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  I just wanted to let everyone know that Samantha_Cool is hosting a special event this evening to celebrate the release of her 100th buggy design. The event is running this evening, September 22nd, until 10 pm Eastern  There are lots of awesome buggies on display, and I purchased a teal-colored one by Piston Pals. In addition, I won a buggy couch on a dice roll.  Dice-roll prizes are a T-shirt or  buggy couch depending on what number comes up -- even or odd. So head on over and check out the very COOL display by Samantha.

  This will probably be the last of my  Lynyrd Skynyrd references for a while, but it was the best I could come up with on short notice. I was at my cafe chatting with Vanilla Dutch this afternoon, and he put out his impressive helicopter and fighter-jet collection for display. If any designers are planning on making some choppers like these, please let me know -- would love to own one! Highest Score in Week 1 of Mango Market League Congrats, Chris! Last week as I was getting ready to log off and head to bed, I got an IM from Droopy. He asked me to check out his shooting gallery, and I finally relented after mulling it over for a bit. What I did not know was that I would instantly become one of the moving targets. LOL I experienced a bit of a West World vibe as I stood on a conveyor belt, occasionally getting blasted to the ground by an endless stream of paintballs. I have to admit it was fun, though, and I hung around for a bit before calling it a night. I guess I owed Dro...

  On Saturday evening, b00ya kicked things off with a grand opening at his club, The Hang Out 3.0 . A lot of familiar faces showed up, and it was fun hanging out with everyone in a new venue. There was also a shirt giveaway at the end, and Nellie Rachel and I ended up as the lucky winners. I tried to snap a picture of myself wearing the shirt but ended up getting photobombed by the ever-present landgoria. lol It was a pleasant surprise when b00ya returned to there, as we had not seen each other since 2018. He enjoys making houses and related items, so be sure to keep out an eye out for his auction listings!   The Making of Rollerball The Thing Reunion Panel I came across a couple videos recently on YouTube that piqued my interest and reminded me of our T-Con event on there. During T-Con, I purchased a Rollerball shirt, and a documentary about the movie recently showed up in my YouTube feed. I previously mentioned on my blog that The Thing by John Carpenter was one of the best...

  Hi, Reiju here again! After my last little tour for KRIBZ took me about 800 meters into the sky to visit Dutch's skybox, this time I stayed a little closer to the ground LOL. I recently had the chance to meet up with matthewkg and visit his Aurora Conference Center, which is currently also serving as headquarters for his Fantasy Football league. From the outside, it actually looks like a conference center. The huge glass front, stone walls and American flag in front make it look more like a real public building than someone's random hangout in There. Right when you enter, you're greeted by a fountain and a huge open room with a large round conference table in the middle. Behind it is an even bigger Mango Market Fantasy Football logo together with the current league board. I talked with matthewkg about the league for a while and learned that he has actually been playing Fantasy Football through Yahoo since 2006. For anyone who has never played it before, the basic idea is ...

  For the past two weekends, I have been hosting car-cruise events with Goober_Goalie. The usual routine is that we meet up after buggy bash at 11 pm Eastern -- at the GBR dealership in Nitro. We then do a lap around the neighborhood before setting off on our destination. On our first cruise, we drove North and then headed West along the coast of Aurora Island. We then headed South and stopped at San-Francisco Bay. Once there, we looked at pictures from Project Reality, an A.I. photo-project involving Gemini A.I. Project Reality For our second cruise, we headed South down Aurora and then gradually veered off in the direction of an island chain before arriving at my home. Almost everyone made it there fine, save for a few unfortunate souls who were promptly summoned. Once at my home, a group of us watched a maritime mystery from Big Old Boats , a popular YouTube channel. This has become one of my favorite channels over the past year or so, and the production values are excellent. It...