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Holy god damn Hayek, you are a great photographer, JD. (And excellent captions, Rachel!)

I was wondering, who got a picture of David and Number 6 touching their pipes? (That's not quite as gay as it sounds ... quite.)

Also: David and Reche Caldwell -- separated at birth?

Anyway, here are my pictures from the weekend:

David's job involves working on maps for phone book delivery. A few weeks ago he did Downer's Grove. Guess it worked!

The sand table in the Pacific Islanders exhibit at the Field Museum. I think AR drew a monster eating a kitten or some similarly horrible thing that I've blocked out.

I tragically did not get a picture of the moray, which led me and Stevo to make the same joke about ten seconds apart.

dude you have an i heart hank rearden shirt?

man even i think that's cool.

Hey, wait a minute - I own almost that exact same hat as Warren...what are you trying to say?

OMG have you never been to an LP convention? Or a Ron Paul rally? It's all about the crazy hats. In fact I knew Barr was going to win the nomination when Wiegel posted the first pics from the LP convention and there was only one hat. For the Gryllicon, I was seriously thinking of showing up at the Hop Haus with a roll of foil

Sorry I haven't been to any of the Gryllicon picture threads. Looks like I missed a great time. Just one question: Where were the Moose, Mr. Steven Crane, highnumber, and the rest of the Chicago Urkobold crew?

Hey, you didn't tell me not to post it.

Found it. I'll post it tomorrow.

While we're asking after pictures I'll remind fyodor & babushka to see if they can locate a picture of Ellie & I.

Kall'Gon, take me away!

Shame on you for not recognizing AR. What with him being America's Next Top Metrosexual and all.

Yes, David = Grylliade. Although I personally think he should use the royal Grylliade. So Grylliade would be David, this site, and all the people that comment here, though the latter would properly be known as The Grylliade. Ellie however, keeps insisting on calling him "David".

Oh, and for further clarification, AR is also sometimes referred to as "Dru" because his first name is the same as mine and that would have caused confusion, but his last name begins with "Dru..." hence we sometimes called him "Dru" to keep it all simple and unconfusing. See?

I'm also going to exhibit some mercy and answer this question for real:

I did send an e-mail with the Hop Haus meet-up info and a link to our Gryllicon planning page to everyone in Chicago that I had e-mail addresses for.

We did get to hang out with two Chicagoans, linguist and Pig Mannix, but on Saturday night only.

Viking Moose, to our great dismay, was traveling for work that week and slammed with a ton of stuff he had to do for work all through the weekend, plus he was short on sleep. He could not break away for any daytime activities, and was too wiped out to join us in the evening at linguist's place.

highnumber had some other events to go to (I think he had to attend a Richard Cheese Farewell Tour performance on Saturday night, IIRC) and pbirmingham had family-related obligations and was only available possibly for lunch, but no one was able to be in the right place at the right time to hook up with him, apparently.

I am not sure we had the correct e-mail address for Chicago Tom; I don't think anyone heard back from him.

As for Mr. Steven Crane, I think his situation is that, while he did deeply love us once, and still cares for us, he has met someone new, and has moved on and we just need to accept that. Either that or he was just too busy that particular weekend. Or never got his e-mails.

Way cool to see y'alls pictures.

I wish I was there. Inshallah next time.

I pictured some of you very different. I still haven't figured out who all is who though, I think going back and forth from the comments and the pics, might answer 90% of it.

I am surprised that the Stunning Linguist smokes.

Did anyone submit the info & some pics from the meetup to Hit & Run? (Maybe I just missed it?) They've put stuff like that up before. I'll do it if nobody has yet.

I think it would be a great idea. I would have done it myself, but I was afraid of the first rule of Grylliade. Could you even call it Gryllicon? How many at Gryllicon don't comment at H&R anymore? Might any H&R commenters be like "Hey, why wasn't I invited?"

EDIT:

FWIW I think the pictures with females in them are incredifabtasticulous! They look great, and perhaps best capture the spirit of the occasion. I guess that's the thing, you guys do look really really good. A certain amount of knuckle-dragging, eye-popping, excited grunting is inevitable. I'm told some people don't respond well to that kind of thing.

Don't see any need to do so, myself.

I think it's a terrible idea. I post here to get away from the morons over there, and giving them the photos seems too likely to bring the riffraff from over there, here.

But, since it's David and Ellie's playground, I'd say it's their decision.

Warren,

This is true, but grylliade is somewhat of a gated non-gated community. The gathering really didn't have anything to do with Hit and Run, did it?

Personally my only concern would be that douchenozzles from H&R would start lingering around here.

Unrelated: I miss Kwix and Ginslayer.

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Just my thoughts.

This place is not exactly a secret from H&R. Anybody interested has already checked them out. If posted at H&R, you can count on numerous rude immature comments.

I like it better when we generate our own rude immature comments.

yes yes. Freedom of speech. Very good.

Oh, sorry, this brings to my mind that I haven't properly reacted to these photos.

WOOHOOO! TAKE IT OFF! TAKE IT OFF!!!!*

* Directed at Warren.