The Silver Marker [Archive] - Page 2

Mae

03-09-2006, 04:27 AM

Hey Skalie, I don't think anyone is mad at you or anything like that I know I'm not. But could you let us know where you last saw it? I'm just curious about where it got off to... I can come up with so many more stories about how it grew legs/ was snatched by bunnies/ imploded, if I have an idea of how it started.

Was it in the mail room when you looked in on it? From your post it sounded like it wasn't there.

skalie

03-09-2006, 05:06 AM

Hey Skalie, I don't think anyone is mad at you or anything like that I know I'm not. But could you let us know where you last saw it?

I left it with a pair of homosexuals in a pet shop in the Netherlands.

Asmodeus

03-09-2006, 12:59 PM

Which means what? You pawned it for a dimebag? Or a quickie threesome with the same rumpranging, pillow-biting homos?

I guess this means whoever has the "spare hat", get it polished and cranked up and get this puppy started again, since mr scales is being a bit childish.

skalie

03-09-2006, 01:21 PM

It's not really 100% my fault.

SimpleSimon

03-09-2006, 01:49 PM

In simple point of fact, skalie passed the hat on appropriately. The individual who has either lost it and declines to admit it, or for some other reason declines to forward it, is Skeet. While both are strange, skalie is a has-been ex-pat kiwi sheep-raper wannabe clog (dutchman), while Skeet is doing I've no idea what in Juneau, Alaska. Very different people.

Escape Artist

03-10-2006, 10:33 PM

i want the god-damned fucking hat found, very quickly.

failure to do so just MIGHT set me right the fuck off - and in that case, i am going to hunt down the last owner and beat the piss out of them.

either get it sent, or maybe i'll start taking donations for "bounty hunter" - and failing that, maybe i can just do it myself.

that god-damned hat WILL get sent, however...one way or the fucking other. i took it on and re-sent it whilst broke; i want no stupid excuses.

you make that little old hat get mailed, skeet, or i'll play transcontinental chicken with you. you just put that thing in a box and mail it, you cheap piece of shit.

last i checked, stuffing it back in the same box was well and good for everyone so far. postage isn't exactly life-destroying in terms of costs.

send it along, bud - or probably, one of us will come and get it.

you asked for the thing, as i recall. you took on the responsibility of kabooming it to someone else.

i suggest you get to work real quick. moreso with me still involved. this bothers me. you just send that hat out, bud.

have a nice fucking day.

SimpleSimon

03-11-2006, 01:10 AM

***RANT***
While I do want to see the hat found and sent on, I suspect that threats of this type are utterly counter-productive.

If it is lost, own up to that fact Skeet, and say so. If it is simply a matter of being really busy and just not prioritizing getting it forwarded, please re-think the priority you put on it. If it was in fact mailed, and has disappeared in the postal system, no blame attaches, just please let us know.

In other words: What did you do, if anything, with the hat, and when?

Simple question, needs a straight answer.

Mae

03-11-2006, 04:08 AM

Please and thank you? Please?

Escape Artist

03-11-2006, 08:36 AM

While I do want to see the hat found and sent on, I suspect that threats of this type are utterly counter-productive.

If it is lost, own up to that fact Skeet, and say so. If it is simply a matter of being really busy and just not prioritizing getting it forwarded, please re-think the priority you put on it. If it was in fact mailed, and has disappeared in the postal system, no blame attaches, just please let us know.

In other words: What did you do, if anything, with the hat, and when?

Simple question, needs a straight answer.

yeah, i'll agree, not the brightest thing to do. then again, i'm jason, and jason tends not to be entirely connected with reality most of the time. i = a thing of inarticulate evil. :)

i had huge flamewars and cool memories over that stupid fucking hat, and even my frequently drunk, mean, half-psycho, incoherent, financially destitute ass managed to put it in the mail.

failure to do so by other involved parties really pisses me the everloving fuck off on principles.

so - chalk it up to more dumbness on my part, and send the fucking hat or sommat, for christ sakes, skeet. :)

g'day!

Koliedrus

03-12-2006, 12:06 AM

First and foremost, Teh Hat is a Thought. I'm not surprised that it's gone as far as it has nor am I surprised that something "went wrong" while it made its way to it's destination.

Shit happens.

Shit gets fixed.

Help or hinder

Up to you.

Barbie

03-13-2006, 06:34 PM

I put myself on the list, took myself off the list and now would like to be back on the list.

Please send hat.

cheers,
B.

