In case you need to set your plans for tomorrow, Shakezula of Lawyers Guns & Money (here), beloved Balloon Juice commentor EFGoldman, and other blog readers will be getting together tomorrow evening at Fado Irish Pub, “5:30ish until the authorities arrive”.
Fado is at 808 7th Street N.W., near Metro Center and Gallery Place stations, i.e. all of the Metro lines. Reservation is under the name Goldman.
Lurkers, friends & spouses always welcome. Leave a comment below if you’ve other questions/suggestions.
James E Powell
This is as good a place as any to submit my request for Los Angeles meet-up after the June 7 primary
divF
I’m really bummed about missing this.
(1) LGM and BJ are two of the three blogs I read obsessively (I comment only at this one, though).
(2) New assignment which will have me in DC intermittently got delayed by two weeks, otherwise I would be there now.
(3) EFG is a gem.
Omnes Omnibus
@divF: I hate the threaded comments at LGM.
planetjanet
I may be able to stop by just briefly. The lecture I am going to is just a couple of blocks away. I should be there about 6:00.
divF
@Omnes Omnibus: I do too – it is essentially impossible to come back to a discussion. Then they don’t even display correctly on an iPhone.
However, the content is sufficiently compelling for me to endure the annoyances.
Baud
Blog Highlander: There can be only one.
Baud
@divF:
Same here in terms of blogging habits.
@Omnes Omnibus:
I also don’t like the log in system.
mike in dc
I plan to be there, as this and LGM are my two favorite blogs.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: Threaded comments are an abomination.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Indeed.
ruemara
@James E Powell: I second this. because no one is from Sacramento. And I will be in SD for Comic-Con-ish.
geg6
That sounds like fun. You’d think with Cole so close by that we ‘Burgh peeps could manage a meetup here in Pittsburgh. Guess we’re all anti-social misfits like he is.
Omnes Omnibus
@geg6: Cole generally acts like he doesn’t like people. He wandered away from the Madison meet-up that I attended. He is a hypocrite about that. Read what he writes. He just isn’t comfortable with people. Let’s leave him alone.
BillinGlendaleCA
@ruemara: I’d love to see the LA folk at a meetup again.
BillinGlendaleCA
@ruemara: I think we have a couple of commenters from SacTown.
TheMightyTrowel
Every time one of these posts goes up, part of me thinks ‘oh how sad! no one wants to have a meet up in Australia! Woe is me for living on the underside of the planet!” then I remember that I hate people, crowded bars and strangers. *Waves at you from Australia!* Hi! Hope all you extroverts in the northern hemisphere are having fun!
Prescott Cactus
Anybody running a pool on when the authorities arrive ?
I’ll take 12:17 am
(9pm call from Pacific Time Zone and a 17 minute response time)
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’d love to see a PHX meetup.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Prescott Cactus:
That EFGoldman is a real troublemaker.
Gin & Tonic
@TheMightyTrowel: Next time I’m in Oz I’ll have to look you up so we can both be miserable.
khead
Very sorry I can’t make it, but the girls are getting fixed tomorrow. I feel a bit guilty for the fixing them even though I know it is the right thing to do. Because I would love to have a whole bunch more just like these.
Prescott Cactus
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Balloon Juice vs Lawyers, Guns & Money
EFGoldman vs Shakezula
It’s a gang fight waiting to happen.
eclare
@khead: How cute!
Mike J
@Prescott Cactus: Juicers, remember to snap as you walk in accompanied by the sound of brushes on a hi-hat.
MomSense
@Prescott Cactus:
A real gang fight or a Jerome Robbins pastel gang fight? There’s probably a blog equivalent. The B-J people show up with cat fur and crumbs on their clothes. I don’t know LGM well enough to recognize them in the wild.
MomSense
@Mike J:
Ha! On the same page.
Prescott Cactus
@MomSense: Hmmmm
The midnight gang’s assembled
And picked a rendezvous for the night
They’ll meet ‘neath that giant Exxon sign
That brings this fair city light
Man, there’s an opera out on the Turnpike
There’s a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops, Cherry-Tops, rips this holy night
@Mike J: Going to be appointed a Precinct Captain this Fall. The work begins.
MomSense
@Prescott Cactus:
Down in Jungleland
And with that, night all.
Redshift
I’m planning to be there, but I’m not sure when. Since I’m not a morning person, 5:39 is well before the end of the work day for me, and if Ms. Redshift is coming, I’ll need to go home first. But I’ll look for you when I get there.
Felixmoronia
@MomSense: Just look for the folks fighting over ketchup and vodka.
Felixmoronia
@Prescott Cactus: And remember, she was with the Russians too.
Miss Bianca
I hope you all have a wonderful time!
Major Major Major Major
Totes jelly, you kids have fun!
Suzanne
@Prescott Cactus: Let’s do a PHX meetup! I’m down!
Amir Khalid
@TheMightyTrowel:
No one wants to have a meet-up in Malaysia either. Pout.
Culture of Truth
Have fun!
piratedan
@Suzanne: depending upon date and time, I might/maybe/possibly could be there if there is strength in numbers… I’d have to come up from the Old Pueblo tho…
Prescott Cactus
@Felixmoronia: How was I to know ?
I’m the innocent bystander, and somehow I got stuck, between the rock and the hard place.
@Suzanne: Can we wait a bit. Until it’s so, un-FSM hot that we weed out these snowbirds. Say the first weekend after we hit 120F ?
ETA: Say end of June ?
Elizabelle
Have fun! Will raise a glass from Copenhagen to you. Um, maybe hours before.
Missing efgoldman, and maybe the fab mrs. efgoldman. Alas. Come back soon.
Like your change of venue, but must remind we have a $25 Murphy’s gift certificate to drink up, one of these days.
ETA: Missing all the other buds too. Hello out there, boatboy and shana and Mumphrey in disguise, and redshift and pink snapdragon and just ALL the great DC area denizens.
satby
@James E Powell: @ruemara: @BillinGlendaleCA: Depending on when you have it I might be able to come too. I’m planning on going to see my son and pickup whatever car he finds and vets for me in the LA area once the exchange girls head for home mid-June.
Uncle Cosmo
@Elizabelle:
That’s København, hon. In recognition of the venue, make it a mug of fadøl.
And the Juicers making the 40-mile trek down from Bawlmer Merlin Hon, what are we, chopped liver??
FTR do NOT lump us into the “DC area”–we live & work in an actual real working city as opposed to the built-on-a-swamp BS fest known as the Distraught of Calumnya, which is Mr Hyde to our Dr Jekyll. We told the NFL as much with a purple-&-black flip of the bird back in ’96. (Fail to the Deadskins!/ Fail miserably!/ Screw Danny Snyder,/ That shrimp SOB!) Say rather that we are optimally located for the occasional cultural smash&grab…