Ok. I am about to very seriously go on the bottle, so I need to know- bangers, mugshots, or easy tiger. I will be there where ever we choose at 6:00-6:30 and plan to stay until you all are done or more than two of us are in handcuffs.
I’d delegate authority to one of you but the previous threads have confirmed to me that you all are the feckless idiots I had assumed you were.
****update***
Easy Tiger, 7pm-911.
I hate you people.
KRK
Banger’s.
Heh.
ETA. So I can just keep changing my mind?
Command decisions are fun.
Marcelo
Banger’s it is! I’ll be there at 8ish, leave at 9ish, and check in at 11 when I’m done with my online tutoring gig. Bangers is DELICIOUS and the beer wall is pretty effing epic.
Omnes Omnibus
The fucking Wisconsin people could have chosen a bar in 30 seconds.
Frankensteinbeck
I was uninvolved in the previous conversation and have nothing to do with this one, but can I sign up to be a feckless idiot anyway? Upon request I can also be callow and entirely lacking in gorm!
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Omnes Omnibus:
to be fair, we are rarely more than 30 seconds away from a bar.
Marcelo
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s because there’s only one decent place in the whole state to go hang. Our inability to decide where to go comes from an embarrassment of riches. :)
Omnes Omnibus
@Frankensteinbeck: I am not sure signing up is required. I think one is or isn’t. Alsotoo, gorm is overrated.
Marmot
Bangers it is. The mushroom-based sausage is divine. And Rainey St. is more of what I like to present to visitors.
Marmot
@Marcelo: Beat me to it.
EGrise
Bangers!
BAAAAAAAAAAN-GERRRRRRRRRRRS!!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@zombie rotten mcdonald: @Marcelo: Interesting juxtaposition. ZRM is far more accurate.
Narcissus
I don’t understand any of this post.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Omnes Omnibus:
there are towns in Wisconsin that consist of two churches, three gas stations, and four bars.
Lolis
@EGrise:
The name Bangers does seem to fit Cole’s Austin experience so far. I will be there to bask in Cole in the center of the hipster hive in Austin, Rainey St. I might have to grab some food at G’Raj Majal though cause German food does not do it for me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@zombie rotten mcdonald: Do they still drink brandy with every meal in Wisconsin? I hate to think of traditions dying out.
Omnes Omnibus
@zombie rotten mcdonald: Yep. And the meet-up that Cole preemptive crushed would have been in Madison. I can think of 20 decent bars within five minutes of the Square.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Of course.
Marcelo
@Lolis: Not all the sausages at Bangers are German. The Merguez, for example, is originally Moroccan in style but then got popular in France and Spain.
Still, you can’t beat G’Raj Mahal.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Does it mean I’m a petty person that I’m loving this rehash of Mitt Romney’s worst moments and all the mockery that this Fox interview has stirred up?
Redshirt
Bangers
6:15 CST
Back Corner
Be there or be square
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: No. He would have been a catastrophe of epic proportions and it is good to be reminded of that once in a while. Plus, laughter is good.
Milliegogo
Banger’s only serves beer and wine. As in no scotch. Also, too Rainey St is a hipster hive. Easy Tiger has a full bar.
Schlemizel
@zombie rotten mcdonald:
There is a town on Minnesotas Iron Range that had 800 residents and 23 bars on the main drag. The closest I know to that is a town in Wisc. with 35 bars for 1500 population.
BTW – if you ever come to a civilized state like Minnesota I can guarantee you we will find a better place & agree quicker. SOmething about all that sun & cow shit messes with Texans brains ;)
PIGL
@zombie rotten mcdonald: not just Wisconsin, let me tell you what.
Schlemizel
@zombie rotten mcdonald:
There is a town on Minnesotas Iron Range that had 800 residents and 23 bars on the main drag. The closest I know to that is a town in Wisc. with 35 bars for 1500 population.
BTW – if you ever come to a civilized state like Minnesota I can guarantee you we will find a better place & agree quicker. SOmething about all that sun & cow shit messes with Texans brains ;)
Redshirt
Easy Tiger
6:15 CST
Back corner
Be there or be square
taylormattd
FFS, just pick the place closest to your current location and tell the assholes to show up.
I recommend bringing your own handcuffs.
taylormattd
@Redshirt: Lol. He might shoot you.
Denali
Would you all mind time traveling to the 26th. I will be in Austin then.
Marcelo
Oh for fuck’s sake. Bangers had the most support in the last thread, so let’s just go there and call it settled. It doesn’t have scotch, but John suggested Bangers to begin with, so he can’t be mad when we take him up on it. It’s not that big of a deal anyway and like the man said, we need a command decision. We’re going to Bangers.
And if someone yells out “Hole in the Wall” at the last minute, so help me.
