Two Festivals and a concert
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cornerofmadnessSo I dragged out of bed nice and early and fly down to Point Pleasant like my SUV is on fire. I know the Mothman 5K is at 8 AM. The festival begins at 10. I get there about ten to 9. ALL the parking lots are full again. OMFG. I park in the same place as last year on 8th street and walk. (I walked a total of 16 blocks, 8 down, 8 back plus other meanderings). Everyone was up and rolling at 9 Am.
In fact I'm there talking to some paranormal investigators I've seen before and the line to the mothman museum is three blocks down (and the line to take your pic with the town square mothy statue is longer). Literally every line to every store front is at least a block line. The coffee shop was all the way to the river (I found a coffee vending food truck down the far end).
Did I have fun? Yes. Did I over spend? What do you think? I love that patches are becoming a thing again but the dude with the super cute patches had a line that was more than a block. Yeah...no. I'll catch him at another festival. The new cryptid trading company store? I live here. I'll go next week when I don't need a ticket to get in. I did peek into the new river museum (the old one burned) but didn't go in there either. The docent was doing a talk tomorrow (He was army counter intelligence in Iraq and apparently there were some UFOs). I talked to the rebel alliance. I talked to Vader's fist. I talked to the Ghostbusters. I ate hillbilly heat donuts (maple syrup/bacon/hot sauce), I found a bottle of maple syrup imbued with juniper berry and clove. I had the forethought to get 100$ out of the bank because the ATMs in town were drained.
I met the artist behind Sarah Scribbles and got her book (it has glow in the dark Fresno nightcrawlers on the cover), I got mothman earrings and two shirts (shoot me) One is a fun artist drawn brown tie dyed mothie and the other is a long sleeved Henley styled shirt with mothmen down the sleeves too.
What I didn't do was hear any of the talks. Pouts. First now that they mostly use FB to disseminate info vs a website it's easy to miss stuff. I didn't know they had moved it to the senior center on 1st st near Tu-Endie-Wei State Park, no problem. I get down there. and nothing starts until noon. It's not even 11. I've already been here 2 hours. I can't pee because there's like 2 gross portapotties (but i was doing okay there) and I can't eat because i refuse to wait in a line 4 blocks long for any damn thing. (and I haven't found Sarah yet, turns out she was literally the first person I passed back on 7th street. Why was she all the way down there, no clue since they made a big deal out of her). I think I'm going to suggest that maybe we start talks a little earlier.
I wander off before I'm like 500$ in a hole or something. (got about 4 books, wall art. WHY Dana? WHY) swamp monster popcorn (dill pickle/peanut butter, don't judge me! I love that flavor combo) And as I pause on my way out to the car to read a historic placard on a home for sale (too near the train trestle and nothing but on-street parking, hard pass) I hear someone who was renting out parking spaces say the entire downtown was 85% FULL for parking at 6:30 AM. Are you fing kidding me? On my way out the two bridges have a line of traffic into the city stretching farther than I can see (I can remember when I'd arrive at 2 to hear the talks and park easily. Those days are gone)
I head to the university for the Emancipation Proclamation Celebration which is at the Uni for the first time ever. Here's something I might not have mentioned. My area, due to its nearness to the Ohio River (and what once had been Virginia), played a large role in the Underground Railroad. Gallia county hosts the nation's longest running Emancipation day celebration in the nation 160 years which is so weird because this is literally the whitest place I've ever lived in my life. (like 98.5% white). It's usually somewhere in Gallipolis and maybe should have stayed there or been better marketed and MARKED. If I didn't know that it was likely in our fine arts center (because it wasn't even in our email) how would I have found it? Did they think people would drive there and happen on it? Well I guess you could see the vendor tents.
There were just a handful of vendors (mostly food) and I did get to talk to a couple of men in union soldier uniforms. One remembered me from Christmas when they had the John Gee historic Black church open and I spoke to him then too. One of the women from there had a display of prominent Black business people in Gallia from 1850-1950 and there were a pair of sister chiropodiarists who shocked me. Hell that's what became podiatrists and when I went in 1990 there were less than 20% female student based. If I get my sabbatical back I'm going to the church again and talking to them to get their names (I've already forgotten and I didn't think to take a picture of the display) and put them in my talk. I had a zombie virus snocone (no it wasn't lime/blueberry it was just blah lime).
And I came home with some taco bell and since it was barely after 1 I figured put your feet up and go up to Jackson to get groceries and your meds. Well Rocket has been clingy all week. When he saw me putting shoes back on he started crying and jumped on the chair to grab my hands so I couldn't tie my shoes. He followed me to the car screaming poor thing.
Tonight was Abney Park zoom concert where they were playing oldies from the 90s (who knew they were around that long?) I'm not sure how I ever found them. Either I googled steampunk music but I swear it might have been something Suzume said about the gaslight festivals she goes to. Regardless, they were acting like they couldn't play this music any more so we were in for a real treat because they 'found' the music in the attic. Did they? I don't know but I DO know this stuff is on Youtube and I knew m ost of it. However, it was thoroughly enjoyable and less goofing around than usual. They're doing another concert for Halloween next month if anyone is interested let me know. I'll share the link.
In fact I'm there talking to some paranormal investigators I've seen before and the line to the mothman museum is three blocks down (and the line to take your pic with the town square mothy statue is longer). Literally every line to every store front is at least a block line. The coffee shop was all the way to the river (I found a coffee vending food truck down the far end).
