October 03, 2007

• Hmm. The eleventh is no good for me -- I'll be at the Caetano Veloso show in Toronto that night. And on the 14th, I'm off to London and the Continent, and won't be back until the 26th. December's a write-off -- how's your January looking?
• January I'll be back in Winnipeg, sorry. There's Warhol at the WAG though, if you'd care to stop by.
• Dorkiest meetup request evar.
• SET PHASERS TO RETORT
• Koko, I am SOOOOOO there (I'll do what I can do inspire/force/drag those luzers "es el cheeso" and the long lost "oomba boomba" too...) I don't have any long range plans that weekend. on the whole I am more of a "get drunk n eat burritos" person but the Exploratorium is super awesome. yeah!!! Koko!! calling all bay area monkeys!
• SF meetup near the inner rim? *raises eyebrow*
• *suggests we relocate the meetup for the luzers to Asteroid Takei, hmmmmmm?*
• I am totally there!
• I'll get a lift from kit to the meetup!
• I'll sneer from a distance.
• HawthorneWingo = 80% in (20% chance of I'll-be-out-of-town). Maybe we can make a reservation to do the Tactile Dome??? And El Rio is the right choice. And if the weather's crappy and we want to hang inside somewhere else, there's a very cool newish bar whose name I forget just across the street, with a back room with pool table and arcade games. I am so hot for this meetup.
• And MCT, we'll make sure to have a round of daisy-fresh Anchor Brewing products for you.
• I'll sneer from a distance. Cry from a distance is more like it. BURN
• I'll be there! I love the Exploratorium! ...oh, wait... *cries*
• Unlike the legions of post-ironic wannacomes, I will be there and I mean it, so if you are a Bay Area Monkey (or if you can wangle an excuse for a SF weekend) I'd love to meet you (e.g. You, Hawthorn). Thrill at the opportunity to tell me what a fuckwit you think I am or, alternately, ask "who the hell are you?" If I don't see you, I'll light a candle for you at the Church of St John Coltrane. Those keen to make an attempt to break the current Monkeyfilter Meetup Drinking Record (current holders: Q Kid and G Child, Tokyo, January 2007) are particularly encouraged to apply. This will also be my fourth meetup continent. Offset THAT shit, Al Gore.
• Fourth continent? Depends on how the tectonics are that day -- El Rio is east of the San Andreas fault, but west of the Hayward or Calaveras, so you might well end back on the same old Pacific plate ok I'll stop now.
• No, no, no...quid means that most of his other meetups have been incontinent.
• Europe, Asia, Australia and North America: every major land mass counts. Anyways - when am I seeing you in London, Captain?
• Europe, Asia, Australia and North America: every major land mass counts. Anyways - when am I seeing you in London, Captain?
• Oh -- Australia! I keep forgetting that it's a "continent", since it's about the same size as the legend on the map. How's your bottom-corner rivalry with Rand McNally going, anyway..? As for London, it looks like we're a go for the 24th. FPP to follow closer to the date.
• And MCT, we'll make sure to have a round of daisy-fresh Anchor Brewing products for you. *cries from a distance* *sneers* *cries again* I still can't find their goddamn whiskey around here
• Dig. And stop hating on my island home.
• Whoawhoawhoa -- Anchor has a whiskey?!? Why have I not been informed of this?
• i guess i have to go now, i did promise quiddy a hug.
• Awesome!
• Awesome!
• ok I'm throwing down the gauntlet and stepping into the Monkeyfilter Meetup Drinking Record ring. I can outdrink a pregnant woman and a corpse. sheesh!
• What are the rules, here -- do we have to just drink it, or drink it and keep it down? What about your Jersey plans, Medusa? Are you not going to come out with me and smt and do Century Club?
• Ooooooooooh Medusa. I hope you have your liver donor ready.
• I better bring a wheelbarrow. And a hose.
• capt. we had to put off the nj plans til spring, due to various things... I already have 4 healthy, pristine clones of myself in deep freeze, quiddy...ready to give me the gift of life any time I need!
• It'll probably end up being El Rio, barring a better suggestion, as managing a meetup at the Exploratorium would be a lot like herding cats. Plus El Rio's more convenient for our East Bay friends. Plus there's sitting down, and drinking. Does everyone have Monday off? It's been so long, I forget if Veteran's is a long weekend.
• You travelin' fools! *pouts
• I have monday "off"
• Holy shit. I may drive up for this. (I do have Monday off)
• Hey I wasn't preggers in January! Sheesh. Anyway me bets Medusa falls asleep after 3 drinks.
• Monkeyfilter: outdrink a pregnant woman and a corpse
• bone: it would be awesome to see you!! gomi: just teasing but seriously I'm 5'9" 160# of redheaded Irish party maniac. I'll be getting started at 3 drinks ;)
• Please do, Mr. Bone.
• God damn you. God damn you all.
• Ain't no party like a MoFi Bay Area Meetup party!
