Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:25:15 -0800
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [WetWesties] please post pictures!
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Neil, I clicked on the "Dipstick" link but couldn't find your photo there;
please explain!!! :)
Jake
On 1/21/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Come one Joy, doesn't this suffice as a pic?
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>
> If people really wanted to see me, there I am! (in part anyways. you
> can garner a lot about a man from the shape of his chin)
>
> Heh heh...... ;^)
>
> I have no real excuse, except that I haven't actually been to any
> Vanagon/Westy functions so I figured a photo wasn't needed. But you
> never know; I may just show up at a VanaGetoGether and I may just
> supply a photo!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil. 81 AC Westy.
>
>
> On 1/21/07, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Well, I went to check a couple of you on the VW Facebook website
> yesterday,
> > and I was really wowed by the number of people who have sent in their
> > photos. It's getting longer and longer, that page of mug shots, I love
> it!
> > Some good looking folks out there, too. Who knew vanagonauts could look
> > like that? Not mentioning names here, though...
> >
> > But there seem to be a lot of folks who are still too shy to show their
> > faces. Come on, guys, you know who you are. You know, if you post your
> > prose, you gotta post your pix!
> >
> > Not to point fingers too much - but for starters, I think anyone who
> sends
> > even more nonsense to the list than I do has to post a picture. So, you
> > BurningVan folks, let's get to it!
> >
> > And anyone who's a recognized authority on this list, on whom we all
> depend
> > for sage advice, or repairs, or parts, ought to show off his beauty
> too. I
> > will list names here. Bob Donalds, where's your photo? Mark Drillock?
> > Dennis Haynes? Ken Wilford? (Ron Salmon is there 'cause I put his
> picture
> > up.) And lots of others - please think I meant to offend your skills if
> I
> > forgot to mention you here!
> >
> > Now how about you folks who organize great vanagon events, where are
> your
> > photos? The Buses by the Beach crew isn't well represented here - Brien
> > Dews (and Keagan the wunderkind, and Sarah and Ellie too), and Todd
> Olson,
> > and Billy whose last name I can never remember? Roger and Mary have
> their
> > photos up, why not you? Now that I've talked up Keagan, people want to
> see
> > his picture too, you know! I might have to drag out my photos of the
> Dews
> > family if you don't do it yourselves.
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't know who organizes EveryBus, or Buses by the Bridge,
> so
> > I
> > don't know if you're up there already. And BusFusion is represented -
> > thanks, Frank and Rita! Plus the many, many other events that I haven't
> > been to (yet).
> >
> > And all you nice people who were so sympathetic (or funny) about my
> broken
> > foot (which, BTW, is doing very well) - I'd love to know who you are!
> > Stephen Grisanti? George Thorburn? Sam Walters? (well, I know you, but
> > the other folks don't) Allen Hill? John Rodgers? Mike Miller? (you fall
> > into two categories in this email, NO excuses for not having a photo
> > posted!) Robert Fisher? Gary Bawden? Karl Wolz? (yeah, I can find a
> photo
> > of you - I just haven't gotten around to it. maybe even of the
> stupendous
> > Stephanie...)
> >
> > And then those folks whose names we see all the time - Jeff Schwaia,
> Jake
> > de
> > Villiers, Neil with no last name (musomuso@gmail.com), Kenneth Lewis,
> Keith
> > Hughes, Zoltan with no last name (but there's surely only one Zoltan
> here,
> > no need to identify email), and lots more whom I'm too lazy to track
> > through
> > my deleted mail file.
> >
> > And when you send in those pics, remember, it's YOU we want to see! Not
> > your van, not the beautiful landscape, not how glamorous you look up on
> > stage surrounded by a lot of musical instruments and amps and the other
> > members of your band. We want to recognize you when we run into you in
> a
> > campground, from that lovely shot of you on the VW facebook!
> >
> > To look at everyone else and get inspired by their beauty, go to
> > http://roadhaus.com/face_book.html/ And at the top of that page is a
> link
> > you can use to enter your own photos and information.
> >
> > We can't wait to see you!
> >
> > Joy
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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