THE
LAST PAGE
I'd originally planned on
writing a "QUIT BEING SO DAMNED NICE!"
kind of Last Page.... but then, a softer, nicer,
gentler side of me
broke through.
If you aren't reaching for the door handle...or feeling scared.....
well, cool.
Thanksgiving weekend, 1990. Where were YOU,
Klingon? Were
you even born yet? KAG was. 1990 was when we learned to HOWL.
Our organization came into being out of the shambles which was
the Klingon Strike Force, a Seattle-based Klingon club I'd started back
in 1979.
It was a proto-KAG, where you could pretty much do what you want,
as long as you didn't break any laws, and were Klingon. The KSF grew to
about 200 members. A few years pass, and I got married, had
kids,
moved to Michigan. Turned the KSF leadership over to friends.
That's when they promoted me to "Thought-Admiral". Bastards.
Ruined a fine retirement. I got asked to come back in and
lead in
1988, but it was a bit too late.
I was mystified when the KSF went to role-play, being Klingon spies
on planet Earth. It was time to gather up the few
dress-up-and-play
Klingons that remained, and move on. Mid-1989, KAG gathers
speed.
Flash ahead to 1990: A batch of KAGsters living in and around
Indianapolis
Indiana invites me down to their local convention--StarBase
Indy--so I say sure. When told it was the regional meeting of
Starfleet
Command, wheels in heads spun...like hamsters in the
mind. Do something
shocking, uniquely Klingon, and challenging.
So at StarBase Indy in 1990, during the Masquerade, we got onstage,
gave
out an exceptionally bone-tingling DEATH HOWL, and issued a BLOOD DUEL.
Just a handful of us--ten-- throwing down the gauntlet to a ballroom of
Feddie
pukes. Stunned silence, until it was time for us to
exit. Rousing
ovation.. ("You guys were COOL!" "How can we join,
dude? What are the dues?" "WHAT? NO dues?")
Now, it's almost twenty years later, and still, no dues, dude.
I think it's time that KAG went back to Indianapolis, stomping the
halls, filling the site with uniforms and banners.
Bloodwine and chocolate.
KAG's 20th Anniversary, celebrated in Indianapolis in 2009. Perfect.
That's in 2009, folks-- From now 'til then, we'll give you KAGsters
action-updates. Maybe I'll find the couch and camp all
night. Maybe Kragtowl
will split his pants. And maybe, hopefully, we'll see you
there.
KRIS epetai-KURKURA
Thought-Admiral
KAG Founder
John Halvorson
5624 Fair Ave 116
North Hollywood CA 91601
[email protected]
