The impact of a radically slowing economy and high gas prices has effected everyone in our scenes
which have all scene some attrition in the past couple of years and have reduced the number of
people travelling between scenes in the two Bay Areas (Montery/SF)
So instead of just allowing inner city transport between scenes to just dwindle to nothing,
We want to be proactive about encouraging carpooling between cities in an effort to increase attendance
and lower people's costs.
Santa Cruz has moved it's long running (almost 10 years now) Goth club to Sunday nights, specifically
to make it possible for people in SC to visit Death Guild or B.A.G.G. in SF and people in the Bay Area to visit the BOX in
SC without there being a conflict.
Consequently, There are now at least three weekly goth events and several monthly goth/industrial events in the TWO BAY AREAS for people who want to get their goth/industrial on and several
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To save increasing travel expenses between cities we would like to propose
an EMAIL CARPOOLING scheme that is ANNONYMOUS , so that people
who want to participate can send their email addresses (and transportation needs and capabilities)
to one central location that is both ANNONYMOUS and hence ENTIRELY NON-SPAMMABLE.
This email list WILL NOT BE USED for publicizing events. It will ONLY BE FOR CARPOOLING SOLUTIONS.
So, anyone interested in either driving other carpoolers or catching a ride with someone who is driving already
from ANY LOCATION in the SOUTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO/EAST BAY and MONTEREY BAY AREAS
should write to me off of this list at RICK WALKER looppool(at sign)cruzio(dot sign)com.
I will collate all the information ANNONYMOUSLY and people can then write to me directly when they want to either
1) go from one place to another without their own transportation but be willing to share gasoline expenses
2) be able to drive other carpoolers from one location to another and be able to share gasoline expenses
If you are interested, please take the time to:
INCLUDE THIS IN YOUR HEADER SO THAT I CAN COLLATE THE INFORMATION VERY QUICKLY:
subject line: "GOTH/INDUSTRIAL CARPOOL MEMBER: 1)owns car/doesn't own car 2)city you live in 3) clubs you want to visit theoretically"
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How this will work is this:
If I recieve an email from someone who needs a ride, they will write in their header:
subject line: NEEDS RIDE 1)from what city 2) to what event 3) date of event
or , if they wish to drive and share gas expenses with someone else they should write
subject line: CARPOOLERS NEEDED 1) from what city 2) to what event/city 3) date of event.
I will immediately forward this message to the general carpooling list in a BLIND CARBON COPY so
that noones email will go out.
Then anyone can respond at their leisure and only the person seeking or offering a ride will know who has responded.
IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!! EMAILS not received in this form will be filtered by my spam filters
and WILL NOT REACH ME.
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IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING:
The more lead time the better.
PLEASE SEND YOUR REQUESTS IN A MINIMUM of 48 HOURS AHEAD OF TIME if you want to connect with people.
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LAST NOTE: If you are cynical about this idea, please don't flame me. Just don't join.
Also, please consider that i'm volunteering to do a lot of work for free in an effort to help our
respective scenes grow and give me a break if it seems like nonsense to you.
Here's to a strong and growing Goth/Industrial scene in Northern California!!!!!!
yours,
Rick Walker
moderator: SantaCRUZ goths at Yahoogroups. com and SCGoths tribe at Tribe.net
