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StarFromIHJ
Title: FanForce CR & Founder,
Long Island, NY
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Apr '02
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Date Posted:
6/19 7:31am
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RE: New Person, any more meetings?
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I'm up for hanging out. 80s clothes, bootleg pizza, or WOW, I don't care.
I wish I could be around more. Alas, I'm in retail so Saturdays are rarely good for me.
By the way, don't forget DB 516 was my idea. It was founded because of Darth Real Life interfering with my attending MEPA events. Without MEPA there wouldn't be DB 516 as we know it (if at all). I learned a lot from MEPA on how to run a fan club, both good and bad things. SWNYC and MEPA will always be a fond memory for me. It got me through a difficult time. Thank you everyone for that.
I miss everyone! Group hug.
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cyranodb
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Date Posted:
6/20 3:15am
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I was there for the big events, like dinner with Jeremy Bulloch, TRU midnight madness and other events and conventions and even think upon Empire Fan Fest with fond memories. The 501st, especially Dion and the NER, have always been our close friends and always invited us to events when the organizers allowed. Its true that some people from NY Line, who shall remain nameless, put a damper on our fun and acted as they could to try and take away our thunder, but it wasn't all of them. Running a club is work. It takes time, money, commitment. We're all older now. We have jobs, children, families and other things that take our time.
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MerlynNY
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Aug '02
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Date Posted:
6/20 9:48am
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cyranodb posted:
I was there for the big events, like dinner with Jeremy Bulloch, TRU midnight madness and other events and conventions and even think upon Empire Fan Fest with fond memories. The 501st, especially Dion and the NER, have always been our close friends and always invited us to events when the organizers allowed. Its true that some people from NY Line, who shall remain nameless, put a damper on our fun and acted as they could to try and take away our thunder, but it wasn't all of them. Running a club is work. It takes time, money, commitment. We're all older now. We have jobs, children, families and other things that take our time.
Good points Mike. Even being married, I've found that I don't have as much focus as I did when I first got involved in fandom over around 8 years ago. Plus, as Chris has mentioned, you just can't maintain that level of energy everyone had over an extended period of time. Eventually you burn out. One cannot expect to maintain the level of activitiy you guys had a few years back, especially while juggling a job, a spouse, children, etc. It's not possible and something has to give.
That said, there's nothing stoping us from getting together on a smaller scale to enjoy each other's company, which to be honest, I've now come to value more than the events themselves.
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cyranodb
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6/20 11:37am
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yeah...but we scare the normals if we all dress up in star wars costumes to go bowling 
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MerlynNY
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6/20 1:03pm
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cyranodb posted:
yeah...but we scare the normals if we all dress up in star wars costumes to go bowling
Isn't that the point? 
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citizenjohn
Title: President, MEPA FanForce, NYC
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May '01
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Date Posted:
6/20 2:59pm
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MerlynNY posted:
cyranodb posted:
yeah...but we scare the normals if we all dress up in star wars costumes to go bowling
Isn't that the point?
Im all for scaring the straights 
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Svenbarry
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6/20 3:54pm
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I'm gay. Would it be okay if I went bowling with the straights?
I'm very new to fanworlds.
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Benae_Quee
Title: FanForce CR, New York City, NY
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Nov '02
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Date Posted:
6/23 10:28am
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We welcome all types of people from all walks of life 
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JadeSolo
Title: NSF managing Non SW Fan Fic
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Sep '02
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Date Posted:
6/24 3:42pm
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You guys can always have a meeting by coming to Chicago last minute for Wizard World this weekend. But you can't stay with me, because my parents already have dibs.
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citizenjohn
Title: President, MEPA FanForce, NYC
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6/24 3:48pm
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I call dibs if C5 is in Chicago
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ObiWill
Title: Founder/Advisor, MEPA-NYC FanForce
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Date Posted:
6/25 4:24am
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We'd love to, but we're leaving for Israel on Sunday. 
I'm going to try to find a Hebrew Star Wars poster.
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JadeSolo
Title: NSF managing Non SW Fan Fic
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6/25 10:23am
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If you're swinging by Petra, I expect about a thousand pictures of you standing there in your Indy hat.
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cyranodb
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Date Posted:
6/25 11:05am
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Have a good trip
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Lieutenant Piett
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6/28 9:02pm
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Yes; Darth RL wins many battles anymore . . . but he hasn't won the war!
Keep in mind also that the whole ongoing thing, the driving force behind what caused SWNYC/MEPA et al. to form at all -- the Prequel Trilogy movies era -- has come to pass. So it's a matter of course that activity has dwindled . . . no harm there; that's natural.
Still, sure; it's great to occasionally re-convene, over Clone Wars, or bowling, or what have you -- just because there are no more SW Major Motion Pictures forthcoming, doesn't mean we should forget the comraderie! Which is never bound to a two-hour run-time.
P.S. "NYCravenclaw" -- funny; I read that as "NY Craven..." How fitting, whoever you are.
**Piétt**
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LadySith
Title: Executive Advisor, MEPA-NYC FanForce
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Dec '00
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Date Posted:
6/29 4:23pm
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Here here Piett!
So shall we plan for a dinner and to see Clone Wars cartoon? I have no idea when it's coming out nor do I have much interest but it will be a ball to all get together again.
I am going to Florida for two weeks leaving August 20th. If not getting together for the movie haow about just a dinner?
Let's float a date! I'm gone from Aug 20 thru Labor Day.
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