Did I have fun? Yes. Did I over spend? What do you think? I love that patches are becoming a thing again but the dude with the super cute patches had a line that was more than a block. Yeah...no. I'll catch him at another festival. The new cryptid trading company store? I live here. I'll go next week when I don't need a ticket to get in. I did peek into the new river museum (the old one burned) but didn't go in there either. The docent was doing a talk tomorrow (He was army counter intelligence in Iraq and apparently there were some UFOs). I talked to the rebel alliance. I talked to Vader's fist. I talked to the Ghostbusters. I ate hillbilly heat donuts (maple syrup/bacon/hot sauce), I found a bottle of maple syrup imbued with juniper berry and clove. I had the forethought to get 100$ out of the bank because the ATMs in town were drained.
I met the artist behind Sarah Scribbles and got her book (it has glow in the dark Fresno nightcrawlers on the cover), I got mothman earrings and two shirts (shoot me) One is a fun artist drawn brown tie dyed mothie and the other is a long sleeved Henley styled shirt with mothmen down the sleeves too.
What I didn't do was hear any of the talks. Pouts. First now that they mostly use FB to disseminate info vs a website it's easy to miss stuff. I didn't know they had moved it to the senior center on 1st st near Tu-Endie-Wei State Park, no problem. I get down there. and nothing starts until noon. It's not even 11. I've already been here 2 hours. I can't pee because there's like 2 gross portapotties (but i was doing okay there) and I can't eat because i refuse to wait in a line 4 blocks long for any damn thing. (and I haven't found Sarah yet, turns out she was literally the first person I passed back on 7th street. Why was she all the way down there, no clue since they made a big deal out of her). I think I'm going to suggest that maybe we start talks a little earlier.
I wander off before I'm like 500$ in a hole or something. (got about 4 books, wall art. WHY Dana? WHY) swamp monster popcorn (dill pickle/peanut butter, don't judge me! I love that flavor combo) And as I pause on my way out to the car to read a historic placard on a home for sale (too near the train trestle and nothing but on-street parking, hard pass) I hear someone who was renting out parking spaces say the entire downtown was 85% FULL for parking at 6:30 AM. Are you fing kidding me? On my way out the two bridges have a line of traffic into the city stretching farther than I can see (I can remember when I'd arrive at 2 to hear the talks and park easily. Those days are gone)
I head to the university for the Emancipation Proclamation Celebration which is at the Uni for the first time ever. Here's something I might not have mentioned. My area, due to its nearness to the Ohio River (and what once had been Virginia), played a large role in the Underground Railroad. Gallia county hosts the nation's longest running Emancipation day celebration in the nation 160 years which is so weird because this is literally the whitest place I've ever lived in my life. (like 98.5% white). It's usually somewhere in Gallipolis and maybe should have stayed there or been better marketed and MARKED. If I didn't know that it was likely in our fine arts center (because it wasn't even in our email) how would I have found it? Did they think people would drive there and happen on it? Well I guess you could see the vendor tents.
There were just a handful of vendors (mostly food) and I did get to talk to a couple of men in union soldier uniforms. One remembered me from Christmas when they had the John Gee historic Black church open and I spoke to him then too. One of the women from there had a display of prominent Black business people in Gallia from 1850-1950 and there were a pair of sister chiropodiarists who shocked me. Hell that's what became podiatrists and when I went in 1990 there were less than 20% female student based. If I get my sabbatical back I'm going to the church again and talking to them to get their names (I've already forgotten and I didn't think to take a picture of the display) and put them in my talk. I had a zombie virus snocone (no it wasn't lime/blueberry it was just blah lime).
And I came home with some taco bell and since it was barely after 1 I figured put your feet up and go up to Jackson to get groceries and your meds. Well Rocket has been clingy all week. When he saw me putting shoes back on he started crying and jumped on the chair to grab my hands so I couldn't tie my shoes. He followed me to the car screaming poor thing.
Tonight was Abney Park zoom concert where they were playing oldies from the 90s (who knew they were around that long?) I'm not sure how I ever found them. Either I googled steampunk music but I swear it might have been something Suzume said about the gaslight festivals she goes to. Regardless, they were acting like they couldn't play this music any more so we were in for a real treat because they 'found' the music in the attic. Did they? I don't know but I DO know this stuff is on Youtube and I knew m ost of it. However, it was thoroughly enjoyable and less goofing around than usual. They're doing another concert for Halloween next month if anyone is interested let me know. I'll share the link.
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Date: 2023-09-17 11:38 am (UTC)Sounds like you did a great job on not spending money, haha! The t-shirts sound cool.
Poor anxious Rocket!
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Date: 2023-09-17 07:04 pm (UTC)You sure do keep busy!!
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Date: 2023-09-18 01:54 am (UTC)I bought sarah's Cryptid club book
I try to keep busy
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Date: 2023-09-18 03:23 am (UTC)There are so many more people nowadays, so parking tends to be awful no matter what.
I Halloween concert sounds fun if you want to share!
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Date: 2023-09-18 04:22 am (UTC)When I get the link I'll share it
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Date: 2023-09-18 04:32 am (UTC)Hi, I spend like a drunken sailor...I need to put up pics
Poor Rocket is going to become a fur couch pillow if he doesn't behave