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NYC-Filter

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:15:00 -0800

Anyone interested in creating a spin-off board for NYC MeFites?

There's a lot of us from NYC here and I figure a spin-off board for news, events, shows, questions, and general shit-shooting would be appreciated. We've had some spin-offs that have worked and some that unfortunately have not and if I had half a clue as to what makes the difference between the two I'd have posted this to Projects, but I do not.

By: zarq

zarq — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:18:39 -0800

Only if you call it FuhggedaboutMe.

Sure. How can I help?

By: Grither

Grither — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:21:57 -0800

I think a requirement is having a wonderchicken do all the dirty work for you. Unfortunately, he's not a NYC area dude. I wish he was, so I could buy him a beer!

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:23:27 -0800

I would enjoy this.

By: garlic

garlic — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:35:27 -0800

In Chicago, we seem to mostly be using twitter for this purpose, with links there to other sites with event details, or articles complaining about road maintenance in the bike lanes, or pictures of our puppies. This way we don't need a wonderchicken on the back-end.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:41:16 -0800

Is something like NYC-Me / NYSeeMe (Me for MeFi, natch) available?

And yeah, anything that makes the NYC circle more incestuous and insular. Bring it on! =D

By: item

item — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:42:50 -0800

Sometimes it seems like Metafilter proper has turned into a spin-off board for NYC Mefites.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:52:45 -0800

This is my idea, so it is obviously awesome! Although I was thinking something bare bones like a listserv or yahoo/google group because site maintenence is a pain.

Twitter won't work at all for various reasons.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:56:09 -0800

i already know where you all live though

and since it is brooklyn there is really no danger of me creepin on you

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:04:31 -0800

elizardbits crouching in a Bensonhurst alleyway with an elephant gun and pith helmet.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:06:36 -0800

that just seems so inconvenient.

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:06:55 -0800

I'd like this.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:13:19 -0800

I saw elizardbits in Prospect Park feeding pigeons at 6am

By: gaspode

gaspode — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:15:00 -0800

Sure. Happy to take more abuse for living in Queens on yet another board.

By: Grither

Grither — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:19:03 -0800

elizardbits: "that just seems so inconvenient"

Kinda like living in Queens!

sorry gaspose, couldn't resist!

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:25:57 -0800

MetaFilter-NYC Google Group.

Come on in, the water's fine.

By: softlord

softlord — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:26:35 -0800

As one of the few NYC-based people who was actually born here let me say two things:

1) get off my lawn, you brooklyn hipsters
2) What would be the purpose of it? (meant honestly, not snarkily). Would it be for NYC-specific FPP-style posts? Would it be specifically for organizing meetups and getting to know fellow NYC-based MeFites? Would it be purely for NYCers to continue to insist upon their own exceptionalism and crow about how awesome Brooklyn is? (ok that last thing was snarky)
3) IMHO, I would prefer fragmentations like this be in a format less likely to 'compete' with the overall metafilter experience, so that people don't need to choose which site they go to, or add yet another side to their list of interesting websites go visit. To that end i think a yahoo group would be awesome.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:29:57 -0800

Griphus that google group is AWESOME and I am JOINING IT RIGHT NOW, yay!

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:33:33 -0800

Okay, and I also just used it to ask for a specific recommendation that I'm not comfortable asking for on AskMe. This is really great. Thanks so much for making this happen, griphus.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:38:10 -0800

Okay, the young rope-rider is in charge of the group so please address any issues/complaints/whatever to her.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:40:46 -0800

Wait I wanna be a cool kid too

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:41:45 -0800

YOU DON'T EVEN GO HERE

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:42:24 -0800

First they take away Batman and now this?!

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:44:39 -0800

please address any issues/complaints/whatever to her.

my complaint is that shakespeherian doesn't live in nyc, how do you plan to address this issue

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:45:42 -0800

i would like to announce my new kickstarter campaign to buy me a vacation home in nyc

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:47:39 -0800

The SF Cabal, like the Chicago Cabal Which Does Not Exist, seems to use twitter for this purpose.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:48:14 -0800

Wait, you don't live in NYC? :'( I feel that this is a personal betrayal.

