Let's Go CLUBBING! Posted by: Ric Nimrod 8-29-01 12:01am "Everybody dance NOW" is booming through the speakers, people in low-cut leather pants dancing about, imported beer and the smell of weed pulsing through the air. A kid walks up and asks if you want some XTC as you watch 2 men and 3 women ALL making out in a weird Homo-erotic, animalistic passion that you could only DREAM of being uninhibited enough to try. CLUBBING baby!!! Naw, that ain't the clubbing I am talking about. I am talking about the weird, dork-o-rama that is the collecting club. More specifically, the STAR WARS collecting clubs. I know that MOST of my readership are these very people and the Mighty Nimrod is indeed one of you! TIMELINE: Ohio Star Wars Collectors Club (OSWCC - www.oswcc.com) Summer Social 2001 Last weekend the club had its annual picnic and get together to celebrate all thing that are collecting the toys/stuff from the Star Wars franchise. This celebration is done by the trading of goods among collecting, various contests & giveaways, and the consumption of charred animal flesh and carbonated soda products (as long as you don't check Nimrod's glass... ADVICE: always travel with a portable bar, you never know when you might have to git wit da git down. Ya’knowhatI’msayin’.) SO, your hero went to the gathering with the expectations of being the most hated man in the galaxy. WHY? Because in the week preceding the event the ol' Nimrod got involved in a little back and forth on the clubs list- serve and some of my remarks caused a bit of a negative reaction with some of the members. I know, I know... you are not surprised that the ol' Nimrod was involved in some rabble-rousing. (ain't I a stinker) ANYHOO I had pissed some folks of with my text on the screen. I thought that these people (many whom I had never met face to face) would want to throw me in the Racor Pit and urinate on me while I awaited the awakening of the beast and became a tasty Rancor treat. NOT THE CASE, I showed for my second social and was greeted with smiling faces and fellowship. I had a lot of fun with old and new friends, broke bread with my fellow collectors and just had a great four hours of geekary. I traded and sold and bought collectable with people that, at heart, are just like me. FANS AND COLLECTORS! Unfortunately the real world had to intrude and I had to leave early to get fitted for a tux (I am to wed in Oct.). SO I packed up my stuff, pried my girlfriend off the free food and left with warm and fuzzy feelings about Star Wars and collecting in general. The club makes you feel like you belong, like are not some oddity that collects molded plastic, CLUBS RULE MAN!!!!! If you do NOT belong to a collecting club, I recommend you join one TODAY! If there is not one around you START ONE! Being in this club has found me countless toys that I needed to fill holes in my collection but even more than that... it has brought a whole new world of friends into my life. I have been in the club for two years and have been the better for it (so has my collection). Now, if I could only get the XTC guy and the group sex people at the next club meeting. Nimrod