Comments on: Meetup in NYC, 2/20/04

Meetup in NYC, 2/20/04

adamgreenfield — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:10:40 -0800

MeFiNYC reminder: Friday! Friday! Friday! This Friday the 20th of February at the Veselka Dome, witness MONSTER MeFi ACTION ACTION ACTION! Gates open at 7.30 - no passes will be honored!

BE THERE!!!

By: Prospero

Prospero — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:11:33 -0800

I'll be there.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:19:41 -0800

Me too. I should probably wear a helmet.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:31:52 -0800

144 2nd Ave?

By: attackthetaxi

attackthetaxi — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:38:55 -0800

2nd Avenue and 9th Street, crash. Come down.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:53:26 -0800

Dude, how'd you get your voice to echo like that?

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:07:45 -0800

Can I both there and square?

Cos I'm a-gonna be one, and I can't not be the other.

I bet there's a big-assed bowl o'borscht with my name on it, there.

And, erm, this wouldn't necessarily be the only stop on the train that evening, eh? Just asking.

By: ursus_comiter

ursus_comiter — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:55:07 -0800

Missing out again. Schedule conflict.

By: riffola

riffola — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:55:45 -0800

I'll be there, but sadly I have to leave early, so I'll probably be there for half an hour or an hour. Which as far as the meet-up goes, may or may not be a good thing.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:09:37 -0800

I'll be there -- I'm going for a meetup record : >

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:52:42 -0800

my friend katrina's coming , is that ok ? will you be nice to her ?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:13:29 -0800

I will sgt...what will she be wearing? tell her to look for me : >

By: bshort

bshort — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:42:15 -0800

I'll be there too.

By: Songdog

Songdog — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:48:46 -0800

I'm planning to be there, but like riffola I'll have to leave on the early side.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:40:04 -0800

<announcer voice>You'll buy the whole seat, but you'll only need the EDGE!! (...edge!...edge!)</announcer voice>

I really wish I could make it, but the stars did not align.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:21:51 -0800

I'll be there, but I take the train upstate now, so I too will be departing early. On the plus side, I'll be escorting a monkey and (I hope) Mr. & Mrs. Troutfishing.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:34:15 -0800

So I'm guessing then that Mr & Mrs Troutfishing will not be joining us in Boston this time around?

By: limitedpie

limitedpie — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:37:34 -0800

Mr. Limitedpie and I will be attending and looking forward to meeting you all!

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:34:52 -0800

I'll most likely be there, and if I make it I'll be there around 8:15-ish. With a monkey.

By: Dreamghost

Dreamghost — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:05:27 -0800

I will sgt...what will she be wearing? tell her to look for me : >
posted by amberglow at 3:13 PM PST on February 17

oh yeah ambie is gonna get his mack on!

holla...

xoxo

dreamghost the great

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:22:42 -0800

dreamghost: mwahhh!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:10:00 -0800

my friend katrina's coming

In a perfect world, that katrina would be my English/Irish co-globetrotting ex-girlfriend, who would be so cockle-warmed by all your tales of what a truly great guy I am and your clamouring to send me toilet-related photographic shoutouts that she realizes after all these years what a fool she was to dump me, and begs me via email to take her back.

Upon which I say (but kindly) 'Not a goddamn chance!' and the circle,as they say, is closed.

That'd be cool.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:26:15 -0800

I wish I could go, but I'll be taking my offspring to Disney. Have a monkey for me.

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:47:58 -0800

I'm coming, without Herself who graciously held back rolling her eyes when I mentioned the MeFi gathering. Her only question was, "What can you possibly talk about?" I didn't want to go into any deep discussions, so I said, "Pancakes."

That ended that conversation.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:50:49 -0800

Has anyone let the nice Veselkans know we're gonna take the place over?

I'm going to be there tonight, incidentally, so I'll mention something to them if no one else has yet.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:22:03 -0800

has anyone considered doing an Austin meetup during the week of SXSW?

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:06:05 -0800

chicobangs, that'd be swell. I was gonna call them in a few minutes, actually, but reinforcing the message/getting to the right person certainly can't hurt.

Thanks!

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:57:37 -0800

Woo hoo! back up!

Ahem. Where were we. Right. Veselka update.

They know we're coming, and they'll make room for us. It's on, brothas and sistas.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:06:09 -0800

Of course it is.

By: riffola

riffola — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:56:09 -0800

I don't think I'll be able to make it today. I have family duties that require me elsewhere. Sorry you all, I hope you guys have a blast, and I want to see tonnes of pictures!

By: Karmakaze

Karmakaze — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:12:30 -0800

I wanted to go, but I have a cold. I don't want to infect all you sweet folks.

By: muckster

muckster — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:58:43 -0800

I'm the Kevin Smith lookalike.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:00:56 -0800

what does Kevin Smith look like?

By: muckster

muckster — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:36:05 -0800

oh, never mind. i don't really look like him, anyway.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:24:27 -0800

ok, we'll look for someone who looks like what we think kevin smith looks like? : >

By: Songdog

Songdog — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 07:35:35 -0800

There are only three and they aren't very good, but here are the pictures I took from my seat at the meetup before I had to leave early. I had a great time, and in hindsight I'd rather have stayed for dessert than gone home to hints of identity theft. Oh well, live and learn.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:43:50 -0800

it was fun....post more pics all, and how was dessert?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:46:36 -0800

how was dessert?

Some people are still recovering. Later on there was semi-nude Matrix action in a train station uptown.

By: liam

liam — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:50:01 -0800

I got there 2 1/2 fashionable hours late and everyone had moved on. I had a meet-up with myself. It was a party. I have pictures of my soup.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:10:24 -0800

aww, liam

and sgt, did your friend come or no? we didn't see anyone, and we were very visible.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:16:48 -0800

I have issued the ambassador a strongly worded communique lol , i'll see you all in late may if you have another meetup , i will be resplendent in kilt and white socks.

By: bshort

bshort — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:28:04 -0800

Deep fried mars bars are my new favorite artery clogger.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:48:06 -0800

Is that a deep fried mars bar in your pocket , or are you just pleased to see me ?

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:54:27 -0800

More meetup pix here. (And just for sgt. serenity, some frightening earlier pix of a DFMB here and here. The weak of stomach are advised not to click.)

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:21:23 -0800

Holy shiot! I missed Chicobangs flinging aside the Jacket of Modesty? It's clear we left before things got really good. Shame on us.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:33:38 -0800

My ambassador was suddenly recalled to a vital mission in florida for that weekend, she is willing to discuss peace terms with you all at some other point.
My word , deep fried mars bars................you need to stand outside the place with bottles of buckfast and harass passers by to get the full effect though.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 06:58:35 -0800

What's buckfast? (They do have Irn Bru. And Boddingtons!)