Vegas Meetup

September 19, 2006 7:20 AM

Vegas Wedding/Meetup Update [mi]
posted by Ethereal Bligh to MetaFilter gatherings at 7:20 AM (44 comments total)

So far the definites are:

dlarge, Elizard, essexjan, getoffmylawn, ikkyu2, jonmc, kmellis, krix, mischief, NortonDC, occhiblu, onlyconnect, OrangeSwan, pips, saf, scarabic, Stynxno, ThePinkSuperhero, and Zack_Replica

...with DaShiv as very possible. He needs a place to stay Saturday night. Someone help!

There's still some others who should be coming. I'm looking at you, Los Angeles mefites. It's not far.

This is really shaping up to be an historic meetup in several respects, but hopefully especially in FUN. I'm really excited and looking forward to meeting everyone.

There are two hotels at which a people have clustered: Barbary Coast and Gold Coast. It has been suggested that informal meetups be held each happy hour at the Barbary Coast main bar.

If you're someone who comes at the last minute, you can hook up with the rest of us by possibly finding someone at the Barbary Coast bar during happy hour, or leaving a message for me (Keith Ellis) at the Barbary Coast¹, or, of course, showing up at the lovely couple's wedding Saturday night at the Graceland Chapel, 9:30PM.

A number of us, including myself, will be there through an extended weekend, Thursday through Monday.

1. If you know anyone else's full name who is staying there, you can of course ask for them.

xposted to MeCha
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:21 AM on September 19, 2006

You dorks are gonna webcast this shit, right?
posted by cortex at 7:39 AM on September 19, 2006

apparently, the chapel streams weddings to the night live as they happen. I'll make sure somebody links.
posted by jonmc at 7:44 AM on September 19, 2006

I'm looking at you, Los Angeles mefites.

And for god's sake, if you do it, do it right: rent a red convertible, overinflate the shit out of the tires, and try to time your dosage so that things kick in right as you get past Barstow.
posted by COBRA! at 7:47 AM on September 19, 2006

Is there a way to capture the video stream and post it? I'm going to be partying on a schooner that night but would love to see this momentous occasion.
posted by CunningLinguist at 7:50 AM on September 19, 2006

Who's getting married? jonmc and quonsar?
posted by davy at 7:51 AM on September 19, 2006

CL, you'd have to check with the Graceland Chapel people for details. I'm not a streaming video expert.

davy, no, quonsar and me are not getting married. But we'll always have Sheboygan.

(also, to all the people, who've helped out like gaspode, thepinksuperhero, Bligh, and the rest, not to mention the entire NYC MeFiCha Drinkin' Posse, and simply everyone else who's shown so much enthusiasm for this wedding: thank you. It really means a lot)
posted by jonmc at 7:56 AM on September 19, 2006

What day is this thing again?
posted by jonson at 8:25 AM on September 19, 2006

This weekend. The wedding is Saturday.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:33 AM on September 19, 2006

Which deli are they registered at?
posted by Cyrano at 8:37 AM on September 19, 2006

To save some frustration and the slamming of Graceland's site on Saturday I offer this info -I was just at a friend's wedding at this chapel earlier in the month and I don't believe the video will be streamed live. At some point after the wedding (days? hours? I'm not sure) folks will be able to go here and enter the bride and groom's info (real names and wedding date) and watch the video. You'll need Windows Media Player.
posted by krix at 8:46 AM on September 19, 2006

I would drive down (it's only 7-8 hours) but my wife is having surgery on Thursday and will be recuperating over the weekend.

I will, however, drink aseveral toast(s) to the newlyweds.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:55 AM on September 19, 2006

I would drive down (it's only 7-8 hours) but my wife is having surgery on Thursday...

Well, here's wishing her and you the best on that.
posted by y2karl at 1:34 PM on September 19, 2006

Thanks y2karl, and thanks for the Seattle sightseeing suggestions - my daughter and I had a nice time.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:14 PM on September 19, 2006

(it's only 7-8 hours)

get-well-soon wishes to her crash. but I couldn't avoid smiling at your "only 7-8- hours" comment -- it's so very true that for Europeans 100 miles are a very long drive, and for Americans 100 years are a very long time
posted by matteo at 2:36 PM on September 19, 2006 [1 favorite]

I mean for many of us 7-8 hours are a cross-country trip
posted by matteo at 2:37 PM on September 19, 2006

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY so excited.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:08 PM on September 19, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'd really love to be there, 'cause I actually will be in North America for the first time since 2002 (arriving in Vancouver on Saturday morning), but I just can't do it, I don't think. And I've never been to Vegas.

Best wishes to the happy couple, though, and I'll definitely be raising a few (in relative proximity) in your honour.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:47 PM on September 19, 2006

we'll always have Sheboygan.

that was Charlevoix, you twit.
posted by quonsar at 6:07 PM on September 19, 2006

well, my memory fails me. We were sniffing a lot of paint thinner that weekend.
posted by jonmc at 6:22 PM on September 19, 2006

Come one, come all! This is going to be the ultimate in MeFi meetups.
posted by orange swan at 7:01 PM on September 19, 2006

Man, I really have no reason NOT to go. A wedding full of strangers and a ton of alcohol just seem so perfect. I mean, SOMEONE'S got to represent the 30k+ contingent, right?

