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Date: July 12th 2010
Camp Tipsy was a super sucsess this year, with 350 -400 people and 30 entries in the shitty boat contest. The lovely and talented Kelly who came from Pasadina took photos. There are tons more on facebook, if you want. Kelly's photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelescopic/sets/72157624407955334/with/4757885734/
Camp Tipsy is a donation event, if you haven't given me some $$ and had the time of your life let your conscience be your guide. I don't really know how much I collected or how much it cost or whatever, but before the event I could buy cigars and now I can't. Paypay me at chickenjohn@chickenjohn.com
A few months ago, I got involved with a project for this years' Ephemerisle event, hosted by the Sea Steading Institute. That was scheduled for July 24th. Last year, I was their Technical Director. I built them 3,000 square feet of floating islands that they threw a pretty good party on. It was amuzing. They are are Libertarians, or something close. They would like to start their own country, do the thing that eluded Larry and write their own constitution. They wanna print their own money and get a seat at the UN and not pay their dues like 76% of the country's participating... but lets not be petty about UN dues...
Who can blame them? I wanna start my own country. And my own radio station. And my own fashion line. And my own language, with clicks and whirrs and farts and snorts. I wanna start my own country, and make a passport and have cool stamps and assign governors and dukes and use Sortition as the way to assign powerful positions. I wanna be on a stamp!!!! I wanna get a diplomat plate so I can park wherever I want in NYC. I want the butler to announce my entrance "Ladies and gentlemen, it is our esteemed honor to present the monarch of Freedonia, his royal majesty Chicken John!"
OK, so none of that is going to happen. Except the radio station, have I told you about the radio station? Ei yi yi...
But Ephemerisle was like practice. It was an event, but really it was supposed to be a taste of what rugged individualism was all about. Thrown by free thinking liberty first constitutionalists that make your standard Berkeley liberal look like Dick Cheney. It was a good time last year. I signed up this year to do a floating stage. Booked Jason Webly, a pirate band, a puppet show, Mirium on the trapeze... a small group of people came together to do this project, and it all came together. We bought a 1945 home made house boat, opened a kickstarter account and started hammering...
We did pretty good.
The Kickstarter thing is like half funded. Our original budget was $7,500. (ha.)
But then a weird thing happened. The Sea Steading Institute cancelled the event. Because they couldn't get insurance. In the first conversation I had with them I told them that insuring this would be impossible. Who listens to me. I guess they have houses and stuff, and if someone gets hurt they could sue. The only people who went last year were other Libertarians. Well. I tried to push and push, but the door slammed, they refunded everyone's ticket price and they are talking about net year. Which they won't be able to insure either. I don't be-grudge them any... but when ya start your own country, ya know I don't know if you can get insurance on that... nation founding insurance... what would the deductable be? They are quick to point out that the insurance problem is one of the many problems that our disingenuous society has created.
We are just going to do the event anyway. Pass the hat. Whatever. So here's the deal-e-o...
The event now know as Schma-schmem-erilse will be held in the Delta, July 24th. You would need a boat to participate, or some sort of floating something or other. You would sleep on your boat, and all that. You can rent a boat from a few places. There are even places that rent houseboats. Luxurious. But this event is on the water. So you'd need a boat. Paradise Point rents patio boats for like $120 or so. You could sleep a few people on one of those. Grab a canoe and come on out! We'll raft up and do a show. Probably do a show every night. We'll be out there from the 22nd on. We'll be near Bethel Island. We'll send coordinates closer to the event.
Our boat is pretty amazing. It was having a problem sinking but it's fine now. We pulled it out of the water and gave it total work over. It was built stout... super stout. We're putting the finishing touches on the engine now. Like the ones we did on the Hudson and the Adriatic. This time we're using a Mercedez 330 D. It's a turbo!
It's all so expensive. We're doing a donation dinner on the 21st of July. Tons of people are comming in from out of town to go to the event, so it's kinda a meet and greet and dinner thing. More details soon, just a save the date thing.
We could use some encouragement. Think of it as like baiting someone to do something stupid. Goading or whatever. Donations encourage us to continue to do stupid shit. You’ll wanna come out on the boat sometime. Remember the whole ‘world you wanna live in’ speech? I warned you all before, don’t make me wash cars on Army street in a bikini. It doesn’t have to be like that. You can donate money to a boat project because you like the project, instead of donating because you like to see me suffer.
Here is the URL again:
Think about the 6 pairs of pants we ruined from tar and the toxic sludge paint.
And I should mention that it would be cool to hear from people who have some ideas for shows on the Relentless. We're all ears...
chicken
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