NYC meetup

March 21, 2006 9:22 PM

Riddle:

What brings ThePinkSuperhero's foot down, makes me jiggle with excitement, and is right around the corner from mathowie's hotel?

It's a NYC MEFI MEETUP! 6pm on Sunday, 3/26, at Revival, near Union Square. Be THERE! Or be drunk... uh, ELSEWHERE! yeah...
posted by scarabic to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:22 PM (33 comments total)

Shows me for not checking around here more often. I'm going to be in NYC starting on the 26th, but my flight doesn't get in until 10pm.
posted by kenko at 10:53 PM on March 21, 2006

That's a pretty Classy and Pricey place for a Mefi meetup. Are you sure that's allowed?
posted by ParisParamus at 3:29 AM on March 22, 2006

You're always free to participate in person PP. You can always pick the locale and pay out of your own pocket for everyone. There's nothing to stop you from bringing your relatives along for the ride as well. In fact, you've been invited numerous times. No matter what you think of folks on the site, amberglow and jonmc have awlays gone to bat for you, in mentioning how civil and urbane you actually are at the live gatherings. Please, come over and shake hands with the crowd. No duplicity here - show up. Buy a round. Relax. The cluster of other visitors to the site is scarcely a wilding mob, so there's no need to fear or hostility. Should scheduling be a problem for you, the offer is still very much open for any other shindig.
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:48 AM on March 22, 2006

I was just kidding. Well, Irving Place, unlike other venues, doesn't make me feel old, so, there's a very good chance...but not sure I can afford "buying [everyone] a round." How about just you?
posted by ParisParamus at 3:51 AM on March 22, 2006

Of course! Metro-North tickets don't exactly grow on trees, I might be able to afford a pitcher of might have to settle for Red Stripe. ; )
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:58 AM on March 22, 2006

(Or perhaps I can drag over some of the lovely cider I'm enjoying now.)
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:59 AM on March 22, 2006

For a split second, I saw my name and thought I was being called out.

I will be there!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:54 AM on March 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'll try and make it.
posted by jonmc at 6:12 AM on March 22, 2006

Revival is extremely awesome. I'll sadly have to miss this meetup. Someone accidentally spill their beer on Mathowie for me, since that's probably what I'd do if I were there.
posted by Plutor at 6:31 AM on March 22, 2006

I will be buying a van at that time. Really. Have fun!
posted by safetyfork at 6:32 AM on March 22, 2006

scarabic, it sucks we never had the chance to meet in SF, nor in NYC, as i'm no longer in the area :( sorry i'll miss out on the party, but enjoy manhattan and all the lovely things around the city...
posted by naxosaxur at 6:52 AM on March 22, 2006

You all suck for having a meetup on the same weekend as the biggest bestest swim meet of the season. That is all.
posted by dame at 8:35 AM on March 22, 2006

PP - meetups are like Valhalla, or the Klingon home world: you can lay your weapons down and drink with your enemies.

naxos - my heart is crushed! crushed like a walnut!
posted by scarabic at 8:53 AM on March 22, 2006

No matter what you think of folks on the site, amberglow and jonmc have awlays gone to bat for you, in mentioning how civil and urbane you actually are at the live gatherings.

I've never met him, to my knowledge--jon has tho. Come on, PP--it'll be interesting, to say the least.
posted by amberglow at 8:56 AM on March 22, 2006

scarabic, naxo's somewhere much more fab--i'll fill you in at the meetup, if it's ok with naxo : >
posted by amberglow at 8:57 AM on March 22, 2006

Maybe, maybe.
posted by R. Mutt at 9:39 AM on March 22, 2006

I have no idea what I'm schedule is like that day, but I'll try and swing by for a bit.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:55 AM on March 22, 2006

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE mister, a lot of people are showing up JUST TO MEET YOU! "I'll try and swing by for a bit"? No. YOU BETTER BE THERE or we will come and find you.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:05 AM on March 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

I have my methods.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:05 AM on March 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

no doubt I will be by.
posted by gaspode at 10:22 AM on March 22, 2006

I'll still have to wait until the semister cools. Instead of returning to college, I could've bought my batchelor's from a diploma mill, but nooooo!

But PP a round for me, though. And another for scarabic, our designated naxosaxur for the weekend.
posted by Smart Dalek at 10:24 AM on March 22, 2006

Hmm, a reason to go into Manhattan, and alcohol (and of course, MeFites)? Count me in.

Maybe I'll even get some people to know who I am!
posted by Godbert at 10:55 AM on March 22, 2006

YOU BETTER BE THERE or we will come and find you.

The rub is I have a baby and my wife in a town they've never been to, it'll be kind of cold outside and we have some wedding engagements earlier that day and a ton of friends in town, so I don't know if I'll be trying to meet people for dinner that night, but I can probably get away for a bit before dinner and say hi.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:07 AM on March 22, 2006

Oh. Those are pretty good reasons. (I thought maybe you just wanted to spend some "quality" time at "Scores".)
posted by R. Mutt at 11:12 AM on March 22, 2006

Well, I SUPPOSE those are good excuses. But only because that baby is cute.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:22 AM on March 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

(And I don't even know that it needs saying, but of course your wife is welcome. We're very friendly to non-Mefite spouses; just ask Mr. Gaspode. Of course, then I suppose the baby would have to stay home alone, which probably wouldn't work, so......)
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:23 AM on March 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

We've had babies at NYC meetups before.

They seem to be a common sight at certain bars...Mathowie could bring the whole family.
posted by Stynxno at 12:01 PM on March 22, 2006

Thats true, now that smoking is banned.
posted by R. Mutt at 12:27 PM on March 22, 2006

True, and the way Revival is set up, with the upstairs couchy room, it'd be a perfectly comfortable place for a baby.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 12:30 PM on March 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'll be in NYC this weekend. Would it be weird/bad to attend another city's meetup?
posted by k8t at 4:23 AM on March 23, 2006

No. Please attend.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 5:01 AM on March 23, 2006 [1 favorite]

ha ha amberglow...no need to tell them...everyone knows ive gone to live in kazakhstan to gain one year ploughing experience.

happy-lucky number-one scarabic...it would have been awesome to meet you...and i offer regardless my best wishes, and to an excellent week of exciting travel!

matt howie...revival is totally cool, but no place for babies...it's like musky and kind of dank in there. i mean, c'mon. it's a divey bar. in nyc. no offense guys (or TPS) rite?
posted by naxosaxur at 7:49 AM on March 23, 2006

The downstairs, maybe... the upstairs isn't so bad.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:30 AM on March 23, 2006 [1 favorite]