Am I earning street cred or selling out with this post? Read and decide!
Posted on April 9th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 2:30 am
So today (ok, Saturday,) with the aid of Lucy and Rai from Anime Kingdom, I dressed up all EGL (with the top hat from the pic below and more) as did Lucy and Rai, and Jim from AK was in toe shooting off (literally) hundreds of photos. The intent was to attend this gathering of folks who went by the name of the Seattle Glitterati Club, but since we were less interested in eating and chatting, and more interested in shooting pictures and such, we split off after only briefly saying hello to them and as they made their from a cafe to a place with food. At that point, we hit a bunch of store around Capital Hill, and then we all posed for pictures in the park, yielding a lot of very cool shots (expect a new and intentionally misleading myspace picture, just because I can and I’m silly.) Then, we decided that since are all totally lame otaku (and freezing,) we’d hit Kinokuniya/Uwajimaya for manga and eats. We go into Kino, and while I’m browsing the manga with Lucy and Rai, this dude comes up to us and hands us each a flyer for Club Noc Noc, a goth club downtown (well, they have other nights with other music but that’s not important,) because we are apparently dressed appropriately and thus must be down with that whole entire scene. Of course, jokes on him because, I’ve never dressed like that before, and thus is about as into that scene as I’m into recreational septic system maintenance (IE: not at all – well, ok I’ve listened to Industrial and EBM, and I can usually tell the difference, but that’s electronica nerd side showing,) and Rai and Lucy are 19 and 17 respectively, and thus couldn’t get into this 21+ goth club anyway.
Now for the it’s a small world twist – two weeks ago I’m hitting SakuraCon, and around about midnight between saturday and sunday, I start feeling hungry and thirsty, and I don’t want to pay the rip off prices charged at the soda machine in the convention center. So myself, a few friends from BCC (IIRC, Grace, Misu and Blake) and one of my friends from Toon Zone (Pepperidge aka Jesse) decide to strike out and find a convenience store that’s still open. With the aid a homeless fellow who gave us directions and then asked for change (great move, because he got it,) we found a convenience store that was still open. Oddly enough, it was right across the street from Club Noc Noc.
And that sort of begs an odd question, because there was a line to get into that club when I walked by it two weeks ago. Why would a guy be plugging a club that’s already so chic you can’t even get into it at 12:30am in the morning?
Anyway, back on topic, after eating at Uwajimaya (mmm.. metro mint water,) we hit Gossip for some good bubble tea (I had strawberry,) and on our way out of Gossip, we ran into this very nice lady wearing a kimono who Rai conversed with for a bit in Japanese (I should really take a course in that someday) and then Jim snapped pictures of us with. She was really supportive of our style (though I’m sort of loathed or atleast ambivalent on calling it my style cause it was more acquired than created by me I think.) And now I’m tired. Of course, it’s after 2am, so I suppose have an excuse outside of being on my feet for the better part of 4 hours. After all, I was on my feet for more time than that during SakuraCon (otoh, I’m still recovering from SakuraCon.)
Meanwhile, pics will be forth coming (even if it’s just another lo-rez flickr gallery,) and at Rai’s behest I’ll be turning out all EGL at Anime Kingdom this Friday barring something unexpected. By the way, Rai says it’s EGL, but I’m not as sure, so don’t take my word for it – come see it (because I won’t have the pictures up before friday.)
PS: It was not crossplay EGL. I won’t inflict that on the world unless someone is paying me, as John Ledford from ADV once aptly put it, “drunken pirate money,” IE: millions of dollars.
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