And yes, all the complaints, all for me, YES

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:48:38 -0800

I would support (and be willing to help administer) something like this for DC as well. A full website is way above my pay grade but a general network of Google groups for regional hangouts questions and whatnot, rather than sticking everything into the melting pot of IRL/Ask, seems like a pretty cool idea.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:55:50 -0800

"i already know where you all live though

and since it is brooklyn there is really no danger of me creepin on you"

I'm in Manhattan and I don't recall you ever creepin on me. =(

Or anyone, for that matter. I am thoroughly un-creeped-upon. Whatever happened to creepin it real?

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:56:32 -0800

"Creepin' it Real" was the b-side to "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah."

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:57:40 -0800

Also I made shakespeherian an honorary NYC MeFite a while ago, so he knows the secret handshake and now I've said too much

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:58:35 -0800

THE SECRET HANDSHAKE IS JUST A HANDSHAKE AND THEN WHILE YOU'RE DOING IT YOU COUGH NERVOUSLY

By: maryr

maryr — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:59:15 -0800

Into the other person's face?

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:59:56 -0800

you hold on for slightly too long and your hands are clammy

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:00:11 -0800

No, you turn your head and cough. Also shakespeherian's conception of "just a handshake" is rather personal so heads up.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:00:26 -0800

SEEKRITS REVEALED

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:02:21 -0800

That's why they call me handshakespeherian

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:04:08 -0800

Is there an FAQ/Walkthrough? I'm having trouble getting past the level 2 handshake.

This would probably be easier if my parents had just bought me the Power Glove like I deserved. I was GOOD, dammit!

By: softlord

softlord — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:04:10 -0800

OK fine. Now there's a MetaFilter Atlanta Google Group too.

If this keeps up maybe there could be a page on the wiki.

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:13:20 -0800

I love this!!

Google Groups make my head hurt, but fiine.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:19:23 -0800

Okay, it's official: we got SIDEBAR'D.

(Thanks jessamyn)

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:19:55 -0800

I HAVE DECIDED TO JOIN IN ON THE HOOPLAH AND TO DO.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:20:23 -0800

You're late, it stopped being cool.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:21:31 -0800

It did? Dammit I knew I shouldn't have put all those Lisa Frank stickers on it.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:24:28 -0800

I'm in for the retro-vintage cool.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:25:37 -0800

I'm in! Sounds fun. Anybody want to go see The Dark Knight when it comes out?

prosted by $50 Hobo at 12:23pm on July 12 [+] [!]

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:26:05 -0800

Anyone want to start a Boston group? We could always be looked down upon by the NYC group and there would be no posting allowed after 1:00 AM.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:26:08 -0800

Ok the Metafilter Morlock Tunnels Google Group has been created for those who want to party in the basement.

By: davidjmcgee

davidjmcgee — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:27:19 -0800

I saw elizardbits in Prospect Park feeding pigeons at 6am

That was actually me.

Sometimes I disguise myself as pigeons.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:30:39 -0800

And I was being Prospect Park!

Oh what a small world!

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:32:23 -0800

transplanting your consciousness into locations is so last year.

By: Grither

Grither — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:37:10 -0800

Is google groups broken? If I click on the "My Groups" then click 'show' after it says "You also belong to groups in 1 other organization. show" then it comes up with one group (some google reader group). Then I click back on My Groups, and now the metafilter group has disappeared? I have to come back here and click on the direct link.

Why you broke, Google Groups?!

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:48:11 -0800

"Anyone want to start a Boston group? We could always be looked down upon by the NYC group and there would be no posting allowed after 1:00 AM."

Boston has such an inferiority complex around NYC. Silly people, we don't look down on you; we don't even realize you exist!

There. Feel better now? *pats Boston on the head*

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:48:35 -0800

OH HO PATS I GET IT

no srsly i did not do that on purpose

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:49:52 -0800

Yeah, I mean, why would we make fun of Boston when the Dirty Jerz is just right across the river.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:54:21 -0800

You think Boston has an inferiority complex, DC doesn't even get mentioned unless someone is saying "Wait there are people from ther????" GRRR.

Anyway, I'm in.

By: Sara C.

