We’ve got our first engagement of the year this afternoon. It’s at Commons Park in Denver, today, Saturday June 6 (65th anniversary of D-Day, 25th anniversary of Tetris) at 3 p.m., and we’re meeting by the footbridge.

We will have about eight extra squirt guns on hand, so if you don’t have one you can still play.

Suggestions:

• Bring a dry shirt for later
• Socks are for losers
• Goggles are for winners

-Joe

Don your scarcest apparel and head to Union Square at 3pm for the NYC Water Gun Fight, a sopping-wet precursor to September 8’s Street Wars, a tourney that lasts three weeks and involves hundreds of gamers. The fracas last blew through New York in 2005—at which time Mayor Bloomberg said organizer Franz Aliquo, a.k.a. the Supreme Commander (pictured here with our cover girls), needed “psychiatric help.” Though the fight is free, it’s BYOG.

And they get photo shoots with women holding squirt guns. Bastards.

So, what does Denver Squirt Gun Association have? Spirit. Spirit, damn right. And a match. Friday. Same place, different time: 6 p.m. Friday. No weaponry? No problem. We’ve got extras. Good, solid extras. Check out this photo gallery from an accidental squirt gun fight last week, where I (Joe, in the blue t-shirt) lay waste to the better-armed Baca and Pantera.

Get one before it’s too late.

Same time (5 p.m.), same day (Friday, August 8), same place (near the broom statue by the new wing of the Denver Art Museum, between 12th and 13th Avenues and Broadway and Acoma).

Need some weaponry? Check out Hasbro’s Super Soaker index.