Tonight I went to my first day at the Fair in 2017. For many of you who don’t know, I usually go to the Fair three times each year.
I went there with an event hosted by Tam in the Fun In Or Around Uptown group. From all angles, they did the Fair very different that I do. Many of you know that I’m a doer, and I experience as much as I can in whatever time I have.
But in the group, I met lots of people. They were all content to be pretty relaxed. One person I met, Joey, was from New York City. He and I spent most of our time chatting. Believe it or not, being a New Yorker, or a traveler (whichever it is), he didn’t want to sit, chill, and relax, so he and I went on our own quest to find different foods.
Leading up to the event, even though it wasn’t my event, I posted the MSP Magazine list of new foods. It was an awesome article that had concise reviews of the new foods. So we hunted for a few of them while the group “hung out.”
It was interesting to hear some of his stories. For instance, when he was in high school, he made a program that made a mouse click at a random algorithm.
Now, in NYC, the stage is really competitive, so the only ways you can get on stage is by either selling 20 tickets, paying money, our filing a room. He said to impress a girl, his brother started doing standup.
His algorithm eventually made thousands of Myspace friends. By sending then all a similar message, he said he as able to fill three rooms of people with Myspace people just to watch his brother.
The story continued. He told me about how they started traveling to do shows on the East coast and just staying for free with different fans.
He told me that one house in Connecticut was a “vampire family,” where the members slept in coffins. He, his brother, and his brother’s girlfriend took turns being in guard at night because they were so creeped out.
He said eventually, Myspace changed to disallow many accounts like his account, and that he “took down Myspace (meaning made them close, obviously a fun extrapolation).”
We had conversations about NYC and life, and it was generally a fun time.
Joey is in town for just the weekend because he wanted to go to the Fair. He said his Minnesota friends he was planning to visit had to change last minute, so he came here for the Fair solo, found an event in Meetup, the standard “meet people while traveling” app, I guess.
It was a fun night, and hopefully we’ll go out in Uptown tomorrow.
Joey said he just got his passport, so who knows where adventures will lead?
