Comments on: The first ever Los Angeles Metafilter Event is Friday

The first ever Los Angeles Metafilter Event is Friday

waxpancake — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:54:50 -0800

The first ever Los Angeles Metafilter Event is Friday, March 29th in Santa Monica. (Details inside...)

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:57:24 -0800

Dinner and drinks in Southern California, the original birthplace of Metafilter, with a motley crew of Metafilter users. We'll be meeting in the private front room of Renee's in Santa Monica. If you're interested in coming, please RSVP in this thread so I can give an approximate headcount to the restaurant in a couple weeks. Also, if you're not already on it, you can join the discussion list for Mefi users in Los Angeles.

When:
Friday, March 29 at 7:00pm

Where:
Renee's Courtyard Cafe (Map)
522 Wilshire Blvd (at 5th St)
Santa Monica, CA

Parking:
Parking is available in the structure one block south, on 4th Street between Wilshire and Arizona.

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:09:17 -0800

Mötley Crüe is going to be there??? Woo!

By: croutonsupafreak

croutonsupafreak — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:34:21 -0800

hmmm ... Los Angeles Metafilter Event. The acronym possibilities are astounding.

By: thebigpoop

thebigpoop — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:59:20 -0800

Lamé? What's so astoundingly funny about lamé?

By: perplexed

perplexed — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:23:01 -0800

rsvp

By: boogah

boogah — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:27:30 -0800

color me there.

By: bingo

bingo — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:15:05 -0800

I will attend.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:23:05 -0800

We're all gonna get liquored up and get "MeFi" and "MeTa" tattooed on our knuckles.

Looks like MeFi is winning, but back comes brother MeTa!

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:31:02 -0800

anyone want to get me a ticket from Atlanta to LA? Hell, it can even be one-way and i'll just transfer to SouthernCal or something!

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 08:02:06 -0800

Waxy: I'll be there.

By: chacal

chacal — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:12:04 -0800

I'll be there.

By: inviolable

inviolable — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:24:50 -0800

I will be there. Rock on.

By: dness2

dness2 — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 11:39:22 -0800

I should be there.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:52:39 -0800

I AM A GOLDEN GOD! Huh? Oh. Yeah, I'll be there.

By: rio

rio — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:42:44 -0800

RSVP. (am i the only female attending?!!??! hrm...)

By: bingo

bingo — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 18:44:18 -0800

bring some friends, rio. you know we mefi guys are going to be party animals.

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 19:52:40 -0800

I don't know if my parole officer will allow me to go that far outside the Van Nuys/Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena corridor, especially if CUJoe is going to be in the same room. Besides, if I don't get my weblog out of its self-induced coma before then, do you think I'd show my RL face where MeFi-ers could see it? Besides, I have a much-deserved reputation as a party vegetable (you may recognize me from Alton Brown's recent Squash episode). Besides!

By: Dom

Dom — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:34:59 -0800

i may show up.

By: bingo

bingo — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 08:00:27 -0800

Maybe this should be re-posted, so it doesn't fall off the bottom of the screen before more relevant people see it?

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:34:10 -0800

Matt has it in the sidebar, I'm sure it's fine.

By: jonah

jonah — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:52:29 -0800

I know I said I was in on the mailing list, but I may be out of town (being a holiday weekend and all). But me on the list of definite maybe fence straddlers.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 06:45:58 -0800

I'll be there.

By: billman

billman — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:47:18 -0800

I'll try to swing by that eve.

By: phalkin

phalkin — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:02:06 -0800

I'm there, totally. And unlike those unprepared MeFiers from NYC, I'm bringing a camera. This probably means that I'll do a gratuitous self-link the next day, and see if I can't kill my web server.

By: dkhong

dkhong — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:45:50 -0800

There too! Gotta see what this is all about...

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:09:56 -0800

Oh. This is me RSVPing. With a wifely guest. Is it OK to bring wifely guests?

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:33:12 -0800

It's perfectly good to bring wifely, husbandly, girlfriendly or boyfriendly guests. I'm bringing mine.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:40:47 -0800

Dammit. My wife can't go. How bout inflatable guests?

By: dness2

dness2 — Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:49:56 -0800

This inflatable mefite can't go anymore. I have a commitment halfway through the evening and I can't justify a 2 hr drive for a negative 15 minute visit. Too bad we can't have an Orange County parallel shindig. Sorry, but ixnay on my ttendanceaay.

