On my way down to Walker’s. I’ll have on pinstriped pants and a navy trench coat. I like eerily like former Congressman Patrick Kennedy.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
The unpunished coup was a training exercise.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.
Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.
Hot air and ill-informed banter
Everything is totally normal and fine!!!
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.
I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.
All hail the time of the bunny!
Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!
the 10% who apparently lack object permanence
You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?
Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.
Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.
There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.
If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.
scav
I want GPS-enabled pings and then dodgy recordings that keep dropping out just when things get interesting.
Gin & Tonic
Stay away from the Ambien.
Gin & Tonic
Stay away from the Amb1en.
jafg
Which bathroom stall will you be in? Hope you never forgot the listerine.
RandyH
You’re a redhead? Who knew?
BGinCHI
I waited on the bullet train at Union Station, but it never came.
Thanks Obama.
MaximusNYC
Have fun, folks. I won’t make it. The F train in Brooklyn is shut down for construction this weekend, which means a jammed-to-the-gills shuttle bus instead, and I already went thru that nightmare once on Friday night.
Suffern ACE
I’ve been grounded.
Valdivia
so upset I wont be thee. Still.
Linda Featheringill
You guys have fun. We in the flyover country want a full report.
Bill E Pilgrim
If anyone posts here from the bar the sheer geekiness will create a nerd infundibulum above lower Manhattan. I wonder what the geek version of “Zul” is.
Comrade Mary
Please, please, please blog the meetup live! I’m building an email blast for a client this afternoon and have no other life.
Bruuuuce
Would have liked to be there but got caught between the rock (children) and the hard place (better half) and did a week’s worth of grocery shopping. Listening to the Giants and hoisting one in your general direction!
Nicole
What a fun meetup. Thanks to everyone for the great conversation! And it’s nice to have faces to put to names. (Though you’ll have to keep reminding me, as I’m really, really bad at remembering names and faces. Politics was never going to be a career option for me based on that alone.) Lovely afternoon!
Johannes
La Caterina and I had a great time meeting fellow Juicers (DougJ’s eerie resemblance to Patrick Kennedy would be eerier if he resembled Patrick Kennedy, but we found him anyway).
The conversation was excellent, the company congenial, and I even met a colleague from a decade back. However, Needz Moar Tunch!
Thank you.
chopper
when we went around the table introducing ourselves i was so close to saying i was matoko chan.
Johannes
@chopper: We *so* would have believed you, man!
(Really great to have met you!)
PurpleGirl
It was good to meet everyone. I enjoyed it a lot.
handsmile
First of all, many thanks to Doug for proposing this gathering during his visit to New York City. It was a welcome initiative. I do suspect, however, that a career as a stunt double for Patrick Kennedy will not be as rewarding or successful for him as the one he now practices.
Second of all, what a impressive group of characters! It was a delight to be among the corporeal presences (rather than the virtual) of such thoughtful and engaging people.
I am sorry only that due to the large number of attendees and the ever-lengthening table necessary to accommodate us all, I did not get a chance to converse with more of you. I very much enjoyed wide-ranging discussions with: celiadexter, chopper, davenyc, jgabriel, johannes, nicole, purplegirl, sfinny, and will. A true pleasure to have met each of you.
I’d surely recommend, if at all possible, that clusters of Balloon Juicers in other areas arrange similar occasions. Good company, good conversation, good food and drink is a combination always to be savored.
Nicole
Oh, and Griffin apologizes for hogging all the muffins.
Samara Morgan
@chopper: they wouldnt have believed you.
you dont make the IQ gradient to be me.
:)
celiadexter
It was great meeting everyone — we need to do this more often! Now I’ll have to be less of a lurker since I know who some of us are…
Paul in KY
It would be nice if Kay or Zandar could get us together sometime up in the Cinn. area. We have several juicers from S. Ohio/N. Kentucky.
Your meetup sounded great!
chopper
@Samara Morgan:
after about 10 beers i think i could have pulled it off. ‘man, who’s that dude at the end of the table garbling a bunch of nonsense about shit? he sounds like…’