Sara C. — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:58:22 -0800

I saw elizardbits drinking a Sixpoint Sweet Action at Barcade.

Her hair was perfect.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:10:10 -0800

GRAR! Lizard's in Brooklyn.

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:12:00 -0800

You think Boston has an inferiority complex, DC doesn't even get mentioned unless someone is saying "Wait there are people from ther????" GRRR.

I mentioned it!

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:13:41 -0800

Metacooler mostly didn't work because I was wishy-washy about moderating it and we failed to attract the large, diverse group of conversants present on, you know, metafilter. So the thread-hopping during TV shows that happens here was actually richer, deeper, and more interesting. No one wanted to go to a separate site to have shadows of a conversation we could be having on a more successful site.

(Also, semi-related: I get weekly IRL invites for the NYC group even though I'm 2 hours upstate--which I signed up for in the vain hope that I'd be informed about Hudson Valley meet-ups. On the one hand, I really want to go to an NYC meet-up someday; Whelkie keeps telling me to come out and chill; you all seem awesome [if a bit intimidating, but then, I'm shy]. On the other, it's kind of like, here's-your-weekly-meet-up-invite-you-probably-won't go to, and I wonder if this will lessen that. It's hard to figure out the right "nearby" radius for a densely populated area like NYS.)

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:14:36 -0800

I saw elizardbits drinking a Sixpoint Sweet Action at Barcade.

Her hair was perfect.

The elizardbits myth has grown completely out of control.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:17:26 -0800

PhoB - pls notify me of any Hudson Valley meetups. You have my permission to address me personally. Esp. if it's on the West side of the river.

(IIRC, Kingston, NY has free art shuttles on the first Saturday of every month. I'll probably be out of town the week around Labor Day, but I'd be up for this in the fall. Have been meaning to go for ages, anyhow.)

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:20:06 -0800

Hmm. Maybe this is a sign that I should really quit being shy and put together a meet-up.

My brain is all, "But nooo! Scary!" I really need to kick my brain in the butt.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:22:03 -0800

The only thing scary about NYC meetups are the those dark portals that open up and swallow people occasionally.

By: mlle valentine

mlle valentine — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:22:19 -0800

PhoB, I am a native New Yorker and as anyone who has met me at a meetup can attest, I'm not scary at all. I have not been scared by anyone else either! (Yet?)

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:23:02 -0800

It's because you're all so cool.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:23:38 -0800

AVERAGE RENT PRICES IN WHAT YOU GREW UP CONSIDERING REMOTE NEIGHBORHOODS

scary, right?

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:26:18 -0800

I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS ALL FIELDS

By: urbanwhaleshark

urbanwhaleshark — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:26:51 -0800

I thought people were talking about me but then realised UWS is probably 'Upper West Side'.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:31:18 -0800

On the other, it's kind of like, here's-your-weekly-meet-up-invite-you-probably-won't go to, and I wonder if this will lessen that.

Ha ha, no! The weekly meetup will still be weekly meetup-ing.

It's because you're all so cool.

As anyone who has met me can attest I am really not cool. I had a cool moment back in like '08 and I remember it fondly but those days are gone now.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:32:41 -0800

The weekly meetup in case anyone is curious! It is today!

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:41:02 -0800

Sometimes I disguise myself as pigeons.

I gave you an A+ for believability when you all flew away and pooped on that jogger

By: davidjmcgee

davidjmcgee — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:45:25 -0800

It's that Tisch training, yo.

By: Wretch729

Wretch729 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:48:12 -0800

Someone refresh my memory - if I join the Google Group who can see the name attached to my Google profile?

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:52:46 -0800

There's an option to abstain from linking your profile to your group ID, but I'm not sure how airtight it is. Looking in the "members" section of the group, looks like most people aren't linking to their Google profile so all I see is a (self-selected) username and group join date.

The group owner/manager(s) can see email addresses and I'm not sure what other info.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:53:50 -0800

She can see into the depths of your soul and judge you but she never really bothers.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:58:49 -0800

I'm not scary at all

I'm a little bit scary, but only because my face is a smooth featureless expanse of skin, and I have a fang-ringed mouth on either side of my neck, and I whisper lists of fears in lieu of saying "Hello"

By: maryr

maryr — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:01:20 -0800

Is this something I would have to have Google+ to understand?

