I say four AM on Saturday the 10th, at soulsling’s place.
Everybody bring your saxophones.
That’s all. Just wanted to say that.
Luxy, I have two saxophones. Do you want the silver Weltklang or the brass Martin?
So far, that weekend is good for me. I wrote it on my calendar.
But please, don’t make me hump the table this time.
Biggirl, I want another pre-party in Brooklyn!! Uke, you’ll have to join us.
Just a reminder folks. The second Sunday in June (the 11th this year) NY (5th Ave , in the Bronx, to be precise) is host to the annual Puerto Rican Day parade. I go just about every year. I know all you city slickers are used to crowds, but it gets NUTS! Lots of fun, I highly recommend it. But keep in mind ther may be more people buzzing around the city than usual, I know people who fly in from Puerto Rico just to attend.
P.S. Demo is flying in on the 10th and we plan on heading out that Sunday, so I don’t think I or we can make it. We’ll miss ya!! Have fun!
That weekend is good for me.
I’d like to make a suggestion: Might we want to do something other than sit in a smoky bar and drink beer? I don’t necessarily mind sitting in a smoky bar drinking beer, and I had a great time at the last two doperfests…but I really could live without another hangover.
I don’t have any finalized plans for that weekend, so I’d be up for anything. And if sitting in a smoky bar is what y’all want to do, then I’ll be there with bells on.
Puerto Rican Day parade sounds like an awful lot of fun.
You want me to fall again, dontcha Sax.
I’m going and I’m going to be quiet and I’m going to drink moderately and I’m not going to gesture wildly with my arms and I’m not going to raise my voice and I’m not going to divulge intimate secrets about me and Mr. Biggirl. Hey, I might as well stay home!
Hmmm…Latin men…I’m in. Perhaps a pre-parade meet (for me) and greet (for the rest of yall)? I’m still waiting on word from my Godfather that that weekend is OK for us to stay at his (huge) apartment. If not, I have oodles of family on Long Island, so I can always commute in. Any suggestions for pre-parade locals? Do we all want to attend the parade? Or do we want to do a non-smoky bar thing Sunday?
I vote for a smoky bar with lots and lots of beer. That makes for interesting conversation to say the least.
If we’re at some parade or fair or something, we’re not going to talk. Plus, I haven’t seen any pool tables on the streets lately.
Just my input.
Aw, Sax! Yer makin’ me feel like a stick-in-the-mud! 
How did you manage to get a hangover, Green Bean? You hardly had any alcohol at all and that’s including the stuff I poured in your lap!
As for the pre-thing, Green Bean had expressed an interest in Sweet Mama’s. And the Puerto Rican day parade. Well, I’m Puerto Rican (believe it or not) and if I want to see a bunch of drunken boriquas get into a knife fight, I could just go visit Abuela. But that’s just my opinion.
That weekend is good for me, too. Is this a Sat/Sun event, or just one of those days? Times and places? At the risk of sounding anal, I like to know such things as this pretty far in advance. Then I can cast them in concrete and get on with the rest of my life.
FWIW, the parade idea doesn’t excite me, either. I really don’t like being squashed on the sidewalk by noisy drunken crowds. I prefer to be squashed in an intimate smoky bar by noisy drunken small groups.
But I’m in for that weekend.
not a good idea Uke, place gets a bit cramped after about 6 people show up, and thats sans my 2 cats. Besides, nobody likes to come into Queens. But i’ll take you on for 4am with the saxaphones anywhere else! but i’ll be bringing a flute, sorry.
Soulsling, I’ve been housesitting in Queens for the past week and I love it, especially the commute to Manhattan. I’m in Long Island City and the neighborhood is exciting and artist filled. So I’ll come to Queens anytime. Why don’t we have the post party at your place?
Anyway, dearest Green Bean, I would never want you to feel like a stick in the mud. Why don’t we compromise and go to a restaurant? Then the smokers can smoke at the bar, but conversation would be feasible. I require gossip at these functions, you know.
Biggirl, you crack me up, as always.
Dave, I think it’ll be a Saturday night thingy. Although, the more hearty Latvians among us could probably handle Sunday, too. Who’s with me?
Restaurant sounds great. Any ideas? I’d me more than happy to make the pilgrimage out to the Slope if anyone else wants to.
Biggirl: I managed to get a hangover because I drank an awful lotta beer. Don’t ask me how much–I don’t know. All I know is that every time my glass dipped below 50% full, a little gremlin coughsaxfacecough kept refilling it. I was pretty surprised to wake up with a hangover. In fact, I didn’t even know what was wrong with me. I woke up on my brother’s couch and I just kept saying over and over “I feel sooo awful.” Bill realized that I had a hangover and proceeded to laugh his ass off at me. Then he went out and got bagels. Is he a great bro or what?
Green Bean: If YOU were hung over that next day I’m surprised Billdo could even WALK. I remember feeling sorry I missed the five minute window between when he was all sweet and shy and retiring and when he was doing the rhumba barefoot on the billiard table with SaxFace.
Soulsling: You play flute? YEAHHH! Okay, drop the saxophone thing and everybody bring your flutes!
– Ukulele “Gehmeinhart Open-Hole” Ike, who’s sorry he probably spelled it wrong but isn’t about to go back upstairs to read the engraving on the side of his good flute
Sax, your’e the first to tell me you actually like Queens. I’m actually in Astoria, not too bad a trip from Manhattan. So we talking restaurant in lower manhattan? or Brooklyn? How 'bout “The Village Idiot”? nothing like a good hick atmosphere mix in some Dopers and stick’em all in NYC.
Oh, Uke! I’m talking about the mini-doperfest with GLWasteful. Yeah, Bill was pretty plastered at that other one. He still doesn’t believe that anyone could tell. :rolleyes:
<taking billdo’s side>
Um, I couldn’t tell. No, really, I mean it!
Sorry buddy, I tried.
</taking billdo’s side>
The weekend of the tenth and eleventh works for me! Howzabout we go to the Peculiar Pub in the village (It just sounds like a gay bar) it is a fairly large bar, has an excellent beer selection, some decent food, and is usually fairly empty on sunday afternoons. Plus, it has a good jukebox. Any other ideas? Let me know what you think!
i still think “The Village Idiot” would be too much fun for us to not meet there. Or “Sidewalk Cafe” on Avenue A? Fairly large, pool table, smoking, drinking, hot waitresses, and pretty decent food.