get more Canadian than that.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Melbourne are goths. or sci fi geeks. Sydney are good looking hard edged money making yuppies.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

see? this is why the mongrels are so special!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

Sydney has that milk-moustache of cocaine around its botoxed lips! =)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Or er... nose even. Yeah. I know my drugs dont I.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

I am lonesome in Brisbane. I need to recruit a new ilxor round here.

― You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun / Kate (papa november), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Move to melbourne ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

Fancy Bill lives in NC. He claims to have seen darnie11e at a concert once.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Also, after years of condescension, I have finally come around on Iowa=great. It's BEAUTIFUL down there.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

I think LA ILX is very LA. We're joined by no common trait except our freakdom.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/20030821/end40.jpg

One such hub of ilX is to the right!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Friday, 17 June 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

I was born there (Wilmington NC). ILM is therefore my birthright.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Use it wisely.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I was born in Anaheim. I hereby claim Ned's turf as my own. "Warriors, come out and PLAYYYYYYY!"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

I've been to anaheim

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

http://photos10.flickr.com/13364747_6071163b08.jpg?v=0

WHICH WAY TO ILX?

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

omg

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

DC CDEPOT OMYGOD IM LISTENING TO NATIONTIME I WANT A BEER!!!!! ZACK IS HERE!

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

I have an unreasonable desire to attend an NYC FAP, but I'm terrified no one would know or care who the fuck I am.
So, pretty much the same problem I have with bars in general.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

The last...and only....NYC FAP I attended looked something like this...

http://pharyngula.org/images/zardoz_exterminator.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Austin is in the part of the same Texas my home is in. One day, one day.

no shit dee!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

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