Photo by nice coffee shop clerk. Scan by Lark Wadsworth.
Carl Takahara, Seth Roberts, Nick Unger, Lark Wadsworth, Byron Go
Eric Geyer, Gary Tutin, Fran Nowve, Alfredo Jacobo [sporting his strapped-to-the-electric-chair, deer-in-the-headlights look], and Steve Joyner
(Not pictured) : Duncan Shaw
There is a funny tidbit associated with this. There are actually three
Get-Together pictures, basically the same pose, taken one right after the
other. But the only picture out of the three where you can see everyone
else well, is the one where I look like that.
This get-together took place at the Java Source on Clement Street, a spacious and cool hangout place for college students to sip (very good) coffee. It featured about 10 lifeheads, all of whom contributed to the atmosphere and some of whom went to great effort to be there.
For example Seth Roberts, our illustrious Berkeley Psych professor, did a biathlon by taking a BART train from Berkeley which travels under San Francisco bay, arising in downtown San Francisco, and then bicycling about 5 miles over very steep San Francisco hills.
Lark Wadsworth looked up a million quotes from the show, and laser-printed them into fortune-cookie-like rectangles of paper which she then rolled up and tied with little golden bows. They looked like a million cute miniature proclamations. She took all her hard work in a basket to the get-together, and as each person arrived they would be greeted with what became the get-together's standard greeting: "Have a quote?"
Duncan Shaw drove 90 miles, from around Sacramento. He arrived as the meeting was breaking up and people were leaving. He arrived after we took the pictures, and I offered to take another picture with him but he modestly declined. We were so impressed with his trek and his charming demeanor, however, that we simply sat down again and kept the meeting going for a few hours more.
Steve Joyner kindly brought some "My So-Called Life" buttons as well as the cover of his "Fighting for Life" book. The back of the cover has a zillion pictures, frame captures from the show. As it was being passed around, I said that I hoped one of the frame captures was from when Graham was looking disconsolately into the fridge. It was!! I was sooo happy, that was one of the many funny moments in MSCL for me. I agree with Lark that Graham gets the funniest lines in the show.
Byron Go, of course, the listmeister and the main reason we are all here.
There are too many other highlights to go into here, but each and every
person contributed to the get-together in one kind or another, an insightful
comment, a funny line, or a good question. I want to take this opportunity
to thank every person for coming.
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