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Asgard Tonight

by Tom Levenson|  March 31, 201712:43 pm| 48 Comments

This post is in: Meetups, Readership Capture

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Dear all,

To repeat the update below:  We’re set for Asgard in Cambridge tonight. The reservation is under my name.

Time — 6 until the die-hards wander off into the snow/sleet/rain bouquet with which we aim to greet distinguished visitors.

Address:  350 Massachusetts Avenue (corner of Mass. Ave and Sidney St.) Phone no: 617-577-9100.

By the Red Line T:  Central Sq. stop.  The Asgard is on the south side of Mass Ave. about 350 yards east of the stop.  That is:  its on the side closer to the Charles River, heading back towards Boston from where one gets off the T.

Parking:  There are several municipal lots, most on Bishop Allen St., which parallels Mass. Ave one block to the north, including the closest public lot to the Asgard, just off Columbia St.  There’s more parking on Green Street, also parallel to Mass Ave., one block south.

I think that’s it.

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Image: Édouard Manet, George Moore at the Café, 1878/9

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48Comments

  1. 1.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 31, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    Have fun guys! Next time let’s has a meetup in beautiful western Mass.

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 31, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    You all spent money to hire a distinguished visitor? Not sure that’s the best use of funds, but whatever lifts your kilt.

  3. 3.

    SP

    March 31, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.

  4. 4.

    Tom Levenson

    March 31, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    @SP: Who pissed in your cornflakes?

  5. 5.

    laura

    March 31, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    Pics or it dinna happen!

  6. 6.

    FlyingToaster

    March 31, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Like we were going to wend our way to Centwal Squayah in THIS weather without one?

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 31, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    The reservation is under my name.

    Tom, whatever you do, make sure it’s separate checks from jump. Otherwise, you will end up playing treasurer and will get stuck covering a not-insignificant part of the bill yourself.

    Don’t ask me how I know this.

  8. 8.

    Tom Levenson

    March 31, 2017 at 1:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: yes. This x1000

  9. 9.

    jk

    March 31, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    Tom,

    Thanks for being the point person and ironing out all the details. Sounds like it will be a great big fucking deal.

  10. 10.

    Orpho

    March 31, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    I haven’t commented much in the *mumble mumble* number of years I’ve read BJ, but I’m just a short hop away and it’s hard to turn down a chance to meet you all. J

  11. 11.

    wuzzat

    March 31, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    Still can’t go, but I’m pretty sure the Asgard validates parking at the Star Market garage on Franklin.

  12. 12.

    prgchrqltma

    March 31, 2017 at 1:36 pm

    Thanks for arranging, Tom. See you there.

  13. 13.

    SP

    March 31, 2017 at 1:37 pm

    @Tom Levenson: Ass-guard? Just quoting a well known philosopher.
    Sorry, someone just made that joke at work so no matter how bad it was I had to get it out of my head.

  14. 14.

    efgoldman

    March 31, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    Again with the Irish pub!
    Did you spend too much time at the Tam O’Shanter in college (I did!)

    Seriously mrs efg and I will be there, unless the weather South of Boston really goes in the crapper. Thanks, Tom.

  15. 15.

    pamelabrown53

    March 31, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    Hope all you attendees have a delightful time. Glad you could work it out. As someone up-thread said pictures are essential (plus pithy commentary).

  16. 16.

    Vidya Pradhan

    March 31, 2017 at 1:48 pm

    I’m so jealous.

  17. 17.

    R-Jud

    March 31, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    I was hoping “Asgard Tonight” was a variety show starring various Norse divinities. I am disappoint.

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    March 31, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    Why name an Irish pub after a Norse afterworld? Wasn’t exactly a mutually beneficial interaction ‘back in the day’.

  19. 19.

    efgoldman

    March 31, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    @wuzzat:

    I’m pretty sure the Asgard validates parking at the Star Market garage on Franklin.

    According to their website, Green St garage behind the restaurant.

  20. 20.

    efgoldman

    March 31, 2017 at 2:00 pm

    @p.a.:

    Why name an Irish pub after a Norse afterworld?

    Maybe they figured, being between MIT and Harvard, nobody would know the difference.

  21. 21.

    KS in MA

    March 31, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    Have a great time!

  22. 22.

    Downpuppy

    March 31, 2017 at 2:08 pm

    I’ve only been to the Asgard for brunch. Looking forward to trying the lutefisk

  23. 23.

    p.a.

    March 31, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    @R-Jud: Good idea for a hiatus replacement for Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
    (is that even still in production?)

  24. 24.

    Currants

    March 31, 2017 at 2:15 pm

    Interesting–that’s not far from the MIT Museum, which, if I remember correctly, is open and does cool things sometimes on Friday nights. (Checks.) Nope, must be occasional special events.

  25. 25.

    mainmata

    March 31, 2017 at 2:23 pm

    Give my regards to Thor, Loki, Woden and the other deities residing there.

  26. 26.

    Roger Moore

    March 31, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Tom, whatever you do, make sure it’s separate checks from jump.

    Bringing a bunch of green balloons as a recognition system for people who are otherwise having trouble finding the table is highly recommended, also, too.

  27. 27.

    Miss Bianca

    March 31, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    @R-Jud: Love it. Wins the Internets for me today!

  28. 28.

    wuzzat

    March 31, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    @efgoldman: I honestly think that might be a different entrance into the same garage.

