So.Cal. BBQ? Anyone Interested?

Hokulele said:
Cheese Fairy! Cheese Fairy! Cheese Fairy!
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I went to SCAM-1 and all I got was this lousy Cheese Fairy! Yet together, we were able to stand off the dreaded rogue alpaca hordes that overrun Griffith Park at this time of year (mating ritual or some such nonsense).

And true to my prediction (when have you known Raidey to err in his predictions?) I really DID get lost! Traffic was stacked up at the actual entrance, so I went in another entrance and figured I'd use my Boy Scout skills to reconnoiter with the awesome JREFers lurking in Grizzly Park. HAH! The grizzlies and alpacas had eaten the connector road! Vainly searching for a baseball field, I finally had to ask a nice couple where the hell I WAS. Through jeers and titters and insults to my manhoodly sense of direction, they managed to point me in the right direction. Hoo boy. Got there late. I'd already missed the annual Wild Ride Of H On A Crazed Alpaca Through The Baseball Game tradition. This year she did it bareback, and backwards. The baseball players all struck out.

And yet, it was TERRIFIC to meet everyone! WOW! What a great bunch of folkolas. Might just make me decide to come to alpaca-free TAM-6! We'll see!!!

Thanks for a great day everyone, and especially El Spectre for being a most effective ringleader.
 
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You know that feeling you get sometimes, when you leave a skeptic-themed barbecue earlier than you'd have liked because you have to get to the valley for your grandparents' seder dinner, and when you check back the next day everyone is talking about the Cheese Fairy and you have no idea what they mean, yet you have the niggling feeling that you missed something very important that will now become an in-joke of Southern California based skeptics forever and ever?

You guys, that's totally how I feel right now!
 
saganite said:
You know that feeling you get sometimes, when you leave a skeptic-themed barbecue earlier than you'd have liked because you have to get to the valley for your grandparents' seder dinner, and when you check back the next day everyone is talking about the Cheese Fairy and you have no idea what they mean, yet you have the niggling feeling that you missed something very important that will now become an in-joke of Southern California based skeptics forever and ever?

You guys, that's totally how I feel right now!
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I don't know what that feels like at all. Although now that you mention it, there was one time that we did leave a skeptic-themed barbecue earlier than we'd have liked because our dog is diabetic and needs to be fed and given insulin on a fairly regular schedule, and when I checked back the next day everyone was talking about the Cheese Fairy and I had no idea what they meant, and yet I had the niggling feeling that I missed something very important that would now become an in-joke of Southern California based skeptic events forever and ever, but that's really not the same thing, is it?


On our way out, we did see a sign that said "Grilled Cheese Sold Out," and then one of the folks going to the giant Cal-Trans party or whatever it was had a little stuffed toy that looked kind of like a grilled-cheese-sandwich man, so I figure the cheese fairy must have some association with that.
 
saganite said:
You know that feeling you get sometimes, when you leave a skeptic-themed barbecue earlier than you'd have liked because you have to get to the valley for your grandparents' seder dinner, and when you check back the next day everyone is talking about the Cheese Fairy and you have no idea what they mean, yet you have the niggling feeling that you missed something very important that will now become an in-joke of Southern California based skeptics forever and ever?

You guys, that's totally how I feel right now!
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I'm hip. Except that in my case, being clueless tends to be a 24/7 state of mind.

At the vaunted SCRAMD-1 (Southern California Really Amazing Meeting, Dude) yesterday, at 6:02 pm, the cheeky Cheese Fairy flew over our JREForum picnic tables and mozzarella'd us into submission. She made a sandwich out of me, El Spectre, H, a, and Lost Angeles (granted, a helluva big sandwich but the cheese held everything together).
 
Steven Howard said:
I don't know what that feels like at all. Although now that you mention it, there was one time that we did leave a skeptic-themed barbecue earlier than we'd have liked because our dog is diabetic and needs to be fed and given insulin on a fairly regular schedule, and when I checked back the next day everyone was talking about the Cheese Fairy and I had no idea what they meant, and yet I had the niggling feeling that I missed something very important that would now become an in-joke of Southern California based skeptic events forever and ever, but that's really not the same thing, is it?


