The Syndicate

Love the picture G-Man! Super sweet.

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Picture from hanging out with speedchuck and Luna yesterday!

Looking good, speed, DP, and Luna!

Amazing, trice! Congrats!

Great looking family, G-Man!

I can see them! Good to see you.

Awesome pictures, LoRab! I agree with Sloonei, you were rocking the purple hair. I've seen most of those already due to FB, but glad to see you sharing them here.

And nice, good to fit a face to the name, speedchuck. Looking good.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Nice pictures everyone!

G-Man, I vote for the last of the 3 facial variations (if this is put to a vote).

MP, Power Grid is one of the best! I hope I can play that one with you guys someday. My winning percentage in that game is incredibly high.

Oh, YOU ARE ON. This must happen.

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Power Grid is awesome. And I won! We'll see what happens next time though.

Awesome pictures, Sloonei!! (well, except the last one)

Nice pictures, Matt!

Your expression in the last one accompanied with your description cracks me up; I just pictured you fervently typing on your keyboard looking like that.

Nice photo!

Giant bouncy house sounds awesome.

Real life mafia is a ton of fun, but internet mafia is so much better.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:I plan on arranging Syndicate meetups in the future, so whatever I can do to help get some of you non-USAers in for any of those, I'll consider it.

What are you doing on August 8th?

Quasi-Syndicate meetup.

thellama73 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

G-Man wrote:It would be cool if we could get together on a cruise. Then we could play the party game version of mafia.

That'd be badass.

And we're definitely going to play the party game version in any meetup. Required.

A bunch of us on a boat drifting around the ocean for weeks, constantly suspecting and accusing one another... Sounds awesome and also like the beginning of a horror story I may have to write.

Ricochet wrote:I was at a music workshop in April and one day, after playing mime and stuff the previous nights, the violist suggested we could try playing Mafia as well. They never witnessed me this excited at any other point during the whole workshop.

We didn't play, though.

linki: Real life emotional outbursts from MP would end up on YouTube.

I'd have to go all John McEnroe on your asses.

"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS! YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!"

I would have to make sure to take a ton of Dramamine though, since I get terribly seasick. :P

G-Man wrote:It would be cool if we could get together on a cruise. Then we could play the party game version of mafia.

That'd be badass.

And we're definitely going to play the party game version in any meetup. Required.

I plan on arranging Syndicate meetups in the future, so whatever I can do to help get some of you non-USAers in for any of those, I'll consider it.

thellama73 wrote:Not all Americans are Baptists. In fact, I would venture to say that most of us are not. What MP says s true. It is a huge country, with many very different cultures. You will not get the same experience in the Deep South, Southern California, New England, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, Texas, New York, or Flyover Country.

Incredibly true.

It's amazing to me how different Cincinnati, OH is from San Antonio, TX, for example, having lived in both places now.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Haven't been to USA. Or to any country in the Americas other than my own, for that matter (unless you count Aruba as a country). It's one of the places I'd like to visit.

I have only been outside of the U.S. once (Mexico City) thus far, but it was a good trip. I really, really want to travel globally so much more, and I plan on utilizing summers thanks to my shiny professor position (when I'm finally done with schooling to get me there) to do so.

That said, there's still a lot in the U.S. I want to see. It's definitely a lot of pockets of subcultures that make up a country, so I would recommend covering multiple areas if at all possible.

thellama73 wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:England's pretty nice for vegetarians. That's why I hate American food.

America is great for carnivores, which is why I love it.

Nice picture!

Now I just need to change my concentration to International Accounting...

Wow. I'm going to get right on that, MM, and ask my PhD advisor for some time off so I can go to Zurich and Paris. :P

We'll see his response.

Good to see you, Jay and DDL!

I'm very jealous of the landscape in both pictures. Someday!

Nice pictures, Neverwhere, Golden, and MM!

Looking good, trice and aether!

I am curious as to what aether is looking at as well, I must admit.

Epignosis wrote:I obviously know his work with KC. But I do not have the "Sides," so I'll give those a fair shake.

Incredible guitarist. Plays a Parker. I want a Parker. $3000 machine.

Here's another.

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Definitely agree with the former, disagree with the latter, but that's just me!

Though I won't argue he's the best songwriter ever, that's for sure.

What's his best song? I'll check it out. I bought Young Lions and Jesus. Thanks but no thanks.

Well, there's his tenure in King Crimson. From a solo perspective, I can see why you haven't been as impressed from a songwriting standpoint if those are your experiences. Not bad, but certainly far from his best.

Try the albums Side One, Side Two, and Side Three. I love those and firmly believe it's some of his best work.

I have a hard time picking just one song from any of those, but here's an introduction (it's a song he played last night and that he generally plays during solo concerts):

Definitely agree with the former, disagree with the latter, but that's just me!

Though I won't argue he's the best songwriter ever, that's for sure.

A Person wrote:You two related?

I suppose it looks like it, doesn't it?

Epignosis wrote:Adrian Belew? Nice!

Doesn't look like his eyes are wide open there though.

I know, right? One of my biggest musical idols.

Astute observation.

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Looking good, Logan and Alison!

Nice picture, Rox and Bass!!

Nice pictures, Mongoose and sabie!

zeek wrote:I look like the Doctor

I wish I looked like David Tennant.

Ha, nice zeek! And great picture as well, MM!

Nice picture, zeek! Oh man, I have no idea. Maybe the first one?

Nice pictures!

Always really cool to see the face behind the moniker, I say!

Nice specs, Enrique, good to see you!

Looking good, Made!

Don't know how I didn't post this until now! Those of you who have either me or LoRab added on Facebook have likely already seen it, but, right before PhD started, she and I got the chance to meet up! And eat some Mexican food.

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Mongoose wrote:Someone at the Dali Museum asked Logan if he was Dali's son, no lie.

This is the greatest thing I've ever heard.

Epignosis wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:Yay Disc Exchange!

I thought the vinyl would bury me.

Not a bad way to go.

Indeed.

Yay Disc Exchange!

Awesome pictures, everyone!!!

Looks like fun, Epi and Elo! I know daisy and I definitely had fun in St. Pete while we were there with mongoose!

Awesome pictures TH!!!

bea wrote:a) GOOOOOOSEY!!!!! YOU ARE SO FRACKING ADORABLE!! BRING JAMES OUT WEST TO SEE US!

b) OMFG -that phone booth is just *begging* for someone to vandal it and paint it blue.

c) SPRINGFIELD!!!!!!!!!

d) You're spotin lots of dr who shirts in these picts Alex. You know while you were here and we were looking for things to watch? We could have been watching DR WHO. :P (may I also present the next smiley request?)

It's not my fault I wasn't into the show at the time!

Or maybe it was...

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Awesome pic, Trice, and same to you as well, Matt! Lol at the drunk one.