"You are a boil on the butt of humanity."

"I am pleasant, dammit! I saw Drum Eatonton at the Piggly Wiggly yesterday and I smiled at the sumbitch 'fore I could help myself!"

And OMG, y'all-- I thought I was the only person in the universe who loved SHAG!

I want to have Sound Designer summer camp. There's no way THAT could end badly.

I just spewed ginger beer all over my monitor. Imagining every sound designer i know in the same place at the same time....whoa. I would pay to go to there.

I went to many church camps and found most of them far too into the "this is today's cut and paste scripture verse, go spend three hours contemplating it" which was a nice opportunity to wander off alone and sit by a stream or something. The one nice departure from that was a summer in the Tennesse mountains doing community outreach to some of the most horribly abused kids i've ever met. Thankfully that experience was light on the scripture and heavy on the actually helping folks who didn't know what it was like to have a safe place to live with running water.

Imagining every sound designer i know in the same place at the same time....whoa. I would pay to go to there.

I refer you to...our reception. Seriously! Good thing nothing happened or there would be no sound in LA.

Well, theologically. We're pretty similar on just about any other point.

Yup.

I went to a Seventh Day Adventist camp as a kid. Fun camp. Awful food. At the time I could not comprehend people being vegetarian and eating fake meat.

The hospital where I grew up was run by Adventists and the fake meat was truly horrendous. It was said that you knew someone was getting better when they reached up weakly, grabbed a visitor's shirt and said, "For the love of god, get me a hamburger."

Is camp meeting just a Southern tradition?

Just did a touch up on my head. It's all soft and smooth now.I should go try to put a little more sun on it now.

There are a few brands of canned fake meat made by companies started by Seventh Day Adventists. I've seen a few of them used in recipes in vegetarian cookbooks from the twenties and a little earlier. It seems like the recipes have changed, though -- pretty much all other forms of protein have been replaced by soy, and the newer versions have more preservatives and sometimes corn syrup. I've never tried them, though -- I imagine the texture would be gooey and weird.

The main thing I remember was that the "meat" was gray. I don't remember eating any, but while I spent a chunk of my childhood in that hospital, it was always as a visitor.

My head is all soft like a baby's bottom. You know you all want to rub it.

I'd let you.

I'd let you.

If I go to LA at the end of July, I'm SO taking you up on that offer.