By: artlung

artlung — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:51:30 -0800

As I'm in San Diego, it's a longshot that I'll be able to attend, but one never knows. Sounds like fun anyway! I wonder if there are other San Diego Mefites.

By: stevis

stevis — Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:22:32 -0800

Excellent! And, just after I moved to L.A. this week. Now we'll see if I can find it...

By: neuroshred

neuroshred — Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:29:55 -0800

Looks like I'll be in LA this weekend. I'll try to make it.

By: willnot

willnot — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 09:57:33 -0800

It was a good time. My thoughts here.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:36:12 -0800

Pictures here. Thoughts later.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:19:35 -0800

That was fun, though I drank too much. The final roster was Kafkaesque, willnot, bingo, eyeballkid, y6y6y6,
lhl, Optamystic, gatordavid, stevis, perplexed, chacal, and myself.

By: chacal

chacal — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:48:25 -0800

ok, i've got some pictures as well. I had a good time, thanks for setting this up, wax..

By: bingo

bingo — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:25:31 -0800

I had a good time. Ended up spending a lot of time with Kafkaesque and Optamystic, if only because the three of us had nicotine cravings that kept drawing us outside. I'm pretty sure willnot didn't believe anything I said.

The food was good and the beer was not as expensive as I expected when I got the bill for my tab (either that, or someone else paid for some of my beer). On the other hand, they didn't serve pitchers, and despite the illusion that we had our own bar, if we wanted anything on tap, we had to wait for a waitress we shared with the rest of the restaurant to get it for us.

No girls, alas, except a couple who wandered drunkenly into our room, looked around, and left with all the dazed ambivalence of Mickey Rourke leaving his neighbor's apartment in Barfly. You wouldn't have come to any harm, rio...

By: willnot

willnot — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:34:44 -0800

No bingo, I don't believe a word I said. Cause I know most time I'm just full of crap.

By: bingo

bingo — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:41:34 -0800

I should add that as geeks go, I was surprised to find our group to be on the whole reasonably good-looking, well-dressed, and socially adept (at least before a few drinks, but that's the nature of the medium as it were). I'm not including myself in that range, mind you.

Also, the experience I fear has made me feel the overpowering need to get a blog. It was like being in that trendy bar for MBAs in American Psycho and not having a business card (come to think of it, I need one of those as well).

By the way, fellas...my friend's band, which I believe I rambled on about aforenight, is cutting their first record, and needs a serious website overhaul. As in, they need a completely fucking new website. It's a paying gig, will include an ongoing maintenance fee, and you would basically be receiving content from me, as I will be writing most of it (bios, timeline, concert reports, etc.). The old site is here. Anyone with an interest in talking more about this, email me. This is not going to make anyone rich, but it's going to mean a lot of exposure and a steadily increasing rate of pay if the band continues to do well.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:05:49 -0800

Wow! We have some aspiring spirit photographers in our LA bunch I guess. This confirms a couple of facts:

- The get together was held in a Vietnam bunker. The Doors played in the background as we danced, and wept for our fallen comrades.

- We are, if fact, those shaking-head demons from Jacob's Ladder, which should surprise no-one.

It was a good time everyone. I just hope Bingo's upholstery was up to the challenge.

Pernods all round?

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:28:24 -0800

IN

in fact.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:24:42 -0800

So there was a three-hour-long earthquake in LA last night? Huh.

By: stevis

stevis — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:36:15 -0800

Hi all. I've recovered (mostly) from my hangover and posted my photos here: http://www.tevis.net/features/LAME.htm

I think I got the names/faces matched up right, but if I made an error let me know. I'm going to go lay down again.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:55:14 -0800

groovy pictures. the class photo turned out well.

By: bingo

bingo — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:14:52 -0800

My upholstery, for lack of a better word, survived. Nice photos, stevis. Now none of us can hide. Witness gatordave macking out on the waitress. I think she likes you, man. Want her number?

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:07:27 -0800

Final pictures and commentary here.

By: rio

rio — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:03:54 -0800

bingo - earlier, I really did intend on going...but I flaked out for the reason that it was Good Friday and I had previously volunteered to help out at that Mass. I figured if I arrived at 11 everyone'd be drunk and I'd have a lot of catching up to do. Being the only chick there woulda been odd, though...

...and LOL at all the shaky blurry pictures. I'm glad Matt's request didn't ruin the night. I thought it might, with everyone running around with cameras, trying to shake them as they were shooting, and everyone else trying to be in every picture so's they could be in Matt's book, the Ultimate Cool Thing^TM for a MeFi member.