Curious George, <i>start spreadin' the news!</i>
Me and SMT have tentatively agreed to a MoFiNYC meetup when I'm in town Oct. 5th-8th (Canadian Thanksgiving weekend). Anybody else in?
This is the manly, nude steamroom meetup, right? Um, oh, sorry, I'm busy that weekend...
I'd like to be a part of it, alas I can't.
You don't have to be nude. Just mostly nude. And not the important bits.
Oh, sure, you'll probably get like 75 people to come out and have a drink with you.
bastard, you've given me that as an earworm. 3 second tape loop of fuckin Sinatra round & round & round. Quick, time to put on Spanish Flea.
"Earworm?" I've never heard that before, but it's bloody great!
Hmm hmm hmm hmm, Spanish Flea...
And not the important bits.
Dresscode: Paper bag over the head.
goshdarnit I wish I could be there - how else can I cement my reputation as a meetup whore.
I'm still trying to find my way to the Paris meetup.
There may be a Paris meetup again this year -- I have to figure out all the dates, still. By odd coincidence, I'll be staying at least one night in Lille, not too far off from roryk's residence, as I recall. But, again, plans not settled yet.
Whut the heck, i might even be able to make it to the New York one. It being October, the hotel rates will be reasonabler.
*bats eyelashes at TUM and Lara*
there is the ever so slight but real possibility that I'll be in NYC around that time....
munkeys!@!!
and if I am TUM & Lara BETTER be at that steamroom!!!
Holee SHIT! Steamroom with Medusa!
SHOVE THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT, KITFISTO.
Too early to say yea or nay on my part.
Were it not for all the steam in the room and their being totally ignored, I'm sure that Lara and TUM would be helping you pull your foot out of your mouth, Cap'n.
Steamroom with Medusa!
I hate all of you.
I'm sure that Lara and TUM would be helping you pull your foot out of your mouth, Cap'n.
Sorry. My brain isn't large enough to contain the thought of Medusa, TUM and Larababy in the steamroom -- Medusa just sorta jumped in there and took the whole place over.
I might be able to come.
Anyone willing to be my a drink?
Illegaly?
Anyone?
Me, even?
Sure, VOL, sure.
The way you write, I'm thinkin' you've had enough already.
> There may be a Paris meetup again this year -- I have to figure out all the dates, still.
Do you have a general idea? I'm probably not around the second half of Oct.
Hey, as long as it isn't Friday night, I can come. Those damn Friday night meetups are a pain for me to get to, but I never have a problem coming down to NYC on the weekend days.
God I hate you all.
Do you have a general idea?
I should be in Lille on the night of Nov. 20th, and then in Paris Nov. 22-23-24, but I may be busy on that first night, tickets depending. But this is all quite tentative at this moment.
OK -- for me, there are two options.
1. A Friday night meetup (the 5th) at the Brooklyn Brewery for their Happy Hour (starts at six, $3 pints of prime shit). Regardless of the group decision, I will definitely be there.
2. A Sunday evening meetup somewhere else.
Saturday, I'm out suit-shopping. Saturday night, I'm at the Met. Sunday day, Mother Renault stuff and probably the van Gogh letters at the Morgan.
What say you all?
/me says: seethe
I thought Giuliani shut this sort of thing down
Capt, it's a bit early for me to confirm, but Friday night sounds good. I'll take a couple of these, thank you!
My only hesitation on the Friday night is that cobaltnine said it wasn't good for her.
Nevertheless, I will be sure to be hammered there.
But, what about Medusa *and* the steamroom?
Shh! That's just for us three..!
Ahem!
Now look what you did!
It's going to take hours for kit to go to sleep, now!
Someone pass him his juice-box...
I'll see what I can do. Brooklyn, god. It'll take me forever. Maybe I'll do an overnight in the city.
Dammit! You know how you can sort of fall out of touch with MonkeyFilter, and then just keep avoiding it out of shame for how long you've been away, and then a perfect opportunity to reconnect comes along... and you realize you'll be in another country.
...erm, well, maybe it's just me. But I'll be in Berlin. Nerts! Noix! Nüsse! Oh well. That steam room thing sounds a little too exciting for a shy little thing like me.
speedlime + steam room = head assplodes.
Hi ya, speedy!!