• Well, if I can hitch a ride from Sacramento and back, and if I can get by on $7, I'm in. Otherwise, I'll be suffering in the purgatory that is November 2007's budget: Mr. Minda is obliged to take two weeks of unpaid time off for school, I am starting a new job that is much better (it's at the County), but pays $4 less per hour, and we're starting Abigail in a new daycare that costs $50/week more. Really, the timing couldn't be worse. *cries with mct*
• Depending on the day, I might be able to make it to my first MoFi meetup! I always have Monday off this semester, but do have class in the morning on Tuesday. Mr. Bone, maybe we could head up together and split the cost of gas? I'm a little out of the way if you're taking 5 up, but right on your route if you're going 99.
• i won't be drinking, but i think i might just be able to make a monday sort of thing. when will we be narrowing it down to a when and a where?
• Christophine: That would work if I drive. My little jalopy is is a bad way and I'm not sure it'll be a good idea to be more than 100 miles from home in it, so I may fly and either rent a car up there or BART it if I'm feeling adventurous and/or broke. I'll let you know! :)
• Bone, Christophine, minda_25, it would be great to meet you (insh'allah).
• If you come, I'll buy your drinks n' snacks, minda. Don't nobody not come cuz of munny prollems. We'll narrow down the day soon; Sundays are crazy at the El Rio because of Salsa or some such, so if El Rio, then Saturday or Monday. If Monday, it should be afternoonish so's folks can get their beauty rest after. I haven't heard many suggestions for other venues. Zeitgeist? Suppenkuche? Chevy's? Make Out Room (giggle)? Uno's at the Embarcadero? Come on people, help me out here. Someplace large group-friendly, pref. with a patio for our puffing friends. Isn't there a big bar in the Castro with a patio?
• If minda comes, I'll purchase your drinks-and-snacks outlays, Koko, and bundle it with some other debts and sell it to those guys who bought all that sub-prime mortgage stuff.
• *strews peanuts*
• El Rio... Zeitgeist... Edinburgh Castle is big (and great) but I don't think they have a patio (just really great beer, and scotch, and strolling bagpipe players!!)
• I'll be there, though possibly also square: I may or may not be a drinking person in November, just as an occasional test of the Emergency Sobriety Systems. I'd prefer Sunday, but the other days could be made to work, as well. Yay!
• We went to Frjtz in Hayes Valley for a meet-up once. There was a backyard patio and Belgian ales. And french fries.
• belgian ale and french fries I will not say no to that :)
• OK - I searched around for a few more places, and have these options to offer (Frjtz is closed, HW): Zeitgeist 199 Valencia St (at Duboce Ave) - has patio, food Butter 354 11th St. (SOMA) - has food, other bars nearby WISH 1539 Folsom St. (SOMA) - has food Empress of China Cocktail Lounge 838 Grant Avenue betw. Clay & Washington (Chinatown) - has food (restaurant closes 10:30), balcony Amber 718 14th Street (Duboce triangle) - big space, couches, smoking indoors, food nearby, also other bars nearby Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary St. (Nob Hill) - has food Let me know if you guys have any thoughts about these places. Seems like we're looking at Sunday, no? Anyone have a problem with Sunday?
• 
• Cunts.
• I've been to Amber and liked it. Butter doesn't really have enough seating space (though the music is often great).
• I have an off-beat suggestion: there is a top-notch tiki bar on the island of Alameda. It's near public transportation, has much parking, is not directly in SF, has a lovely patio space, and drinks that are on fire. and many beers. and so much more.
• Forbidden Island is a lot of fun but I suspect the majority will root for the city...
• Yeah, and knowing me I'd probably set my hair on fire. So far Amber is in the lead, although it's mainly smokers weighing in. Anyone else have an opinion? About where we go, I mean.
• I'm in!! When I told Mr. Minda about my plans to take public transportation there & back, he said "why don't we just drive?" (I do not drive in SF. Manhattan was quite enough, thankyouverymuch.) We'll save up our change for gas money (not having to use quarters for laundry does wonders for the change stockpile), and perhaps mooch a drink and potato skin or two from the generous koko & quid, and we will have a blast. BabyMinda will also have a blast. At Gramma's.
• Oh, Mr. Minda says he'd like to go to a jazz club or an English pub. As for me, I wouldn't mind a stop somewhere for a bit of dancing. I can dance to anything except slow stuff and rap. My favorites are 70s/80s funk/r&b, and techno. Does anyone else like to dance?
• I like to dance...
• I vote Zeitgeist.
• I dance like a motherfucker. I'm cool with the talking and the drinking and the sitting at a table, but if y'all want to get your rhythm on I can do that.
• Yay, Mr. and Mrs. Minda! Dancing is good. In that case, maybe we should consider Butter as a mustering place, since it is near to a few SOMA dance clubs.
• Actually, scratch that. SOMA dance clubs are closed Sunday nights. We could still go to Amber, and then saunter over to The Café for dancing, whoever wants to get down and funky. It does have the gay, being in the Castro, but I'm sure most of you won't have a problem with that. It also has the techno, however (at least it did, I don't imagine that's changed), which might be more of an issue. As usual, I'm highly suggestibleopen to suggestions. Afterwards, if we're still conscious, there's Sparky's Diner to soak up the booze. All within stumbling distance of each other. And if you're nice to me, I'll show you where I flashed the fire truck - that's over on 14th Street.