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:02:22 -0800

GREG NOG'S LIST OF FEARS

1. Lampreys
2. Getting sucked down the pool drain
3. Somehow accidentally stapling your scrotum to your leg
4. ~~Whale sharks~~ nm found out what they are
5. Telemarketing as life skill
6. Finding out those little building pass things for offices downtown cause cancer
7. Krazy Glue
8. Unsuccessfully mixing plaids
9. Oatmeal worms

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:02:31 -0800

A DC one would be awesome! Also I thought PhoBWanKenobi lived near here so that meetup would be in this area which would have been awesome but nooooooo, I guess I don't get to meet her.

By: mlle valentine

mlle valentine — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:02:36 -0800

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about the fangs when I said no one in NYC was scary.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:04:45 -0800

The fangs are good fun. Many an hour I have pleasantly passed throwing popcorn in the general direction of Greg's neck.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:08:18 -0800

they hiss when he gets drunk

By: terrapin

terrapin — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:18:41 -0800

I'd start a Vermont group, but we mostly use smoke signals to announce meetups anyway.

By: Sara C.

Sara C. — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:28:43 -0800

For some reason I read that as a Voldemort group, possibly because fangs and hissing were mentioned in previous comments.

You Dark Mark people can go have your own meetups. I don't want to know about it.

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:29:29 -0800

Oatmeal worms

Well that's just fan-fucking-tastic.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:29:52 -0800

Yes, Greg also makes a delightful cream of muggle soup.

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:30:39 -0800

A DC one would be awesome! Also I thought PhoBWanKenobi lived near here so that meetup would be in this area which would have been awesome but nooooooo, I guess I don't get to meet her.

Aw, sorry, we moved last year! (Metafilter told us where to go, a method I highly recommend).

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:32:35 -0800

Yes, Greg also makes a delightful cream of muggle soup.

But only once.

By: davidjmcgee

davidjmcgee — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:34:29 -0800

Eh, it's still pretty good re-~~animated~~heated.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:35:38 -0800

Well that's just fan-fucking-tastic.

The more I think about it the unhappier I am.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:37:34 -0800

Yeah, it sounds rough, but if you turn it to MED or LOW and pull up the little switch that keeps the head from swiveling, it's workable.

By: SpiffyRob

SpiffyRob — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:40:11 -0800

I swear to god shakes, if you spill the beans on the secret hug of the Chicago Cabal*...

*TINCC

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:43:06 -0800

Just putting the word 'beans' in that sentence is saying too much.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:43:10 -0800

Eh, you all eventually show up at my job anyway.

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:50:41 -0800

You stole ColdChef's line.

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:16:14 -0800

MetaFilter DC

By: SpiffyRob

SpiffyRob — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:19:14 -0800

Just saying "Just putting the word 'beans' in that sentence is saying to much" is saying too much.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:23:43 -0800

YAY! Thanks anotherpanacea! I will do my best to spread the word.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:29:22 -0800

(By which I of course mean "e-mail my husband and roommate". That's about all the power I have.)

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:29:40 -0800

No problem! (Literally, it took less than a minute.) Do you want to be in charge?

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:30:14 -0800

Speaking of, jonmc, I was at the Strand on Monday selling books and tried to find you to say hi. Was that one of your days off, or did I just miss you?

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:30:52 -0800

I am glad to have started the grand MetaFilter tradition of passing the buck w/r/t spin-off community management.

All credit goes to MeTa threads over the years.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:31:39 -0800

Do you want to be in charge?

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:32:15 -0800

Actually I suppose I could, whatever. I'm going to take this to MeFi mail so the New Yorkers can't see all our awesome stuff.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:33:09 -0800

WE OWN THE SKYSCRAPERS

WE SEE ALL

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:34:15 -0800

I was going to say YEAH RIGHT LIKE THERE IS ANY AWESOME STUFF IN DC but there really kind of is so uh

ANYWAY

TACOS

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:34:30 -0800

i like them

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:34:48 -0800

FREE MUSEUMS!

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:36:56 -0800

DC (well, Arlington) has the greatest taco truck in the world.

