And Kanye Writes Much Better Than Nelly Too
So, it's official. Illinois::Chicago is now officially engaged in a word war with Missouri::St. Louis! Reliantfc3 has accepted my and rosemilk's challenge on the boards and the old rivals will now be furiously battling for central midwest supremacy!
Rosemilk and I plot the evil level to send to our I-55 rivals
Now if that's not enough to drag a couple more people from my friends list into the NaNo world, I don't know what is. :)
Thank you to infanttyrone for reminding me that I needed to talk to our ML about it and to rosemilk for having both my back (to talk it up for the amazing idea that it is) and a laptop computer so we could initiate the challenge right at the party.
The computer message that threw down the gauntlet - thuwhack
For a time the challenge didn't look good. We had just gotten the Municipal Liaison to agree to challenging New York City when we logged on and found that they had been challenged by Boston earlier in the day and had accepted. Sheesh, geographical and baseball rivals, whatever, we're talking second city pride. Well, they don't know what they're missing.
So JJ, Chicago's ML put out the call of who else Chicago could challenge. And instantly I realized that some of the other potential rivals the windy city could have paled in comparison to St. Louis. Somehow, however, there was an opposing faction who was really fighting for Atlanta. And a third that wanted Minneapolis, both of which made no sense but I think the people wanting them had migrated to Chicago from the city.
The proclamation is read out loud to the party and applause ensued
Atlanta was gaining momentum and we almost had it come to a vote before JJ made an executive decision and chose St. Louis. At that point, the smack talk began. The final message that rosemilk posted on the Missouri::St. Louis board read the following:
Believe it or not, even after the overwhelming support one Chicago person got really upset and stood up. "Why are we picking on St. Louis? Can somebody tell me why we're choosing St. Louis? Why don't we challenge a city from the south?" And when a group of us explained to her that St. Louis was our natural geographic rival of generally similar size (because who really counts Milwaukee if St. Louis is around) she stormed out of the party. Her response was that we should chose a city with a great writing tradition to really prove something. Yikes.
The kickoff party for the Chicago region was huge tonight. We ended up filling up the entire private party room at Goose Island Brewery taking in what must have been 40 people. And while this slowed down the wait staff to no end (someone actually had to leave to go back to work before her quesadillas arrived), the party was crazy.
I wish I remember some of the discussions because they were good. ;)
Though as is the usual, we ended up talking about writing when not talking about porn (and no one defended it as filmed erotica surprisingly) or dirty Halloween costumes.
Sue, our downtown writing group coordinator and life of the parties
And that's why we'll beat St. Louis. There aren't any writing holds barred in Chicago. Plus we've got one of the most active regions on nanowrimo.org. But, to be fair, we have a little help. We have the host of WrimoRadio as one of our affiliated members. He was at the kickoff party taping pre-interviews for next week's show. I again decided to stay off the program but you will be able to hear rosemilk if you download it.
The host of WrimoRadio, our resident celebrity in the Illinois::Chicago region
That and we have got our crap together this year. We'll take on all challengers if need be. Of course, while I'm typing away here, I should be getting to my word count. Some leader of the challenge I am with my slacking off in my own word count. Tomorrow will be a huge day word-wise I hope.
With the challenge to St. Louis, I definitely will want to write through New York City even if we're not directly challenging them.
Rosemilk and I plot the evil level to send to our I-55 rivals
Now if that's not enough to drag a couple more people from my friends list into the NaNo world, I don't know what is. :)
Thank you to infanttyrone for reminding me that I needed to talk to our ML about it and to rosemilk for having both my back (to talk it up for the amazing idea that it is) and a laptop computer so we could initiate the challenge right at the party.
The computer message that threw down the gauntlet - thuwhack
For a time the challenge didn't look good. We had just gotten the Municipal Liaison to agree to challenging New York City when we logged on and found that they had been challenged by Boston earlier in the day and had accepted. Sheesh, geographical and baseball rivals, whatever, we're talking second city pride. Well, they don't know what they're missing.
So JJ, Chicago's ML put out the call of who else Chicago could challenge. And instantly I realized that some of the other potential rivals the windy city could have paled in comparison to St. Louis. Somehow, however, there was an opposing faction who was really fighting for Atlanta. And a third that wanted Minneapolis, both of which made no sense but I think the people wanting them had migrated to Chicago from the city.
The proclamation is read out loud to the party and applause ensued
Atlanta was gaining momentum and we almost had it come to a vote before JJ made an executive decision and chose St. Louis. At that point, the smack talk began. The final message that rosemilk posted on the Missouri::St. Louis board read the following:
"YO bitches!
I'm writing from the Chicago kick-off party, and as a city we've decided to take you small town hicks to town. Or the real city if you should prefer. This, my St. Louis friends, is an official challenge from the municipality of Illinois :: Chicago to a word count war of ultimate destiny.
Have your ML contact our ML snowowl to set up the details, unless you're all pussies. The gauntlet has been thrown! *THUWHACK*
And don't even think about challenging Kansas City or Little Rock. You're ours. We'll take you all if we have to. You're going down.
Love and kisses,
Chitown
P.S. And we'll outdrink you too!"
Believe it or not, even after the overwhelming support one Chicago person got really upset and stood up. "Why are we picking on St. Louis? Can somebody tell me why we're choosing St. Louis? Why don't we challenge a city from the south?" And when a group of us explained to her that St. Louis was our natural geographic rival of generally similar size (because who really counts Milwaukee if St. Louis is around) she stormed out of the party. Her response was that we should chose a city with a great writing tradition to really prove something. Yikes.
The kickoff party for the Chicago region was huge tonight. We ended up filling up the entire private party room at Goose Island Brewery taking in what must have been 40 people. And while this slowed down the wait staff to no end (someone actually had to leave to go back to work before her quesadillas arrived), the party was crazy.
I wish I remember some of the discussions because they were good. ;)
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Though as is the usual, we ended up talking about writing when not talking about porn (and no one defended it as filmed erotica surprisingly) or dirty Halloween costumes.
Sue, our downtown writing group coordinator and life of the parties
And that's why we'll beat St. Louis. There aren't any writing holds barred in Chicago. Plus we've got one of the most active regions on nanowrimo.org. But, to be fair, we have a little help. We have the host of WrimoRadio as one of our affiliated members. He was at the kickoff party taping pre-interviews for next week's show. I again decided to stay off the program but you will be able to hear rosemilk if you download it.
The host of WrimoRadio, our resident celebrity in the Illinois::Chicago region
That and we have got our crap together this year. We'll take on all challengers if need be. Of course, while I'm typing away here, I should be getting to my word count. Some leader of the challenge I am with my slacking off in my own word count. Tomorrow will be a huge day word-wise I hope.
With the challenge to St. Louis, I definitely will want to write through New York City even if we're not directly challenging them.
posted by incendiarymind at 9:52 PM
3 Comments:
Ahahaha! This is the first time I've heard of cities challenging each other. I wonder if the ML of my city would go for this...
Depends on how loaded down with things your ML already is. They have to coordinate with the other city's ML to come up with rules and do the final word count averages.
But if you've got a competitive ML, chances are they'll think it's a lot of fun.
Holly. Houston was actually suggested but we wanted to be the only city competing with another city (well that was the way the close vote went since we almost challenged New York City anyhow even though they're paired with Boston). Chicagoans don't like to share. :)
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