• I will not, however, show you how I flashed the fire truck.
• This time around it'll be a cop car?
• Say, there's an idea!
• What's SOMA? I should note that Mr. Minda does *not* dance, and hates techno. That being said, if he can sit with a beer and someone of like-mind, he'll be happy. Trac, are you sure you can't make it? It would be the most coolest thing ever if we could dance with our Fearless Leader!
• SOuth of MArket St. - industrial-ish area with many clubs, but also residences. They have an agreement to keep the noise down on school nights. Well, like I said, 'tis only a suggestion. Who knows, maybe Salsa Sunday at El Rio is the answer after all. Just gonna be crowded, but any place probably will be on a long weekend. Anyone know if Edinburgh Castle has a jukebox?
• It would be...tricky. If I had unlimited wealth I would attend every meetup, but alas the only person I can meet up with here is #2. Which isn't so bad.
• Yet another reason why tracicle shouldn't be admin - she doesn't have unlimited wealth. Or so she CLAIMS. I can't wait to get to California and start handing out VOTE #1 QUIDNUNC badges, and the hanging chad for Hank.
• #1 quidnunc? More like number TWO. 'Cause he's, like, made of poopie and stuff, baby. Vote quidnunc for dangly doo-doo face.
• I don't see you spending your unlimited wealth on bribing the constituents, Mr "#1" Quidnunc. I bet if you kissed a baby, it would...it would...I dunno. Something embarrassing. I'm not so good at this electioneering thing.
• No More Tears! No More Tears!
• Ah, the politics of division rears its doubled-head once more like a handicapped Hydra, and shrieks in stereo a twice-despised howl of malice and despair. Luckily I'm a uniter - not a divider. And, as part of that policy of conglomeration, I promise to unite my opponents with a flaming pit of lava. I also plan to unite my face with Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan's used bathwater, and unite your tax dollars with my Swiss bank manager, Alphonse. So vote quidnunc-M'abuse in 2008, or, just like King Herod, we'll kiss every child born in Israel on 25 December.
• I was all set to vote for tracikraken, in light of her exemplary record in the Cod Wars, but having read the recent revelations of the Swift Whaling Boats Veterans for Strewth, I now realise quidnunc and M'abuse did more for us from their difficult posting as surf-board waxers on the Gold Coast than ever the multi-limbed one did in the icy depths of the North Atlantic.
• So, what are you doing to court the Curling Mom vote?
• Does anyone care at ALL where this meetup is going to take place? Because if I don't hear some preferences I'm going to hold it at the Civic Center MUNI station. Or the library, that's a nice peaceful place. How about Safeway? We can roll cans of tomatoes up and down the aisles and squeeze the Charmin. HELP ME OUT PEOPLE.
• Let's narrow it down to 2 places: a) El Rio - Mission District, patio, salsa dancing (perhaps afternoon only, I dunno) b) Amber - Duboce/near Castro, smoking indoors, lounge on sofas, possibly go to dance club down the street later Pick one please! KTHX!!
• Shoutouts from safeway diaper aisle plz kthxby
• *massages temples*
• Vote #1 Amber. And the dinosaur DNA preserved in tree sap for Hank.
• Either works for me, but I know Amber has good cocktails, so I'll go with that one.
• A baby in every pot! Free guacamole for all!
• Amber in '08!
• altho I am not 100% keen on the indoor smoking option, I've never been to Amber (thus = adventure!) and I likes good cocktails (thus = drunken debawcherrie!!) so Amber in '08 indeedy!
• Gratuitously but quietly mocks both admin candidates over the performances of their respective rugby teams. ha! ha! ha! ohmigodwhatafunnyday! Alas, I will not be able to make this meetup. And I was so looking forward to wearing some flour in my hair.
• Yeah, the ABs choke. They always choke under pressure. Crappy reffing though.
• The reffing worked both ways, I think. Kiwis had problem of not being challenged until today, then not adapting in face of a challenge. French defense was outstanding. Better than I've seen it in 15 years. Some mad statistic at the end like 160 versus 67 tackles. Wallabies, on the other hand, I don't understand at all. Decent team beaten by a pretty mediocre one.
• Speak english!
• HW votes El Rio.
• Er, are we 100% set on Sunday? I had not appropriately conveyed the Sunday preference to Mr. Minda, and when he found out tonight that the 11th is the day, he said there's no way he can make it. Apparently he's got a mid term that Monday, and a night of drunken debauchery with the Mofi gang will cause him to fail it.
• Ah, ignore my comment in the other rugby thread, roryk, where I just said the same thing. :) Yes, French defense was excellent. They had a more challenging pool to work through than the ABs so were undoubtedly more prepared for the challenge. There were some excellent series of phases in front of the posts on the ABs part, though. Pity they just couldn't carry it through.
