Comments on: Bay Area Hoopers http://electrolicious.com/2004/05/bay_area_hooper Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:44:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ariel http://electrolicious.com/2004/05/bay_area_hooper#comment-4350 Ariel Mon, 24 May 2004 16:45:35 +0000 #comment-4350 ...I was that someone who handed Philo a hoop! It was at Min Jung's 2003 blogger birthday party...Bay Area Hoopers were born the next day. <a href="http://mediasparkles.com/images/bloggerorgy/">Here are Vera's pictures from that fateful night</a>. And as for NYC, on <a href="http://hooping.tribe.net">tribe.net's hooping tribe</a>, I think I just saw a brooklynite post looking for other hoopers? You might want to check. And Vera? Having worked for a magazine all those years means I've gotten frighteningly good at speaking in soundbites. I know the sort of pull-quotes that are helpful for journalists, and it's hard for me not to speak in them, sometimes. I SCARE ME! …I was that someone who handed Philo a hoop! It was at Min Jung’s 2003 blogger birthday party…Bay Area Hoopers were born the next day. Here are Vera’s pictures from that fateful night.

And as for NYC, on tribe.net’s hooping tribe, I think I just saw a brooklynite post looking for other hoopers? You might want to check.

And Vera? Having worked for a magazine all those years means I’ve gotten frighteningly good at speaking in soundbites. I know the sort of pull-quotes that are helpful for journalists, and it’s hard for me not to speak in them, sometimes. I SCARE ME!

]]> By: dori http://electrolicious.com/2004/05/bay_area_hooper#comment-4349 dori Mon, 24 May 2004 15:21:32 +0000 #comment-4349 <p>damn, i actually *remember* seeing the photos the day someone handed Philo a hoop at that girl's party... and here he is a total pro now.</p> <p>i still haven't picked up a hoop - the only hoopers in new york are hippies, it appears, and they all wanna get together in central park (i'm in brooklyn next to two huge, beautiful parks, and can't figure out why i'd wanna trek all the way up there)...</p> damn, i actually *remember* seeing the photos the day someone handed Philo a hoop at that girl’s party… and here he is a total pro now.

i still haven’t picked up a hoop - the only hoopers in new york are hippies, it appears, and they all wanna get together in central park (i’m in brooklyn next to two huge, beautiful parks, and can’t figure out why i’d wanna trek all the way up there)…

]]> By: Vera http://electrolicious.com/2004/05/bay_area_hooper#comment-4348 Vera Mon, 24 May 2004 04:45:36 +0000 #comment-4348 Yeah, we were saying today that you're the most quotable hooper we know! :) Yeah, we were saying today that you’re the most quotable hooper we know! :)

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