March 15, 2024 • 16 mins
Interludes are short segments between regular episodes with no editing but WITH leather creaking. It's a chance to hear a little more about what's going on in my life.
I've had a busy 2024 with Mid Atlantic Leather, Dublin Leather Weekend, and Mr. Florid Rubber. I'll share my experiences with these different and diverse events!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Full Cow, a podcast about leather, kink
and BDSM.
My name is Edge, my pronounsare he, him, and I'm your host.
And this is another interludethe episode between episodes,
offered raw and unedited, butwith Langlitz Leather creaking
there, I'm getting a littleextra creaky for you.
(00:21):
It's been a while since I'vehad an interlude.
I've been enjoying my hiatusand I've done quite a bit of
leather travel at the beginningof 2024.
And I wanted to tell you allabout three events I've been to
in the first months of 2024.
And they were each different invery unique ways and I thought
that would be an instructivediscussion to share my
(00:42):
experiences.
The first one is MAL MidAtlantic Leather in DC beginning
of January.
And I had, you know, I used tolive in New Jersey, so I was in
the Northeast and I had gone toMAL decades, decades, decades
ago.
I had not been to it since itwas at this location.
(01:04):
That's how long it's been sinceI've been to MAL.
And I was talking to one of mybest friends and he was like
warning me about the sound ofthe lobby, and then the person I
was attending with in DC saidoh, it's not that bad.
It's bad.
There's nothing quite likewalking into the lobby of that
hotel and hearing the roar ofthe lobby crowd hit you like a
(01:29):
wall, just like a wall of sound,and that is really kind of
emblematic of my experience ofMAL.
It is a big leather event.
It feels like the biggestleather event I've been to, at
least in terms of theconcentration, because
everyone's all sort of crammedinto this one lobby and for an
(01:51):
introvert it is not the bestevent.
Now, if you're an extrovert, ifyou feed on that energy, good
Lord, get yourself to MAL assoon as possible, because you
will be drunk on energy.
That's how energetic the spaceis itself.
If you're an introvert, I urgecaution.
And there were sort of aftereffects of that crowdedness.
(02:14):
It's not just that I alwaysfelt slightly overwhelmed from a
sensory standpoint, but also itwas really hard to connect with
people because I would seesomeone I chatted with online.
I would have 10 seconds to sayhello to them before the next
person I knew was right overtheir shoulder and I had to go
say hello to them.
So I felt often like I was sortof frantically running from
(02:36):
person to person in thisextremely crowded space just
trying to connect with all thepeople I wanted to connect with.
It wasn't overly satisfyingbecause of that.
The vendor mart was also like anightmare of crowdedness,
because you want to get therewhen it opens because vendors
(02:56):
only have so many sizes at eachthing and you need to find your
size.
And so I went shopping with thepeople I was with.
I made everyone hold theirhands like make sure you know
where your buddy is, becauseit's very easy to get separated
in that space and the ceilingsare really low, so I just felt
crowded in.
We did get some great gear.
Everyone got what they wanted.
I was very happy to play therole of leather Sherpa stylist
(03:22):
and tell people what to bear orwhat to wear and what to buy and
how they looked in it, but itwas again overwhelming.
The good news is that I foundthe sub events at ML really
fantastic.
That includes the cigar brunchat Shelly's.
That includes the leathercocktails.
These were smaller because itwasn't the whole group, it was
(03:44):
some subset of them, and thatmade it easier to navigate.
It made the sensory inputoutput a more reasonable level.
It made it easier for me to sitand talk and connect with
people and those were reallyamazing times.
The other thing is the personthat I'd gone with who lives in
DC.
One of the evenings we went offsite.
(04:05):
He had a friend who lived notfar from the hotel and we just
got away from everything andwent and had some cigars and had
some pizza and that was deeplyrestorative for me.
So I don't think I'm going togo back to ML.
It's not a bad event.
It is massive.
It's interesting to see how thehotel sort of manages the
(04:26):
massiveness.
There's a very complicatedelevator system with the hotel
staff running the elevators andtelling you where to go.
So everyone's aware of howmassive it is and people do a
pretty good job of managing that.
And yet it's just not the eventfor me.
On top of it, dc, in January,very cold, oh, cigar smoker, go
(04:50):
outside.
Is there a tent?
No.
Is there a heater?
No.
There's this sad little arearight by the hotel where all the
smokers are kind of clusteredtogether.
That's fine.
It just didn't feelparticularly welcome or
welcoming if you're a cigarsmoker.