Right?
posted by quite unimportant at 7:06 PM on September 19, 2006

more the merrier. go nuts.
posted by jonmc at 7:30 PM on September 19, 2006

The webcast totally needs to be posted to Projects.
posted by gsteff at 7:33 PM on September 19, 2006

I would love to attend your wedding but the gods of filthy lucre are not showering me with blessings this month. Sorry.

Best wishes to bride and groom!

Skal!
posted by jason's_planet at 8:37 PM on September 19, 2006

I'm *dying* that I can't be there. Best wishes to Pips, congrats to jonmc and my undying envy to those of you who are attending.

*pout*
posted by Space Kitty at 9:55 PM on September 19, 2006

Wish I could be there. Here's wishing you a happy ever after.
posted by puddinghead at 1:29 AM on September 20, 2006

Having used up all my US Wedding Travel credits going to one in Santa Fe t'other week I'm looking on enviously at this...

...but wishing you an Pips all the best. Have a fantastic time mate.

I'll be in NYC late Jan so maybe the chance to toast you in person(s). Assuming you're allowed out after the big day ;-)
posted by i_cola at 5:16 AM on September 20, 2006

I just can't do it, I don't think. And I've never been to Vegas.

staverino, I always pictured you as a Canadian Hunter S. Thompson. So take some drugs, hop in a car and drive, motherfucker.
posted by jonmc at 6:52 AM on September 20, 2006

take tons and tons of pics for us--and bring (or take from the hotel) a wine glass wrapped in a napkin to break. : >
posted by amberglow at 9:22 AM on September 20, 2006

I'll do that for her religion. For mine, she'll pretend she's a virgin.
posted by jonmc at 9:23 AM on September 20, 2006

okey dokey : >
posted by amberglow at 2:57 PM on September 20, 2006

Hey, folks, any hints on what to wear?
posted by onlyconnect at 6:11 PM on September 20, 2006

any semi-formal Ramones t-shirt ought to do the trick.
posted by scody at 6:28 PM on September 20, 2006

onlyconnect: think 'rock and roll formal.'
posted by jonmc at 8:25 PM on September 20, 2006

staverino, I always pictured you as a Canadian Hunter S. Thompson. So take some drugs, hop in a car and drive, motherfucker.

If my old buddy Craig -- who I'm staying with in Van and haven't seen in a decade since our swashbuckling Mexico days, and who is considerably more madcap than even I -- is up for it, don't count me out entirely.

And he's usually up for pretty much anything. So we'll see.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:38 PM on September 20, 2006

"Hey, folks, any hints on what to wear?"

I, frankly, don't have anything appropriate to wear, formal wedding or ironic Elvis either one, and I worried about it for a day and then decided to just try to pick out something a bit nicer than otherwise. That's about the best I can do.

I'm flying out at 3:30PM today (Thu) and I so shouldn't be up now. My whole sleeping schedule got inverted two days ago. I'm going to try to stay up from now until then. Sigh. I get very anxious nowadays before I go out of town for something. I can't ever get packed or ready ahead of time and then then when the night before comes around, I get all messed-up on my sleeping schedule and so everything works out to be last minute and I'm all stressed and thinking, hey, maybe I just shouldn't go. It's such a pain in the ass.

But I'm so excited about going. I'm really, really, really excited about meeting jonmc and scarabic, especially, and everyone else. It's all about the meetup and wedding for me, I'm not that interested in Vegas itself (I've never been before). I know a lot of other people are going perhaps mostly because of Vegas. Or at least that a big part of it. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do. I plan to try playing blackjack. I've never gambled before, at all.

I'm real nervous about getting around and pain and fatigue. At someone's suggestion, I looked into and eventually decided to rent a little disabled person's electric scooter thingie. I have no idea how that's going to turn out. Am I going to take the thing apart and put it into the trunk of the rental car and then pull it out and put it together whenever I go anywhere, or what? And I'm really self-conscious about this stuff, it's hard enough for me to use a cane.

Sorry, I'm babbling.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:40 AM on September 21, 2006

Oh god, now I have to go, just so I can drink a bottle of bourbon, dose myself with dangerous chemicals, and steal politely ask to borrow EB's electric scooter for a triumphal ride down the middle of the strip.

Man, I gotta talk to my buddy in Vancouver about a road trip or something.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:48 AM on September 21, 2006

I would be thrilled if you came, stav. Is it really out of the question that you could make it down there?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:10 AM on September 21, 2006

Almost. I arrive in Vancouver lunchtime Saturday, and my funds are limited, and given that I only have about 14 days in-country and an awful lot of friends and family to see, and plans already made, it'd be pretty hard.

But, like I said, my buddy Craig, with whom I'm staying in Vancouver, is a complete madman with an almost supernatural skill for making the seemingly-impossible happen (and he still owes me some money from way back when), so we'll see. Unlikely, but not impossible.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:30 AM on September 21, 2006

This is the friend I wrote about here (I called him Greg, in a pointless attempt to conceal the names of the uninnocent), by the way, so you can see that an impromptu trip to Vegas wouldn't be entirely out of character for the two of us.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:36 AM on September 21, 2006

Please make it work, Stav. This is the MeFi meetup.
posted by orange swan at 5:42 AM on September 21, 2006

Do it for all of us who can't make it, stav. Man, I wish I could be there!
posted by languagehat at 7:46 AM on September 21, 2006

early 70's prom wear, definitely--afros optional : >

(think ruffled shirts and velvet bellbottoms)
posted by amberglow at 3:51 PM on September 21, 2006