On our way out, we did see a sign that said "Grilled Cheese Sold Out," and then one of the folks going to the giant Cal-Trans party or whatever it was had a little stuffed toy that looked kind of like a grilled-cheese-sandwich man, so I figure the cheese fairy must have some association with that.
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Ah yes, I remember that sign too.

Steven Howard, you are a good dog owner and I'm sure your canine is grateful--or, you know, would be, if he/she could grasp the concept of self-sacrifice.
 
For the answers on the Cheese Fairy, you'll have to wait until A posts the pics.

There was also Cheese Bigfoot, Cheese cowgirls, and well, it was wacky.

But y'all got The Integretron!
 
LostAngeles said:
For the answers on the Cheese Fairy, you'll have to wait until A posts the pics.

There was also Cheese Bigfoot, Cheese cowgirls, and well, it was wacky.

But y'all got The Integretron!
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You and a and H were so funny, Lost :) You just immediately journeyed over to the Cheese Gathering to get the skinny. True skeptics! Gather info, photograph, evaluate, analyze, digest - CHEESE!
 
I would say that anyone who has a niggling feeling they missed something important because they haven't had an encounter with a Cheese Fairy should probably skeptic up.
 
bokonon said:
I would say that anyone who has a niggling feeling they missed something important because they haven't had an encounter with a Cheese Fairy should probably skeptic up.
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CFI: Griffith Park

Well, in saganite's defense, this Cheese Fairy, although not aged, was sharp. And the CFI team of H, a, and Lost were able to determine that the Cheese Fairy accepts evolution, and also does not believe that people can bend cheese-ball spoons with their minds.
 
ConspiRaider said:
CFI: Griffith Park

Well, in saganite's defense, this Cheese Fairy, although not aged, was sharp. And the CFI team of H, a, and Lost were able to determine that the Cheese Fairy accepts evolution, and also does not believe that people can bend cheese-ball spoons with their minds.
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Not really. We did determine that it was awesome and probably something only found in L.A. There was a prayer about cheese.
 
LostAngeles said:
Ok, I had to google.

We were just about next door to this.
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1ST 6TH ANNUAL GRILLED CHEESE INVITATIONAL
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Aren't there a few too many numbers in that? They plan to have a 2nd 6th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational next year?

Apparently you didn't know that they were at capacity for attendees, either.

And it doesn't appear to be an "only in LA thing" -- there was one held in Oakland too, with one planned for Austin, or maybe those are only qualifying events. I'm surprised that this hasn't been covered on the Food Network!

And Steve needs to add some captions to the photos: I thought you ladies (and gentleman) were coming back from the small building in the background which I thought held, well, you know...
 
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Okay, okay.

Cheese Fairy and other pics at my flickr account here

Best day ever. It was very cool to see everyone, and yeah, there was a Cheese Fairy.

Thanks especially to Spec for wrangling the grill, and the skeptics.

-A
 
bokonon said:
I would say that anyone who has a niggling feeling they missed something important because they haven't had an encounter with a Cheese Fairy should probably skeptic up.
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Mmm hmm. All I have to say is, check out A's pictures for photographic evidence of this heretofore mythical creature.

And because I forgot to mention it before, thanks to everybody who made this event happen. It was really fun. El Spec on grill, LostAngeles and Hokulele helping me out by providing girl power, a.real.girl for promising to be my roommate at TAM7, hcmom for not minding that I freaked out over her sour cream potato salad, and ConspiRaider for revealing himself to be my next door neighbor, practically--among the others I talked to--it was a lovely way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
 
HawaiiBigSis said:
Did hcmom manage to get herself invited to the party that had the bouncy house in the background of a.real.girl's photo #11?
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No, even though there were bouncy houses all over the park, I didn't get a chance to bounce.

 
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