So ML not for me.
Glad I went, super great event,if you'd like.
(05:11):
Lots of people, lots of energy,lots.
It's a lot.
That is my takeaway of ML.
Ml is a lot.
Now, two weeks after that I flewto Dublin for Dublin Leather
Weekend, so we're talking abouta much smaller event.
I'm sure ML was in thethousands and thousands of
(05:33):
people.
Dublin Leather Weekend waslimited to about a couple
hundred, so instantly it was abetter event for me as someone
who's an introvert.
I love Ireland, I love Dublin.
I am gaga for an Irish accent.
I was secretly looking for myIrish husband.
I did not find him, and soeverything about this was
(05:54):
appealing.
It was my first internationalleather event and I had a really
, really, really wonderful time.
I met people again that I'veknown from online for years and
I'd never met before, and peoplefrom all over Europe France,
germany, spain, portugal, norway, denmark, iceland, scotland,
(06:18):
england.
Surprisingly, I think, I metmore Europeans than I did Irish
folk the first night.
Here's a hallmark of how good Ifound the event.
The first night was a sort ofmeet and greet kind of thing at
a bar called Penny Lane whichhad this really beautiful sort
of courtyard in front, and I wasthere for almost I think almost
(06:39):
six hours.
Now, introverts do not do that.
We do not, we do not socializefor hours on end.
We drain the battery and we go,but I was having such a good
time.
I was able to connect with somedear friends that I had met the
last time I was in Dublin.
I was able to connect withpeople I chatted with online and
I was enjoying the energy, Iwas enjoying the people and I
(07:02):
was enjoying the conversation.
And then on probably oh yeah onSaturday, they had a Kayley,
which is a traditional Irishmusic session at another bar
called Panty Bar.
What fun.
There was this moment where,right, so they've got the fiddle
going and it's all Irish andsome people are doing a jig and
(07:24):
I'm in gear and everyone's ingear.
And there was this moment whereI almost had tears in my eyes
because I realized how blessed Iwas of all the privileges that
had to align for me to be inthis bar in another country,
experiencing another culture, ingear with like-minded people.
It was so moving to me and Idanced a jig.
(07:47):
The video is available on myInstagram.
That was just delightful fun.
Some of the problems and it'snot an event without problems,
and the problems were around themeals.
We had a lot of trouble gettingour food at the leather dinner
on Saturday night, a lot oftrouble with food at the lunch
on the next day, on Sunday.
But these logistical things didnot detract from the really
(08:12):
amazing time I had.
I don't know if I'm gonna goback simply because of time and
money, but I would stronglyrecommend it.
I actually met quite a fewAmericans too, so I think it is
getting this kind of reputation.
It's worth the trip.
Ireland is beautiful.
If you're an American, you getto clear customs at the Dublin
(08:32):
Airport, which is significant.
That's all I'm going to sayMakes travel significantly
better when you're coming backhome.
The event is a good size, thepeople are good.
They're fairly good at runningit.
I would not recommend doing themeals Beyond that.
I would just dive into it andreally enjoy all the beautiful
connections.
(08:52):
Finally, this past weekend I didthe Mr Florida rubber weekend
and this wasa Very local event.
So I did huge national Americanvote event, ml.
Oh, very Goldilocks, right?
Wait, wait, wait, too much forme.
I did a good, medium bear sizedGoldilocks International event
(09:14):
my first international event.
And then I did a very, verylocal event.
It was my first rubber event,which was exciting.
I'm still new to rubber, I'mstill getting into it and it was
an opportunity for me to wearmy rubber out in sort of active
bar environments.
I had met some friends out inrubber once shortly after
Christmas, but it was just sortof a dead night at the Eagle.
(09:36):
No one was really there.
I Again met people I talkedwith online.
I Saw friends I hadn't seen ina while and the nice thing about
local events is people come outof the woodwork and you meet
new people who are local, whoyou didn't even know existed,
because the event gives them areason to gear up and to go out.
(10:00):
I dropped by the openingcookout and met someone that
I've chatted with for decades,really enjoyed connecting with
him.
On Friday night I skipped thebar crawl because I'm sober and
that didn't sound like a lot offun for me.
I went straight to Ramrod.
It was okay.
The bar crawl didn't arriveuntil hours later, so by the
time the actual rubber peoplegot there I was pretty tired and
(10:22):
it ready to go home.
And Then I did the contest onSaturday and it was really a
good time.
It was well run, it was a goodevent and I've learned a lot
about rubber.
