{"id":3230,"date":"2006-10-23T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T09:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/10\/23\/best-birthday-ever"},"modified":"2006-10-24T00:53:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T22:53:02","slug":"best-birthday-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/10\/23\/best-birthday-ever","title":{"rendered":"Best. Birthday. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my sneaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/10\/20\/atlanta-77-2\">suspicion<\/a>? Well I was right! Except, the party lasted the entire weekend and the company surpassed my wildest guesses. In order of appearance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Magic Fingers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebignote.com\/\">The Big Note<\/a> and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=687.0\">Variation Variations<\/a>&#8221; fame, and his lovely wife Indra who does a killer imitation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carol_Beer\" title=\"Computer Says No...\">Carol Beer<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Balint of the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zappa.hu\">zappa.hu<\/a> who had flown in from Budapest (and has probably forgotten his toothbrush);<\/li>\n<li>Tommi of <a href=\"http:\/\/houdinination.de\">Houdini Nation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagecraftentertainment.com\/\">Stagecraft Entertainment<\/a> (the guys who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2003\/05\/15\/miscellany\">staged Thing-Fish<\/a> in London a couple of years ago);<\/li>\n<li>Bernard, KUR-commenter extraordinaire and allround West-Flemish good egg, whom I keep telling he should start a weblog;<\/li>\n<li>Christian aka vrnzr, our man in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/forum\/index.php?board=10.0\">the Uncle Beat Forums<\/a> whose encyclopedic knowledge of Zappa shows is a jaw-dropper;<\/li>\n<li>Peter Van Laarhoven, erudite curator of the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.united-mutations.com\/\">United Mutations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The food was quite simply delicious, and more Chimay&#8217;s, Leffe&#8217;s and Grimbergens were guzzled down than I&#8217;ve ever seen. But the best part: all you guys &#8216;n girls who were ready willing and able to (re)arrange your schedules for a weekend at Barry Towers. You&#8217;re the best!<\/p>\n<p>Lastly: a <b>huuuuuuge<\/b> thank you to Dr Sharleena who had been secretly planning this as early as way back in August! Absolute genius!!!<\/p>\n<p>Pictures? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mudshark\/sets\/72157594339868858\/\">Yes!<\/a> Now then&#8230; aspirin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my sneaking suspicion? Well I was right! Except, the party lasted the entire weekend and the company surpassed my wildest guesses. In order of appearance: Magic Fingers of The Big Note and &#8220;Variation Variations&#8221; fame, and his lovely wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/10\/23\/best-birthday-ever\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}