SimpleSimon

03-14-2006, 03:17 AM

I suspect, at this point, that our wishes in this matter are of little consequence and will shortly be entirely moot.

I spoke to Skeet today, VERY briefly, in IRC. He said that things in the northlands are not the best, and he is moving immediately. Where, he didn't say.

If the Hat went astray in the mail, any trace must be requested by the sender at the post office it was sent from. If that has not been done (as I suspect it has not), then it is most likely not going to happen.

skalie

03-14-2006, 02:39 PM

So what do you reckon we can blame the demise of the hat on? Crystal Meth?

Escape Artist

03-14-2006, 04:55 PM

A largely cruel, inhuman, bureaucrat-filled world that doesn't tend to utilize common sense, yo. :p

Having talked to a couple people, I don't reckon I can beat Skeet with a stick.

Whatever happens, happens. I reckon with a little effort and some social engineering here and there, said hat can be found...one of those cases where I'm not going to the effort personally to do it, though. It's possible, however.

Koliedrus

03-14-2006, 11:53 PM

I have a spare.

skalie

03-15-2006, 09:09 PM

Fuck the hat, what's the story on Skeet?

............ can we help him in some way?

( visit his movie theatre, take a few Alaskan martial arts lessons, offer him lodgings in Georgia, etc. )

Koliedrus

03-16-2006, 01:00 AM

Fuck the hat, what's the story on Skeet?

............ can we help him in some way?

I second. The hat is a chunk of fabric.

Even if it's lost, Skalie nailed it.

Asmodeus

03-16-2006, 01:04 AM

What happened to skeet?

skalie

03-16-2006, 05:18 AM

Even if it's lost, Skalie nailed it.

Indeed, we need gossip.

mute

03-16-2006, 03:35 PM

After a long time of not noticing this thread: Count me in.

So what do you need from me? If I can't post my mailing address here (which I won't anyways, but is probably easily found), who? huh?

Fill me in. If not, well...

skalie

03-16-2006, 05:30 PM

heh

Barbie

03-17-2006, 07:24 PM

What's going on in the Northlands?

Is Skeet okay?

jules

03-18-2006, 03:17 AM

Does anyone else see the irony in something like this bringing out the worst in people?

Billyman

03-18-2006, 04:04 AM

I find irony in the fact that something like this was bringing out some good (maybe not best) in people until some irresponsible fucktard got involved.

Fuck Skeet. He burned his own bridge. We cannot parent him all his life.

Mae

03-19-2006, 03:51 AM

Guys, teh Hat was/is a great idea. It's also a great feeling.

That said, I'm gonna get a porn star bra for us to send around and sign.

SimpleSimon

03-19-2006, 02:59 PM

Guys, teh Hat was/is a great idea. It's also a great feeling.

That said, I'm gonna get a porn star bra for us to send around and sign.

Talk to your cousin, she'd probably donate one.

Mae

03-20-2006, 01:31 AM

Mike's birthday party was last night. I was gonna ask if she'd *take one for the team* and donate. But I fell asleep after 16 hours at the airport, and didn't make it. But I did wake up in time to try to catch the next flight out, six hours later... I'm still in Portland. But my new goal is to be rich enough to not ever fly on a buddy pass again.

So, sorry guys, no porn star bra. Break out the back up hat!

jules

03-21-2006, 12:50 AM

Barbie

03-21-2006, 09:17 PM

So, are we starting from scratch?

skalie

03-22-2006, 12:43 AM

So, are we starting from scratch?

Not at all, we have progressed to the idea passing around a piece of lingerie.

Koliedrus

03-31-2006, 09:24 PM

The pictures (under the current rules) would be entertaining. Should there be an addendum that includes shaving? I'm not sure if the Hat concept would be properly adhered to if children are subjected to images of back-hair slightly obscured by women's clothing.

No matter what happens, the Hat is a thought made real. Try not to piss on Cruise's grandfather by replacing it.

Replicating the thought in another form, however, is another "story".

I'd sign and take pics.

Remember first that this is a social experiment. Passing still requires delivery of the Hat to its destination.

Help whomever has it if for no other reason than to move it along.

That includes previous recipients.

Fortunately, they already "got it".

Stuart

04-07-2006, 03:20 PM

You know, my name is on that list, somewhere. Anyone game to send it to the other side of the globe?

SimpleSimon

04-08-2006, 02:05 AM

You know, my name is on that list, somewhere. Anyone game to send it to the other side of the globe?
It has already been to NZ. Unfortunately, the last recipient, in Juneau, AK, has dropped off the visible net after ducking and dodging the question of "where is the hat?"

