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Furs' of the Month Day 1: Bowling fur suiters.
15 years ago
Hello, my name is ^..^James; it's pronounced "James". The ^..^ in my name symbolizes the phrase "I'm all ears and eyes!" I am from Baltimore, Maryland and my species is ferret, fur which I have a costume. I am glad to be on Fur Affinity after a period of not being able to register. I now have one place to discuss fursuiting, organize my fursuit pics, and catch up with costume artist, FurBriCations, and watch my friends.
Furs' of the Month is a recurring topic I write every furst day or last day of the month in which I fursuited or attended a furry convention or meet. I want to use my furst journal entry to discuss how I got into fandom and my furst experience in a fursuit. Many people got their start in fandom in different ways. Some found fandom through friends, some through going to convention, and some through the online community like Fur Affinity. My fur journey began with my favorite sport: bowling.
In February, during a snowstorm, I was just entertaining myself online by watching YouTube. Inexplicably, I saw this clip from Furbowl 12.5, held by the Furst State in Delaware. While watching it, I was just curious as to what bowling was like in costume. So after a bit of research I found out where the meets were and how to participate. At the time, Furbowl 13 was coming up, but I didn't get my costume until Furbowl 16. By the way, anyone with or without a fursuit can participate and there is a big photo shoot of everyone joining in.
Furbowl 16, held May 22, 2010, was my furst time fursuiting, and same day I received my ferret costume. I met kitt3ns, Reaux, Scooter Squirrel, White Paw, Morton Fox, Locado, Clementine, White Paw, YoungBloodPunk, and other fursuiters. Except kitt3ns, I believe everyone else including "furs truly" fursuited.
Fursuit bowling is a bit different from regular bowling. By the way, since I am from Baltimore, I should write that we played tenpin bowling, not duckpin; so a fursuiter would almost always have to bowl with both paws, although I sometimes took the right paw off and used the fingerholes. I wrote a blurb about safety, but I decided to omit it in the interest of your time.
I got a few strikes and spares, but mostly opens. But the score didn't matter. What mattered was that I met some new people, have a furmeet to go to at least every month, and now you can see me in my ferret costume on YouTube!
I will write my second Furs' of the Month piece June 30, and I will have some other journal entries before than since Anthrocon is this month. Again, thanks fur the shouts and watches. Also, I can be emailed at MSN (jhend2010) and Yahoo! (jh_5_now). Until next time, this is ^..^James. Have a wonder-fur time, and as my name implies, "I'm all ears and eyes!"
Furs' of the Month is a recurring topic I write every furst day or last day of the month in which I fursuited or attended a furry convention or meet. I want to use my furst journal entry to discuss how I got into fandom and my furst experience in a fursuit. Many people got their start in fandom in different ways. Some found fandom through friends, some through going to convention, and some through the online community like Fur Affinity. My fur journey began with my favorite sport: bowling.
In February, during a snowstorm, I was just entertaining myself online by watching YouTube. Inexplicably, I saw this clip from Furbowl 12.5, held by the Furst State in Delaware. While watching it, I was just curious as to what bowling was like in costume. So after a bit of research I found out where the meets were and how to participate. At the time, Furbowl 13 was coming up, but I didn't get my costume until Furbowl 16. By the way, anyone with or without a fursuit can participate and there is a big photo shoot of everyone joining in.
Furbowl 16, held May 22, 2010, was my furst time fursuiting, and same day I received my ferret costume. I met kitt3ns, Reaux, Scooter Squirrel, White Paw, Morton Fox, Locado, Clementine, White Paw, YoungBloodPunk, and other fursuiters. Except kitt3ns, I believe everyone else including "furs truly" fursuited.
Fursuit bowling is a bit different from regular bowling. By the way, since I am from Baltimore, I should write that we played tenpin bowling, not duckpin; so a fursuiter would almost always have to bowl with both paws, although I sometimes took the right paw off and used the fingerholes. I wrote a blurb about safety, but I decided to omit it in the interest of your time.
I got a few strikes and spares, but mostly opens. But the score didn't matter. What mattered was that I met some new people, have a furmeet to go to at least every month, and now you can see me in my ferret costume on YouTube!
I will write my second Furs' of the Month piece June 30, and I will have some other journal entries before than since Anthrocon is this month. Again, thanks fur the shouts and watches. Also, I can be emailed at MSN (jhend2010) and Yahoo! (jh_5_now). Until next time, this is ^..^James. Have a wonder-fur time, and as my name implies, "I'm all ears and eyes!"
White-Paw
~white-paw
It was great meeting you there too^^ Hope to see you at Future cons and meets
scooter_squirrel
~scootersquirrel
Cool getting to meet you at the bowling meet. Glad you enjoyed it! ^^
