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01/03/2026 12:51 #60932
Last day at the AMC Market Arcade03/06/2025 23:10 #60928
shine on, Mickey and JordanCategory: allentown
I am trying to remember the first time I had met Mickey.
I think it was way back in 2013, at what felt like the beginning of my adult life. If it wasn't at one of those Block Club parties, it was at (e:mike)'s birthday ((e:joe,58048)). I remember sitting around a fire in the backyard. I think (e:robert) had brought him not long after meeting Mickey himself.
The first photo I have is in our attic during that year's Halloween party.
It feels so impossibly long ago right now.
I remember meeting Jordan for the first time in the summer of 2021, when it finally felt like we could start leaving COVID behind.
I don't really have the words to say how I feel about all this right now. Anything I write feels wrong because nothing about this is right.
All I know it is I love and will miss them so much. They were a beating heart in the living being that is Allentown, Buffalo, our sprawling network of Rust Belt queers. I hope we can carry that light they shared.
I think it was way back in 2013, at what felt like the beginning of my adult life. If it wasn't at one of those Block Club parties, it was at (e:mike)'s birthday ((e:joe,58048)). I remember sitting around a fire in the backyard. I think (e:robert) had brought him not long after meeting Mickey himself.
The first photo I have is in our attic during that year's Halloween party.
It feels so impossibly long ago right now.
I remember meeting Jordan for the first time in the summer of 2021, when it finally felt like we could start leaving COVID behind.
I don't really have the words to say how I feel about all this right now. Anything I write feels wrong because nothing about this is right.
All I know it is I love and will miss them so much. They were a beating heart in the living being that is Allentown, Buffalo, our sprawling network of Rust Belt queers. I hope we can carry that light they shared.
01/19/2025 23:15 #60926
groupwork weekendCategory: dancing
01/19/2025 23:13 #60925
when your bike bags run out of space
01/19/2025 23:12 #60924
jellymass in PittsburghCategory: pittsburgh
Last week we popped down to Pittsburgh for a Jellyfish/Honcho weekend. On the way down Friday, we hit a huge snowstorm from Erie to Pittsburgh that had me driving 35 mph single file for most of the way.
We only fishtailed once, but still - remind me we need to get better cold weather tires.
Anyway it was straight to Jellyfish at Spirit right at midnight. Driving to the rave is weird, but the compressed party was still a ton of fun.
Saturday had a mandatory crossaint check-in, a Copper pickup, and a nice day at Everyday Noodle and the Mattress Factory.
Before the party we watched Sex and the City at our hotel. I've never watched it, the main character is so obnoxious
Honcho crew had some great sets that night.
We only fishtailed once, but still - remind me we need to get better cold weather tires.
Anyway it was straight to Jellyfish at Spirit right at midnight. Driving to the rave is weird, but the compressed party was still a ton of fun.
Saturday had a mandatory crossaint check-in, a Copper pickup, and a nice day at Everyday Noodle and the Mattress Factory.
Before the party we watched Sex and the City at our hotel. I've never watched it, the main character is so obnoxious
Honcho crew had some great sets that night.
