Events / Pie Fight
When:March 5th, 2009 @ 5:39pm
Where:
Powell Cable Car Turnaround. San Francisco.
Enrollment
19/unlimited
Organizer:
Herbie Hatman
Description:
Pie Fight
Thursday March 5rd, 2009
5:39 PM Sharp.
Anyone care to participate in a pie fight?
Powell Cable Car Turnaround is a charming locale. Tourists. Local working class. Shoppers. Business people going home for the weekend. Folks coming in from BART for the evening. The unending stream of people give the sense of a busy city which San Francisco has to provide.
To appreciate this group's sense of sensibility, formal wear is encouraged.
Punctuality shows not only proper etiquette but also keen ability to follow through with exemplary fashion. Thusly, we will be meeting ( 3.5.9) 5:39 PM Sharp.
It will surely be a spectacle. I hope to hear from you all soon. Please send any questions, commentaries, or love letters to herbiehatman at gmail dot com.
Best Regards,
Herbie Hatman
PS: Shaving Cream is much more pleasant than whipped cream. I assure you.
Responses
19 Attending
1 NOT Attending
Terms
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I was sort of looking forward to a pie fight that lasted three straight days... 'spose one day will do.
If the location isn't Alaska I'm doing my own! This is a great idea!
Dear Yolanda,
Thanks for taking the time out of your day to show your interest in the upcoming Pie Fight. It turns out that, yes, this is the same location as the last Pie Fight. The location was chosen specifically to affect the wide demographic of passerbys at that time of day. There are shoppers, tourists, locals, and business people all flitting about.
I thought in depth about alternative locations to host this Pie Fight. Near the Embarcadero, in front of City Hall, Ghiradelli Square, Peir 39, Lombard Street, Et Cetera. Though many of these locations had allure and appeal in their own ways none seemed to match the diversity in audience accomplished at the Powell Cable Car Turn Around. Thusly, I stuck with the same locale as the last event.
I look forward to seeing what sort of clever quips you have to contribute to our fascinating community here, and again I thank you for your interest in the upcoming Pie Fight.
Best Regards,
Herbie Hatman
Well said Herbie. Here Here!
Yolanda,
it seems as though you have created this profile for one of two reasons:
1) You are new to this game and are interested in the wide variety of activities this micro-community has to offer.
-or-
2) You would prefer to share your meaningless opinion under the guise of a faceless profile depicting Planet X colliding with Planet Y....
If the former is true, I urge you to build some sort of repertoire via valid completion of tasks or active discourse with other players. This, of course, would render your ability to contribute to the comment section of this event much more earth-shattering.
If the latter is true; SHAME, expose yourself!
There's usually diminishing returns to doing the same thing in the same place.
Coming from you? Here? Funny.
HOLY HELL!
THEY MAKE THAT!?
Waaaaant.
I was thinking that it might be nice to add some color to the pie fight. The all white pies are nice, but maybe a little food coloring in the bottom of the pie tin might color things up. I have not yet tested this and am open to other ideas. Have any?
Best,
Herbie
as long as it won't stain!
but not that i'm wearing a dress i care about terribly, but other people might be wearing things they actually care about
don't get me wrong it's a really nice dress but i got it for free and it's not really my style so i'm willing to get it DIRTY!!! yessss
Will pies be provided? Or am I to understand this event is a BYOP sort of thing?
BRING YOUR OWN TINS AND SURREPTITIOUS CANS OF SHAVING CREAM. COMBINE.
Oh no!
We can't get all dirty in a pie fight if it raining!
oh yes we can. we'll just have to pull out all the stops.
Patty Larceny with the Pearl Necklace.... and a face full of cream
let's not talk about how that cream was cleaned out of intimate places.... like inner ears.
Yay! Rubin got pie'd! Yay! More pictures! More!
Rubin Starset? Oh man, I didn't know he was still active! I am guessing by his gesture there that rubin hates it?
why on earth does this get a negative comment vote?
I'm not too worried either, provided that our antics aren't really causing thousands of dollars of property damage (because if they are that would kind of suck). Shaving cream is water-soluble, anyway.
Thanks for coming, everyone.
It was delightful.
What a pleasure.
I love how the reporters failed to take your word for it about your own name.
A large number of cans, direct through storm drains rather than waste treatment. Two factors that make this use more harmful than the gradual waste-water disposal of shaving cream in millions of bathrooms across America. Can a case be made that enough orders of magnitude more pollutant escape this way than from home use, or would this be ecologically insignificant on the scale of the millions of cans used across the globe?
Would there be a high enough concentration of any of these chemicals even locally in storm drains to have an immediate impact, or is the fear of the effect in aggregate of long-life compounds? Is this amount environmentally significant, or are these chemicals insignificant at a few micrograms per can? Do they degrade under basic environmental stressors like moisture or sunlight?
It is easy to scare folks with the side-effects or alternate uses of chemicals. Chlorine is detectable in concentrations of as low as 1 ppm. Coughing and vomiting may occur at 30 ppm and lung damage at 60 ppm. About 1000 ppm can be fatal after a few deep breaths of the gas. A few grams of Sodium on the other hand can cause an explosion when wet which scatters molten sodium, lye solution, and sometimes flame. Mix the two chemical together, and you get table salt. Sounds scary, but we all know salt is safe, right?
But wait, in humans, a high-salt intake was demonstrated to attenuate nitric oxide production. Nitric oxide contributes to vessel homeostasis by inhibiting vascular smooth muscle contraction and growth, platelet aggregation, and leukocyte adhesion to the endothelium. I don't understand what most of that means without looking it up, and I definitely don't have the expertise to evaluate or judge the impact.
Then again the "chemicals are bad" position is no worse that the counter-point "nuh-uh, chemicals are good"; neither side of the debate is fruitful among consumers when you are looking for a productive an efficient way to lead your life and consumer habits. The organic and green movements are based out of a legitimate effort to reduce things like needlessly harmful chemical additives, and depend on health- and environment-conscious decisions by consumers. But there is an equally misguided counter-culture of green products that fill a fictitious need for safety created by scare-tactics marketing, riding the coat-tails of legitimate research to make you buy peace of mind in a can. Bottled water: case in point; there was nothing wrong with tap water.
I don't think appropriately world-conscious players should end up doubling the bill and springing for an organic shaving cream (although it would be neat to see people furiously whisking away with a beaver-hair brush), but I do still commend you for raising the issue and getting people thinking about environmentally responsible tasking.
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I love that Patty Larceny was all over the place the next day :)
Also notable that the photojournalist constantly spelled her surname "Larnecy".
Who were some of these other names? Patty Larceny I figured out, but Shoemaker? Ruby Scala? Julia Tejeda? Logan Hollarsmith? Nicole Schach? Mia Didacha?
Are there any other photos forthcoming from our other photographer, and source of the Rubin and Herbie shots? Or did Minch, anna one, and Blue each take those shots respectively?
I believe Anna One, Blue and myself are the photographers behind the images we each posted.
I miss San Francisco, and the people in it.
I was just saying to Lank. I says, "Lank, I'm in need of a good food fight"... and low and behold this invitation arrives. That's same pie in the face fate if you ask me.