Fellow Python:
Next year will be 2003. Yes, I know that was already bleedingly obvious to all but the most stupid. But it is an important year for a reason you may not have considered: It will be 20 years since the founding of the greatest organization in the history of the University of Texas and possibly the world, the Royal Order of Pythons.
That's right, two decades. You are THAT FREAKING OLD. It would truly be tragic to allow such a momentous occasion to pass without getting stinking drun... er, I mean, without a properly respectful observance and remembrance of our bygone youth.
So I want to make a proposal: Let's have a reunion. I have set aside the weekend of May 31-June 1 - the beginning of summer vacation for the kiddos. And what better way to keep those kids off the streets than to let them hang out with a bunch of graying juvenile delinquents.
I can't think of a better way to spread word of this reunion than through e-mail. I am sending this out to as many Pythons as I have addresses for, but I need you to help by forwarding it to all the Pythons in YOUR address book. (Please check my "cc" box above to see who I already have reached; if you know that any of the addresses above are incorrect, please let me know.) My tenure at Pythons was 1986-90; I really need you older Pythons to help me reach people before my time, and you younger ones to help reach the people who joined after I graduated.
(And in case you're wondering, no, the Pythons do not still exist. However, a fine organization named the Knighthood of Buh appears to be carrying on our work at UT.)
I don't have all the details worked out, but I'm hoping we can spread this out into an all-day affair, so as to allow those Pythons with kids to come in the day (perhaps meeting in a park? Pease, perhaps?), and then gradually progressing to drinking at Showdown (yes, it is still open) for those without kids and those who can obtain daycare. And at some point in that schedule, we should work in a water balloon fight on the South Mall. I'll try the best I can to help people secure accomodations.
Please contact me and let me know how this sounds to everybody. Either e-mail me or contact me by the old-fashioned means:
Snail mail:
Lee Nichols
ROP Vice President in charge of supplying alcohol to minors, Journalistic Lankiness and Long Distance Beer Runs
1712 Cullen Ave.
Austin, TX 78757
Home Phone: 512/419-1722
Lee Nichols
Assistant News Editor
The Austin Chronicle
512/454-5766, ext. 138
fax 512/458-6910
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/authors/leenichols.html
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