O.K. people, let’s get organized. When, where, who, and why.
Since I can make it on any Friday or Saturday to any place mass transit can take me, I’ll leave it for the rest of you to figure it out.
Don’t make me have to come out and get you!
I’m in.
Boy, this is hard work!
Boosting this to the first page.
Pinky, you know I’m there the next time I’m in the city, but as to when that will be, I have no idea. There is a possibility of labor day, but I can’t promise that, as I don’t know where I’ll be working, so I can’t know my work schedual. But I am itchin’ for another Doperfest, so you guys will be the first to hear when I start making plans.
I’m up for it, any day of the weekend. Except Sept.2 and 4, and not this weekend, but any other weekend is just fine.
[sub]PS I’m all suggested out of places, so someone else is gonna have to pick one…[sub]
Well, the day will obviously have to depend on our out-of-town guests-of-honor.
As for the time and place–We could do something in Park Slope. Lots of places to go [subliminal]Sweet Mama’s![/subliminal] and it is just as easily accessible as anyplace in Manhattan.
Or, if I may make a radical suggestion, we could *not sit in a smoky bar late at night and drink. Perhaps we could do something during the day or afternoon, and then, if people want to, retire to a smoky bar to drink.
How 'bout Coney Island? Is that still a fun thing to do, or am I living in the 1910s?
Or, one of us could host a BBQ. I could probably do it, but most of you seem to think that New Jersey is on another planet or something.
Of course we know it’s not on another planet, duh! Isn’t it somewhere near antarctica though? I thought the reason for the gaping hole in the ozone layer was all the Jersey Girls and their hairspray…
:: does the flinstones thing with his feet and scadaddles! ::
I’m in. NYC or NJ is cool with me.
Weekend = Good
Weekday = Less Good.
Oh, and almost any food is ok, but the place has to have beer bottled this year.
<cough>
Mass transit cannot take me to New Jersey, Greenie. (Path and NJ Transit do not count as mass transit because the acronym does not have an “M” and a “T” and an “A”).
P.S. I left the bolding on in my quote just in case TechChick looks in here. I want to give her another reason to bitch.
Pink Slinky is a transit snob. How 'bout that?
What happened? You get poisoned last time?
I dunno about Sweet Mama’s. Sweet Mama’s is kind of small. I’m afraid we’d generate so much chi that Sweet Mama’s would just, sort of, explode.
Also, manhattan lives in Manhattan. You know how hard it is to get a Manhattanite to come to Brooklyn? NEARLY as bad as getting a New Yorker to go to New Jersey.
Uke–
Manny is a man of manny interests. I’m sure he would be willing to take a trip to a different planet.
BTW–if you have a car, it’s only a 45 minute drive from Park Slope to my house, assuming the Gowanus hasn’t gone kablooie or something.
Hey, hey, hey! Uke, that was NOT fair, what you said about us Manhattanites! You KNOW I’ve been around.
Furthermore (…Ahem… if you guys choose to invite me) I hereby volunteer my car. That’ll get 3 to 4 Dopers a free roundtrip commute to anyplace in the tri-state area – so you can send the nervous Manhattan homebodies my way and I’ll get 'em wherever you say and home again.
If want a bar suggestion in Brooklyn, I propose Montero’s on Atlantic Ave. – the waterfront watering hole that time forgot. If you want food, I say Grimaldi’s, under the Bklyn. Bridge.
Good, good. Things are moving along quite nicely. Wouldn’t it be nice if we can get some of the more timid Dopers to try the delights of the outer boroughs? If we can get them out to Brooklyn, who knows what other dopefests we can organize?
The Hunt’s Point Fest: Hooker’s Paradise.
Fishkill Follies or, The Dump is no longer open!
COPS (Cecil’s Official Precinct Sortee) in East New York.
The Long Island City Party: Are you sure we can party in this abandoned factory?
Headline: Roving Band of Internet Intellectuals Arrested [AP Wire] A gang of self professed “smart-heads” were finally tracked and arrested yesterday, after their frightening reign of terror on the city of New York.
For three weeks, the city has been in near-standby mode, as this rowdy bunch of ruffians took one borough after another under its control. Calling themselves the “Cecils,” their MO involved finding an abandoned building or warehouse, bringing in cases of imported beer, and scrawling obscure philosophical quotations on the walls. “It was scarey,” said Suzy Abrams of Brooklyn, “At first, we thought we were safe, and that those punks would stay on their godammed island. I mean, they have the theaters there, and we figured that those people would stay with their own, you know? But then the first Brooklyn sighting happened, and it really hit home that none of us were safe.”
The gang is currently out on bail on the recognizance of one Eve Golden, who reportedly screamed “THIS is why I don’t come to Doperfests!” upon entering the stationhouse. The arraignment is scheudaled for Friday.
Jail again?!?
C’mon fellas, once was enough for me. Let’s keep this under control if we’re gonna hit the bridge and tunnel territory.
So far----
Green Bean would like us to actually leave the state of New York.
Stuyguy has volunteered his car. Pretty cheeky for someone who hasn’t been invited.
Ike has intimated that getting Manny to leave his namesake borough will make him hard. Or something like that.
Swiddles can come, sorta. She just doesn’t know when or where or how.
Wonko, after that life and death beer poisoning scare of the last Fest, will only come if promised bottles. We are now in search of nipples big enough to accommodate this strange request.
Soulsling thinks the fest will take place someplace near Antarctica. If I remember correctly, this is in the East Village. He says he’ll come just as long as we don’t get arrested this time.
Sweet Mama’s (one of my favorite eateries) has been mentioned and discarded as a meeting place. It is rather small. Grimaldi’s and Montero’s have also been nominated, but have the disadvantage of being in Brooklyn. So far I count 7 people who have actually said they would come.
Manny? SaxFace? JoeCool?
Labor day has been mentioned as a possible meeting day. Will someone please look at a calendar and tell me the date. Sept 2 and 4th are out. Houseman, Pink Slinky and Co.
will be on vacation the week of 8/21, so that’s out also.
That’s the update. Keep your cards and letters coming.
You can also list me as the radical revolutionary who would like to do something other than drink in a smoky bar in the middle of the night.
Uke, you didn’t sit across from Wonko and hear his rant about old beer. It seems our restaurant had the nerve to serve him beer that was bottled in august of 99 or 98 or something. (I’m assuming that’s 1999 or 98).
That is why we had to destroy him and saxface at playing pool. 
[rant]The beer tasted -really- stale echh! It had that weird apple-esque flavor that old stale beer kept in a warm area gets. (this was at the herban kitchen, not at the very cool antarctica) Oh, and it was august of 99(assumed), but the person across the table and to the right had one bottled in the third week in june (at least a year ago). [/rant]
Pink Slinky- What’s this about nipples? I am confused… I have never seen beer bottles with nipples. (I have never checked kegs though… maybe that’s how kegs feed their young)