New York Meetup

April 15, 2005 7:47 PM

Where are you? We're at the NYC meetup! And I'm taking the JONMC SAYS HI opportunity to pop my Grey-cherry. Jon says I look like prospero. In attendance are: jonmc, vidiot, amberglow, adampsyche, cunninglinguist, SmartDalek, lilboo, chicobangs, naxosaxur, bingo, dame, ursus comitas, hellbient, TNLNYC, and a few "real" people. I might've left someone out. Sorry if I did. (is this the first post AT a meetup?)
posted by Eideteker to MetaFilter Gatherings at 7:47 PM (83 comments total)

Have a drink for me. Have several, in fact. Just make it something other than Korean beer.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:48 PM on April 15, 2005

Hi, everyone! (*waves*)
posted by Doohickie at 7:53 PM on April 15, 2005

How 'bout some soju?

;- P
posted by Doohickie at 7:53 PM on April 15, 2005

*fly opens, fish waves fin*
posted by quonsar at 8:00 PM on April 15, 2005

Great, now you've subjected yourself to the imminent flood of requests from $5 nubs looking for their first shoutouts.
posted by DaShiv at 8:08 PM on April 15, 2005

*waives nub*
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:14 PM on April 15, 2005

Put amberglow on -- I want to say mmmhellooo to him, the shayna boychik!
posted by melissa may at 8:21 PM on April 15, 2005

Hi meetup folks! Amberglow, still sorry we didn't get to do anything after the meetup in Montreal but it was a pleasure meeting and speaking with you!
posted by furtive at 8:25 PM on April 15, 2005

damn. i really wanted to go.

one day...
posted by exlotuseater at 8:59 PM on April 15, 2005

Hey kids! Looks like a hell of a turnout.

*we missed you chicobangs*
posted by scarabic at 9:00 PM on April 15, 2005

Hey, guys - have fun!

(But what with monju_bosatsu's nub waving like it just don't care, and furtive's superkinky beer and all, I think the real party's back here!)
posted by taz at 9:01 PM on April 15, 2005

Waldofest '05.
posted by Kwantsar at 9:02 PM on April 15, 2005

I'm such a dork- I was in the area, with basically nothing to do, and I just plain forgot. Ah well, next time.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:09 PM on April 15, 2005 [1 favorite]

Hi everyone! : )
posted by SisterHavana at 9:13 PM on April 15, 2005

hi folks. I'm only a borough away, but only just got home, so couldn't make it this time. Are you still at the magician?
posted by mdn at 9:15 PM on April 15, 2005

I should have written down for you, like I said.

The Magician is empty now. A big posse of mefites went in search of ye mythical smoky bar. And the rest of us split up on our various ways home.
posted by ursus_comiter at 9:47 PM on April 15, 2005

Pictures, quite naturally, to follow. I didn't think to bring my camera, so you'll get none from me. Plenty of me, though; I think I'm in about half the pictures taken.

Chico et al, for those of you looking for my brand-new serial fiction, you'll find it here [warning: eGREGIOUS SELF-LINK. Do not click if you are pregnant or a midget]. Read in good health, and good humor.

Thanks to everyone who came out tonight (except naxosaxur, my sworn enemy) for making my first meetup a memorable one. I was really impressed by the attendance; I had no idea so many people would decide at the last minute to come when they heard I would be present. I'm really honored, youse guys.
posted by Eideteker at 10:15 PM on April 15, 2005

I'm bummed now. The show was great, but damn.
posted by muckster at 11:01 PM on April 15, 2005

First follow-up...although quite unexciting :( but, enjoy!

(didn't get snaps of nearly everyone including dame, chicobangs, amberglow, vidiot, hellibent, etc...etc...but I *do* know that there are plenty more snaps taken aside from mine. Patience, please!
posted by naxosaxur at 12:13 AM on April 16, 2005

Thanks, naxo! The rest of you: Wake from from your blearyeyed, debauched and sodden slumber and post more pix now, dammit!

Remember, the first rule of Meetup is "drink locally, post globally".
posted by taz at 5:00 AM on April 16, 2005

e-thanks for the e-love!
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 5:49 AM on April 16, 2005

Okay, fun-havers, it's the next day. Time to start uploading those pictures. I know y'all chipped in to have the NBC tower flash a shout out to squirrel. I can't wait to see it. Post your URLs here or in a new MeTa thread, yo.
posted by squirrel at 5:57 AM on April 16, 2005

Dammit, if I were still in NYC, I'da been there. Oh well -- thanks for the shoutout!
posted by languagehat at 6:29 AM on April 16, 2005

Yes, many napkins were killed! We do so ? killing trees for our many internet shouts-out.
posted by Eideteker at 6:56 AM on April 16, 2005

Yes, many napkins were killed! We do so ♥ killing trees for our many internet shouts-out.
posted by Eideteker at 6:58 AM on April 16, 2005

My head hurts & my tummy feels funny. Plus, I don't have any pictures. But I think I remember it being fun or something.
posted by dame at 8:13 AM on April 16, 2005

Also, we did find the smoky bar & it was great. But now I can't remember where it is.
posted by dame at 8:17 AM on April 16, 2005

Jon says I look like prospero.