Rubber people are reallyfriendly.
You know, when I was at Ramrod,when people started arriving
from the bar crawl because I wasin rubber.
They immediately came up, theysaid hello, they started talking
(10:43):
.
It was, it was really sowelcoming and which is weird.
Right, this is my city, but Idon't know any of these people
and a lot of them were peoplewho weren't even from here.
But we're visiting.
And they came up and they saidhello, no attitude, no, nothing
like that, just friendly people.
And I found that true of allthe rubber spaces I was
navigating and I find them alittle bit friendlier than
(11:06):
leather spaces, I'll admit.
The next thing I learned is thatwhen you're wearing rubber, the
question you're gonna be askedall the time is who are you
wearing?
Who are you wearing?
Everyone wants to know who madewhat you wear.
So there's a lot of discussionabout different makers and the
world of rubber is so complex.
When you want to get something.
(11:26):
It's like what colors do youchoose and what colors the
zipper and what's the main colorand what's the accent color?
And am I getting the codpiece?
Am I getting the zip up the ass?
It can be really complicated.
So to have other people who'vehad experience with
manufacturers to really sort ofjoin that Conversation as a
community felt really great.
The other thing I learned, youknow, when I go just out to the
(11:46):
bar, I usually I'm in leather.
I usually don't might have avest on, I don't usually have a
shirt on.
People love to touch bare chestswithout consent.
The one thing they love totouch more than a bare chest
without consent is rubber.
Everybody just wanted to touchme, not always in a pawing
(12:07):
sexual way, but they wanted totouch the rubber everybody.
Now I'm kind of okay with that,not really because I believe in
consent.
I Like it when people ask mebefore they can touch me.
The big problem is, you knowLike I'm getting ready.
I spent all this time andpolishing the rubber, got to get
(12:28):
the special polish and thepolishing cloth and polish the
backside and polish the frontside and put it on and do
another polish so that I'm allpretty and shiny and the first
thing people want to do is hugMe and touch me.
They want to steal my shine.
They want to steal my shine.
It's very sad so I was notthrilled about that.
It's useful for me to know sothat I can be a little extra
(12:51):
guarded when I am out in rubber.
I'm enjoying the rubber journeyin general.
You know rubber is sort of thismaterial of paradox that it is
very hot because you sweat in it, but it's very cool because
your skin is the temperature ofthe air.
It is very freeing because itfeels like you're naked, but
(13:11):
it's very constrictive becauseyou are tightly held by the
rubber and you would think it'sreally slippery because you are
literally covered inside and outon lube, but rubber is actually
really grabby.
I remember I was at the contestand I would just like bump into
another rubber person and wewould like stick together.
Well, I mean, it's notsurprising, right?
(13:31):
You use rubber, hits the roadand all that.
So I'm learning a lot, learninga lot about rubber.
So some of the takeaways here isdifferent kinds of events offer
different kinds of experiencesand at each of these you still
could have navigated the eventbased on your agenda.
Mal, my God.
I mean people were justwandering the hallways looking
(13:53):
for sex.
So if you're looking for sex,you can do that.
If you're looking for shopping,you can do that.
If you want a circuit party,you can do that.
Different events offerdifferent ways of navigation and
different size events,different locations.
Events have different flavors.
So if you're new to events, youmight want to think about how
you respond best in spaces.
Now that's not a reason not togo to a really big event like
(14:16):
MAL, but it is a reason to bemore thoughtful and intentional.
If I go back to MAL I don'tthink I will I'm going to spend
a lot more time on these subevents and making sure I have
smaller spaces where I canconnect with people.
Medium sized events like DublinLeather Weekend fantastic, local
(14:37):
events, fantastic.
Each of them different in theirown way, but each of them
offers something to you.
So, wherever you are in yourjourney, think about events,
because the one theme you mighthave noticed in everything I
talked about is that I metpeople, and that includes people
I've chatted with online,sometimes for years.
It includes old friends, itincludes new friends.
(15:00):
Events are now one of the placeswhere we are best able to
connect with each other inperson, because local kinky
leather rubber spaces aredisappearing, because we are
relying on virtual networks, andso you're chatting with people
across the country, you'rechatting with people around the
world, and events bring peopletogether.
(15:23):
They allow us to participatephysically and directly in
community, whether that's a verylocal community, whether it's
an international community,whether it's a large national
community.
So think about going to anevent.
I think I've never been to anevent, I just hated.