Mae

04-08-2006, 05:03 AM

Is it time yet to break out the backup?

Koliedrus

04-08-2006, 07:57 PM

I've decided that I'm way too attached to the backup. I wear the thing every day. That and it has my DNA all over it. Ewwww!

At the top of this thread, you have enough information to start from scratch if you want.

Put me on the list.

Cruise Director

04-09-2006, 01:27 AM

Remember folks, that it's the thought that counts. I know that we share lots of them and that is by far the best reward.

Asmodeus

04-09-2006, 02:05 AM

Ditto.

Mae

04-09-2006, 07:46 AM

skalie

04-09-2006, 12:30 PM

Excuse me if I don't send it to the next person by "priority post", next time.

Koliedrus

04-09-2006, 06:04 PM

OK, I'd be happy to be the starting point for this second round. If the person who ordered the hat will either give me some more specific order info, or just send me the pic we can start over. I visited the coffeehouse press site today and I'm ready to start over/again.

Kol I think you started this, PM me and we'll get the ball rollin'.

I started this as much as I started my truck this morning.

Billyman suggested cafepress.com and his advice was worth taking.

I'm up for shirts! Maybe one will find its origin.

Mae

04-11-2006, 04:14 AM

Help with the picture please. Someone? I'm buying!

sauron

04-11-2006, 01:40 PM

Help with the picture please. Someone? I'm buying!

You wear it, I'll take pictures...

- d.

Mae

04-12-2006, 05:30 AM

Only if I can get an image to create it from...

Barbie

04-12-2006, 09:23 PM

What's going on? Do we need to start a new thread on this?

Mae

04-13-2006, 05:59 AM

I need the picture that was on the front of the hat so I can order a new one made.

Or, I guess I could pick up a hat at the store...

skalie

04-14-2006, 07:08 PM

In the meantime shall we start exchanging underwear?

Koliedrus

05-16-2006, 06:17 AM

I'm told (but cannot confirm) that the Hat is in the process of changing heads.

Barbie

05-17-2006, 01:41 PM

skalie

05-17-2006, 05:04 PM

Barbie

05-17-2006, 05:53 PM

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Koliedrus

05-18-2006, 08:39 PM

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The Hat was located a while back. It's supposedly on its way to Barbie but I had to act as an intermediary. Apparently there are some who aren't comfortable (for good reason) with posting their physical addresses.

Welp, Skeet contacted me and I contacted someone who realy should have the Hat on their head. In doing so, I had to provide Skeeter with a maiing address.

I don't expect bad things to happen from this transaction; not the participants of the transaction at least.

I DO, however, expect verbal lashings for my short-sightedness.

In the future, it's best if you keep me out of the loop and contact the potential recipients yourselves.

I'll advise but I'll not be a go-between.

'Nuff said.

Barbie

05-18-2006, 09:07 PM

'Nuff said.

Kol my dear - no worries...my silly code message was just that...code - because I was "period" - and then I was >>>***!~~))

:)

:woot:

Barbie

06-07-2006, 06:18 PM

sooooooooooooooo----------------ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

where's the do' cover?

Skeet

11-21-2006, 09:18 PM

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/skeetar/tehhat1.jpg

Teh Hat and the bag it traveled in for the last 5-ish months, staying in undisclosed locations and crossing undisclosed borders.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/skeetar/tehhat2.jpg

Teh Hat's close companion. They spent many nights nested together for warmth =)

Inc Kol.

Skeet

11-22-2006, 01:50 AM

Oh, fuck, yeah. The markers are gone. I'm pretty sure I know what happened to them, and I'm almost positive the force which caused said happening to occur has since been forced to discontinue it's existence. That's really all I can say.

SimpleSimon

11-22-2006, 02:03 AM

Glad to see you coming back to the board, Skeet. Nice to see the hat and Teh Book as well, but that you are still okay is more important.

Cruise Director

11-22-2006, 03:13 AM

Skeet travelled through my hometown and I missed him :( .

I hope one day he gives me another chance to be kind to a traveller. Room and board always provided for Tribals.

Koliedrus

11-27-2006, 03:52 AM

Be concise:

Is tHe Hat gone or do we just need to replace the markers?

If it's the Hat, PM me with details.

I promise not to bitch you out. This was an experiment. I need info.

The markers are easily replaced (and probably dried out by now).

As a "coincidence":

I wear a copy of Teh Hat (sans sigs) regularly.

