Old Mr Dangerous said

If you moron fucks hurt my daughter from throwing shit, I'd skin you alive and replace your skin with fruit roll ups. Then I'd let starving fire ants have a go at your new "skin". That's only the beginning.

"Whats with the butcher tools and fruit snacks in your bag Brendan?"  "Oh OMD is bringing his daughter to the gathering this is in case someone hits her with something...gotta be prepared ya know..."  "Makes perfect sense to me therse no glass bottles or fireworks right?"

Great just one more thing Ive gotta be prepared for...Leave her at home my list is pretty long as it is...

The gathering is and always be a bring your own fire ants type of spot...It has been since day one...

I show no sympathy to ninjas who forget to bring their own and do not share my own...If you need facepaint, food, water, or even a crack at a fat chick in our stable OCJ has got your back...but not in regards to fireants...mans gotta have scruples....

Getting hit with an empty beer can, or partial bottle of water is one thing...it will graze you and not do any damage. But getting hit with unopened cans, bottles, coolers, or whatever else can and does injure people. In 2011, I got hit in the eye with a turkey leg that was thrown, and I had a bloody black eye for almost two weeks, and I'm pretty sure it cracked the bone in my nose. It ruined my night, and for weeks I had to assure people that my boyfriend wasn't beating me. That's the kind of shit that happens when you throw things. I'm certain that the amount of fun the person who threw that got was nowhere near the pain that I went through by being on the receiving end.

I only took one really hard hit this year, to my upper right chest. I'm not even sure what hit me, but it's a big oval bruise about the size of a baseball. I was hit hard enough that it easily could have knocked me out, knocked out my teeth, broke my nose, broke my jaw, blinded me, or any number of other awful things. So thank heavens that it hit me in a place that I will easily recover from.

-Julie

I don't forget shit that pisses me off, nope. I only forget important shit.

Alright, since I've now had time to process, and now that my plague is dying down... I figure I can add a few talking points / random observations / et cetera.

1: The folks I met up with were, more or less, exactly who/what I expected - with one notable exception. I never formed much of an opinion on @piggofdoom from the forums beforehand. But let me be the first to say - dude is the shit. scruffy was, predictably, awesome. Jules is right near the top of my list of "Bad-ass chicks". And as I said before, I wish I'd have been able to spend more time with the rest of y'all.

2: CES Cru, Yelawolf, and Hopsin killed it. By far, my favorite performances of the entire event. Has anyone run across video of the CES intro? I need to see that again, but haven't been able to find it.

3: The Faygo Armageddon was something everyone must experience at least once in their life. And no amount of videos, articles, pictures, or anything can prepare you for it. The ICP shows I went to back in the day were like fuckin' Romper Room compared to that shit. I can't believe how their show has evolved over the ~15 years I'd been out of the game.

4: The fact that there were no significant injuries from the 500+ gram fireworks cakes going off from within the crowd is goddamn mind-blowing. We shoot off similar fireworks on the 4th of July most years, and take all sorts of precautions - extra fuse, staking the shit into the ground, firing from behind solid objects, what have you. I can't wrap my mind around how many things that could have - should have - gone wrong, but didn't. That's, well, that's just cool as hell.

5: I recall @scottied thanking us, earlier, for repping FLH. No, I can't have that. It's you, Scottie, who deserves our thanks for having a FLH to represent. I can't count the number of times, in random conversation, that people knew who my kid and I were just because they're lurkers who had read my posts here. It was like being anonymously famous, if that's even possible lol. For everything you do here, all the running around you did at the Gathering, and everything we're not even privy to... You're the man.

6: I like lists.

That's it for now... Actually, when I started typing, I had more in mind... But have forgotten most of it already. Dammit.