I should be free. Let me know what you're thinking of.
We could go to the Squirrel Cage, unless anybody is picky about breathing.
That was extremely specific trolling.
6 to?
I for one object to the Squirrel Cage. I love being able to breathe in bars.
Where will Kraab be?
Excellent! I'll probably be staying out near the airport, but I can come to wherever is convenient for yinz.
If we're out of our busy season at work, I'd be sorely tempted to make this a road trip. If I took Monday and Tuesday off work and slept all day Tuesday, I wouldn't mind driving back at night and I'd only miss one bedtime....
You have more stamina than I do! It would be lovely to see you.
Let me be the first to suggest Kelly's.
8 makes me wonder if the only reason SK is going to Pburgh is so she can go around saying yinz to everyone. NTTAWWT.
I think Kelly's is closed Mondays.
Ooh! Bar Marco! Mondays they have No Menu Mondays, when there are guest bartenders.
And hooray for Thorn roadtripping (if she does).
But I still posted it. The other thing I've learned at meetups is that if JRoth says a drink is good it generally is. He seems to have deep knowledge in that space, whereas I have very little, so his recommendations have been very welcome.
The Squirrel Cage has Christmas carols in its jukebox, apparently. And somebody here doesn't have a proper respect for seasonality.
I probably can't make it. I forgot that when someone in the family has a psych emergency in the last week of October, the first time the crisis psychiatrist can make an appointment is November 25 and I should really be there to fact-check and support and help. So unless we can actually get crisis help promptly, I'm probably out. Blech!
I'll come anyway, but I'm disappointed.
Disappointed at life, not you. Anyway, at least I had a salad with fries in an atmosphere of 50% tobacco smoke. Really fortifies me for the week.
According to the TV, I may have lost 40% of my testosterone. At least I did better there than with money.
I guess better the collapse I'd global capitalism than my testicles.
I guess better the collapse of global capitalism than my testicles.
Lenin predicted that returns to capital would decrease and that my joints would hurt.
Lennon? Which one married Yoko and rode in a sealed train?
Why did they seal the train? "Hey Jude" isn't that.
You're not supposed to live-blog your benders at the Squirrel Cage every day, just during the meetup.
I did meet somebody, but they left.
ned! You just prevented Moby from getting the full sidebar! One or two more comments and he would have had it.
Also, not a bender. My lips aren't even numb.
Also, I haven't been here in ten days or so.
Threadjack: How about Providence, RI later this week? Anyone live around there?
Buddy Cianci comments under the pseud "Witt".
People should stop screwing with the meet-up threads so they can be used for coordination. Assholes.
Yeah, 46! Don't be such an asshole!
So, shall we say Bar Marco at a time of Sir Kraab's choosing?
Sounds fine to me. I'm thinking 7ish, but I'm waiting to find out how long my meeting is likely to last.
Is Bar Marco what used to be the Firehouse?
The appointment I'm complaining about got rescheduled for the morning, so I could easily still make a 7 pm meetup, though that makes the idea of driving home in time to get everyone up for school a little less plausible....
52: It's on the first floor of that building (in the space that used to be the Library).
Was the Library a library or a bar called the library?
55: Are you thinking of the Library in Columbus?
Maybe. Whole bunches of memories get blurred in my head. I'm not sure I was ever at the Library in Columbus, unless you mean Hillman. I remember Larry's and the Outer In.
Don't go to the Library in Minneapolis. It is horrible.
Google says Larry's closed. You bastards.
57: , unless you mean Hillman.
That's near where the Olentangy meets the Mon. right?
57: Your memories are blurred! Hillman is in Pittsburgh.
I meant this Library --http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/library-bar-columbus?select=qeIqXu8pTzUekpT3XZDHGw#qeIqXu8pTzUekpT3XZDHGw
63: Yes. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library -- where I met my wife.
62 is the explicit 61; I assumed Moby was making a subtle joke on Whole bunches of memories get blurred in my head. But then"subtle" and "Moby."
I'm very subtle, but nobody notices.
I have Monday and Tuesday off work, am waiting to hear how much solo childcare Lee's okay with doing in terms of whether I have to drive back Monday night or Tuesday morning. If I stay overnight, could I crash with someone from the meetup? (And all of this is predicated on the hospital release going well today and things being good at home, so I could end up having to back out at the last minute.)