Yesterday, out of the blue, Holly asked the following:

"Dad, when is that hat coming back to us?"

It took me a while to add 3+97 before I went "Huh?"

"That one", she said as she pointed at my head.

"OH! Well, Sweets, it's supposed to go all over the world. It'll come back here if it has to but we'll probably never see it again. It was a gift, not a present."

I think she got it. There was some more talk but that's the jist.

If it's stifled, that's part of it. If it gets lost, same thing.

Either way, it has a story and I'd like to hear that story in as much detail as is comfortable to the recipient/sender.

Let me know as much as you can.

Skeet

11-27-2006, 04:49 AM

Is tHe Hat gone or do we just need to replace the markers?

Those pictures were taken mere moments before they were posted.

If it's the Hat, PM me with details.

I kind of already did. :D

I promise not to bitch you out.

You can do whatever you want, but we both know you would be wasting your time.

This was an experiment. I need info.

I've given all the clues I can give, sorry.

The markers are easily replaced (and probably dried out by now).

They were kinda funky when I got them, I assume they were frozen at some point at the post office in Juneau, and never worked properly after that.

As a "coincidence":

I wear a copy of Teh Hat (sans sigs) regularly.

Yesterday, out of the blue, Holly asked the following:

"Dad, when is that hat coming back to us?"

It took me a while to add 3+97 before I went "Huh?"

"That one", she said as she pointed at my head.

"OH! Well, Sweets, it's supposed to go all over the world. It'll come back here if it has to but we'll probably never see it again. It was a gift, not a present."

I think she got it. There was some more talk but that's the jist.

If it's stifled, that's part of it. If it gets lost, same thing.

Either way, it has a story and I'd like to hear that story in as much detail as is comfortable to the recipient/sender.

Let me know as much as you can.

The hat is in a box with your address on it, and will be mailed this week, assuming I don't procrastinate for the sake of procrastinating. (It's been a while since I've had the option.)

As for the story, a picture tells a thousand words. :D

Koliedrus

11-27-2006, 02:52 PM

I may have to keep it for a while once it gets here, Skeeter. I can't imagine that much thought showing up at my doorstep and not spending time to reflect.

I look forward to sending it back into circulation as time and circumstances permit.

Patience given and hopefully reciprocated in both directions of the time line.

mute

11-28-2006, 01:16 AM

I wish I got to sign the hat. Fuckers.

Asmodeus

11-28-2006, 01:58 PM

Ditto mr. mute.

Is there like a secret handshake some of us are missing out on or what?

Barbie

11-28-2006, 02:21 PM

Kol knows how I feel

sauron

11-28-2006, 05:39 PM

Is there like a secret handshake some of us are missing out on or what?

I think you have to be part of the inner sanctum, or something..

- d.

SimpleSimon

11-28-2006, 09:06 PM

No, you just have to ask, and provide the then current holder with an address to mail it to. And hopefully, not hold it for a year plus once you receive it.

Hell, half a dozen of us signed it in a half hour at RW's place when Mudflap brought it over for a get-together.

Koliedrus

11-29-2006, 06:54 AM

While I wait:

Babs, Asmo and Mute get together however you see fit. Employ whatever form of communication works for you. Use smoke signals if you need to.

Once I'm done with it, Barbie is the next in line.

The "secret handshake" is the willingness to accept the thing and send it back out into the world. So far the only problems have been logistical.

Knowing beforehand that this thing would be difficult and actually running into the roadblocks are two different animals.

It has a destination.

I need your help to get it there.

Be patient with each other.

Skeet

11-30-2006, 07:46 PM

Hat r b maled.

Koliedrus

12-03-2006, 07:22 AM

itz b here :D

It's funny how a thing can influence thoughts. First it was the whole "it's here" giddy stuff when the mail-female brought it to the door today (yesterday now).

Instead of opening it up right away, I decided to keep it in situ for a few hours. Kids and deliveries at this time of year tend to make for hoopla that's difficult to control without harsh tones. They were cool with, "I'll let you look at it later. It doesn't belong to us".

So, I cracked it open about 30 minutes ago, looked at the sigs, saw the yellow lei and read Teh Book to see if I could determine its meaning.

Piano's additional gift has made it through the rounds all the way back here. I notice that there's a bit of confusion about why there aren't more messages in Teh Book than there are so I'll try to clarify...

It's a small spiral notebook. Pages are easily torn out to be kept by recipients. Unless a page is specifically meant for someone to tear out and keep, they should be left in for the duration. It appears that several pages may have stayed along the path. I think that's coojer than hot chocolate after a day in a homemade snow fort.

