A couple more photos.

I know I'm way late to the game for this kind of bloggle, but I just wanted to personally thank Threadless for the amazing digs and hospitality that were set up for me, and for the fantastic Meetup day experience once again which becomes filled with more magical people and presentations and thrift store ridiculousness as the years pile on.

Also, thanks everyone for helping me get over a giant, ugly, eight-legged hairy fear of mine which is talking in front of a big group of people, especially when I respect the thoughts/opinions going on in so many of their brains. It was a very supportive group of people and meeting/reuniting with so many of you always serves as a fresh dose of inspiration to get my mind's ass in gear to venture to higher and more unconventional places.


Random, completely incomplete memories from the meetup:

-Walking in the pouring rain to the warehouse where Jonah swore the kickball meetup was taking place, and then turning around and following Jonah for some reason into cement that we found out all too quickly was still wet. Luckily the guy makes up for his lax follow-the-leader skills with being a sweetheart and having cool abilities like coming up with super silly ideas as fast as a gumball machine gone haywire. But now the bottom of my size 11's are forever etched into the sidewalk pavement across the street from Threadless HQ, I'm never too far away!

-Rolf and I enjoying a Boss Hog beer topped with barbeque sauce and pierces of ribs floating around in it...well, that's what it would have been like had it existed and I was forced at gunpoint to drink one.

-Basking in the glow of Justin's shiny HOLLYWOOD persona and talking favorite Tony/Ridley Scott brother movies.

-"Adam, in this country we don't use the metric system, we measure everything in Bic Macs, nuggets and fryometers!"

-Awesome times chatting and laughing with rythmMattman and Megan who needs her own user name since she's not just somebody's misses!

-Staring longingly at Enkel's pearly white smile.

-Having the craziest Google+ conversation with t4sha on two different computers in the same room, which made flashing the cameras back and forth between people quite the dizzying game of computer screen teleportation.

-Being treated like true members of the threadless team by Jake, Rachel, Jess and Mimi during our fifteen hour Ambassador meeting marathon.

-Getting stern, disapproving looks from Alva that were followed by giant smiles and bear hugs that would kill a thinner human being.

-neSTAR, thank you for the death-defying beer run, as well as instilling an unparallelled amount of fear in the Threadless staff regarding the sweeping changes in the slogan world. Dude, it felt like they were talking about Lord Vader, don't choke people to death with your salsa-strengthened arms and fingers!

-Dancing to breakdancing midgets performing to Ton Loc songs at Mahoney's with Monica, Priscilla, Becca and Rolf's sweet n' swirly dance rave moves.

-Being drenched with sweat and slightly tipsy when coming back from Mahoney's and bumping into Nathan Pyle and his brother Gabe outside, aka the most energizing and positive individuals on Earth.

-Sitting through a ton of amazing presentations, and then giving my own where i didn't see one person fall asleep out of sheer exhaustion.

-Best piece of advice at the meetup: David Schwen ending his and Phil's presentation by saying simply "Get out there and fail."

-Meeting the one and only Rossmat, who was much more football linebacker in real life as opposed to a frail happy tree painting and geriatric crime-solving avatar would suggest.

-Going from Billy Goat's hamburger Craphouse directly to a much better resutarant before I was even done chewing and not enjoying the "city famous" meat razor shavings. Love you Adam, but your Canadian taste buds towards burgers is spotty at best!

-Playing around on a blue vagina statue with Courtney Pie and dodging the mind-reading security guards who had a sentient-like presence around us.

"Why does she keep saying all these dirty things?"

-Jeremy! What a swell and humble dude, thanks for drawing the coolest mutant Adventure Time action scene in my Moleskin!

-Booing RandyAaron's bestee announcement with Aled and a couple of other people all in good fun maaaaan!

-"Welcome to the Flint Michigan Action News Room, we've got Adam on sports, Phil with the weather and Evan on location hunting down the stories that fill time for a half hour worth of programming!"

-Getting to know a bunch of bloggers I never really knew too well before and I will be harassing much more often on Threadless now:

-Mya Jamila
-nigil
-R3d Fox
-Jake Friedman
-nickv47
-crauqhaus
-stevetheprettydamnedcoolness

-Ms Queenmob aka A-M, you are an awesome Austrian and thanks so much for catching cabs with me and engaging in make-believe backwards fist fights!

-SupeRyan spoke this year! And said lots of funny things to me!

-Brandon and Alvin's giant pant suit shuffle. That fucking outfit would have been falling off of Fat Albert's hefty circumference.

-Enjoying Alex and body-movin' friends perform their version of the Def Comedy Breakdance Jam.

-No words can describe ToraSteve and Jared performing "More Than Words." Also Jared and I would like you to watch "Fire In The Sky" whenever it's immediately convenient for haunting alien hijinks.

-Ending the meetup night singing "Don't You Forget About Me", and coming off the stage to an awesome couple telling me, "dude, during that song me and my girl had several "moments" with one another." Awww, I've always wanted to be Sexual Chocolate!


Thanks a million for all the IRL good times everyone and making me feel less homesick for my family!