• We can probably break this meetup in two and have meet different peeps on different days, if necessary. For the purposes of this comment the term "we" includes but is not necessarily limited to the quidnunc kid. Gratuitously but quietly mocks both admin candidates over the performances of their respective rugby teams. VOTE #1 QUIDNUNC: TOUGH ON TERROIR. AND THAT MEANS YOU, FRENCHY.
• Yeah, why don't we do that. I was only saying Sunday because Boney's coming up for that night only (I think). We could do Amber on Sunday night, and have that be the Big Meetup, and then whoever wants to get together Saturday night can email me (see profile) and we'll figure out a place, maybe have dinner or something. But for Official Purposes, Sunday's the Main Event. Is that ok?
• Cool. Thanks for the organisation, Koko.
• I'M GONNA ORGANISE THE SHIT OUT OF THIS THING. *starts making fancy seating cards*
• OK THEN! I declare THE BIG DO will happen SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, at AMBER (718 14th Street near Church & Market), at around 7 or so. Son of a gun we'll have big fun in the Castro.
• I'm gonna look into flights this week. If I go (and I really, really want to), I'll fly up Friday afternoon and stay through Monday noonish. My preference would still be for Sunday night, but I'll be around Saturday as well. I wouldn't be opposed to two nights of meetupness with various people. the largest factor i'm trying to consider at the moment: i'm applying to grad schools and december 1 is the deadline for getting materials in to my top choice program. this means that every spare moment i have in november will be spent writing, because i no longer have any research papers from undergrad and am applying to musicology departments which require writing samples. so, i'll need to see how much work i can frontload this month, and determine if i can really afford to not write for four or so days.
• Oh, now they're having two meetups. Always gotta top everybody else. Jerks. Oh, and shoutout, plz.
• (I thought that when koko did the meetup thing she always sent out flyers in advance. Right? She is such a slut.) Shoutout for me, please!
• Is it okay if I bring my friend Morgan Fairchild?
• OK, the flight is totally doable, financially. I need to check on car rental stuff though (and may need to crash at someone's pad for at least one night).
• And, fuck. I just got an email about a bunch of friends I sang with in college who are having a reunion... in San Diego. On the 11th. I'll probably still go to SF, but being a sprightly little creature of impulse I don't do well with the "having to make choices" and "prioritizing" stuff.
• And, fuck. I just got an email about a bunch of friends I sang with in college who are having a reunion... in San Diego. On the 11th. I'll probably still go to SF, but being a sprightly little creature of impulse I don't do well with the "having to make choices" and "prioritizing" stuff.
• And, fuck. I double posted, like a douchebag.
• I don't believe that is the definition of a douchebag.
• i just got a call this evening from a friend who is coming for this upcoming weekend to visit... i'll see if i can drag her along to Amber.
• Bone: to help guide you through this awful dilemma, can I remind you that San Diego was, and remains, an utter loser? The far superior Saint was Francisco d'Assisi. Francis Bernardone - il Poverello - is the patron of an ever-growing list of causes: his intercession is sought against dying alone and against fire; his help is requested for the benefit of animals and birds, for Catholic action, for Colorado and for Denver, by ecologists and environmentalists, by families, by Freising, Germany, by all of Italy and the diocese of Kottapuram in India, by lacemakers and laceworkers, by the diocese of Lancaster, England, by merchants, for the cause of peace, by needle and tapestry workers and for the salvation of zoos. In contrast, what is St Didacus patron of? "The Franciscan laity" - ? Give me a fucking break.
• Anyone has yet to contact me regarding a Saturday mini-meet. Minda? Other monkeys who may be avoiding this thread due to fear or revulsion? I don't bite! And contrary to popular opinion my personal hygiene is above reproach. Email is in profile!
• Sorry for the non-updatedness. I'm in a sticky situation, what with Mr. Minda's school and GrammaMinda's horrid schedule that weekend. I think I'm going to have to pass this one up. Dammit all.
• nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
• Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Sorry to hear that minda -- let us know if things improve. If you bring me sumpin' homemade I'll reimburse your public transit fare, if you want to come by yourself. Seriously, I'm sure we can work something out. Email me!
• I wasn't able to find a sub for my gig on Sunday. So, I'm doing my gig, and then flying up afterwards on Sunday afternoon. It's a little more pricey as far as the flight goes, but is balanced out by the fact that I'll need to shell out less money for a rental car and lodging. I'll be in the city most of Monday and will fly home on Monday night.
• I'm applauding Bone even though I don't know what Bone gigs at. But anyway, good on ye for making such an effort to meet imaginary people!
• My gig is working as a tenor soloist at a biggish church in Burbank. (As I'm not all that religious, this fact provides a lot of mirth to the people who know me IRL. But they do great classical music... the solo quartet is singing Wer bis an das Ende beharrt by Mendelssohn this Sunday.)
• Good on ye!
• I forgot. I'm going to Yosemite next Sat-Mon. You monkeys have a blast w/o me, 'kay?
• No. :(
• So, who all is still going? Medusa? M. Le Fromage? Christophine? Yentruoc? Or are you all suddenly required to visit national parks? /sulk
• I may become a Bay Area Monkey early next year... In the meantime, have a good'un!
