From: jennyg@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Well Paid in Name Only)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: My trip out West (long)
Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:49:14 -0500
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Mega!Peeve:  My trip to the West Coast.  I think I managed to squeeze in all
the requisit California experiences, from Watching people surf in wet suits
in the rain, eating Mexican food for breakfast, and, of course, riding from
San Jose to Santa Cruz in a pick-up truck with two men who know all the 
words to "Truckin'"

First !Peevesome thing i did: Shooting trip on Saturday the 9th.  This 
featured lots of big burly men with facial hair, pick-up truck and weapons.
Also booter, who had the boys eating out of her hand (an even more amazing 
feat when you realize that her hand was filled with rice cakes) and 
Curtis Yarvin, who looks like the male ingenue on a Saturday morning kids 
show from 1973, you know the only character that isn't wearing an overstuffed 
proto-muppet costume from the fine folks at Hanna-Barbera.  Curtis was 
definitely the most elegantly dressed person on the shooting range, and he 
looked oh so cute as he raised the shotgun to his shoulder and drawled 
"Get offa mah land, ya varmint" or "Well, son, I guess you'll have to marry 
her now."  

Peeve:  We never were able to get it together to make a dac-shaped target.

Final !Peevesome Thing I did in California: Driving around Sunday night in
a 1961 aquamarine Mercury Comet.  This baby had the original dash board and
I practically came from looking at the speedometer.

First !Peeve experience back on the East Coast:  Being picked up at JFK
by Jim Dare, who identified himself by holding up a placard that said
"Squick Me."

Peeve:  Too many damned articles to read without getting a headache, and
all the stuff posted about the shooting trip's already expired off my spool.
Several people promised to send me anything good that was posted whilst
I was away, but did they?  No!

Since I don't know what's already been posted, It seems sort of silly to give
my impressions of everyone.  Some random observations:

Geoff has an unshakable air of calm around him.  If I were stuck in SF during
an earthquake, I'd definitely want to be within 3 feet of Geoff, because I'm
sure the earth would not be moving.  Also, I can't think of a better word
to describe his apartment than "well-appointed.

drieux talks exactly the way he writes.  

Banta looks exactly as I imagined him, except that his eyes are very kind, and
have a warm, soft glow as he described the childlike pleasure of pulling wings
off flies.

Nolan Hinshaw is the only person I've ever met who can talk so much, and so
fast, that I am unable to get a word in edgewise.

Don Pette is the typical Latin Lover type, well-dressed, gold chains in 
all the appropriate places.  I'm sure he'd be fighting the women off with
a stick if they weren't rendered unconscious by the overpowering cloud of
aftershave that precedes and follows him wherever he goes.

Don Baldwin - damn! I can think of anything peevesome to say about Baldwin.
He's one of the nicest people I"ve ever met.  

JZ's a big cuddly teddy bear of a guy, who makes a mean pasta with clam
sauce.  I was delighted and charmed by his lovely wife Jill (pronounced
Linda if you have a Boston accent), who shared interesting instructional
videos with us.

Bandy makes good beer, and looks better in my "I Love Barbie" earrings 
than I ever did.

Scott Hampton is about 6 feet tall, 25, maybe 30 pounds. He's the sexiest 
man I've ever met.

Bill Berbenich doesn't really look like anyone I've ever met, but perhaps
I've been hanging around the wrong people.  I think we scared him.

Peeve: Leaving California.

!Peeve: Coming home to a husbandless apartment!!

Thanks one and all for a great time!!

Jenny "The Gay Divorcee" Gutbezahl
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