A synapse sparked once I saw that it's running out of places to sign. Just after I shipped it off to Muffy, I wished that I'd added a length of fabric to the back of the thing for more signatures. Now that it's back, I've got a second chance.

First thing's first: new markers.
Then fabric.
Then velcro.
Then a new entry or three in Teh Book.
Then, off it goes back into your hands.

Thank you, Skeeter, for taking care of it while you took care of yourself. No elaboration required.

Barbie

12-04-2006, 04:38 AM

Excellent
PM in flight

Skeet

12-04-2006, 09:20 PM

FUCK, I forgot to buy new markers. I can paypal you or something if you need me to, that's my bad.

skalie

12-05-2006, 09:10 AM

Did anyone else catch head lice from that thing?

Skeet

12-05-2006, 08:08 PM

No, but I found a scorpion in it once.

Koliedrus

12-07-2006, 02:36 AM

No indication of vermin either large or small. It's a bit creased from the sending back and forth but all in all it can be accurately described as "well worn".

Before I send it off to Barbie, I'm going to wear it where people who know me will wonder what it means. Some already know the story. For those who don't that ask, "who's that?".....

I'm not sure where to begin but it is certainly a storyteller's hat. It'll come to me.

As for the markers, I'm happy to scare them up for the next round. Kinda feels like I'm the charging station for the battery so I'd rather keep that illusion if you don't mind, Skeet. Use the money on something self-indulgent and we'll call it even. Consider the entire transaction as a weird sort of xmas present. You've already given me mine.

I've found the right fabric for the neck extension but Sid will have to find the free time and state of mind to help me do it right. I can stitch but I can't sew. I'm thinking Velcro.

I'll let you guys know when it's headed back out. It showed up charged but I wanna add some storage capacity.

Patience.

Koliedrus

12-27-2006, 07:41 AM

I wore it for Christmas and drew as little attention to it as I could. I blame the sharp eyes and minds of my sibling's children for wrenching its story from me.

They were enthralled.

So am I.

I'll pass in on after the ball drops.

Barbie

12-28-2006, 06:57 AM

time square has never known it's importance (to me) as it has now.
4 days and waiting

Koliedrus

01-01-2007, 06:07 AM

I had to wear it. Call it a weakness.

I still have it. I'm seriously thinking about making some alterations. Expansion with velcro and fabric.

It feels big when I wear it. It's always felt like it might need more space.

It leaves here this week regardless of my intentions for alteration.

Koliedrus

01-04-2007, 08:35 AM

So much for THAT promise. Not to worry. Sources tell me that I'm just paving my way to Hell or some such nonsense.

Things happen. Things like birthdays and vacations.

The fabric is ready but I can't sew for shit. I can mend things but that's not good enough.

Sid found some new Silver Markers! Holly hopes the thing makes it to China. When I was a kid we used shovels in the back yard to convey those hopes.

Since Skeet sent it here, it's been worn to every personal event on my agenda. Some of those have been simple trips to get milk and toilet paper but on every trip, someone has looked at it and asked something like, "is that your grandfather?"

That's my opening. It depends on time constraints as to how much detail I'm able to provide but a story comes out of me in each circumstance.

No details have ever been given. Just general Lessons.

Expect some enhancements. Be prepared to receive it more than once if need be.

Koliedrus

05-25-2007, 09:45 PM

Once upon a time, there was a Hat.

It wasn't an ordinary hat by any stretch of the imagination.

This hat transcended all of space and time to touch and retrieve the thoughts and feelings of all who wore it.

The first time it was worn, it was just a regular hat. Anyone could have bought one just like it at the local haberdashery. Some did.

This hat in particular was first worn by a man with an amazing ability to tell stories. The longer he wore it, the more the hat absorbed.

As it was passed around campfires from head to head, everyone who put it on felt their own stories well up inside and overflow across their lips as if a light deep inside of them had suddenly turned on. His grandson found a way to change those thoughts back into energy.

I've attempted to turn that energy back into a thought.

That hat was so special that I tried to make copies of it.

Two of those copies remain.

The thoughts within them aren't what I expected. Time changes expectations.

Still, I'm impressed.

We've been on a journey that barely covers a decade.

By just reading this, I imagine that your emotions grip you in ways to which only a few can relate.
My copy of the Hat off to you.

The copy that has been passed from my head to yours and back is ready for it's next stop around our campfire.

Thank you for being patient with me.