KAG Raids Macy’s San Jose
Crews of the IKV Black Dagger and IKV Kahlua put together a spur of the moment raiding party and invaded the Valley Fair Macy’s when it was learned that Michael Dorn would be there promoting a Klingon Watch and signing autographs. Dorn, who signed autographs for all who attended and bought a watch (it was strictly a promotional appearance), agreed to be photographed with the uniformed Klingons in attendence (no feddies allowed). After that, Dorn left the stage to head for his next destination, Macy’s at Union Square in San Francisco.
With the combined strength of the raiders still intact, we proceeded to walk thru the mall, visiting several shops and terrorizing many a human who couldn’t cope with the notion that Klingons do indeed shop. We then lunched at a most unlikely place, Fresh Choice, and watched the terrans kringe in fear as we pawed our way down the salad bar looking for meat (and not finding any).
Lunch was followed by a second trek though the mall, more window shopping, and frantic terrans making way. Kudos to all who attended, especially our non-uniformed support personnel (with cameras in hand).
Ring of Fire Fleet Invades KQED
KQED was pleased to receive the help of KAG’s Ring of Fire Fleet and the Black Fleet Space Pirates during their recent pledge drive. The members of these two (friendly) rivals joined forces for this operation, and between them fielded some thirty members coming as far away as San Jose in the South Bay and Concord in the East Bay (long drives!). This was the first major event in the bay area since the forming of the new ships in the Ring of Fire Fleet, and it was an overwhelming success. Kudos go to Boqtor (Ken Howard) for doing the bulk of the organizing.
First Ever Clan MacDude Beach Party
Some sixty oddly clad scots invaded Bonny Doon Beach, north if Santa Cruz on March 16th to celebrate what ever in a fashion only they could understand. Tartan and Hawaiian print was the cloth of the day, and the guest of honor, Porky I, in awe of the occassion exclaimed “Oink! Oink!” The Patriarch of the Clan had a brief ceremony, explaining a few interesting bits of MacDude lore, and indoctrinated many new members into the Clan.
176KBA kite that was being flown was used as target practice for the MacDude gerbilator team, and not once did a can of fizzbeer hit the mark. After the gerbilator target practice, a rousing round of fizzbeer was played by many of those present, with Carole MacDude serving as pitcher. Larry MacDude made a most impressive performance using a doouble-headed battle axe as his fizzbat, cleaving the can of fizzbeer in two. The Patriarch demonstrated his own skill (and why he is the Patriarch) by sending a can flying over Carole’s head, spraying her with fizzbeer.
176KBLater the surfboards were broken out for the caber toss, a most impressive event that drew spectators from other parts of the beach (as in wondering who these nuts are). Participants from the mightiest of MacDudes to the smallest participated in this two round event. The Patriarch set the mark to beat with his mighty throws at the beginning of each round, and many had mighty throws and scored style points even though not surpassing the Patriarchs throw. Until towards the end when a woad covered MacDude named John gave his last toss of the caber, and beat the Patriarch’s mark by a wee bit of wool.
176KBThe last major event of the day was the bonny knee contest. The four judges determined that a kilt was not neccessary, just bare them knees. With blindfolds in place the judges proceeded to check out the knees of all fifteen contestants. It seemed that they enjoyed the event as much as the guys they were judging and the gathered throng of spectators. Five contestants were selected for a second round of judging, and the judges gleefully accepted bribes to enhance one’s score (hey, worked for me).
It was a great day for a beach party, and this first gathering of the clan was an overwhelming success. There were many new faces, and people came from as far away as Sacramento and Los Angeles, with one impressive visitor from Stockholm. Check out the MacDude website for more news at www.macdude.org.
Waldenbooks Sci-Fi Day
This was a small book signing event that was also open to local SF fan clubs to come down and enjoy the day, pass out club fliers and just have a good ol’ time at the mall. Heidi, the store manager who coordinated this event, is herself a member of the Golden Gate (Feddie ship from San Francisco).
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Many bay area KAG members participated in this event, with members from all the bay area ships in attendance. Kaos even did a little shopping and recruiting in one of the malls stores (Hot Topics, I believe), and the whole crew added color to the malls food court where we chowed done and terrorized the humans.
