LMAO I totally wanna quote this now! "holy baby fucksticks smoking marshmellow debris!!!! My people!" - How's that catching up on your sleep going?
Quote till your heart is content. I've been doing a shitty job of catching up on sleep.
Awesome 😀
Can you explain to me what the "Lean" is all about? 😕 And the other group... I forget what they're called, LOL 😀
Okay, this might be good to have a place where this is actually documented to point people to, because we get the question a lot. So basically, at the UNY Superbowl Gathering (Albany) back in Jan, there were these little 4 foot tall partition walls that separated the living room from the kitchen in the suites. Slacker and I had finally got to meet face to face and spent a lot of time together over the weekend. Well anytime people were gathered in a suite to watch public demos, he and I were always together in the kitchen "leaning" on this little wall, looking into the living room at whatever demo was happening.
So on the last night of the gathering, CrystalLight was being tickled to death over on the couch for about 1:30 hours. Slacker and I are "leaning" on our partition, with Glamorous in the chair to our left and Mistress Aura and MrLegacy standing there and we were all cutting up, bullshitting, and laughing ourselves silly. At some point I said, "you know Slacker, every single time something was going on this weekend, you and I were just "leaning" side by side on this thing, CHILLING. Just chilling, and leaning.". He retorted "yup, I just "lean" in life, things don't get me down, because I lean and they just roll off my back." You starting to get the picture? This went on for an hour straight. I referred to the partition as a "Lean Machine" made specifically for that purpose. I mentioned I removed all my living room furniture to install one in my home to "lean" while watching tv. etc,etc,etc. It was last day of the gathering and we were all on 2 hours sleep a night every night, which is not unusual for some gathering folk. We were burnt, it was funny, and the more we went on the funnier it got.
Glamorous laughing, for what was an hour straight as we continued cracking up about this.
Awesomely funny side story is that while we were telling this story and CrystalLight was being tickled to death, her famous teddy bear FrankFurter(mascot of the lean), fell off the top of the couch, into a perfect sitting position and pointing, watching his "mommy" be destroyed and we all kind of yelled out, "he's pointing at her saying, "Bitch should have leaned". And that killed us all.
We came home speaking of "Leaning" and the famous "lean machine" as though it were a philosophy. People got onboard with the joke, realizing it was just that. This carried on for 3 months, until NEST.
When NEST came around, you are asked by LeeAllure whether you'd like your nametag for NEST to have a phrase or saying on it under your name. While trying to think of something "Lean" related for days, my girl, Sharkie, said on skype one night, "OMG BABY!...The L-X-G, or, The Lean of Extraordinary Gentleman!" as a play on the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. After laughing for 5 minutes straight I called Slacker and we thought it was the greatest thing, BUT we had already submitted our phrases for our nametags. Well for those that got to NEST early on Thurs, they all went out for early dinner, and at dinner Slacker mentioned the name to Lee, and he said Lee just about pee'd herself laughing and thought it was genius. We get to registration at NEST on Friday night and low and behold Lee pulled executive decision and changed whatever crap we were going to put on our name tags and she put "Co-Founder: The Lean of Extraordinary Gentlemen" on them. Needless to say, we were stoked, it became a full fledged group and we inducted our first members that weekend; our Enforcer, Curator, Darkness, Spice, First Lady, Princess. We came home and Lee made us some cool little logos which we started flying. After that I started really working on 3D logos that you see flying now, and they keep getting cooler as I keep playing with them. Angel77, our Angel of the Lean is the latest member, with another one or two in the works now. Each has their own title given by Slacker and I. It's been a really fun little game all this time and provided us with a ton of laughs, which is always the bottom line. It's not a club, we don't meet once a month or have dues. Just something out of love.
As for our rival group, the are The UCB (The Upright Citizen's Brigade). Most people know
The Upright Citizen's Brigade is a famous improv comedy group originally out of Chicago. We used the name strictly because of it's "anti-lean" sound. What's not leaning? Straightness, uprightness. At one point while inducting members, Baldadonis asked (because at the time his girlfriend Sasaxrah was part of the Lean) "hey am I in the lean???" to which Slacker answered with the best deadpan and almost angry expression, "Dave, you have no lean. You are leanless, in fact, not only are you NOT in the LEAN, you are leader of the UCB...The Upright Citizen's Brigade!" We all died laughing, because Dave plays the whipping boy for us all too often like a champ, even though we love the guy more than the world. Thus began the rivalry.
So people wondering what kind of sillyness happens at gatherings, THAT is but a small part. These little jokes that sometimes roll out of control into something living and breathing. Some uptight people looove to say it's an inside joke blah blah, but this story has been told 100 times, and on radio shows probably 5 times. It's only an inside joke, because not everyone was there. The best way to be part of an inside joke, is to ask someone to explain it, then, all of a sudden you too are on the inside. This has never been a secret, so thanks Leafy for asking man. Either way, it's been good times.
And THAT, is the story of where and how the
Lean and the LXG was born.