IN THE WORLD, I say.

By: blue t-shirt

blue t-shirt — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:37:45 -0800

Seriously, though, on topic, as a non-New Yorker, I think there's some value in this. I think there's a lot of in-groupy chatty joke-jokes in the MeFi comment system that apparently disproportionally comes from folk in NY (seeing a lot of the same names in this thread!), and I don't think it makes the site any better, frankly. So we'll see how this goes.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:39:25 -0800

> Speaking of, jonmc, I was at the Strand on Monday selling books and tried to find you

And with that, the carefully maintained character known as "jonmc" fell apart.

By: davidjmcgee

davidjmcgee — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:39:26 -0800

dcwithoutindictment.com

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:42:32 -0800

I am not from NYC but contribute a solid 80% of the annoying and unfunny jokes in threads.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:48:28 -0800

And with that, the carefully maintained character known as "jonmc" fell apart.

It was actually a million tiny spiders and one confused shark zipped up in a people suit.

By: Bulgaroktonos

Bulgaroktonos — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:52:56 -0800

DC (well, Arlington) has the greatest taco truck in the world.

I think I know the truck you mean and it's good, but fuck that noise Virginia sucks.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:57:56 -0800

From davidjmcgee's link:

The Government of the District of Columbia has operated
2
day(s) without a high-profile local politician or official charged with crimes relating to corruption, fraud, or public integrity.
Previous count: 33 day(s)
Public integrity begins with YOU! Do your part to set a new record.

I don't know if this is encouraging me not to engage in fraudulent behavior or not to report it.

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:59:42 -0800

DC (well, Arlington) has the greatest taco truck in the world.

IN THE WORLD, I say.

I know exactly the one you're talking about, but don't you think Oakland is a hell of a drive from DC?

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:59:43 -0800

It was actually a million tiny spiders and one confused shark zipped up in a people suit.

You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man, you're OH MY GOD SPIDERS EVERYWHERE

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:03:36 -0800

I am going to just shoot from the hip here and speculate that the greatest taco truck in the world is probably somewhere in Mexico.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:09:29 -0800

No, in the realm of Elemental Taco.

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:10:05 -0800

They should race. Then we'd know.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:10:27 -0800

Yes, but the gulf between what the Mexicans consider tacos and what Americans consider tacos is as wide as the one between what New Yorkers consider pizza and that cargo cult-y cheese/bread thing your people came up with.

BRING IT.

By: infini

infini — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:10:37 -0800

Dare I speak with my first thought that it would be enabling fragmentation of a community and those of us less privileged would have move to NYC, NY, USA, North America to participate and we'd feel all left out and wish we hadn't let our green card lapse and then weep silently into our Laphroig in some random dusty corner of the globe?

No?

*sniff*

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:11:16 -0800

DAMNABLE CHEESE CASSEROLE EATERS

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:13:20 -0800

You can get some really kickass pizza in the District but secretly I just wish I could make the trip to Lou Malnati's.

By: Area Man

Area Man — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:17:31 -0800

Isn't there a taco in a cave somewhere that's the most tacoiest taco? I think that's what Plato was nattering on about.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:20:26 -0800

No, that was about seafood; specifically the eternal recurrence of certain delicious crustaceans. It's the concept we now refer to as "Plato shrimp."

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:21:11 -0800

Plato Shrimp is just a second generation heresy from Sophocles Squid.

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:29:26 -0800

I prefer Plato beans.

By: usonian

usonian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:34:53 -0800

You people and your population density! If I tried a stunt like this for north-central Massachusetts it would be sadder than Four Square, where all that's required to become Mayor of a place is to visit it twice.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:36:00 -0800

Yes, but the gulf between what the Mexicans consider tacos and what Americans consider tacos

I'm from San Diego so you're gonna have to make a Venn diagram, here.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:38:18 -0800

tricksy

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:39:49 -0800

From now on anyone attending an NYC meetup must have a tiki name.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:40:39 -0800

You may referrer to me as the Terrible Idol Of Manhattans

By: modernserf

modernserf — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:44:27 -0800

I'ma get on the ground floor with "Dr. Funk."