Well, in that case, perhaps it's a good thing I didn't show--the resulting confusion might've been too much for the rest of you to take.

I thought about coming in from Jersey for this one, but ended up going to a Bill Frisell concert last night instead. Maybe I can make the rumored meetup in May.
posted by Prospero at 8:27 AM on April 16, 2005

A few highlights of last night's fun!
posted by Smart Dalek at 8:38 AM on April 16, 2005

Johnny Damon? That you?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 8:59 AM on April 16, 2005

can everyone please stop being so loud? my head hurts.
posted by CunningLinguist at 9:00 AM on April 16, 2005

what Cunning said

it was really fun, and very well attended, and we're all in an NYU student film now. the smoking bar was Karma, up the block from DBA, and it's where we should have the next meetup
posted by amberglow at 9:42 AM on April 16, 2005

also what cunning said.

hopefully karma has my wallet, cause I don't. If anyone picked up a black and pink wallet with a lot of useless crap in it - let me know.

and here I thought my "student film" days were well behind me - I knew I got rid of the implants way too early, damn
posted by lilboo at 9:53 AM on April 16, 2005

One more for hurting head (and what the heck I am doing being up this early on a saturday). Good seeing you all... and now time to start planning the next one?
posted by TNLNYC at 10:19 AM on April 16, 2005

Sorry I had to leave so early, but I was tiiiiiired.

Thanks again for the book, amberglow!
posted by falconred at 10:21 AM on April 16, 2005

oh, sorry cunning
posted by falconred at 10:23 AM on April 16, 2005

It's been a while since my clothes stank of smoke when I got home.
posted by chicobangs at 10:41 AM on April 16, 2005

It's been a while since my clothes stank of smoke when I got home.
It rocks, no? : >

anytime, falcon.

Next one is in May, hopefully with our special guest star
posted by amberglow at 11:13 AM on April 16, 2005

Him? I thought we'd at least get Joan Embry from the San Diego Zoo.
posted by jonmc at 11:38 AM on April 16, 2005

Nah...either Bert Convy, Charo, or Ann Miller...that's all you get.
posted by amberglow at 12:04 PM on April 16, 2005

Would Mr. Convy find The Frying Pan condescending, or perhaps he enjoys "slumming it"?
Did anyone else see Waldo last night at Karma, or was it the Drano?
posted by hellbient at 12:13 PM on April 16, 2005

Coochie Coochie. Too mad Charo won't be able to bring her ex-husband Xavier Cugat with her. Cos MeFi like to mambo...

And oh yeah, I got the pastrami. Mom-in-law will be very happy.
posted by jonmc at 12:14 PM on April 16, 2005

Just for future reference, stumbling into Ray's at 2 a.m. for a slice after a meetup is a bad, bad idea. You get nasty 'za and ruin your nice butter colored suede jacket by unwittingly spilling grease all down the side. Jon, you should have brought us the pastrami so we could have fallen upon it like wild dogs.
posted by CunningLinguist at 12:27 PM on April 16, 2005

it was the Drano -- boo cunning and jon!
posted by amberglow at 12:28 PM on April 16, 2005

I'm eating some right now! mwahahaha!

Sadly, I forgot to put aside a knish. waaah!
posted by jonmc at 12:34 PM on April 16, 2005

Pastrami that is. not drano.
posted by jonmc at 12:34 PM on April 16, 2005

and, jeez, cunning, taking pastrami out of the mouth of a hipless 88-year-old woman. For shame.
posted by jonmc at 12:37 PM on April 16, 2005

The law of the jungle.
posted by CunningLinguist at 12:41 PM on April 16, 2005

ah, but thou she be hipless, she is fierce. Tread carefully.
posted by jonmc at 12:45 PM on April 16, 2005

W00t!! Becky at Karma found my wallet. We are definitely meeting up there again.
posted by lilboo at 12:56 PM on April 16, 2005

great news, lilboo! : >

OK--May meetup at Karma, which definitely has good karma.
posted by amberglow at 12:58 PM on April 16, 2005

