SLC Meetup

September 25, 2009 4:29 PM

This is the official cortex Tours America Salt Lake City meetup thread.

October 1. Downtown Salt Lake City. cortex. Me. Crown Burgers. 3.2 beer. You?

Let's do this.

posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey to MetaFilter gatherings at 4:29 PM (20 comments total)

I'm just here to say - yay!! you pushed the 'hot babe whistleblowers' post off the front page!
posted by gman at 4:35 PM on September 25

Oh gosh yes. I was just about to write you nattering email to inquire about this.
posted by cortex at 4:56 PM on September 25

I will be in Salt Lake City with time to kill on the evening of October 9th I believe, by the way.
posted by jessamyn at 5:19 PM on September 25

Yeah, if you're in Salt Lake City you'll have time to kill. Definitely. :)
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 5:28 PM on September 25

I will be staying there that Friday night pretty sure. Will hit you up for clean and decent places to stay. Sorry to derail a potential meetup thread but if anyone's free NEXT week, I should be in town.
posted by jessamyn at 6:39 PM on September 25

I can de-lurk for this, but Crown Burger, really? Is it too late to request a change of venue to at least Squatters or Red Rock?
posted by dl1vr8r at 7:53 PM on September 25

Crown Burger would just be the appetizer. Can't let cortex leave without a gutful of pastrami.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 8:55 PM on September 25

Not sure if I would enhance or detract from the proceedings - but I'd be available after 6:30 PM on October 1. If you're talking about the Crown Burger at 377 East 200 South, I would point out that there is a vastly superior sandwich to be had less than a mile to the east at Hires Big H. [Having pastrami in Salt Lake City is like attending the ballet in, say, Galveston. The locals will give it their all, I'm sure. But it will be a weak representation of the art.]

I'll be happy to buy jessamyn the caffeinated beverage of her choice at our award-winning The Coffee Garden on October 9, which was Father Beese's birthday, if she'll be willing to sign her rookie card for me. [When Mother Beese is in town, we accomodate her at the Marriott, of which she's expressed no complaints - and she's a gifted complaint expresser. But it's convenient to not much more than the Olympic stadium and a deer-inhabited cemetery, so YMMV.]
posted by Joe Beese at 10:05 AM on September 26

Dammit, I'm going to miss both San Francisco and SLC.

On the other hand, knowing you're picking Crown Burger makes me less upset.
posted by weston at 3:03 PM on September 26

You know what? Fuck you Crown haters. Organize it yourself.







Just kidding.

I will take cortex to Crown for lunch, depending on his schedule of course. I don't care what the evening's fare is and I'm not familiar enough with downtown to know what's the best anyway. I would've chosen Port'o'Call if they hadn't torn it down, so anyone in the know is more than welcome to jump in with some suggestions.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 4:17 PM on September 26

I was thinking Skybox at the Gateway (they have great pizza, and a metric shit-ton of arcade games) but last week I was there and all the old-school stuff was out of order (no Donkey Kong, no skee-ball, no bowling, not a single functional pinball game).

May end up just walking up to Temple Square and having a kiss-in.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 7:02 PM on September 28

TIME'S A-WASTIN'. cortex arrives tonight (THAT'S TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30) so unless someone pops in with some suggestions we're going to hold tomorrow night's Salt Lake City meetup IN MY LIVING ROOM IN LAYTON.

Is this thing on?
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 12:53 PM on September 30

Like Donkey Kong.

Crash has kindly offered to put me up and drop me off in downtown SLC tomorrow morning so I can proceed to bum around—my default plan pre-meetup is just to poke around the city all day, but if anyone has specific suggestions I'm open to 'em.
posted by cortex at 2:22 PM on September 30

May end up just walking up to Temple Square....

Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearsals used to be open on Thursday nights, don't know if they still are, and religious choral music may not be the order of the evening anyway.

if anyone has specific suggestions I'm open to 'em

There's a few suggestions in some past SLC AskMe threads, many of them good (some of 'em even mine). Maybe check the KRCL and KUER event calendars, see if there's anything up. But if you can get up into the mountains, I hear the fall colors are pretty great right now. Wish I could offer to give you a tour in person, but buses or shuttles might even run up to resorts even though it's off ski season.
posted by weston at 6:55 PM on September 30

Brewvies has $8 pitchers of Roosters' beer tomorrow night, and is showing a ski movie from Powderwhore Productions (FLAKES) benefitting the Utah Avalance Center, with showtimes at 7 and 10 PM. That could be fun.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 7:40 PM on September 30

7 and 9 PM, sorry.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 7:42 PM on September 30

OK, the final plans:

7:00
Brewvies (northeast corner of 7th South and 2nd West)
Food, beer, and a ski movie.

Come early, the ski movie guys said it sold out both showings last night.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 4:20 PM on October 1

That was a very tiny meetup, but it was a pleasure to meet crash and the missus, and the ski movie was fun (though the line and ticketing process was run as if by a bunch of stoner skiing enthusi—ohhhhhh...).

Pictures, and note that technically it is indeed plural, are up. Sorry I didn't get a chance to meet any more of y'all.
posted by cortex at 9:09 AM on October 2

We very much enjoyed having cortex as our guest; I just wish I had been able to take some time off during the day instead of leaving him to his own devices in the city. Salt Lake City can be a very dangerous place for outsiders.

If they're as innocent as kittens, maybe. You're probably safer here than in your own living room.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 6:29 PM on October 2

I was at one point savaged by a band of wandering crosswalk flags. Nearly had me in, them.
posted by cortex at 2:23 AM on October 3