I'm interested in coming into the meetup tomorrow, but have no place to stay. I'm going to look for some hostels, but my internet connexion is spotty. I'm not opposed to crashing on someone's couch, even if there is no door. I am assured to be clean and harmless.
I've heard that one of the New York hostels is one of the best in the US but, never having stayed in a US hostel, I don't know what that means.
Also, during the tech boom there was a story in one of the Bay Area newspapers about people sleeping on the buses on the peninsula while riding back and forth all night to and from Silicon Valley.
In the same sense you can stay illegally anywhere. Except, you know, this time of year, far colder. But you can also sleep in Gracie Mansion for free; it's not as if Bloomberg sleeps there. And it's just as legal and unpatrolled as the parks.
The crazy brother of a friend of my dad's once broke into Gracie Mansion in an attempt to kill Ed Kock with an ax. He failed, but I'm sure he slept indoors that night.
Apropos of nothing, I heard a song by this dude named "José González" that I quite like, and looking him up I found out that he's apparently Swedish. I guess it was too weird to assume that someone singing in English with that sort of name is American. Or I'm just an ethnocentrist.
Also, the song I downloaded says the album is "top 40." Have I been living under a rock?
NY Hostels aren't taking online reserv's a day in advance. I should say they better be nice, charging $30 for dorms. (I have stayed, btw, in one American hostel, in Flagstaff, and it was very nice.) Washer, thanks very much for the offer, and I'll quite likely take you up on it.
I don't know. Apparently, it was featured in an episode of the OC, which makes me want to not like it, but I can't be bothered to be too cool for school lately.
w/d, I'll vouch for Michael's good character, having met him for the first time yesterday. Well, I'll vouch for his good hygiene anyway. He's a very clean fellow.
No kidding! Not only did I not make out with a single one of you guys (that's my story and I'm sticking with it), the 4-1/2 hour drive home afterwards wasn't remotely sketchy.
Hey, here's something OT: Ben Wolfson joins the elite corps of bloggers whom I have dreamed about. (Others: Belle Waring, Sebastian Holsclaw, Ophelia Benson.)
Hey, here's something OT: Ben Wolfson joins the elite corps of bloggers whom I have dreamed about. (Others: Belle Waring, Sebastian Holsclaw, Ophelia Benson.)
Jeremy, are you pimping my doorless room while I'm not even around to comment on it? There's a small chance that my roommate is having guests arrive--but I think that'll be tomorrow. I'll check in in a couple of hours with more definitive info.
Paul -- above all we have to remain true to the Text of the Dream. Wolfson was not a lurking presence; he was reading the Dentist's Announcement in his sonorous voice. He was radiant, not lurking.
43 & 44 should probably have one of those names googleproofed.
I have nothing to hide. Actually I got into a weird back-and-forth with Op/helia after I blogged my (non-creepy) dream about her. I reckon Sebastian and Belle have both seen the posts in question though I have not corresponded with them in that regard.
It is not an error, silvana. We've been through this before. Open secret, secret only from google. Read her "about" page and tell me how I've been indiscreet.
Hm. Well I don't quite understand what you mean but if it will serve the cause, go 'head and edit my comment. (If it is within Your power -- and how could it not be?)
Is the blogger of whom you speak the one to whom I referred using her real name? If so I beg pardon; I had looked at her "about" page and not recognized that it was she.
It's a philosophers' convention -- can't you just go home with one of the groupies that'll be gathering around the entrance to the hotel?
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:17 PM
The APA hasn't started yet.
Maybe ogged's ex can find a place for you.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:18 PM
No, I meant the meet-up thingy.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:18 PM
I understand Jackmormon is running a (doorless) flop-house for -nf-gg-d posters.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:22 PM
funny, i remember reading this article yesterday and thinking it would be useful to remember.
i was at the Hotel QT for a wedding afterparty not too long ago, and can recommend that. at least the bar.
