Mutant Summit III: This Time, Pooly Made Cupcakes!

Justin: PoolWoman was a very gracious host, yet I couldn't resist "Canadizing" her welcome note by adding U's after every O and a lot of accent marks. It's their quaint charms that make me love Canada so much!

PoolMan: This really did crack me up. Similar to what I did at his youth meeting on my historic first visit to Detroit, the extra U's are quite excellent. But the kicker is the "mercy buckets" at the end. My poor fiancee, a proud French-Canadian, just didn't know what to make of it.

Justin: Grr... Sean always gives himself the cool pictures, while every one he took of me makes catches me in a moment where I look like a very slow man-child struggling to form a coherent sentence. But hey, this is a cool picture, if just for the reflections.

PoolMan: Hey, the reflection aspect of the shot is neat, I admit, but this is hardly the closeup I was imagining sending off to Hollywood. I look awful in this picture, having just skated around Stanley Park in the hot sun. But it's all in the name of science!

Justin: Sean and I playing Dance Dance Revolution. It becomes this thing, you see, when Sean initially balks at an idea (for example, "Hey Sean, let's take a picture of us playing on the DRR machines!") and it quickly becomes my all-consuming desire to make it so (for example, "I promise I won't make ANY Canadian jokes for a year on the website!"). The result? See for yourself. Two dorks, dorking it up.

PoolMan: And has Justin KEPT to this bargain? I direct you to an earlier comment about blending in to Canadian culture by belching.

Justin: With Sean's help (typical example, "No! Don't go in there, you FOOL! Here, give me the controls! ARGH!"), I played through the semi-spooky Nintendo game Eternal Darkness in the first three days of the trip. Probably the most memorable thing about the game were the growlingly loud Latin spellcasting phrases that the TV would spit out, which made the apartment an interesting environment during that time (PoolWoman: "Hey Sean, don't forget to pick up milk later at..." TV: "PARGON! PARGON! CHA'TURGA! NECRONOMICON EX MORTI! PARGON!").

PoolMan: Eternal Darkness has this hook to it, you see, that you have to beat it three times to get the "real" ending. So this was Justin's first attempt, and my second. And you have to understand, he's not exaggerating, the game spits out nonstop demonic latin spellwords at top volume while playing the sounds of a woman laughing at a baby's cry. I started to feel very guilty that I'd picked this particular gem to expose to my poor fiancee for the entire week. AGAIN.

PoolMan: Note to anyone who values their life: taking flash photography in a dark theater filled with other theater patrons tends to make said patrons VERY ANGRY.

Justin: Your mutant staff in their natural environment: a movie theater. Ahhh.

PoolMan: It's like the Creature From the Black Lagoon. If the Black Lagoon were an air mattress.

Justin: "No Sean! Don't take a picture of me while I'm slee..." *CLICK* "Oh, you're gonna wake up dead, pal."

Justin: The many faces of Sean and Justin. We had way too much fun with this camera.

PoolMan: Stop the presses! If you find any funnier compilation of pictures of J and I, you didn't find it on this site. He didn't warn me he was putting this together, and I am most pleased with his efforts.