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Westheimer Street Fest

18 October 1997

Today Wende and I had major big fun at the Westheimer Street Festival, a semi-annual gathering of booths, street performers, bands and crowds of people dressed to be noticed.

Wende and I went on skates, of course. The crowd is too thick to do much people surfing, so I did a bit of car surfing down on one end where traffic is all slow and crunchy where they have to exuse themselves off Westheimer.

The coolest things I saw:

• A group of three youth, including Andrew L who used to attend the youth group at my church, drumming excellently like mad on hand drums. They drummed for like 20 minutes, with enough excellence and variety to hold a stable crowd the entire time.
• Two people from Zendik Farm a tribal community on 300 acres near Austin. (When I embark on my roadtrip, I will definitely spend some time there.)

There was no "skater thing." Last time the Urban Animals had a joust, and the time before that a group sponsored a street course of ramps and rails and stuff on which good skaters could compete.

I still had fun car surfing a bit.

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ultimate

3AM Sunday 19 October 1997

zzz after Ultimate

3AM Sunday 19 October 1997

After Ultimate, I walked Kat and Nikki(sp) back to the dorms. They invited me in for Gatorade down in the basement. We got down there and some people were already watching the movie Daylight starring Sylvester Stallone. So we watched and Sly was climbing through a huge exhaust fan, blowing up mud to stop a leak, using a radiator tube to save a guy from drowning, risking his life to save the dog, and then he and the girl got separated from the rest of the group.

The rest of the group was promptly saved by rescuers, and then Sly and she had to go back the way they had come, which was now way more treacherous since the water was way deeper. And then

Some dumb western movie began! They didn't show the end of the movie swear to God it was like the TV had changed channels! Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!! We cried. Noooooooooooooo!! WHERE'S THE REST OF THE MOVIE???????? No use. It was gone.

The TV station showing the movie was the Student Video Network, local only to University of Houston, and I guess they just screwed up or assumed no one would be watching, or they are just very twisted and evil.

So I went home. On Allen Parkway, there were zillions of bicyclists and several skaters all with green glo-lites and stuff biking or skating their way toward downtown! I did a U-turn at Montrose.

"What's this all about?" I asked.

"The Moonlight Bicycle Ramble! Happens each October"

"Awww man!!! I've wanted to do this!!!"

"Come join us then!!"

Greatly enthused, I zipped home and stepped inside around 3AM.
3AM... should I go? I consulted my runes. If you pick a rune upright, that means "YES." If you pick a rune reversed, that means "NO."

First I chose Gebo, then Sowelu. They each look the same upright and reversed. On the third selection, I chose Uruz reversed, so I didn't go.

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