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:33 PM
There are bridges all over NY. Shouldn't be too challenging to find one that can accomodate both you and your enormous cock underneath it.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:47 PM
Actually, I think I've solved the problem, but I appreciate your kind thoughts, Apostropher.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:53 PM
Oboe groupie, FL?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 1:55 PM
The good news is, it's really cheap to stay here.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 2:38 PM
It sure is. For $2.00 you can stay on the subway all night.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 2:42 PM
Hell, you can sleep in the park for free.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 2:49 PM
I'm interested in coming into the meetup tomorrow, but have no place to stay. I'm going to look for some hostels, but my internet connexion is spotty. I'm not opposed to crashing on someone's couch, even if there is no door. I am assured to be clean and harmless.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 3:37 PM
Michael, I can probably provide such a doorless couch if you don't find a better option.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 5:04 PM
I've heard that one of the New York hostels is one of the best in the US but, never having stayed in a US hostel, I don't know what that means.
Also, during the tech boom there was a story in one of the Bay Area newspapers about people sleeping on the buses on the peninsula while riding back and forth all night to and from Silicon Valley.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 5:18 PM
"Hell, you can sleep in the park for free."
In the same sense you can stay illegally anywhere. Except, you know, this time of year, far colder. But you can also sleep in Gracie Mansion for free; it's not as if Bloomberg sleeps there. And it's just as legal and unpatrolled as the parks.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 5:40 PM
They don't charge for jail, do they? (Yet.)
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 5:44 PM
I reckon Gracie Mansion is in fact less unpatrolled than the parks. Good point tho.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 6:00 PM
They don't need to patrol Gracie Mansion, because those dudes are un-fucking-stoppable.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 6:02 PM
There are no spare beds in Manhattan. Annie Doe and Roe of Anytown, NJ, however, do have a spare room.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 6:16 PM
There are no spare beds in Manhattan. Annie Doe and Kevin Roe of Anytown, NJ, however, did have a spare room for me.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 6:18 PM
The law, in its infinite majesty prohibits the poor from sleeping in mansions and parks alike.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 6:28 PM
The crazy brother of a friend of my dad's once broke into Gracie Mansion in an attempt to kill Ed Kock with an ax. He failed, but I'm sure he slept indoors that night.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:25 PM
Ed Kock is a good screen name for a male porn star.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:32 PM
Typing, not my strong point. (Axe handling, not Eddie's.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:33 PM
I thought it was a shunned, broken man who tried to kill Emanuel Ax with his greasy cock. No?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:35 PM
No, with his pianist.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:37 PM
Apropos of nothing, I heard a song by this dude named "José González" that I quite like, and looking him up I found out that he's apparently Swedish. I guess it was too weird to assume that someone singing in English with that sort of name is American. Or I'm just an ethnocentrist.
Also, the song I downloaded says the album is "top 40." Have I been living under a rock?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:53 PM
Did it specify which charts the album is "top 40" on?
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:57 PM
NY Hostels aren't taking online reserv's a day in advance. I should say they better be nice, charging $30 for dorms. (I have stayed, btw, in one American hostel, in Flagstaff, and it was very nice.) Washer, thanks very much for the offer, and I'll quite likely take you up on it.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 7:59 PM
Correction. The "genre" in iTunes is what says "top 40." Either way, I guess it's got to be Sweden.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 8:00 PM
The hostel in Santa Monica is lovely, and two blocks from the beach. Can't beat that.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 8:02 PM
Was it the song from the Superball commercial?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 9:25 PM
I don't know. Apparently, it was featured in an episode of the OC, which makes me want to not like it, but I can't be bothered to be too cool for school lately.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 9:28 PM
Can we tell that I am trying as hard as I possibly can not to do work?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 9:29 PM
Well, if it is the song from the Superball commercial, arguably I was in a Gettier case.
