April 28 2005
Kip and Pedro (Aaron Ruell and Efren Ramirez) spoke tonight
at Mem Aud. This event was postponed from the previous week,
when Pedro missed his flight. Mer and I knew there was some sort
of "meet and greet" happening at
Mem
Aud in
addition
to the
event,
because
Purple Chopstix was catering it. In an attempt to meet Kip and
Pedro, we called Purple Chopstix to find out the plan. All we
could determine was that "tots were in the oven."
Mer, Pete and I went to Mem Aud to see if there was something
fun going on, but all the doors were locked. Figuring everyone
was
inside eating tots and having a great time, we decided to
forget about it and go get some dinner. We had planned to get
Pita Pit, but when we got to Court Street, we almost stopped
for burritos. Then we considered getting ice cream for dinner.
But we stuck to the original plan and headed to Pita Pit. Delicious.
We arrived at Pita Pit and head over to order our pitas and
GUESS WHO WAS IN LINE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US?!!! Kip and Pedro!!
After all that hunting for
them, they were at Pita
Pit!! Obviously, they have great taste! Mer took a picture
of me with each of them. Fate brought us together! Fate and
the PITA PIT!!!
We took our Pitas to Tony's and had a beer, then went to see
them speak. It was a cool show. They talked about some behind
the scenes stuff, and general things about themselves. Aaron
is a photographer (www.aruell.com) and showed some of his stuff,
which was awesome. Set photos
from Napoleon Dynamite! Then there was a Q&A section which
was mostly a bunch of morons saying "Will you come to
the Junction at midnight and have a Junction Punch with us?" There
were some interesting questions, though. The best part was
hearing about
Aaron's little brother, who the Kip character was partially
fashioned after.
After the show, there was a small meet and greet, which I
got
to attend because I was with the Purple Chopstix people. Kip
and Pedro had to leave town pretty fast so it was short
and sweet. I got my ticket signed. Then I went for a beer with
Nicole and Jennine at Tony's.
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