Also, wasn't there some discussion of passing the hat for a plane ticket for teo? Teo, are you still up for that?
I don't know. Maybe. It would be about $500, unless ticket prices have gone up very recently.
If it takes me being a jerk to get Emerson (and teo!) to UnfoggeDCon 2: Electric Bugaloo, then I'm at peace with that.
Is there some sort of matching service being offered? There have been several offers of rooms, but I don't know which ones have been taken. I need a place to crash too.
I'm willing to trade a month for someone here in Lake Wobegon for a week for me on the east coast. Private bedroom and everything. We have tons of space.
Somehow, I don't think that that offer quite cuts it. ("First prize is a day in Lake Wobegon. Second prize is two days in Lake Wobegon.")
Hey, speaking of M/lls... we dropped the ball on syncing up for the Austin meetup on the 11th. You guys still up for it?
I can vouch for Emerson: he's an easygoing houseguest, and he purchased nice food for himself at the co-op and then conveniently forgot it so that we could have it instead. Good thing I talked him into getting the fancy cheese.
Okay, I checked around a bit on Hotwire and the cheapest fare I could find was $308 round-trip ABQ-BWI if I leave on 12/28 and return on 1/4. I could probably afford that myself, but I'd still appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Hey, speaking of M/lls... we dropped the ball on syncing up for the Austin meetup on the 11th. You guys still up for it?
Absolutely. It's on the official Sir Kraab and M/tch M/lls Joint Activities Calendar and everything!
11: We'd been planning brunch on the 11th. heebie-geebie and Jammies are in, too, AFAIK. If you have any suggestions for locations, let's hear 'em.
10 - In NW. Nearest metro station is U Street/Cardozo.
I think we should leave venue choice up to Armsmasher.
Although if it were up to me I'd choose Curra's (the original one on Oltorf).
Kerbey Lane or Magnolia Cafe are traditional brunch spots. I'm not crazy about either one but they do offer lots of variety and decent prices.
I can't remember if Las Manitas is still open but I'll try to find out.
It looks like Las Manitas is still an option.
Bonus: the old guy who apologized to Cheney because Cheney shot him in the face makes an appearance in that article!
I've got a room available. It's got a door and everything! No bed though. The only problem is that I live in Boston (kind of). If Emerson has a burning desire to experience Fanueil Hall, and doesn't mind sleeping like a backpacker, I'm your man.
I am very adaptable and accepting.
What is the dress code for DC Unfogged?
Is Pete Schweaty catering it?
What is the dress code for DC Unfogged?
Bare as you dare.
17: I'm not sure that I believe that you do live in Boston, foolishmortal. You've never showed up to any of our meet-ups.
Is it an brunch meetup? I want to select your fates.
If you're serious about crashing at my place, shoot me an email at foolishmortal0@aol.com. Given several months' notice, I'm sure I can do better than "floor." "Better" might represent floor + pillows, so beware.
It is a brunch meet-up. A Sunday Brunch meet-up in fact.
I should have a room available, and you can have your own bathroom too. But I'm not sure I could put someone up for a solid week. I will likely be heading up to NYC later in the week to visit family.
I am willing to bounce around. I just want to spend more time out there, altogether, than I did last time.
24- Wow, that finally led me to locate my invitation to join the flickr pool, only 6 months after it was sent.
Actually, $308 is reasonable enough that I can just cover it myself. No need for hat-passing.
29: that's good, because it doesn't look as if anything was actually happening. But will you have a place to stay? You'll be there a while.
Is anything happening on the Emerson front? Come on, people, it's Emerson.
Yeah, I can stay at my aunt's apartment. I'll have to check with her first, but it shouldn't be a problem.
I do not seem to be in the loop on this Sunday Brunch Meet-up. Are you trying to hurt my feelings?
Good, I like to have all the facts on the table.
We should speculate about why. The most likely reason is that they are sociopaths, like my ex-brother-in-law.
Occam's Razor would suggest that, yes. I guess we should burn them at the stake, no?
Heebie, they're sociopaths, not heretics.
Is anything happening on the Emerson front?
26 applied to Emerson.
Marcus, tentatively that sounds good, hopefully supplemented by someone else.
We should therapize them, Heebie, until we have them singing Kumbayah.
Heebie, they're sociopaths, not heretics.
Don't put sociopaths in a box, Brock. They could be both.
Don't put sociopaths in a box, Brock.
Why not? As a solution, this seems right up there with burning them.
My brother in law was a very lax, orthodox Catholic sociopath. Insofar as he could remember any Orthodox doctrine, he affirmed it.
This is the first I've heard tell of a Sunday brunch.