I will say that I've never feltlike I've wasted my money going
(15:47):
to an event, and they can getexpensive.
There are ways to minimizecosts.
Think about going to an eventso that you can experience all
of this in person.
I strongly recommend it, nomatter what size event you
choose.
Welcome to Full Cow, a podcast about leather, kink
and BDSM.
My name is Edge, my pronounsare he, him, and I'm your host.
And this is another interludethe episode between episodes,
offered raw and unedited, butwith Langlitz Leather creaking
there, I'm getting a littleextra creaky for you.
(00:21):
It's been a while since I'vehad an interlude.
I've been enjoying my hiatusand I've done quite a bit of
leather travel at the beginningof 2024.
And I wanted to tell you allabout three events I've been to
in the first months of 2024.
And they were each different invery unique ways and I thought
that would be an instructivediscussion to share my
(00:42):
experiences.
The first one is MAL MidAtlantic Leather in DC beginning
of January.
And I had, you know, I used tolive in New Jersey, so I was in
the Northeast and I had gone toMAL decades, decades, decades
ago.
I had not been to it since itwas at this location.
(01:04):
That's how long it's been sinceI've been to MAL.
And I was talking to one of mybest friends and he was like
warning me about the sound ofthe lobby, and then the person I
was attending with in DC saidoh, it's not that bad.
It's bad.
There's nothing quite likewalking into the lobby of that
hotel and hearing the roar ofthe lobby crowd hit you like a
(01:29):
wall, just like a wall of sound,and that is really kind of
emblematic of my experience ofMAL.
It is a big leather event.
It feels like the biggestleather event I've been to, at
least in terms of theconcentration, because
everyone's all sort of crammedinto this one lobby and for an
(01:51):
introvert it is not the bestevent.
Now, if you're an extrovert, ifyou feed on that energy, good
Lord, get yourself to MAL assoon as possible, because you
will be drunk on energy.
That's how energetic the spaceis itself.
If you're an introvert, I urgecaution.
And there were sort of aftereffects of that crowdedness.
(02:14):
It's not just that I alwaysfelt slightly overwhelmed from a
sensory standpoint, but also itwas really hard to connect with
people because I would seesomeone I chatted with online.
I would have 10 seconds to sayhello to them before the next
person I knew was right overtheir shoulder and I had to go
say hello to them.
So I felt often like I was sortof frantically running from
(02:36):
person to person in thisextremely crowded space just
trying to connect with all thepeople I wanted to connect with.
It wasn't overly satisfyingbecause of that.
The vendor mart was also like anightmare of crowdedness,
because you want to get therewhen it opens because vendors
(02:56):
only have so many sizes at eachthing and you need to find your
size.
And so I went shopping with thepeople I was with.
I made everyone hold theirhands like make sure you know
where your buddy is, becauseit's very easy to get separated
in that space and the ceilingsare really low, so I just felt
crowded in.
We did get some great gear.
Everyone got what they wanted.
I was very happy to play therole of leather Sherpa stylist
(03:22):
and tell people what to bear orwhat to wear and what to buy and
how they looked in it, but itwas again overwhelming.
The good news is that I foundthe sub events at ML really
fantastic.
That includes the cigar brunchat Shelly's.
That includes the leathercocktails.
These were smaller because itwasn't the whole group, it was
(03:44):
some subset of them, and thatmade it easier to navigate.
It made the sensory inputoutput a more reasonable level.
It made it easier for me to sitand talk and connect with
people and those were reallyamazing times.
The other thing is the personthat I'd gone with who lives in
DC.
One of the evenings we went offsite.
(04:05):
He had a friend who lived notfar from the hotel and we just
got away from everything andwent and had some cigars and had
some pizza and that was deeplyrestorative for me.
So I don't think I'm going togo back to ML.
It's not a bad event.
It is massive.
It's interesting to see how thehotel sort of manages the
(04:26):
massiveness.
There's a very complicatedelevator system with the hotel
staff running the elevators andtelling you where to go.
So everyone's aware of howmassive it is and people do a
pretty good job of managing that.
And yet it's just not the eventfor me.
On top of it, dc, in January,very cold, oh, cigar smoker, go
(04:50):
outside.
Is there a tent?
No.
Is there a heater?
No.
There's this sad little arearight by the hotel where all the
smokers are kind of clusteredtogether.
That's fine.
It just didn't feelparticularly welcome or
welcoming if you're a cigarsmoker.
So ML not for me.
Glad I went, super great event,if you'd like.
(05:11):
Lots of people, lots of energy,lots.