Redshirt
@taylormattd: It’s for the Scotch’s sake. Really – Bangers is awesome, but no Scotch, and that was explicitly in the contract.
Mark B.
I’ll do Bangers or anything in the Rainey street hipster hive. Parking down there is a bitch, but its near my work and my best friends condo. It’ll be interesting seeing some of the balloon juicers.
Punchy
You comin alone or wif yer lady friend? Are you afraid she may deflate?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hah! You make me sad that I can’t be there.
Redshirt
BREAKING!!
EASY TIGER
6:45 CST
BACK CORNER
BE THERE OR BE SQUARE
Alison
There better be pictures.
Marcelo
EDIT: Nevermind. I was just trying to help the command decision along. See y’all at ET…
Omnes Omnibus
@Marcelo: Hole in the Wall!
SiubhanDuinne
@Alison:
Oh FUCK yeah.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Cole said no pictures.
Ha!
Marcelo
I don’t think pictures could even begin to bring the experience home to the rest of you.
Redshirt
You can take pictures only if you’re not seen taking pictures.
Comrade Mary
I’ll just sit here in chilly, lonely Toronto and hate y’all back.
eemom
Very pleased and impressed to see that former misanthrope, aka “Just tell me where all the good bars are and fuck NO I don’t want to meet you at one” Cole is doing Teh Meet Up for teh Austin folks….even if it is taking 83 threads and a transcontinental organizational effort to get together.
Several weeks ago here in the deecee area we had a very enjoyable and civilized gathering under the dignified leadership of DougJ without three time zones being implicated in the process. Jussayinzall.
Omnes Omnibus
@Marcelo: Just get Cole into the damned handcuffs.
Mark S.
@Redshirt:
[Drudge siren]
Jane2
@Punchy: Thread win.
Jane2
@eemom: To be fair, half of the confusion is the nature of Austin where nothing is named the same as on the map, and there are eleventy million great places to meet.
That being said, I expect pictures! And if you smartphone users can’t figure out how to do it without Cole noticing, you should have to turn in your devices.
Comrade Mary
I predict that somewhere between 7 and 911, Cole will be plastering this blog with selfies.
Lolis
Yay! I prefer Easy Tiger. Ping pong and pastries!
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: Check the next thread. He is talking about getting ink.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
why would we limit it to meals?
dance around in your bones
@Redshirt:
Kinda like those up skirt photos, only these might be up shorts photos?
Ok, that was weird and might completely deter Cole from even attending. If it ever happens.
How about bloody no more beard photos? With lots of bits of toilet paper stuck to said beard area.
Redshirt
AUSTINITES!
CLAIM THE BACK CORNER OF EASY TIGER PRIOR TO 1830!
FORM A BALLOON SHIELD!!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Right, like this crew always pays attention to Cole’s wishes and does exactly as he asks.
srv
@Marcelo: I almost died there in 1986, so I’ll refrain
Donut
@Omnes Omnibus:
RIP Pinckney Street Hideaway.
That’s all I can say.
Omnes Omnibus
@Donut: I would have recommended Genna’s if we were doing something in Mad-town.
ETA: I was never at the PSH. As far as I can recall.
Comrade Mary
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh. Lord.
Donut
Oh yeah, and the entire Hotel Washington complex, especially the Barber’s Closet.
I only miss the places that I can never see again.
Except Nick’s, which I think is still there? That place had/has the best wallpaper evar made.
Ryan
@marcelo – I’m going to try and make it out, not sure if Bernice will make an appearance with me, but I’m hopeful she can!
Donut
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’ve been drunk in that establishment on more than one occasion.
Marcelo
Maybe you guys should hold your own meetup while we’re holding ours.
Donut
@Marcelo:
Ok.
Redshirt
Ohhh Yeaaaahhh.
Omnes Omnibus
@Donut: Nick’s is still there.
Marcelo
@Ryan: Yay! It would be so fun to see her again (and you, of course). Also, it would be neat to have her around, after all this blog is the reason she was able to find such a great home.
If you can’t make it work, let’s plan something soon. I miss her a lot.
Debbie(aussie)
Amazing, isn’t it , how you can just feel the love in that statement ‘ I hate you people’ :)
David Koch
Oh great, now Obomber’s Droooones know where to attack
danielx
Traffic, no parking, in the middle of a bar district crawling with hipsters which means that it will likely also be crawling with cops…why am I getting a sense of a massive clusterfuck in the making?
Marcelo
@danielx: Easy Tiger is on dirty 6th (although closer to the freeway), which means it’s more college frat boys than hipsters.
All your other points are well taken, though :)
SquareSquid
Okay, so it really is Easy Tiger? I will laugh if half the people show up at the wrong bar.
kdaug
Easy, tiger it is. See you there.
Matt Smith
But where’s the afterparty?