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November 20, 2008 10:12 AM

NYC: Post-turkey meatspace gathering.

I'm in town next weekend for Thanksgiving. Who wants to hang out, and where?

posted by Eideteker to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:12 AM (36 comments total)

Oh! there's a 95% chance I'm coming up for Thanksgiving too! I was gonna leave the next day, but I will stick around if there's a meetup.
posted by piratebowling at 10:30 AM on November 20, 2008

How about Friday late afternoon/early evening?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:03 AM on November 20, 2008 [1 favorite]

I hear Kurve is nice.
posted by ColdChef at 11:06 AM on November 20, 2008 [2 favorites]

Too cold for a picnic this time. I'm thinking restaurant or bar where the background music isn't so low you have to shout yourself hoarse.

Why yes, I *did* just come from a lousy networking mixer last night, how could you tell?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 11:06 AM on November 20, 2008

BENEDICT!
posted by Plutor at 11:10 AM on November 20, 2008

We could return to the site of my first meetup (The Magician).

Some place with a good set-up for mingling would be great.
posted by Eideteker at 12:51 PM on November 20, 2008

I'll be over in NYC last ten days of February if any of the old schoolers want to mark their diaries. Apart from that, I've nothing worthwhile to contribute to this.
posted by i_cola at 1:16 PM on November 20, 2008

I'll be around until Sunday, so could be convinced. LES is not preferred due to my location on the 2/3. West-ish or around Union Square would be better. Revival?
posted by youcancallmeal at 1:25 PM on November 20, 2008

I'll be in town Thurs-Sat, but leaving early on Sunday.
posted by mullacc at 1:51 PM on November 20, 2008

Which is to say that Friday at Revival is fine with me.
posted by mullacc at 1:56 PM on November 20, 2008

I could do Revival. I could do Friday. What do folks say, 7 or 8 til question marks?
posted by Eideteker at 3:14 PM on November 20, 2008

Revival, Friday at 7pm would be perfect for me. After Black Friday, I'll need a drink and revival's just afew blocks from my job.
posted by jonmc at 4:38 PM on November 20, 2008

Sounds like the perfect accent to a four-day weekend. It'll be good to see folks.
posted by pips at 5:03 PM on November 20, 2008

Friday at Revival at 7, sounds good.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 6:39 PM on November 20, 2008 [1 favorite]

Ok, Revival, Friday @ 7pm.
posted by Eideteker at 6:49 PM on November 20, 2008

Irving Place seems to be a popular area for meetups lately!
posted by Grither at 5:13 AM on November 21, 2008

I will be there.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 9:13 AM on November 21, 2008

I will try.

Here's a festive Sarah Palin turkey video to get you all in the mood.
posted by CunningLinguist at 9:31 AM on November 21, 2008

In the mood for what? For seeing the same stupid liberal schadenfreude video that's been posted in a thousand places but has nothing to do with my visit?

I hope you can make it, CL, but I hope we can talk about something other than politics now that the election is over.
posted by Eideteker at 9:40 AM on November 21, 2008

Count me in. Say, does anyone remember the guy who brought his dog to Revival last time? That dog rules. I hope he comes.
posted by zoomorphic at 10:57 AM on November 21, 2008

If I'm not too wiped out from dealing with the parade (I help inflate the balloons the day before and then am in the parade, and last year I was out of it until Sunday) then I'll try to be there. It's been way too long since I've been to a meetup.
posted by Godbert at 12:00 PM on November 21, 2008

Say, does anyone remember the guy who brought his dog to Revival last time?

I seem to remember him somehow being tangentially related to MetaFilter via a sister site or some such, but I'm not too sure; when I'm with a dog I tend not to notice the humans.
posted by HotPatatta at 3:47 PM on November 21, 2008

I may turn up. Usually by that time on Thanksgiving weekend I'm sick of sitting around at my dad's house doing nothing.
posted by smackfu at 12:53 PM on November 22, 2008

when I'm with a dog I tend not to notice the humans.

And I only notice humans who, like me, ignore other humans in favor of canines.

Also, I think Metafilter should charge a small commission fee for all the business we bring to Revival.
posted by zoomorphic at 10:05 AM on November 23, 2008

We have theatre tickets that night at 8, but the show is only an hour and 15 minutes, so we'll be catching up with y'all wherever you are around 9:30 or 10.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:34 AM on November 25, 2008 [1 favorite]

Taking a pass. See you guys at the next one.
posted by CunningLinguist at 12:27 PM on November 25, 2008

Aw, crap! I just remembered about this. :(
posted by youcancallmeal at 6:46 PM on November 28, 2008

Thanks to everyone who came out! We had a good turnout, 50% people I've seen before and the other half I got to meet for the first time. I got to talk to everyone but Optimus due to some random spatiotemporal anomaly that kept us from being at the same table at the same time.

Thanks, guys, I really needed that!
posted by Eideteker at 11:19 PM on November 28, 2008

YCCMA, I take your absence as a personal affront. You are someone who clearly knows how to bring the party, yet you failed to bring it. I am putty INFINITY FROWNYFACES ON YOUR PERMANENT RECORD! :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( ... tbc in a private mefimail.
posted by Eideteker at 11:24 PM on November 28, 2008

I momentarily rendered jonmc speechless (with a story about Drew Barrymore), which I'm assuming I should consider a personal victory.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:47 AM on November 29, 2008

You assume correct, EmpressCallipygos.
posted by piratebowling at 7:06 AM on November 29, 2008

Future Revival-goers will marvel at my cutout snowflake skill. I should try to turn that into some sort of profitable hobby.
posted by amicamentis at 8:34 AM on November 29, 2008

It was good.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 11:19 AM on November 29, 2008

I momentarily rendered jonmc speechless (with a story about Drew Barrymore), which I'm assuming I should consider a personal victory.

Yes, but only momentarily, and then asked the question on everybody's mind, which was never answered.
posted by jonmc at 4:35 PM on November 29, 2008

the question on everybody's mind, which was never answered.

Oh, for the last friggin' time! Every one of those sea lions was returned unharmed, it was only one bullet, not four, and the age of consent is lower in Pago Pago anyway!

I'm not the one on trial, here!
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 4:56 PM on November 29, 2008

Actually, jonmc you're the first to ever have asked that question. Everyone else always asks me about Pig Girl instead.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:06 PM on November 29, 2008