• You mean you're still talking about this? Pfft. In my day, meetups were organized and executed within a three-day span, using advanced GPS and head-mounted laser findy things. We'd be drunk and burying a dead emu in a major league ballpark by Tuesday. Where as you? All you do is talk about it.
• Pfft. By talking about it, she maximizes the gloating factor. Your meetups are all sex, no foreplay. Where's the lovin', MCT? Where's the lovin'?
• I'm bummed.
• it is still my intention to be there (until mr medusa impulsively decides we need to go to yosemite that weekend, which is a vague but actual possibility...) I would like some confirmation tho...sunday? where are we meeting again? what the fluff is going on?
• I see. I understand. You people would rather be mauled by bears than meet me and quidnunc. Well listen, I got that odor thing under control, and quidnunc took some courses, so now he's ok to be in public too. Come on! You're going to freeze your asses off in a tent, instead of basking in our warm and mostly nonthreatening glow?? WE ARE NOT AS MEAN OR FOUL-SMELLING AS BEARS, and have the certificates to prove it! Dammit people! It's just a bunch of rocks and trees! And bears! Amber, 718 14th Street, Sunday November 11 at 7:00-ish. Be there or be EATEN BY BEARS.
• don't worry Koko, I have no intention of missing out on my opportunity to fuck quid's corpse!
• POTOSPLZKTHX.
• i dislike bears, so i will cheese on by for a bit. i might even hold Quiddy's ankles for Medusa.
• !
• Some things we just don't want photos of.
• I would go. But I can't. :( It doesn't mean I don't wish not-unwonderful things for you, though. You shouldn't take it to mean that.
• Maybe for an encore everybody can tour Anchor Brewing (comes with free tastings). Hi MCT ;)
• We shan't forget to remember not to omit your name from the shoutouts, mct, as far as I can tell.
• mct: frommage and I will spell out yr name via naughty positions with the corpse (eeeeek!)
• Pls do corpse RTDoggie-style. I will understand.
• MUST SMASH HWINGO
• HWINGO JUST BACK FROM ANCHOR BREWING, ALREADY SMASHED.
• We totally have to have an East Coast/West Coast MoFi gang war. Er, yo.
• Didn't the LA monkeys have a gang sign already?
• And once you've killed each other, those of us in the 14th Street Flyover crew will steal all your gold teeth. And your signs, which we will sell to that guy on that football team.
• Here's what to do for the meet-up
• Three more sleeps! I'll not have internet access after tomorrow morning, so if anyone needs to contact me for phone numbers and such, email me now. NOW!! Otherwise, see you there!
• I respectfully demand a shoutout.
• I shout out to demand respect.
• I demand a respectful shoutout! Or a disrespectful one, if that's all there is going.
• I just hope you have a great time and don't worry yourself about shoutouts and what have you.
• I can't wait for Koko to leave already so Canada can smell nice again.
• I just hope that if you don't worry about shoutouts and what have you that you have a horrible time!
• Might not make it. If I do, it'll be last-minute. Koko: I have emailed you my number, and I expect a drunkdial.
• Anyone else wants a drunkdial, better email me (or quid) their phone number. Yeah, I'm talkin' to you!! *points, sways*
• *takes picture of balls* *fires up Thunderbird*
• Hope the meet-assery goes well!
• I'm in ur liberal city by the bay watchin ur football and drinking ur beer!
• That's wierd. That's exactly what I'm doing right now, all the way over on the other side of the country! Well, okay there isn't a bay, and I'm already out of beer, and I'm pretty sure you've got all the liberals right there with you, but there sure as heck is some football on TV today. Hope you all have a great time at your fancy meetup, and I'm not requesting any shout-outs. Nope. Not a one. You folks just have a darn good time without me. *runs off, sobbing*
• oh, mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey mickey!
• I'M KOKO LOGGED IN AS QUIDNuNC AND TrYING TO TYpE 6 TINY KEyPADm
• ok es el queso, I expect to see you at the meetup with pompoms, prepared to perform a special shout out for Mickey. I'll bring the video camera :D
• i'll be too busy holding quiddy's ankles, remember? i don't want to get blood on my only cheerleading outfit; halloween's already over.
• Hi this is "Koko" voting #1 quidnunc kid for administrator and the ministry of vice for Hank. Soon I will know all your passwords and MoFi will reverberate to the endless chant of "quidnunc ... quidnunc ... quidnunc" from my army of hapless zombie-clone slave-men. Ha ha ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
• Koko: I just called you, you she-douche.
• Sorry bonester we has phone/credit issues which are now being resolved. Call you soon - we may be drunk, though! - quidoko
• Sorry bonester we has phone/credit issues which are now being resolved. Call you soon - we may be drunk, though! - quidoko
• Drubk yet?
• I'll have you know that curieux and I just finished watching L.A. Story (again) here in the cold blustery north and I thought warm thoughts of palm trees, superficial relationships and high colonics.
• For the Bay Area, you have to think of Eucalyptus trees and fog, and maybe hot tubs.