Hmm...What else don't I know about? Am I invited to the rehearsal dinner? Do I have to wear dyed-to-match pumps?
33, 47: Because I haven't decided yet on where the brunch is taking place.
There are two balls in the air, IA, 1500 miles and 2 months apart.
I think.
Organizing sociopaths is always difficult.
I do not seem to be in the loop on this Sunday Brunch Meet-up. Are you trying to hurt my feelings?
I blame Magpie. She said she talked to you!
Are you a sociopath or a Nazi, Josh?
There are two balls in the air, IA, 1500 miles and 2 months apart.
I'm not great with multitasking.
55: Why must you mock my people?
I blame Magpie. She said she talked to you!
What a sociopath.
Okay, fine, she did.
But I didn't know it was a brunch. I thought we were just standing around awkwardly with our hands shoved in our pockets at any old time of day.
57: Fair enough.
59: I heard there would be games, with nifty prizes and a trophy for the team with the most spirit. (That's spirit, Emerson, not spirits).
Is it legal to bring Screech into the U.S? It probably would go well with lutefisk.
For the record, I will almost certainly be at the DC meetup and will stay with Marcus some of the time, but hope to stay with someone else on the east coast (maybe NYC) for a couple days after the meetup. Hopefully I can talk to people outside the mass insanity event, hich I couldn't when I went to NYC.
61: I don't see why not. Problem is, you can only get it at the Newfoundland Liquor Corporation.
I don't trust Armsmasher to pick us a brunch place. He's too busy with the glamourous demands of being the Hottest Non-TV DC Whatever Person to devote enough attention to our brunch needs.
On the suggestions so far: yay Curra's and Las Manitas, I'm over Kerbey but I still have residual fondness for Magnolia and its Love Migas and its cheesy planet things.
If I come, will Armsmasher give me the cd he was going to send me?
65: I came when Armsmasher gave me a CD. Wait, not a CD. What do you call those things? Um, hand jobs.
Left-handed people, of course, give CSes instead.
So teo you seriously are going to uDCn II? Goddamit. This is getting harder to avoid.
It's not yet 100%; I still need to clear it with my mom and my aunt. But probably.
If this gets too big maybe we should either rent a hall (unlikely) or arrange a diffuse occasion at more than one time and place. The NYC meetup I went to was above the maximu for everyone to talk to each other, and it was only about 20.
If this gets too big maybe we should either rent a hall (unlikely) or arrange a diffuse occasion at more than one time and place.
"rent a hall" makes me imagine the American Legion, or the L.O.O.M.
But why not?
it was only about 20.
There will be a sight more than 20 if it's anything like last year.
See, out here in Lake Wobegon we could rent a hall. In Portland OR we could rent a hall. So where do we go? Someplace where we can't. The least likley candidate in the free world for hall-renting.
But definitely a diffuse meetup.
It's not a meetup, John, it's a party. There's a difference.
A party where it's hard to circulate and mingle is not a party. Perhaps we should rotate chairs or something next time.
81: we will help you mingulate, old man.
It's easier to circulate if you stand up from time to time.
The NYC event I attended was organized around a long table. Not ideal at all.
Is Emerson afraid of being left alone, in a crowd of drunken nerds? Puh-leeze.
85: What do you want? Everyone at the Y in a big circle, each taking a turn to shout out their name and their spirit animal?
Amazingly, I'm quite comfortable with drunks.
Judging from last year's pictures, I'd say UnfoggeDCon is unlikely to be organized around a long table.
Once you've sat at a long table next to the same person long enough, it's a relationship.
Just a more comfortable room for circulating. But you know, a few chorusses of Kumbayah and a nice group hug would be good.
Perhaps the event I attended was exceptional.
Emerson, out here on the coasts we have these things called parties where people move about freely. Like some kind of grazing animals in a pasture. And also things called "houses", which are larger than the one-room mud huts you lot have, where we move from room to room as needed.
The Flophouse is plenty comfortable for circulating. And I was serious in 80; this is going to be a totally different kind of event.
I'll hang out and talk to you Emerson. Briefly. Just so you feel better.
I won't. I'll cut you dead.
Of course, that's if I even go to this thing, which I really shouldn't but am kinda tempted even so. (Not a hint for people to press me to attend.)
My non-bedded room is still available. 21 notwithstanding , early January is a great time to tour Boston.
Really, B, get your ass to this thing.
dagnbit, I'm all jealous. it's only once in a blue moon that I'm not in DC for xmas.
B, you really should come to this thing.
My trepidation about this event are entirely based on the NYC 2005 event, which was poorly arranged for circulating purposes. I came to understand that no one on the east coast has a place big enough for more than three people to be present at the same time, and that often they only have one bed and have to sleep in shifts. But then, the Flophouse is old money and rich media people.
