I surely haven't commented enough to attend an Unfogged in NYC event, but on the off chance I'm eligible, I'm free all week (NYU law was "gracious" enough to schedule all my exams near Christmas).
Suppose, as I think may be the case for French names (though you would know better, Belgian baker), that "Julie Delpy" has the stresses on the second syllables. Then say "Julie Delpyness" aloud.
And a woohoo on the apartment! (Have rents gone down? I've heard rumors that the rental market was softening, but haven't been involved in looking for a place in years.)
We should all show up at LB's office at around 11pm and start chatting. Then she can sit there and decide between working on her briefs or wasting time with us. It will be surreal.
I am in (well near) the city and would be glad to meet you. The Oyster Bar is close by where I work so I could meet for lunch there on a weekday; alternately it's always fun to drink some beers in the evening. One good place to do that, of many, is Druid's on 10th Ave in the 50's.
I vote for after work. I like that place Druids. My office is downtown now, or will be as of next week, so it would be hard for me to make lunch in Grand Central.
That's the key. I was recently relieved to recall that Wolfson, for example, only knows me as "Ogged" and "real-life nickname." I think for a bigger gathering like NY, I'll stick with "ogged."
Isn't there some theorem about the expected frequency of a Wolfson Indiscretion Error (hereafter, WIE) that suggests he will be posting pictures of you shortly? (And wouldn't it be funny if all those pictures we believe to be of Wolfson were actually of you?)
I thought I'd make myself presentable to the Unfogged crowd. As it turns out, if my scalp is no longer visible by the time I roll into NY, it will be a victory.
56 is brilliant, SB, but don't beat yourself up about it.
Thanks, ogged. Just for you, not only won't I beat myself up, I also won't gnash my teeth, don a hairshirt, or take to the hills to bewail my virginity.
I might be able to make drinks after work -- it's just that there's a tendency for emergencies to come up in the afternoon that keep me working late, so while I can make pretty confident lunch dates, I'm unreliable for anything in the evening. Still I'll make an effort to show up for anything.
This guy has a suggestion for bad haircuts.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:18 PM
This guy has a suggestion for bad haircuts.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:19 PM
Tom Hilde mentioned wanting to come. Will Yglesias be there?
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:19 PM
No DC, Ogged?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:20 PM
Damn. Didn't mean that to post twice. Can I add, just for fun, this?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:21 PM
DC is a few days earlier, Smasher.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:22 PM
That's a disaster haircut, not a haircut disaster.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:23 PM
Strike that, it's both.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:24 PM
1, 2: In the next picture he's with Julie Delpy. It's worth trying.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:51 PM
It's a shame about the term "Julie Delpyness".
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 8:37 PM
I would attend such an event, and request that it not be on the 13th, when I have my first exam this semester.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 8:46 PM
I had to read 10 several times before I figured out what SB was talking about. Oh, the shame!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 10:16 PM
I'll try to make it.
That's one creepy caterpiller a few photos forward from the photo linked in 1.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 10:47 PM
I surely haven't commented enough to attend an Unfogged in NYC event, but on the off chance I'm eligible, I'm free all week (NYU law was "gracious" enough to schedule all my exams near Christmas).
Posted by Doug | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 12:52 AM
I believe this jolly fellow was the model for Gentle Giant's self-titled album.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 12:57 AM
I had to read 10 several times before I figured out what SB was talking about. Oh, the shame!
Um, I feel thick for asking, but what is he talking about?
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 5:55 AM
Suppose, as I think may be the case for French names (though you would know better, Belgian baker), that "Julie Delpy" has the stresses on the second syllables. Then say "Julie Delpyness" aloud.
Also.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 7:18 AM
Ah. Got it. Thanks.
And I'm just going to claim that my "he" referred to you, Texan Philosopher.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 9:38 AM
ogged, i am sad. i just found out you'll be in d.c. right before i come home for winter break. sigh.
Posted by catherine | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 9:43 AM
Someday, Catherine, someday. I'll also be in Chicago at the end of December, but expect you'll be elsewhere.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 9:50 AM
I'd probably be free for a lunch around then -- how would everyone feel about the Oyster Bar? (Note: if you're not fond of fish, a bad idea.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 1:47 PM
And a woohoo on the apartment! (Have rents gone down? I've heard rumors that the rental market was softening, but haven't been involved in looking for a place in years.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 1:52 PM
I have concerts on 9, 10, and 11, but I might appear in New York after that if the event is sufficiently exciting.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 2:54 PM
Huh, I was assuming it would be an evening get together, but I have no objection to lunch if people can't do evening.