It's a lot.
That is my takeaway of ML.
Ml is a lot.
Now, two weeks after that I flewto Dublin for Dublin Leather
Weekend, so we're talking abouta much smaller event.
I'm sure ML was in thethousands and thousands of
(05:33):
people.
Dublin Leather Weekend waslimited to about a couple
hundred, so instantly it was abetter event for me as someone
who's an introvert.
I love Ireland, I love Dublin.
I am gaga for an Irish accent.
I was secretly looking for myIrish husband.
I did not find him, and soeverything about this was
(05:54):
appealing.
It was my first internationalleather event and I had a really
, really, really wonderful time.
I met people again that I'veknown from online for years and
I'd never met before, and peoplefrom all over Europe France,
germany, spain, portugal, norway, denmark, iceland, scotland,
(06:18):
england.
Surprisingly, I think, I metmore Europeans than I did Irish
folk the first night.
Here's a hallmark of how good Ifound the event.
The first night was a sort ofmeet and greet kind of thing at
a bar called Penny Lane whichhad this really beautiful sort
of courtyard in front, and I wasthere for almost I think almost
(06:39):
six hours.
Now, introverts do not do that.
We do not, we do not socializefor hours on end.
We drain the battery and we go,but I was having such a good
time.
I was able to connect with somedear friends that I had met the
last time I was in Dublin.
I was able to connect withpeople I chatted with online and
I was enjoying the energy, Iwas enjoying the people and I
(07:02):
was enjoying the conversation.
And then on probably oh yeah onSaturday, they had a Kayley,
which is a traditional Irishmusic session at another bar
called Panty Bar.
What fun.
There was this moment where,right, so they've got the fiddle
going and it's all Irish andsome people are doing a jig and
(07:24):
I'm in gear and everyone's ingear.
And there was this moment whereI almost had tears in my eyes
because I realized how blessed Iwas of all the privileges that
had to align for me to be inthis bar in another country,
experiencing another culture, ingear with like-minded people.
It was so moving to me and Idanced a jig.
(07:47):
The video is available on myInstagram.
That was just delightful fun.
Some of the problems and it'snot an event without problems,
and the problems were around themeals.
We had a lot of trouble gettingour food at the leather dinner
on Saturday night, a lot oftrouble with food at the lunch
on the next day, on Sunday.
But these logistical things didnot detract from the really
(08:12):
amazing time I had.
I don't know if I'm gonna goback simply because of time and
money, but I would stronglyrecommend it.
I actually met quite a fewAmericans too, so I think it is
getting this kind of reputation.
It's worth the trip.
Ireland is beautiful.
If you're an American, you getto clear customs at the Dublin
(08:32):
Airport, which is significant.
That's all I'm going to sayMakes travel significantly
better when you're coming backhome.
The event is a good size, thepeople are good.
They're fairly good at runningit.
I would not recommend doing themeals Beyond that.
I would just dive into it andreally enjoy all the beautiful
connections.
(08:52):
Finally, this past weekend I didthe Mr Florida rubber weekend
and this wasa Very local event.
So I did huge national Americanvote event, ml.
Oh, very Goldilocks, right?
Wait, wait, wait, too much forme.
I did a good, medium bear sizedGoldilocks International event
(09:14):
my first international event.
And then I did a very, verylocal event.
It was my first rubber event,which was exciting.
I'm still new to rubber, I'mstill getting into it and it was
an opportunity for me to wearmy rubber out in sort of active
bar environments.
I had met some friends out inrubber once shortly after
Christmas, but it was just sortof a dead night at the Eagle.
(09:36):
No one was really there.
I Again met people I talkedwith online.
I Saw friends I hadn't seen ina while and the nice thing about
local events is people come outof the woodwork and you meet
new people who are local, whoyou didn't even know existed,
because the event gives them areason to gear up and to go out.
(10:00):
I dropped by the openingcookout and met someone that
I've chatted with for decades,really enjoyed connecting with
him.
On Friday night I skipped thebar crawl because I'm sober and
that didn't sound like a lot offun for me.
I went straight to Ramrod.
It was okay.
The bar crawl didn't arriveuntil hours later, so by the
time the actual rubber peoplegot there I was pretty tired and
(10:22):
it ready to go home.
And Then I did the contest onSaturday and it was really a
good time.
It was well run, it was a goodevent and I've learned a lot
about rubber.
Rubber people are reallyfriendly.
You know, when I was at Ramrod,when people started arriving
from the bar crawl because I wasin rubber.
