Re: Chicagoland Meetup 4/28

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now that I leave the city, everyone wants to make a visit. no respect, etc.

I object to the venue; it's in Lincoln Park which is way too fratty for this crowd. I say we move it to Jackson's, or somewhere thereabouts, located on 21st Street in Nashville, TN.

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text!

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I do have a friend at Vanderbilt who I'll probably be visiting sometime fairly soon, so a Nashville meetup could happen.

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howdy SB, all. Going to be a short visit, I'm afraid.

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I'll stay long enough to say: Nashville meet-up! Woot!

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it sounds good to me! i can speak for tommy as well and i'm almost certain armsmasher plans on making it too. here's me and tommy so we might be identified.

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How does Flickr assign URLs? And what are you trying to say about Tom?

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i don't know...how does flickr assign urls? and, um, i'm trying to say tommy is cute? i guess? if you're curious about my user account name, it's a name that journalism students at medill (where i'm a masters student) are called.

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Also, if you're in or around the Twin Cities (John Emerson, are you there??), you can hang out with me. Hey! Why not make a road trip? It's only about 7 hours from Chicago....

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Well don't I look like a jackass. I thought it was a fortuitous concatenation of arbitray letters. If I'd thought about it, I would have realized that FLickr builds the account name into the URL, since that's the way they are when I link to my pictures.

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no problem, chopper - a lot of people are confused by the user account. until i explain that it's all about medill students being made fun of for being pompous idiots and everybody has a good laugh.

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's OK, Chopper, you're not the first.

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Nor, it seems, am I.

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Excellent -- now I can recognize you two, and Armsmasher's picture was on his blog so I can spot him as well. Assuming that picture was of Armsmasher.

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it was. he's the charming-looking fellow with the black frame glasses.

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text, it's aawesoem to see you! I was thinking of you, when I replied to B about knowing that one's unfogged posse would provide backup, if necessary.

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off topic but why can't i comment on old threads? i'm trying to respond to somebody who called me a bag-eyed ho unworthy of nick gillespie's love here.

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Man, that guy looks like a douchebag. The girl is cute, though.

(In the last instance, on that one long-gone thread about the website of "hot girls with douchebags," didn't "douchebag" functionally mean "guys other than myself"?)

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Ha! I just noticed that a couple of days ago myself. I'm on record that Gillespie is a snot-nose, and you're cute, so the hell with that Esther person commenting from a Catholic bookstore.

Also, whoever wrote that post was right about Oklahoma [shudder].

(I think the answer is that comments on old posts get held for moderation; obviously that one got opened back up last week; maybe it got closed again?)

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Red Lion?! I wonder, have I ever been there? But kudos for, you know, actually choosing a place.

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didn't "douchebag" functionally mean "guys other than myself"?

Nah, it meant "guys"; he acknowledges that he himself is a douchebag.

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Matt, You misunderstand. By "myself" I meant myself. The exception that proves the rule is me.

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I don't know why catherine thinks I'm not coming—of course I'll be there! And for the record, here is a cute picture of catherine and me.

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And I met slolernr on Saturday, which makes two Unfogged meatups in one week. I am teh meatiest!

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But you've never met me.

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dude, that is not cute. i look like a lush unworthy of nick's love. which, let's face it, i am. damn you, esther.

wolfson, you should come to chicago! though i guess there is an SF sort of meet up going on this coming weekend, right?

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Until I have that rare gold-foil Ben Wolfson hologram, my collection will continue to bring me shame.

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Fuck! I missed text.

How come smasher makes it to Chicago, but not to New York, twice?

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Hey, I missed the second NYC meetup because you held it at around 2:45 on a Wednesday afternoon. Next time there's a proper weekend-day gathering, I'll be there.

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