I won't even be in town until late on the 11th, so I expect to see you there, Labs.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 3:40 PM
We should all show up at LB's office at around 11pm and start chatting. Then she can sit there and decide between working on her briefs or wasting time with us. It will be surreal.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 4:07 PM
I'm fucking jealous. Stupid New York.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 4:26 PM
I'd work on LB's briefs.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 4:38 PM
Stay classy, Ben Wolfon.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 4:43 PM
I am in (well near) the city and would be glad to meet you. The Oyster Bar is close by where I work so I could meet for lunch there on a weekday; alternately it's always fun to drink some beers in the evening. One good place to do that, of many, is Druid's on 10th Ave in the 50's.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 5:37 PM
I might be coming to NY at the tail end of that time, though it's iffy enough that you probably shouldn't plan around me.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 5:42 PM
I vote for after work. I like that place Druids. My office is downtown now, or will be as of next week, so it would be hard for me to make lunch in Grand Central.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 5:54 PM
Though if LB can't make late in the day, I'll see what I can do.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:06 PM
After this trip, I guess ogged will have met more than half of the regular commenters. That's what I call secure pseudonymity.
Not that I wouldn't try to make it too, if I were in that part of the country.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:08 PM
Eb, you've made me curious. Ogged, when you do these things, do you introduce yourself as X or as "ogged"?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:27 PM
That's the key. I was recently relieved to recall that Wolfson, for example, only knows me as "Ogged" and "real-life nickname." I think for a bigger gathering like NY, I'll stick with "ogged."
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:30 PM
So, what, when you introduced yourself in Chicago, that wasn't even your real name then? Talk about taking things a little far.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:33 PM
That's a bit rich from someone who has an indiscretion error named after him.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:35 PM
Isn't there some theorem about the expected frequency of a Wolfson Indiscretion Error (hereafter, WIE) that suggests he will be posting pictures of you shortly? (And wouldn't it be funny if all those pictures we believe to be of Wolfson were actually of you?)
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:37 PM
But I believe "real-life nickname" has remained secret.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:37 PM
Think of how much likelier my indiscretion will be, now that I know it wouldn't even concern your real name.
…that suggests he will be posting pictures of you shortly?
I don't own a camera, sorry. As Joe Frank says: no photographs, only memories.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:39 PM
wouldn't it be funny if all those pictures we believe to be of Wolfson were actually of you?
What do you think?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:39 PM
Well, it would explain your TiVo situation.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:40 PM
Odd, Ben is the one holding the knife, but he's also the one that's bleeding....
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:42 PM
Wolfson Deprecation Error.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:43 PM
Wolfson Deprecation Error.
I told you so.
Off to see the boy wizard...
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:44 PM
My gambit isn't paying off.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:44 PM
Off to see the boy wizard...
Perv.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 6:46 PM
Has anyone stopped to wonder what connection barbery and ogged's tentative trip to NYC have?
Is he getting dolled up as an implicit rebuke to the ex (Look at what you could have had!), or just to conceal how far he's fallen?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 9:43 PM
I stopped to wonder.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 9:46 PM
Then magic didn't really die.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 9:55 PM
I'm glad to see all parties are still adhering to these rules.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:01 PM
I wondered also how ogged's senile barber fiasco constitutes dolling up.
w/d, where's that from?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:04 PM
Wolfson commented on an old thread just now, and I had to read through it to figure out what the hell he was talking about.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:13 PM
I wondered also how ogged's senile barber fiasco constitutes dolling up.
It was an attempt, anyway, not necessarily successful.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:16 PM
My real name is "Senilo Barbafiasco".
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:19 PM
My name is Senilo Barbafiasco. I rinsed your lather. Prepare to dye.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:32 PM
Any sentences you still need to finish, Wolfson?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:55 PM
I thought I'd make myself presentable to the Unfogged crowd. As it turns out, if my scalp is no longer visible by the time I roll into NY, it will be a victory.
56 is brilliant, SB, but don't beat yourself up about it.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:57 PM
Not to my knowledge, Eric.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 10:59 PM
Who's Eric?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 11:00 PM
Thanks, ogged. Just for you, not only won't I beat myself up, I also won't gnash my teeth, don a hairshirt, or take to the hills to bewail my virginity.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 11:08 PM
You, from now on, eb.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 11:10 PM
We've been through this before.
But why choose Eric?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 11:12 PM
Because it came to mind, and I think that it's the first name of Eb Oesch, for whom you were once mistaken.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 11:16 PM
Ah, I remember that. It took me a while to figure out who rone was talking about.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 11:20 PM
The cottage industries that used to cater to throngs of hill-seeking virginity bewailers have fallen on hard times.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 11:37 PM
I might be able to make drinks after work -- it's just that there's a tendency for emergencies to come up in the afternoon that keep me working late, so while I can make pretty confident lunch dates, I'm unreliable for anything in the evening. Still I'll make an effort to show up for anything.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-21-05 7:45 AM
Wait...ogged, you're seriously going to call yourself "ogged" for the face-to-face? You're not joking about that?
Evenings are fine for me, usually, but my office, like ac's, is downtown, so no Oyster Bar lunch for me.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11-21-05 8:14 AM
If UnfoggaCon doesn't meet at a leather bar, even your children's children will feel the shame.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-21-05 8:37 AM
69, especially given.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 11-21-05 8:44 AM
Which he retaliated against by posting about his hott new blender.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-21-05 9:08 AM
You should totally blog tv this NY meeting, you know. That'll show Kaus.
Posted by Paul | Link to this comment | 11-21-05 10:28 AM