• for the last goddamn time, it's not fog, it's the "marine layer."
• I think its so grate thst we cn hsve intrentet in bar on littl toy machine what do you call it? Bartender is drunbk I think but he csh travlers check nyway. WHAT! No thanks. Anyway I love you monkeypeople u r grate. No rlly where's the ladies room
• How disgusting - some people simply cannot handle their liqour, and it hardly bodes well for this website that such HEY WHAT? YOU TALKING ABOUT ME YOU GODDAMN ASS I'LL KICK YOUR A*hick* ok gimme another drink already
• Well whyn't ya come look for yer money cuz I dunno wher it is ya baloney! You make me wanna puke!
• BURP
• *iz ded of laffing*
• Great, now I can have the joke book you run this place with and the rubber chicken for Hank. Thanks.
• SHUT UP. I AM AT WORK.
• SO AM I!
• MY BEER IS EMPTY WTF
• OK now we're drinkin white russians. Hey man there's a beverage here.
• I love you people.
• Have just discovered this through bone's blog...may try to make it up. What time y'all meeting? My eyes crossed reading the thread. I'm heading to the city shortly with friends who are visiting but then will hopefully have time to come back home, sleep, and go back up again...
• I will be there! Sorry I've been absent to the thread for a bit. Off-line life and whatnot.
• Yeah, I could be out there getting drunk with you guys, but last night I did something better. I had pizza with friends. Church friends. And the party kept going until 7 PM, baby. Suck it.
• yeah!! livii and yentruoc!
• Just to let you know, if the debauchery continues past midnight you'll be partying on MY birthday.
• OK now we're drinkin white russians. Hey man there's a beverage here.
• livii: 7-ish at Amber. You cum?
• Amber is at 718 14th st., in the Duboce/Castro/lower Safeway area. If you need help locating us inside Amber, we'll be the ones playing with the travel-sized Lite Brite. See yis there!
• Man, I'm so sorry, but I'm not going to make it. Have had an exhausting weekend and would need to involve the spouse to get a ride up and he's exhausted too, and we both have to work tomorrow. I really wanted to come...hope you guys have a great time. Anyone still in town tomorrow (Monday), though? I could take the train up, leave a little early from work. Could be in the city by 6:30 or 7.
• The latest news is that Christophine and Bone showed up promptly at 7, only to find that Amber was closed!
• That means Koko and quid have already moved on to the leather daddies.
• Oh boy.
• So at 2:30 this morning, my phone rang. Was it an emergency? A friend in jail? News of my grandfather's death? Michael J. Fox wanting me to star in a remake of "Midnight Madness?" Why, no. It was this drunk dude with an accent. I think he was English or something. And then there were these other two people, some broad and another dude. They wanted me to know that they were very drunk, and also they wanted to know what time it was in every time zone in the United States, including the one they were in at the time. Things that came out of this phone call:

  • quidnunc had his first ever Twinkie, and loved it.
  • I have promised to name my next child "quidnunc."
  • Telephone static combined with background bar noise sometimes sounds like the phrase "filthy foreigner."
  • Hey! It's me! And it's Koko! And it's me! And Bone! And me!
  • Filthy foreigners may not appreciate the full cultural import of eating their first ever Twinkie, even if they did have fun being hammered at Safeway.

  I thank you for my phone call. I lay in bed grinning for a half hour afterward. Never have I been so delighted to be woken up in the middle of the night -- except for the time my friend called from jail in Nashville because he got drunk and took out a fire hydrant, but that was only funny after the fact.
• *sobs that he's not a member of the cabal, not that there is one*
• Post your phone number. Plenty of monkeys in exotic time zones would be happy to call you.
• Oh, you tease. I could have called you last night. Turns out there's a Rocket 88 Diner on Dundas, just off of University. I think it was on Dundas... around there, anyway.
• I saw that place when I went to Nuit Blanche last month. Didn't have my camera, though...
• There's a Koko's Chinese restaurant near where I work.
• HOW Y'ALL FEELING THIS FINE MORNING? *bangs trash can lids together, hides aspirin*
• Extra-special fine. How are you?
• no complaints here.
• well I am sure you are feeling extra fine today yentruoc ;) I am too, since I forgot about my epic drinking challenge w/quid and drove to the meetup. d'oh!!! so I didn't drink too much and still have a brain today. I'll post some pics soon, but DaShiv showed up (yeah!!) so I didn't bother taking too many. Bone, Koko, Quid, Me-dusa, Queso, Yentruoc, Christophine, a bunch of mefites including DaShiv and Misslynnster. all in all a great turn out, altho some left early (ahem, yentruoc!!) I know I've not mentioned everyone but I can't remember it all perfectly. after all I did not remain entirely sober :P
• I missed a DaShiv meetup? Dang.
• So hungover this morning. omg. Back in LA now. Had a fabulous time seeing everyone. More later when I can be coherent.
• bone was a drunky monkey last night :D
• Need pictures!
