RETHAOIATE

Okay, Thao was not really in RETHAOIATE, but it is for her that we chose the name, so this page definitely needs a Thao shrine. Every time a homework assignment was due in physics class, none of us had competed it. However, we didn't have to turn it while people were asking questions about it. Every time, we were saved by the grace of Thao, when she asked questions about every single question on the assignment. No one else could have gotten away with it, but Mr. John answered her questions, because he could tell she wasn't stalling or anything, she genuinely wanted to know. Thank you, Thao.
Also, she had a really cool voice.

While he was in Galveston, John was the backbone of RETHAOIATE. It was his house at which we hung, his ideas which gave us stuff to do. He was really huge. I forget how tall he is, but it's like six and a half feet, at least. Or maybe eight, or thereabouts. Anyway, he likes to yell out stupid, meaningless phrases, and to make fun of people. And some other stuff. He lived in the basement of his house, in a room fully decked out with comic book posters and such, all spraypainted over. The standard refreshment was BK cola, and it became the holy water for RETHAOIATE. Now he lives on a farm in Missouri, and has to drive for like two hours every day to get to college. He makes movies with his friends up there, when he can. Theirs are better than ours.

Nick was probably second in command, or at least would have been, if we operated that way. He was much more energetic in terms of getting excited enough to make things happen. When John's family moved to Missouri, he moved in with Nick, and Wallace Manor became the base of operations. Nick's house was also the origin of many culinary oddities, like the "peanut butter and molasses soup" and "quick powder with BK cola". Nick also had cuts of meat that were brought around by an ice cream-type truck. Weird, huh? Nick likes to dress strangely, too much so for me to even be able to describe it. Perhaps I'll give him a section on Six. He now lives in a boring little town called Palestine, Texas. Boring except, of course, for the FREQUENT UFO LANDINGS!! I made that last bit up. NIck also makes movies with his friends. They are strange, indeed.

In junior high, Chris was really fond of smurfs. He is medium height, but weighs like 90 pounds or so. Chris lives on a diet of candy and fortune cookies that he keeps stashed at his grandparents' house. Guess what? that means that he is extremely energetic for a short while, then he falls over from exhaustion! Chris also has a legion of little cousins, all of whom he has addicted to anime. Whenever we make a voyage to the anime shops in Houston, he's always buying all these cutesy knick knacks. "It's for my cousin" he says, and then we try to guess which one, but we never can, because it's always a brand new one that we haven't met. He also has a PC with all these microprose games on it, so I often take an offering of anime to distract him while I use his computer.

James was the geekiest of us all. The classic computer nerd, he'd always try to make fun of us with these stupid, childish insults, buzzing about like a tsetse fly. As a result, he also got slapped around a lot. He had several demeaning nicknames, the origins of which I shant explain: O.J., Socks, gosh, I can't remember any of the others. It seems he has finally matured a bit, and now he has his own company, and a girlfriend too! Good job, James!

What's this? a girl??? Yes, that's right, Elissa was the only girl in RETHAOIATE. She was really in it, not like Thao. She came over, made movies, and such with the rest of us. Elissa was the journalist of our group, she was on the shool newspaper staff. She took lots of pictures, and did the camerawork for most of our movies. Now she goes to USC.

Clint is the oldest one in Rethaoiate. When we were all hanging out in John's basement, Clint was 21! You know what that means! I don't want to set a bad example, so if you don't know, I won't tell you. He is pretty quiet, and he draws really well. In Call of Cthulhu, his name was Soft Touch McGraw. "It's all in the delivery, baby!" He also has a lot of odd quotes, like "uuuuh!"