'Tis a shame that you will not be able to join us.
OK, now I regret bringing the steamroom up again, Capt.
Damn, I really REALLY wish I could. Have an awesome time! I resolve to be a better Monkey in the future, even if I can't soak in the glory of y'all's presence.
And Kit, did you really mean to say ASSplode? I'm sure there's an immature joke in there SOMEWHERE, but I, for one, will refrain. Doot-de-doot-de-doo...
We still up for this weekend?
Are we doing the Brewery, or does someone else have something else in mind?
Bueller?
I'll be there!
Except I'll be here instead.
HellOOOOoooo! McFLYYYYyyyy!
The NYC monkeys are still in shock over the Mets' collapse. Give them a day or two.
Not to be uncaring or anything, but can anyone really be shocked by the Mets collapsing?
Any more than the Leafs?
*cough*
Cap'n, I wish you to know that I will be drinking heavily enough on that day to astral project to NYC and hang with you in spirit.
Or is that projectile vomit? I can never keep the two straight.
Thank you MCT. It's nice to know that someone cares enough to lend their, uh, personal touch.
I'll send some mind vomit your way too, Cappy.
I'll raise a half glass in your honour and promptly fall asleep.
I'll be frantically cleaning my empty house, and trying not to add any new vomit stains to the spotty carpet. Have fun, Capt!
I sha'n't be able to be there. Someone will have to make a silly, inappropriate remark in my honor.
SHOUTOUT!!
please?
Wait, who exactly is actually going to be there?
So far, it looks like just me.
Which means that it'll be held in the steam-room after all...
My apologies, Capt!! Check your email. So, no one else is in? What happened to Medusa? Lara?
Are you shooting for Friday? Why, it's just not right that NYC would stand the Capt. up!
Steam room, eh... Errr, ummm,... *cough*
Besides, I promised nunia that I would give her a big juicy shout-out...
Even though she's long gone.
Jeez, you have been away a while, haven't you?
Not really, I have kept her locked up in a small cage that Ralph left behind... so she's been here all along.
So, Friday? I'm trying to refresh my memory.
It's either Friday or Sunday, as far as I go. And a Friday would allow a Brewery meetup...
Sounds like tuns o' fun.
Oh, I'd also like to request a shoutout. A RHYMING shoutout.
There once was a monkey named TUM.
She bailed on the meetup -- wouldn't come.
It caused us to pout
and write a lame-o shoutout
On the supple vellum of our bums.
Since I have many valid reasons not to come, I insist upon a shoutout in the form of interpretive dance.
Ooh, yes, a first-ever YouTube shoutout!
Captain, I was tentatively on, but as of right now I'm sick and my computer is dead (this is not mine.) Sorry, man, although I'll inform you if I suddenly come to life tomorrow.
I snuck into your city and drank all your Red Stripe! Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
We keep just missing each other, Fes. This has to stop.
Me and SMT will be meeting at 6:45 at the Brewery. Everyone else is welcome to join us. There will be no steam-rooms involved. Dammit.
Wait... no steam-room?? But I already reserved a private room for the fivefourthree two of us! Oh, wait... Never mind. Carry on! The Brewery it is!
Back in. Slept 18 hours and made recovery. May bring Mr* Cobalt.
* not legally
Hold the horses!! Mr. Cobalt may be coming? Capt, was this in the original plan??
*cleanup in thread #14536*
Kidding aside, I offered Mrs. SMT to come, but she politely declined - - saying, "and what am I going to talk about with them??" Aaah, what a party pooper!
MonkeyFilter: and what am I going to talk about with them??
"and what am I going to talk about with them??"
Er, um, kittens? Watermelon owls? How cool you are?
Looks like the Mrs. SMT might join after all. Let's see if she allows me to log into the Filter after this evening...
Hmmmm, SMT...you invited your wife to an irreverent drunken pornfest with Medusa and the Capt?
I'm sure she'll have PLENTY to say--at least afterwards.
Well, GramMa, Medusa is out... so the party is basically over. Though, I'm not so sure about cobaltnine!
I'm out the door - - on my way to meet the Capt!! Last call for shoutouts... I've got my camera in-tow as well.
It was a pleasure meeting you, Capt and Cobaltnine!