They immediately came up, theysaid hello, they started talking
(10:43):
.
It was, it was really sowelcoming and which is weird.
Right, this is my city, but Idon't know any of these people
and a lot of them were peoplewho weren't even from here.
But we're visiting.
And they came up and they saidhello, no attitude, no, nothing
like that, just friendly people.
And I found that true of allthe rubber spaces I was
navigating and I find them alittle bit friendlier than
(11:06):
leather spaces, I'll admit.
The next thing I learned is thatwhen you're wearing rubber, the
question you're gonna be askedall the time is who are you
wearing?
Who are you wearing?
Everyone wants to know who madewhat you wear.
So there's a lot of discussionabout different makers and the
world of rubber is so complex.
When you want to get something.
(11:26):
It's like what colors do youchoose and what colors the
zipper and what's the main colorand what's the accent color?
And am I getting the codpiece?
Am I getting the zip up the ass?
It can be really complicated.
So to have other people who'vehad experience with
manufacturers to really sort ofjoin that Conversation as a
community felt really great.
The other thing I learned, youknow, when I go just out to the
(11:46):
bar, I usually I'm in leather.
I usually don't might have avest on, I don't usually have a
shirt on.
People love to touch bare chestswithout consent.
The one thing they love totouch more than a bare chest
without consent is rubber.
Everybody just wanted to touchme, not always in a pawing
(12:07):
sexual way, but they wanted totouch the rubber everybody.
Now I'm kind of okay with that,not really because I believe in
consent.
I Like it when people ask mebefore they can touch me.
The big problem is, you knowLike I'm getting ready.
I spent all this time andpolishing the rubber, got to get
(12:28):
the special polish and thepolishing cloth and polish the
backside and polish the frontside and put it on and do
another polish so that I'm allpretty and shiny and the first
thing people want to do is hugMe and touch me.
They want to steal my shine.
They want to steal my shine.
It's very sad so I was notthrilled about that.
It's useful for me to know sothat I can be a little extra
(12:51):
guarded when I am out in rubber.
I'm enjoying the rubber journeyin general.
You know rubber is sort of thismaterial of paradox that it is
very hot because you sweat in it, but it's very cool because
your skin is the temperature ofthe air.
It is very freeing because itfeels like you're naked, but
(13:11):
it's very constrictive becauseyou are tightly held by the
rubber and you would think it'sreally slippery because you are
literally covered inside and outon lube, but rubber is actually
really grabby.
I remember I was at the contestand I would just like bump into
another rubber person and wewould like stick together.
Well, I mean, it's notsurprising, right?
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You use rubber, hits the roadand all that.
So I'm learning a lot, learninga lot about rubber.
So some of the takeaways here isdifferent kinds of events offer
different kinds of experiencesand at each of these you still
could have navigated the eventbased on your agenda.
Mal, my God.
I mean people were justwandering the hallways looking
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for sex.
So if you're looking for sex,you can do that.
If you're looking for shopping,you can do that.
If you want a circuit party,you can do that.
Different events offerdifferent ways of navigation and
different size events,different locations.
Events have different flavors.
So if you're new to events, youmight want to think about how
you respond best in spaces.
Now that's not a reason not togo to a really big event like
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MAL, but it is a reason to bemore thoughtful and intentional.
If I go back to MAL I don'tthink I will I'm going to spend
a lot more time on these subevents and making sure I have
smaller spaces where I canconnect with people.
Medium sized events like DublinLeather Weekend fantastic, local
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events, fantastic.
Each of them different in theirown way, but each of them
offers something to you.
So, wherever you are in yourjourney, think about events,
because the one theme you mighthave noticed in everything I
talked about is that I metpeople, and that includes people
I've chatted with online,sometimes for years.
It includes old friends, itincludes new friends.
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Events are now one of the placeswhere we are best able to
connect with each other inperson, because local kinky
leather rubber spaces aredisappearing, because we are
relying on virtual networks, andso you're chatting with people
across the country, you'rechatting with people around the
world, and events bring peopletogether.
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They allow us to participatephysically and directly in
community, whether that's a verylocal community, whether it's
an international community,whether it's a large national
community.
So think about going to anevent.
I think I've never been to anevent, I just hated.
I will say that I've never feltlike I've wasted my money going
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to an event, and they can getexpensive.
There are ways to minimizecosts.
Think about going to an eventso that you can experience all
of this in person.
I strongly recommend it, nomatter what size event you
choose.
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