Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, PubSprawl...it's harder and harder to NOT be on the web these days. And yet, that's exactly what Anonymous318 has successfully pulled off.
"I'm a firm believer of living 'off the grid'" remarked Anonymous318. "I don't have email, I avoid social networks, and shun the internet. You won't find me anywhere."
Except at this year's PubSprawl.
Now in it's 13th year, the PubSprawl continues to attract the strangest partiers the off-line world has to offer. Beer, merriment, and revelry all mix in super hi-def real life.
"Some call us racist, but we don't care," states Bill Griffin, PubSprawl spokesman. "We just don't accept avatars. They ain't welcome."
"No avatars? No problem," says Anonymous318. "I don't even know what an avatar is."
Critics argue that the PubSprawl's anti-avatar stance was the result of a failed business endeavor two years ago when the PubSprawl launched it's virtual self on Second Life. The result was an unmitigated disaster.
"We thought having PubSprawl on Second Life would be great - people could party and celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the privacy of their own home," said former PubSprawl CIO, Guy Peterson. "But it wasn't meant to be. Nobody showed up except a few flying purple furries and a bunch of dudes posing as women. And that was just us, the organizers."
"We had to face the fact that PubSprawlers attend PubSprawl to actually meet people, drink, dance, and screw around in public," says the new CIO, Jack Hangen. "Once we realized that, it made my job a lot easier. Now all I have to do is maintain PubSprawl.com about two or three days before it actually takes place."
The Chairman adds, "We're proud to have Anonymous318 and any other luddites among us. If you see Anonymous318, be sure to buy him and/or her a beer. You know, a real one, not one of those virtual beers on Facebook."