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    March 31, 2017 at 2:53 pm

    Lurkers will come out of the woodwork and show up, but so far the LA ones have been uniformly nice, so it’s all good.

  30. 30.

    Yutsano

    March 31, 2017 at 2:53 pm

    @Downpuppy: Dear God man! Why would you subject yourself to that?

    @p.a.: If it’s on hiatus, it’s on a loooong one.

    @Mnemosyne: At the long ago Psi Fighter meetup we had a lovely lurker show up and we always seem to get one or two at the Seattle meet-ups.

  31. 31.

    DC

    March 31, 2017 at 3:00 pm

    That’s a good choice. Plenty of room. I lived just a few blocks from there during college and we did some dinners for various student groups there. I live in New York now, but if I was still in the area I might have been one of the lurkers to come out of the woodwork. Hope you have fun!

  32. 32.

    Amaranthine RBG

    March 31, 2017 at 3:13 pm

    Doesn’t look like Asgard has any vegan entrees.

    /jk

  33. 33.

    efgoldman

    March 31, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    people who are otherwise having trouble finding the table

    Unless you’re a really early arrival, you won’t have any trouble. We tend to rowdiness.

  34. 34.

    JanieM

    March 31, 2017 at 3:20 pm

    @p.a.: Google “Asgard Howth.” It’s not random.

  35. 35.

    Jim Bales

    March 31, 2017 at 3:23 pm

    Cool! I’m in :-)

    Best,
    Jim

  36. 36.

    JanieM

    March 31, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    @Tom Levenson: @SiubhanDuinne: This inspires a question.

    I’ve been out for dinner a few times with a group of people who all drink alcohol (in some cases, quite a lot). Someone inevitably takes the bill and divides it evenly, even though I didn’t drink at all and some people who did consumed a lot more than others. Is there an etiquette here, beyond baldly saying hey, I don’t really want to pay double or triple my meal bill for stuff I didn’t consume?

    ETA: in case it wasn’t clear, I don’t drink at all. One time for this game seems okay, but the second or third time it gets a little annoying.

  37. 37.

    scuffletuffle

    March 31, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    @JanieM: just ask for your own check.

  38. 38.

    p.a.

    March 31, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    @JanieM: Ah! Late 1980’s a coworker invited me to multiple Irish Music Nights at local church rec halls (she was trying to set me up with her daughter- nice girl, but I ended up dating a ceili dancer I met there) but I always had the uneasy feeling some of the cash found its way to the IRA. Only beers were Bud & Bud Lite, and every band sang one song that rollcalled every Irish county (Republic at least), and when your ancestral county was sung you stood up.

  39. 39.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 31, 2017 at 3:57 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    @Mnemosyne:
    @Yutsano: These Boston folk seem terribly disorganized.

  40. 40.

    JanieM

    March 31, 2017 at 3:58 pm

    @p.a.: I spent a month in Howth a long time ago, or I wouldn’t have known the association. (Lovely place it was, at least in those days; I haven’t been back.) There was at that time a hotel or restaurant there called the Asgard, so I’ve always assumed that the Cambridge establishment’s name came from the same association.

  41. 41.

    JanieM

    March 31, 2017 at 4:01 pm

    @scuffletuffle: Yeah, that seems obvious enough, but I get caught up in the fact that I don’t want to seem like an asshole. I guess it’s worth asking the question of who’s really the asshole…..

  42. 42.

    p.a.

    March 31, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    @JanieM: I won’t say asshole, but whoever uses their phone to figure out 15% is, well, bless their heart…

  43. 43.

    ?eric

    March 31, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    according to google, i need to take the rainbow bridge, but i dont see it on any boston map……

  44. 44.

    JanieM

    March 31, 2017 at 4:26 pm

    @p.a.: That’s another whole rant….I’m not sure I’d end it with “bless” though. ;-)

  45. 45.

    JMG

    March 31, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    It is with the deepest regret I must send my regrets for tonight. Car took sickly this am, and is in the Bedford Sullivan Tire where it will be until Monday. Someday I will meet you all, I hope. This would have been a good one to do.

  46. 46.

    Tom Levenson

    March 31, 2017 at 5:13 pm

    @?eric: Where are you coming from?
    Closest bridge is probably the BU Bridge, but the traffic at that hour can be annoying. Not utterly impossible, just annoying. The Mass Ave. Bridge towards Cambridge should be OK. If you take that one, just continue up Mass Ave for about four lights (not a precise number). Asgard will be on your left at the corner of Sidney St. If you come up the BU Bridge there are some local back street tricks you can play, but absent knowledge of one-way patterns, your best bet is to come straight up Brookline St. to Mass Ave., and turn right. Asgard would be on your right, but if you do the tricky thing at Mass Ave. and cross over, jogging slightly to your right, you get to Bishop Allen Street. Turn right, and Muni Lot 6 will be on your right, and if you are very lucky and have sacrificed the right small animals to the parking gods, you’ll have a spot.

  47. 47.

    SP

    March 31, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    It wouldn’t be Boston without:

    Red Line experiencing moderate delays due to a disabled train at Central.

    Which one of you reprobates pulled the emergency cord when you realized you’d missed the stop?

  48. 48.

    Hugems

    March 31, 2017 at 7:18 pm

    @Mnemosyne: id do an la or sd meetup and im a lurker ;)

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