We just hosted an event at the Flophouse with about 150 people and managed the group just fine. (Of course, we were able to use the backyard, which is less likely in December.) This isn't like a traditional meetup where people are sitting down in fixed positions -- people can float between groups in the different rooms. It worked fine last year, I thought. Also, not everyone stays the whole time. At least half of the party peeled off by midnight or so.
The advantage of doing it at the Flophouse instead of a hall, besides the place being free, is that we don't have to watch the clock. If we rent a place, there will surely be a time when we'd get kicked out. At the Flophouse, if there's a hearty group that's still kicking late into the morning and it turns into frying up bacon for those still awake at 7 AM (again, which has happened) we can accomodate that.
I think that I just misunderstood. The NYC event was great but disappointing in that I only ever talked to a few people. Partly my fault because I spent so much time talking to IA, who I've been e-friends with since before Unfogged even existed, possibly even before Ogged split from his EBL.
The flophouse is also convenient in that when your host passes out, leaving you no way to get to your stuff or your pre-arranged sleeping location, Jackmormon will sleep with you.
Emerson is like a conehead alien doing his best imitation of how a normal person attends a normal party. You should circulate precisely every 45 minutes, and mingle on multiples of 20 minutes.
105: or at least with your feet.
106: And, of course, consume mass quantities.
Emerson, quit worrying. The Flophouse is a big-ass D.C. rowhouse.
Magpie et al., I throw TX French Bread into the ring for the Austin brunch. They make some excellent scrambled eggs. (Unless the West Coasters are jonesing for Tex-Mex, in which case I third Curra's or Las Manitas.) Magnolia irritates me. But, really, I'm up for wherever.
104: Don't worry, Emerson. This time, you won't even know that I'm there. I'll be wearing my cloak of invisibility.
Emerson is like a conehead alien doing his best imitation of how a normal person attends a normal party. You should circulate precisely every 45 minutes, and mingle on multiples of 20 minutes.
MY, YOU LOOK LOVELY THIS EVENING. HAVE YOU DECREASED IN MASS?
Also, on the "consume mass quantities" front, I know there has been a lot of talk about alcohol and UnfoggeDCon but, if that's not your scene or you'll be driving or something, don't let that put you off. We made sure to have plenty of nonalcoholic stuff on hand last year. It's not like one of our keggers.
Alameida was there not drinking and seemed to have a fine old time.
In fact, last year they ran out of ice really quickly, which meant we had to scrounge for ways to make the ouzo pleasantly cold. It was actually harder to be a drinker there than a non-drinker, I'm thinking.
And 'Smasher, where shall the Austin meet-up have brunch on November 11th? We await your word.
Pretty much anything sounds fine to me, as long as the noise isn't deafening and they don't try to hustle us out quickly. We'll have plenty of other opportunities for a Tex-Mex fix.
plenty of nonalcoholic stuff
Like GHB.
damn, this thing sounds like fun
In my day I actually had great party skills. Not quite on a par with Alameida's mom, but the same kind of party. I just was thinking about all the effort we went to in 2005 to find a place that wasn't quite right. I had concluded that all the space in that part of the world had migrated to Elgin, N.D., and that everyone east of Pittsburg lives in $2000/ month 8' x 8' x 8' one-room apartments. My fears have been stilled.
I.E., before you people were born.
Chill, John. You're being all m-fun about this.
If they run out of space you can sit on my lap.
Megan was right. Is there a roof ready to throw couches of of? Has a stock of couches been laid in?
They've laid in a stock of couches, but they're not for throwing. When the music stops, everyone has to find a couch to sit on (two people per couch maximum, unless you're apostropher) and then we're all going to spend the rest of the evening awkwardly touching shoes with our couch-partner.
I have some old tvs that we can throw out the window. Will someone bring some long extension cords?
125: You're planning on watching them while they fall? Because after impact I don't think they'll be needing the electricity.
'Smasher! Where are we to eat? What are we to do?
Meanwhile, can we get an approximate headcount? So far, I've counted me, M/tch, Magpie, Josh, Heebie, and Jammies(?). Forgive me if I've missed someone; I know it's come up on a couple of different threads. Soub, want to come up from Houston?
That count sounds right to me, unless there are Seekrit Lurking Austinites who aren't piping up.
Heebie, and Jammies(?)
Jammies is singular - that might have screwed up the headcount.
pdf23ps2 is in Austin, and so was another guy who showed up for the meeting but I haven't seen him around Unfogged since, Smudog.
Jammies is singular
Yep, they sure broke the mold when they made old Jammies, I tell you what.
Jammies is actually a singularity. The whole universe is generated by him -- not just Heebie.