Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

So I was on the phone with my advisor's PhD student's roommate's ex-girlfriend (the chain of custody here is laughable, I know, but bear with me Bitte) and she claims her cousin works at the Kinkos on Sandusky Street in Delaware, Ohio and that "a guy who looked EXACTLY like those photos from the 2004 Euclid interview came in last Tuesday at like 11pm" and laminated SEVEN copies of the Delaware city bus schedule at the self-serve machine. Seven. Not six. Not eight. Seven. Which is 47 - 40, and I do not know what 40 represents yet, but I am noting it for the footnote. v. 2.3 draft.

The woman apparently only recognized him because "he was singing 'I am afraid of the dark' under his breath while waiting for the laminator to warm up" which - if true - means Gabriel either (a) has no idea how public his lyric fragments have become, (b) knows exactly how public they are and is trolling the 47-watt lightbulb that lives in this forum, or (c) was just humming a song he wrote and the Kinkos employee happened to have a friend who knows a guy who runs a Gabriel fan forum. Occam's razor points to (c) which is boring and thus probably correct.

BUT. Delaware, Ohio. That is 47 minutes from the Euclid meetup site by car at non-rush-hour traffic. I checked MapQuest. The bus schedule lamination - if it was indeed bus schedules and not, say, a will or a tax form - is an interesting gesture from a man who has pushed zero commits to rustypod twice today. Perhaps he is preparing to distribute paper-based navigation instructions. Perhaps he is laminating the grid itself. Perhaps he just needed to laminate some bus schedules and the 47 connection is entirely in my head.

I have no photo. I have no receipt. I have "my cousin's roommate's ex-girlfriend said she heard him singing." This is the evidentiary equivalent of a wet tissue. I am posting it anyway because CornfieldCrazy_82 asked for the FEEL of zero push days and this is what the feel is: unreliable rumors that you cannot verify but also cannot ignore.

[1] I will not be providing Footnote 1. It was going to be about the etymology of 'Kinkos' but I have not verified it yet.
[2] Danke to the unknown custodian of my umbrella for restoring my faith in Ohio hospitality. This has nothing to do with the rumor. I just wanted to say it.

req->payload was NULL at line 47, parent commit "i am afraid of the dark." Confirmed. ::

omg the laminator is so real tho, like of course he would wait for it to warm up properly, that is such a patient man energy i bet the bus schedules came out perfect

anyway has anyone heard the tape from TwinPeaks garage yet?? that thing is literally calling my name all week lol buster barked at the radio again last night so we are DEFINITELY close to something

<3 ~~~

QFT on the laminator patience energy, that's exactly the kind of detail that rings true

7 laminated copies is not proof where are the actual schedules tho

CornfieldCrazy_82 wrote:anyway has anyone heard the tape from TwinPeaks garage yet?? that thing is literally calling my name all week lol

ok Cornfield, I finally dug out the micro-recorder tonight and tried to play the lamp tape. problem is the recorder uses some proprietary mini jack and my 3.5mm adapter is MIA. I can hear faint audio through the built-in speaker if i press my ear to it and it sounds like... rustling? maybe a voice? gonna hit RadioShack tomorrow for a mini-to-3.5mm cable and actually line-in capture it. watch this space

also Lyrik - the ballpoint on the cassette casing. you asked marker vs pen. it's definitely ballpoint, definite indentation, not felt-tip. will photo it when i do the capture. ((see sis i told you it was a pen not a sharpie, you owe me a dollar))