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:53:33 -0800

Empress Kali Pago.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:00:59 -0800

It's one of my days off, Monday is, but I'm usually at Bar None around the corner spinning tunes from 4 till six, six thirty.

By: Sara C.

Sara C. — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:22:52 -0800

Sara Sea.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:30:01 -0800

My tiki name is "Elizabeth"

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:30:55 -0800

Every few people know that Greg Nog is descended from a long line of English queens.

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:34:44 -0800

......no. Too easy.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:41:11 -0800

but how can we NOT

By: Decani

Decani — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:02:28 -0800

Goddamned NYC elitists.

I'm only envious because I don't live there any more.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:18:53 -0800

and I am King Oogum Boogum of the Magical Land of Queens.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:23:41 -0800

Are you talking about that blank spot on the subway map that says "Here Be Dragons"?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:24:35 -0800

" ...and chunky homosexuals"

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:27:53 -0800

Always been a creamy man, myself.

By: sonika

sonika — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:30:00 -0800

As to the Boston group - I used to be a Boston MeFite and I'll be one again this fall and I would totally join a group to pass on recommendations of the four things I know about and say that I'll attend meet ups and then have to cancel at the very last second because My Kid Has Some Bullshit That Needs Attending To.

By: sonika

sonika — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:30:56 -0800

(And get into lengthy discussions about how to avoid the orange line as much as possible, but really, the blue line is so gross as to make the orange line look positively *welcoming.*)

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:32:33 -0800

Ooh, where are the chunky homosexuals? My friends and I, chunky homosexuals all, are visiting this weekend!

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:38:36 -0800

Yellowbinder, not a bad start, they all live in Astoria however, you can get arrested in parts of Manhattan for thinking about carbs too hard.

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:47:32 -0800

Hmmm we're staying with someone's brother, all I know is it is Manhattan. I hope we don't get bear bashed!

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:50:01 -0800

I belive Rugby Night at Gym, the gay sports bar, is ....hirsute friendly.

By: Rodrigo Lamaitre

Rodrigo Lamaitre — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:42:12 -0800

Man, the mayor limits you to 16oz of cola per sitting and you people lose your effing minds.

By: booksherpa

booksherpa — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:47:30 -0800

Yeah, I mean, why would we make fun of Boston when the Dirty Jerz is just right across the river.

Do not mess with the people of New Jersey. Someday there shall be a central Jersey meetup...

There will be improv performed (by me, partially) in August in Sayreville. If I knew anyone here (other than my husband) in real life I would totally make an IRL post... I need to go to a meetup. Sigh.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:22:13 -0800

where all that's required to become Mayor of a place is to visit it twice.

- visit once, add location to foursquare
- visit a second time you are the mayor
- gloat to no one, receive no benefits

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:48:16 -0800

Do not mess with the people of New Jersey.

We know where all the bodies are buried! And our mom will make you a nice meatball sandwich!

By: Miko

Miko — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:56:46 -0800

Don't make us open up a can of Jersey.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:08:30 -0800

DONT MAKE ME BRING OUT THE MID 90s GENTLE SURREALISM SITCOMS SO HELP ME I WILL

By: 168

168 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:23:38 -0800

SO IN.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:42:35 -0800

Sorry what did someone say marathon of Victor Fresco's The Trouble With Normal?

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:56:06 -0800

I have nothing but love for the dirty jerz, because without the pine barrens I would have nowhere to hide the bodies.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:13:51 -0800

You're just trying to hide yer whirlwind romance with the jersey devil.

By: deborah

deborah — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:50:21 -0800

Stupid geography.

By: maryr

maryr — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:15:06 -0800

Hope you make it to something, sonika, but just remember: Bowdoin is the appendix of the MBTA. Sure, it probably serves some obscure purpose, like containing/releasing commuters on weekday mornings, but it could easily be removed and the system would function perfectly normally. Even those downtown commuters wouldn't notice.

MBTA jokes: Because watching an entire musical about the T (twice) didn't get it out of my system.

By: jivadravya

jivadravya — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:16:21 -0800

hay guys I moved away from NYC just six months ago, and didn't write an article about it, so I feel good. Also now I live in Portland, which I'm told is "like Brooklyn". Can I join this group?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:41:46 -0800

if I had half a clue as to what makes the difference between the two I'd have posted this to Projects, but I do not.