• I was going to be good and hold myself to one drink, but I think that quid and Koko decided in advance that they were going to get me properly trashed. Woke up at 6:15 AM with a horrible hangover, and spent the next hour in bed praying for death. When death did not come, I got up, cabbed back to the Castro (waking up in strange hotel rooms with little recollection as to how I got there seems to be a recurring leitmotif in my life), acquired a smoothie at Jamba Juice and got on the road back to LA. Most surreal moment of the evening, as alluded to above: Being drunk in a grocery store with Koko (and if the sentence ended there, that would be enough), hunting for Twinkies to feed to Quidnunc. I had a lovely time catching up with yentruoc, Christophine, DaShiv and Medusa, and finally meeting Queso. And of course, I was overjoyed to meet quidnunc and Koko, both of whom are absolutely wonderful.
• Oh man, I'm going to start saving for the next one of these.
• Even over the phone? Koko smells.
• i didn't notice any over odor emanating from her (you know, since we both actually WENT), but they did allow smoking in the bar, so I can't be entirely sure.
• damn damn damn, OVERT.
• Made it back without being attacked even once by bears. Glad to hear about the positive impact on SF's nighttime economy. Where are the goddamn pictures?
• Last Sunday needs to happen again. Like right now.
• ok I posted my few pics on flickr someone tell the mefites they are labelled now. still waiting for the motherlode from DaShiv...
• *drums fingers, waits*
• i found DaShiv's photos on Flickr. Thanks to him for posting these, and it was swell meeting all of youse, and even them MeFi folks... I might even start saving up $5?
• Quid + Banana + San Francisco = too easy. If you people aren't even going to try to make this hard, I just can't be bothered.
• Or Twinkie. Whatever. Same diff.
• you do seem a teensy bit bothered, Capt.
• the whole shoutout/overexposed flash thingy just didn't work out. we did a beta test with gomi's then just sort of gave up. also, the litebrite was a callout failure. get yr own meetup!
• Fine. I will. *harupmh!* *sob*
• Jealousy. Seething jealousy.
• Wheee!
• Looks like quid forgot his X-ray specs.
• Looks like quid forgot his X-ray specs.
• Er, one post for each naked eyeball?
• Oh, the goddamn seething. I'll, uh, be several miles north of Denver next Monday...
• DaShiv takes nice photos. If I could afford the five bucks, I'd tell him myself.
• If you people aren't even going to try to make this hard, I just can't be bothered. It seems like you're trying to "make this hard." J'accuse!
• I'm still hungover. God help me. I also dove off the non-smoking wagon (I'm back on it, but my lungs are loath to forgive me). My body's not used to such abuse. What a fantastic time. I didn't expect such a big turnout, and was overjoyed that the_bone was able to make it, and that I got to meet Medusa and the cheeseman and christophine and so many lovely MoFites and MeFites, not least of which was DaShiv with his Jackie Chan-like acrobatic photography stuntwork. Most people had left by the time the bartender played Rock and Roll McDonald's by Wesley Willis (listen to song snippets here), which for me was the icing on the sweet and delicious multi-tiered chocotastic dream cake that was the 11/11/07 MoFi/MeFi Amber meetup. I was so excited that I gave the bartender a dollar just for playing that song. I'm in post-holiday letdown mode now, and am trying to figure out when I could go again. I WILL go again! Holy shit that was fun. Will post pics as soon as I locate my camera, upload, label, and have another nap. And maybe another White Russian.
• *seething jealousy not yet abating*
• As already mentioned in the other place, it was such a pleasure to meet you all - what a congress of charming, friendly, intelligent and erudite folks! I had an absolute blast - and apologies to anyone I smoked out or didn’t get to buy a drink for. You are a fabulous and talented bunch of people, and glad you all got home OK (especially Bone, whom we kidnapped!) Now that the long shadows of drunkenness have receded from the shores of our minds, allow me to recapitulate certain topics that were discussed on the night, in order to give those who could not make it a taste of the courses of discussion that were on offer. Firstly, it seems that the solution to America’s crime problem is to shanghai into service certain child TV stars, who shall be collectively known as the RETROTASTIC SENIOR TEENS FOR JUSTICE. Membership of this august crime-battling troupe shall include Webster (the REAL spider-man), Arnold and Willis (operating as the dynamic duo, MR ISCHEMIC STROKE and MR INTRACEREBAL STROKE), and THE INCREDIBLE PUNK E BREWSTER. The team shall be led by their grey-haired and venerable sensei, Professor Scott “Chachi” Baio. Expected villains and nemeses include Screech, Kimberley, Erkel, etc. Secondly, as noted by Bone (that modern-day Ulysses), I devoured in jocoserious ecstasy Continental Baking Co’s massproduct, the creature Twinky - my first. Luckily, DaShiv has a clean shot of the beads of rapture erupting from every gland and pore as I thus lived - for one brief moment - the dream American. Next, Koko and I have decided to move into the coffee creamer industry. We have examined the marketplace, noting the existence of the product known as “Half and Half,” poised midway between milk and cream. After investing heavily in the necessary R & D, we are now launching a rival liquid called “Third and Third and Third”. And plans are already underway for “Fifth and Fifth and Fifth and Fifth and Tenth and Tenth”! We’d also like to ban the term “whitener” from the industry, preferring as we do the expression “caffeinated beverage tone contraster”. Someone send a memo to the cows. Herewith a list of actual reasons given to San Franciscans for their being refused service in Bay Area stores, museums and similar: (a) “I’m sorry sir but we have a no moustache policy here”; (b) “No shoes, no service. Yes, I can see what you’re wearing but I’ve just kicked off my clogs - sorry”; (c) “Before I can let you in, I need to ask how many Aunts you have. Five? OK, but I have seven. So you might want to find yourself another store”; and (d) “I need you to prove that you’re not undead”. Finally: American men’s room urinals (the single-customer-at-a-time kind) seem to be set lower down on the wall than their British or Australian equivalents. This can only be explained by one of the following two alternate theses: (1) the floor in America is higher up than in other countries. This in turn is a result of litigious older-folk who simply will not abide falling down as far as other countries’ nationals. Consequently, America has the lowest rate of hip replacements in the developed world; or (2) American men all have giant penises.