When JRoth asked me to bump this up, I wrote "bumpity bumpity bump" and save it, and forgot to update the posting date. But it did APPEAR to have been bumped, if you scrolled through the FA.
You're a peach, heebz!
My plan is to arrive in town 5ish probably and stay with sir kraab.
Not sure what time we will meet, JRoth surely more versed in Bar Marco details than I.
I'm available starting about 4 for any pre-meetup perambulations or other adventures on the North Shore, Downtown or Strip. Might have suggested the Warhol (which I work next door to), but closed on Monday, and their hours suck in general (closed at 5 most days).
Alas, I'll be in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, but for a sad occasion - my mother died on Saturday (long illness, no surprise) and the funeral is on Wednesday in the North Hills. Mom was a CMU fine arts grad and attended (Carnegie Tech) with Warhol for a while in the late 40s - she said that he just shone with talent. So think of me and her - I certainly wish I could be there on Monday.
I *still* don't know what time my meeting will be, so not sure when I'll be free. Definitely by 7, but maybe earlier.
71: My sorry to hear about your mother. My sympathies.
So sorry, bill. We'll raise a glass to her.
All good thoughts for you and your family, bill.
I'm sorry, bill. Sounds like she would have had good stories for the meetup too! I hope everything goes smoothly for you and your family.
Can't be too many left of Warhol's classmates. I'll be proud to toast her. And to think of you.
SO Bar Marco opens at 5, but I assume we won't be starting that early. Are we awaiting ETAs from Thorn and Kraab?
I don't think I can get there that early. Maybe by six.
Also, I'll put my email here for those who don't have it.
I should be able to make 6 or 7 at the latest.
What are we up to, 6 people? 7? Getting there relatively early to secure a big table is probably important (it's not a big place).
Actually, Kaya, which is 2-3 blocks away, would be a good backup plan, as it's rather larger.
Plan A remains Marco, but if there's no way to get more than a 4-top, maybe we'll need to decamp. Thoughts?
81: Cannot two next to each other serve? We can rotate like in volleyball.
I can do early table-grabbing if needed.
I may be able to get there early, but I lack the level of assertion required to defend a table for very long if I'm outnumbered.
If JRoth rides his bike there tonight I will be impressed.
Google Maps tells me I'll be at the hotel by 4:30 if all goes to plan, but bussing to Bar Marco will take another 90 minutes from there and so probably isn't my best bet. That might be worth an expensive cab ride instead. I will check in with Stormcrow and Sir Kraab before doing anything more exciting than driving to Pittsburgh.
I may be able to help reserve tables -- has a time that this going down been picked?
I'd say 7 would be best bet for discussion so far. some may get there earlier. Did not realize it was a reservation place.
I meant reserve as in, sitting there holding one till people arrive. Not a reservation for the place. (I don't know if they take reservations there; their website didn't say that either.)
The good thing is that its Monday -- unlikely to be super crowded. According to their website, they don't have a menu on Mondays.
Psst, JP, you were right about Herring in the VA AG race. By 165 votes out of 1.1 million.
I'm planning my bike gear right now!
No Menu Monday doesn't mean no food - it means guest chefs. Or at least, that's what it generally means. I'd feel better if the website named tonight's guest chef, but they don't seem super-engaged with the website.
No, wait, Instagram!
So I shouldn't stop at Arby's before going?
I feel like any Unfogged Pittsburgh meetup should include a guided tour of Arby's by Moby.
Sir Kraab and I are at the hotel. Google Maps seems to have been watching my participation in unfogged discussions and routed me through the backroads of Ohio where I could look at handwritten anti-Obama signs and non-stop Walmart trucks.
As the one with the cat, I just voted we take a cab because otherwise that's another hour behind the wheel for me (because selfish).
Cat people are the most selfish people of all.
Cat should be car. That the mistake i making me giggle means this is a very good or very bad night to meet Moby.
Kobe's coming, right?
Save him a seat anyway.
I'd offer you a ride, but I don't think cats like to be on bikes.
Update. If anybody is there, a guy in a black top coat is about to walk in.
Did somebody call in a reservation or did I steal a table?
5 here. Incl Thorn & Kraab. JRoth only one missing,
On my way!
You punctual motherfuckers.
Apparently very slowly which is distracting you from the mfing liveblogging.
JRoth is here. Advising on drinks at my insistence.
JRoth just inented adrink for me.
Rusty Nail for Moby. Others are talking earnestly.