With beer tokens in-hand, the Oktoberfest brew seemed to rule the night - though, I was partial to the Weisse and Pumpkin varieties myself. Surely, the highlight of the evening was the beer pyramid!? Yes, I made it back home alive, and here I write...
So, did it taste like pumpkins?
It's been hours already!
Where are the pictures?
Now there is proof that I am a total freaking lightweight. No more than one beer at any future meetups. I don't know how I got out of Brooklyn without being mugged.
The L train is Hipster Central. Blerg.
Might be on account of you just got over being sick.
*still no pictures.
You suck.
Oh, wait. That was pretty harsh.
Please, sir. May we have some pictures?
*holds out bowl
Just got back in now, and I'm in the post-trip wind-down -- cracked open a beer, running the bath prior to conducting self-surgery on my feets, and listening to some weird shit I bought in hipster-central SoundFix (The Fiery Furnaces -- cool, but disconcerting).
Anyway, a grand old time was had by all monkeys, and their associated others. And, for posterity's note, cobaltnine was never hammered so much as giddily talkative with, essentially, strangers.
I'm honoured and pleased to have met both SMT and cobaltnine, and their associated significant others. I have a pic, but damned if I know how to post it here...
"I have a pic, but damned if I know how to post it here..."
Oh. My. God.
What can I say? I was an Arts grad. Me dumb.
Go to www.photobucket.com and create a login. Upload your pic, and they'll give you a link to copy and paste here. Careful with them feets!
Send me the picture in an e-mail and I'll post it for you.
I had an minor in Art Historys, so me dumb to. My pictures upload to flickr tonites, OK?
*wonders why GramMa is overly anxious*
*drums fingers impatiently*
I have a BFA, and even I can figure out flickr. You're just stalling cuz you don't want to admit you left the lens cap on.
Bachelor of Fuck-All?
Me at work. Me no camera at work. Me no gets pictures to flickr until tonight. Capice?!
Big Fat Arse.
Not you, smt!
Why do I put up with you people.
smt, my comment was directed at Cappy, who doesn't seem to have heard of flickr or photobucket. What internets?
Not to worry, Koko. My comment was all in good funs anyhows. Internets. Periods.
I think we took a total of three pictures - not counting pictures that Mrs. SMT took of the brewery cat meandering amongst the bottling equipment.
And there were no shoutouts, or physical shoutouts, at least. We couldn't get a table, so we were stuck at the side leaning. The pad of stickies never made it out of cobaltnine's pocket, and my Sharpie never came out of the bag. But the effort was made. Not much of an effort, sure, but it was made.
*drumming fingers on table in major impatience to photoshop meetup participants in compromising situations
Oh, me, in a hurry, no reason at all. Just like to see your pictures.
*whistles
The degree of irresponsibility in not posting a plethora of pictures and shout-outs after a Mofi meetup is directly proportional to the Mofi longevity of the meet-upping members, multiplied by their past proclivity to whine and moan about being on or not on the receiving end of shout-outs when others chose to congregate in their absence. The number is quite high in this instance, or so it would appear.
It also appears that we will receive nothing but a vapor of your alleged meetup, and that you two feel that this nonchalance is acceptable behavior.
I am sure I speak for all of Monkeyfilter when I say: Fuck you.
Please don't take this personally.
Could not help but note that dink Renault was not in the picture. The missing dink?
No. Just a dick.
My four lone photos now in the Monkeyfilter pool on flickr.
Ralph, the otters have requested web cream. Should I oblige them?
Dreamy.
Great pix! And SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE for the brewkitty!
A fine-lookin' bunch, especially beercat.
Ralph, get back in the doghouse, lest this rolled-up newspaper meet your backside.
Hmmmm, nothing there to work with to photoshop someone in a compromising position.
Ahem! I mean to say, ah, lovely photos, all. Lovely couples indeed.
*weeps single tear*
I had sticky notes?
Sad to say, my rice pudding did not survive the trip to the brewery. I'm really glad I put the trendy container inside a non-trendy but non-leaking ziploc.
That Take #1 is probably the best picture taken of me in recent months...which is sad, since it was 90 degrees, crowded, and I was a hair away from definitely drunk when it was taken.
You said you had sticky notes. Don't you remember?
hammeredthere.fivefourthreetwo of us! Oh, wait... Never mind. Carry on! The Brewery it is!