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Thank You The MGMT by teucer, help im a bear
November 25th, 2007 8:23 PM"Please wash hands before using sink."
"This stall reserved for employee use only."
On a change machine (unphotographed for stealth reasons), "Please use exact change."
Then, the questions began. It started logically enough - "Why do you pretend to be a vampire?" in the coffee house used by a local vampire LARP (also the location of the change machine). This question we took from the rulebook for the role-playing game Dread. (A quick word about Dread: it is an RPG designed for horror one-shots, and character creation is done entirely by questionnaires of leading questions. Mechanics are done via Jenga tower. Running along the bottom of each page they have awesome example questions such as the ones we used. It's amazing. Play it.)
At first the questions we used were all about vampires. But soon, they ceased to have any connection to much of anything, though they tend to imply a rather odd outlook on the part of the MGMT.
We plan to go back in a few days to see if our signs are still there, and if anything has been added.
help im a bug
This task was way more intense to do than it seemed like it would be. I felt like a stealthy ninja going into restaurant after restaurant, saying I had to use the bathroom, and leaving. A ninja with a bladder control problem.
Update by PH
I just went along the two blocks of Grand Avenue that play host to many of our signs. Huong Sen and the Pie Shoppe were closed, so I didn't get to see their bathrooms, but the one in Shish has been taken down, the one in the Tea Garden is exactly as we left it, and the one in Coffee News has had the words "will do" added in pen.
Wash hands
This one went up in Coffee News Cafe, the same place that gave Peter the free coffee when he tried to give them jerky.
Employees only.
This sign, on a toilet stall in O'Gara's (a bar), may not be contradictory, but it's certainly in the style of Markoff Chaney, as we assume was intended.
Vampire LARP
It's in Cosmic's coffee shop, which is also home to a change machine.
Vampire repellant
This one's in a local Vietnamese restaurant called Huong Sen.
Get away
This is in the Italian Pie Shoppe, a pizzeria. (Yes, they spell it that way. Yes, it's annoying.)
Slightly strange
This is in the Tea Garden, which is also the place that took Peter's meat.
Thank you,
This one's in a Whole Foods.
See the future!
The restaurant this one's in pronounces its name like "sheesh." Really. They spell it Shish, though.
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Um. Funny. I know that neighborhood well.
I can just see the confusion, and I love it.
AR, then you should be aware that right next door to Huong Sen there's now a place that sells freshly-made but not yet cooked pizzas, which you can purchase and take home and enjoy the deliciousness of.
Help and I ate their food tonight and were pleased.
Excellent.
Though I'm not entirely sure why, I particularly like the blank sheet with "thank you, the MGMT" along the bottom.
(I confess, I don't get the vampire bits at all. But then, I suppose, if it weren't for outsiders, in jokes wouldn't be any fun.)
Vote for the ninja with a bladder control problem.
Kudos for hitting many locations with different signs.
Peter-
Sadly- I haven't lived in that neighborhood for a long time, and things have changed a lot. See if anyone you know remembers The Hungry Mind.
That's a shame. It's still a really lovely area.
(And of course if you were still around, meeting up for some collaboration would be pretty much mandatory.)
i know the hungry mind, and i remember the ruminator, and the patagonia that now is there.
Peter- I'm still local, but being a grown-up now leaves me with little time to run around. I'm just not local to that specific neighborhood. I don't get over to the SP much these days. Some day, maybe.
Bug- You know the hungry mind, or you knew the hungry mind? Also, wtf is up with the big-boxing of that neighborhood? Patagonia? Seriously? I remember where the worlds religions section was before they moved Table of Contents out.
That's a shame, as there's a bunch of us here playing at the moment, and it would be pretty awesome to have an alum (you are one, right?) dropping by to task with us or something. Please tell me you're at least coming to MOA for Nintend0?
And yeah, the area really does not need a Patagonia. And yes, we're serious about it having one. Right on the end, corner of Grand and Mac, where the Ruminator used to be. (I don't remember the Ruminator. I do remember there being people here for whom its disappearance was a fresh insult. And now we have to go all the way to Sixth Chamber or Midway for our bookstore needs.)
Oh kid, the stories I could tell you about that neighborhood. I'm not sure I'm in for Nintend0.
come on inky baby, be sure! some olsens are going. . .
one thing i notice, looking at this, is how similar these bathrooms all look, even though the establishments themselves are rather different.