120: oh good, glad you're airing that out.
JRoth invents good. Or these guys make good, Both I think.
Sounds like they're all pretty deep in conversation. Good time for a stabbing.
Oh that is just not very good liveblogging, Stormcrow. Just not very good.
Moby never saw apo in Durham as far as he recalls. Rance lives in a place. Cell phones. Unions.
Tweety not the boss of us. Attica!
Moby describing his management techniques. Also Arbys dessert choices.
Bathroom has a basket of tp and hand towels. Seems like a potential problem.
Or a good place to hide a knife.
Oh man Moby shit in the hand towels already this meetup sounds awesome.
A drink for bill & his mother and Carnegie Tech.
131 Feh, we had discussion of lesbian horse orgasm porn, can yinz beat that?
A drink for bill & his mother and Carnegie Tech.
You warmed my cockles! Back at you and many thanks.
JRoth mountain bike triumph over his sister from 10 years ago .
|| How drunk do you have to be to call this guy for a ride? |>
Condolences, bill.
Also, you all are triggering feelings of meetup envy. Though I thought it was supposed to be a knife fight, not a stabbing.
JRoth faster than 7 year old girls.
I have met three new people and now know many hidden things. It was great.
Moby, are you on your bus yet?
Rance is getting called out as needing to comment more.
Good night, Pittsburgh, and thank you!
The bus moves faster than the library.
Wait, what snow?
Had a great ride home via Pittsburgh's first bike boulevard.
A bit of snow was falling as I went home.
Based on how bad I don't feel this morning, I'm wondering how much of my feeling bad other mornings is because of smoke-filled bars instead of alcohol.
AB's doctor, about 6 months ago, told her that the volume of drinking was fine, but that she should take 1 or 2 nights off per week - IOW, better 15 drinks in 5 days than 15 in 7. As a good husband, as well as a middle-aging person, I've joined her.
And it turns out that the lousy I feel most mornings has nothing to do with the drinking. I just don't like getting out of bed.
I do that also, except it's more like 15 drinks in three days. Except holidays, maybe I'll not take off. I don't want to disappoint the pilgrims.
Speaking of which, I'm wondering how Togolosh's experimental week of no drinking went.
The level of drinking that's enough to give me an unpleasant hangover keeps on dropping. I felt terrible the next morning after Chopper was in town, and that was three or four beers and home by ten thirty, nothing epic. And then two whiskeys out with Buck on Saturday left me unhappy Sunday morning. My usual beer or glass of wine with dinner seems to not be doing me any harm, but I'm getting seriously gunshy about a second.
159: It went well-ish. Didn't drink but found the resulting evenings of sobriety kind of dull. Need to find more exciting stuff to do to keep me entertained. I'm into week two now and working on a routine that's different enough from my previous one that it does not trigger the impulse to grab a glass of wine.
160: Hangovers have a lot to do with dehydration. Pounding down a couple of glasses of water helps enormously in my experience. Either before bed or right when you get up seems to work well.
So, you're not only drinking less but have new motivation to have more actual fun. Sounds like a win all around.
162: Come to think, that might have been what happened Wednesday and Saturday. I do reflexively drink a quart of seltzer if I'm going to bed after a big night out, but both nights I was basically sober by the time I was going to sleep, and worrying about a hangover didn't occur to me.
Need to find more exciting stuff to do to keep me entertained.
Powerlifting!
Also, that's great that you're still the boss of your drinking.
Also, that's great that you're still the boss of your drinking.
Really great. It was almost three times as great, but thankfully I waited a bit.
Really great. It was almost three times as great, but thankfully I waited a bit.
I'm laughing at you, Megan.
Last year my 40th was the day after Turkey Day and I had a huge party, including my sister and dad in town. That led seamlessly into holiday festivities, and I basically drank way too much for a month straight. I normally drink so much water during the day that I don't need to be that careful at night, but it got to the point that, both for hydration and for limiting consumption, I had to make myself drink a glass of water before I'd refill my wine or bourbon.
I had an easy drive despite the snow, and actually the gray sky and snow made central Ohio much prettier. I've been home for a while, picked up the girls and fed the baby, got dinner going and now I'm loading the dishwasher. I even almost got hit twice in the Trader Joe's parking lot, which makes me fear Moby's influence is greater than any of us realize.
Oh, and I drank so much water last night that I used the bathroom more times than I usually do in a week, I think. So that's the downside.