I dunno either, exactly, but if you want to buy me 8 or 10 beers, I'll be happy to hang out and come up with some theories!

I suspect I am now too old (and poor) for New York, which is a damned shame. I wish life had taken me there at some point in my wanderings, but so it goes.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:58:44 -0800

I only like comments in caps by DEATH and elizardbits. Please advise.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:41:43 -0800

hay guys I moved away from NYC just six months ago, and didn't write an article about it, so I feel good. Also now I live in Portland, which I'm told is "like Brooklyn". Can I join this group?

Y

By: greenish

greenish — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:59:57 -0800

I don't live in NYC and have in fact never even visited, I am reading this thread like the weedy little loner kid listening in at the door of the cool kids club house.

To make myself feel better I have spoused elizardbits. Now I feel connected. Now I'm the loner kid with a crush on one of the cool kids who sends her flowers that she assumes are from one of the other cool kids but never asks them about because she's TOO FREAKING COOL.

I need a little sit down.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:09:38 -0800

So far the group is going well. There are threads about live music, babysitters, massages, and electronics. Also google thinks a lot of you are spam. I moderated membership but all you have to do is prove you're a person to get in. Non-NYC mefites are completely welcome.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:10:11 -0800

elizardbits may seem cool now but did you know that she can recite all the lyrics to 'No Cats in America' from An American Tail

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:26:51 -0800

change that to "the score of the HMS Pinafore" for real life accuracy.

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:38:20 -0800

Now change to "The Elements" for pizzazz.

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:40:39 -0800

I vote for the Mass Effect version. It's edgy and relevant.

By: infini

infini — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:44:15 -0800

I refuse to become a real person even for the cool incrowd from NYC. That's between me and goog.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:53:42 -0800

I vote for the Mass Effect version. It's edgy and relevant.

Oh god the All Elcor version goes on for eight hours

By: jb

jb — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:50:03 -0800

Sometimes it seems like Metafilter proper has turned into a spin-off board for NYC Mefites.
posted by item at 10:42 AM on July 12 [15 favorites +] [!]

Don't be silly - Metafilter is clearly a spin-off board for Toronto Mefites since we, of course, the centre of the universe.

But now I'm curious: what city/region have there been the most posts about? And if we discount posts that are also national-level news (Occupy Wall St, London Riots) and look at just truly local posts - which place come out on top then? I feel like I'm seeing Toronto local/city news here a lot more than other places, but maybe I'm just more aware, or more likely to see NYC/London/Washington news as being national/international.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:59:52 -0800

quickie search of the site shows:

588 MeFi posts with the nyc tag
4253 AskMe posts with the nyc tag
257 MeTa posts with the nyc tag

(no idea what the percentage from the overall is though)

using another example, posts tagged with "london" are 1224 on MeFi, 1963 on AskMe, and 142 on MeTa.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:01:00 -0800

Also there are surely posts that would fall into these categories that have been untagged/poorly tagged, and included posts with those tags that really have little to do with either category.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:02:02 -0800

Also, the constant deluge of posts about London, Ontario are probably messing up those numbers.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:05:23 -0800

i actually couldn't think of any other cities aside from london. fucking summer fridays who handed me this daiquiri.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:08:10 -0800

San Fransisco has a sizable showing

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:52:27 -0800

Not spelled like that it doesn't!

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:53:05 -0800

Or maybe it does.

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:56:00 -0800

Huh.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:00:57 -0800

It's like posts tagged comdey....not that I would know anything about that.

By: moonmilk

moonmilk — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:10:15 -0800

Just don't call it Frisco.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:47:00 -0800

Is there a Boston group? I wanted to tell y'all about my visit on the weekend of the 27th!

By: nataliepo

nataliepo — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:38:58 -0800

another vote for brooklyn, or southern manhattan.

By: Roger_Mexico

Roger_Mexico — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:08:37 -0800

Signed up to the group. I am a transplant, so you can just call me Tiki Juan. When do I get to start telling you about the antipodal zones of terror and delight which spot the Brooklyn landscape?