• Koko smooches DaShiv to ensure good pics. It's despicable.
• That look on his face is all AW YEAH WHO'S THE AV CLUB NERD NOW, BITCHES?
• Laugh of the day.
• definitely 2, quid.
• ok here are pix. The ones that don't look like crap were taken after DaShiv fiddled with my camera. Sorry about the lack of shoutouts -- as Medusa said, it was just too dark in there. I did draw a stick figure shoutout for dng, which Medusa said she'd scan (pls thx). We did talk about you all, if it helps!
• Koko, you can make it up to me by posting an audio file of you saying "Dave's not here, man." It was the one thing I was looking forward to hearing you say in person if I'd been able to make the meet-up.
• YOU can make it up to ME, Mr. Rather-Be-Sleeping-With-Bears, by bringing WEED to the meetup next time I come. "Dave's not here" can only be said when one is wicked stoned. And SOMEONE neglected to bring any that night. By SOMEONE, I mean ALL OF YOU. Not that I would have been able to stand up if I'd had any. But STILL.
• if only i'd known. my bad. sorry!
• medusa + weed = boring zombie
• Man, Koko... if I had known you'd indulge I would have hooked you up. :( bone + weed = comedy god
• Dang, koko - come visit.
• koko + weed = more twinkies. Also chee-tos. And those little caramelly things.
• oh, you TALKED about us. Okay. Right. That's SO MUCH BETTER than shout-outs! ... Sorry - the jealousy monster crept out there for a sec - I haven't had a hangover in over 3 years, and I really miss those rowdy late nights. You guys look gorgeous and it's clear from all the photos that you had such a great time. Thanks for sharing the details with us.
• someone really needs to come up with a proper shout-out kit for meetups so that gaffes like this never happen again. Y'all did so well with the boats in London, but we just flailed, and should have done better. Those who were neglected should just imagine that you're Gomichild for a moment and borrow one of her shoutouts from the photoset of your choice, or fill in the blank one in Medusa's photoset with your name...
• So we not only have to endure pictures of all the California monkeys who are cooler and more beautiful than us, but we now have to endure well-lit, beautifully framed glamor shots of said monkeys? Funny the light's great for all of those pictures with the glint bouncing from all your perfect white teeth, but no light for shoutouts...
• Oh, and if you can write "Hope Me" with a Lite Brite, than you can write "Lara". Just sayin'.
• than=then Hard to type when jealousy is coursing through all veins, even the finger ones.
• Just remember, when Bush declares marshal law and all of the North American mofi's start driving* thisaway to live on the RTD compound commune, it will be these very same, decadent Californian monkeys that will be the last to arrive and who will get the less desirable plots. See what your happy, drunken shout-out-less photos will get you then, you bastards. *Monkeys from other hemispheres will be well served by the international airports in Toronto and Kitchener, and you guys get the usual Tame/Bland Early Arrival discount.
• NOOOOOOO! My shout outs all MINE! Rule #1 about shout outs - always use a thick black marker - pen doesn't show up well esp if you need to use flash.
• I'm impressed by the way DaShiv continues to hold onto his drink even while he has a camera in one hand and flash in the other. Perhaps he thought if he put it down someone would spike it and date-rape him.
• Rule #2 about shoutouts: don't bother if it's too much trouble, and you don't care, and you hate all other Monkeys. (We London Office Monkeys have thick black markers and post-its. Xerox Subsidy!) Get you shout-out requests in now!
• You is good fotogafa
• Goddammit HERE's where y'all are! I - haha - I was over in the Capt's Croc thread! Oh man am I embarassed! So! I can haz shoutowtz?
• Sure! I'm beginning to get the hang of this "shout out" thing.
• *applause*
• *noplause*
• Doublesweet! Don't . . normally, though, don't shoutouts happen when other people are around? I mean . . - no? It - ? Ok, no, no that's great, I just thought - y'know if quidtendo was there he could . . or . . no y'know what that's great! thanks! Yeses!! *Capt:3 Petes: 8!*
• The cat was here, and we were both drunk, so it should count.