Though if warm, the garden at DBA is nicer, no?
posted by CunningLinguist at 1:20 PM on April 16, 2005

true--we can do both--first DBA and then Karma?
posted by amberglow at 1:33 PM on April 16, 2005

Am I the only one who Flickr keeps timing out on?
posted by dame at 2:00 PM on April 16, 2005

apropos of nothing: you might be an indie-yuppie if...
posted by jonmc at 2:23 PM on April 16, 2005

Awesome. I'm unparalleled at the ability to find out about things the day after they occur. I went right by Karma last night on the way home from work, and knew nothing of this. Cheers.
posted by Busithoth at 2:41 PM on April 16, 2005

dame?
posted by amberglow at 2:55 PM on April 16, 2005

Damn, I always miss the interesting stuff....
posted by jonmc at 2:57 PM on April 16, 2005

Ask Me. (the interweb is keen)
posted by nobody at 3:49 PM on April 16, 2005

ahhh. : >
posted by amberglow at 3:53 PM on April 16, 2005

seriously, who's the Jesus/Johnny Damon lookalike?
did he perform a miracle, multiply a few pancakes?
/RedSox fan
posted by matteo at 4:16 PM on April 16, 2005

it's nobody. ; >
posted by amberglow at 4:28 PM on April 16, 2005

Jesus Damon grew up a couple towns away from me and went to the same college as dame. We regaled her with tales of this bizarre former workplace of mine that features animatronic dairy products that sing bluegrass songs.
posted by jonmc at 4:37 PM on April 16, 2005

Did you notice they have birthday parties there, Jon? I was born in December. You were born in December. Amberglow, too. I see a birthday meetup in Connecticut. With anamatronic dairy products. Glorious.
posted by dame at 8:03 PM on April 16, 2005

Hey, New Yawkers: It looks like Mr. taz and I will probably/maybe/I think finally be making the big puddle jump to visit New Orleans this summer or early fall...

Because I want to wring every little bit of U.S. joy I can out of the pilgrimage, I'm going to see if I can plan it so that we fly into New York, and then fly or AmTrak to New Orleans from there (AmTrak because it would be fun, but I need to work out money/logistics etc., blah, blah.)

So, do you have any idea how much it would cost for a hotel room in Manhattan for a night two, as cheap as reasonably possible? I'd ask in AskMe, but I've blown my wad on a birthday cake. (Eww)
posted by taz at 12:11 AM on April 17, 2005

A few pictures.
posted by adampsyche at 4:37 AM on April 17, 2005

What a great par-tay y'all had!
posted by tizzie at 7:00 AM on April 17, 2005

taz, this askme thread has a bunch of suggestions, and there are other threads if you do a search.
posted by fionab at 7:08 AM on April 17, 2005

taz, here's another.
posted by fionab at 7:09 AM on April 17, 2005

NaxoSaxur isn't a guy?
posted by drezdn at 8:50 AM on April 17, 2005

Adampsyche is a guy?
posted by drezdn at 8:52 AM on April 17, 2005

yup and yup.
posted by amberglow at 8:56 AM on April 17, 2005

Taz, If you want to save some $$, you are cordially invited to stay at chez boo in beautiful downtown jersey city, send an email to make reservations...
posted by lilboo at 8:58 AM on April 17, 2005

...and bring cake!
posted by andrew cooke at 9:26 AM on April 17, 2005

Thanks for the info, guys, and thanks, lilboo! If I think I can work it out to stop over for a couple of days, I'll probably ask for more advice later. At this point, though, I can start trying to figure it all out. :)
posted by taz at 10:23 AM on April 17, 2005

And today's mefi gender trivia award goes to...
posted by adampsyche at 10:24 AM on April 17, 2005

Um...what student film? I don't remember any movie cameras...
posted by bingo at 8:34 PM on April 17, 2005

Bingo, before you showed-up, there was a film crew shooting in the back room...I only took one picture.
posted by naxosaxur at 11:41 PM on April 17, 2005

DREZDN IS A ROBOT?! ;p
posted by naxosaxur at 11:55 PM on April 17, 2005

Looks like it was fun. I'm sorry to have missed it.
posted by safetyfork at 8:21 AM on April 18, 2005

Good fun as always. (My pix here.)
posted by Vidiot at 9:30 AM on April 18, 2005

What fun! Gee - my first shout-out!! Thanks naxosaxur! e-love back at you!
posted by jasper411 at 9:52 AM on April 18, 2005

thanks for the shoutout naxo. i'll try to make it to the next one.
posted by goddam at 9:22 AM on April 21, 2005