Here's my extended dialogue with slol about the commercial (with some of the other folks chiming in, plus one non-Mineshaftee). FWIW.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 9:36 PM
It is not that song. But that is a good song, and a good commercial, logistical grounds notwithstanding.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 9:44 PM
w/d, I'll vouch for Michael's good character, having met him for the first time yesterday. Well, I'll vouch for his good hygiene anyway. He's a very clean fellow.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-12-05 11:39 PM
I didn't understand why he wasn't drunk, though.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:09 AM
God knows we bought enough buckets of beer.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:12 AM
You know, I was surprisingly sober after the 5 or 6 beers I had. Something fishy about that...
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:16 AM
I was surprisingly sober
No kidding! Not only did I not make out with a single one of you guys (that's my story and I'm sticking with it), the 4-1/2 hour drive home afterwards wasn't remotely sketchy.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:21 AM
I take personal responsibility for that. If only those strippers had materialized.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:30 AM
Hey, here's something OT: Ben Wolfson joins the elite corps of bloggers whom I have dreamed about. (Others: Belle Waring, Sebastian Holsclaw, Ophelia Benson.)
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 3:39 AM
Hey, here's something OT: Ben Wolfson joins the elite corps of bloggers whom I have dreamed about. (Others: Belle Waring, Sebastian Holsclaw, Ophelia Benson.)
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 3:40 AM
w00t!
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 3:42 AM
But was it Ben qua blogger, or Ben qua commenter that you were dreaming about?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 7:16 AM
I make no distinction between those two entities. Actually it was "Ben qua floating presence".
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 7:23 AM
Praise Ben from whom all blessings flow
Praise Ben all creatures here below
Praise Ben even when he makes no sense
Praise Blogger, Commenter, and Floating Presence
(No distinction -- the 3 entities are one substance.)
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 9:09 AM
Is this going to compete with my religion?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 9:11 AM
Wolfsonism is entirely compatible with the tenets of FSM, CMDB and all other major religions. Ben is the light, and they shine through him.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 9:24 AM
Cool - what are Wolfsonism's major holidays, and when can we start waging war on them with pictures of dogs in snow?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 9:29 AM
It should really be apostrophism. Are you apostate apostrophists?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 9:43 AM
Jeremy, are you pimping my doorless room while I'm not even around to comment on it? There's a small chance that my roommate is having guests arrive--but I think that'll be tomorrow. I'll check in in a couple of hours with more definitive info.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 9:49 AM
Does Wolfsonism practice full or partial immersion?
And I'll need to know something more about his family background, going back at least three centuries.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 9:53 AM
Praise Blogger, Commenter, and Floating Presence
I rather like "Lurking Presence" for that line.
Posted by Paul | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 10:48 AM
Paul -- above all we have to remain true to the Text of the Dream. Wolfson was not a lurking presence; he was reading the Dentist's Announcement in his sonorous voice. He was radiant, not lurking.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 10:56 AM
Nor does he lurk here.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 11:02 AM
I see. Well, better a radiant Wolfson, clothed with the sun, than a lurking one. I retract my interpolation.
Posted by Paul | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 11:08 AM
Ben is clearly a witch, as I've dreamed about him too.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:05 PM
Before or after you met him?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:16 PM
I think the real question is, before or after you sent the naked picture?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:23 PM
After meeting, before picture.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:29 PM
Are you implying that he ensorcelled you into sending him nudie pix?
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:30 PM
And I'll need to know something more about his family background, going back at least three centuries.
Direct descent from the Baal Shem Tov, baby.
43 & 44 should probably have one of those names googleproofed.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:31 PM
Because I would object strongly to such a slander against my divinity. It's like calling Mohammed a child-molestor, or Catholics cannibals.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:32 PM
43 & 44 should probably have one of those names googleproofed.
I have nothing to hide. Actually I got into a weird back-and-forth with Op/helia after I blogged my (non-creepy) dream about her. I reckon Sebastian and Belle have both seen the posts in question though I have not corresponded with them in that regard.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:34 PM
You may not, Osner, but our local blogger with ovaries does.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:35 PM
Now that I have looked up "ensorcelled" (duh, the meaning should have been obvious), the answer is no. Michael bribed me into it, at my suggestion.
And it was only one picture.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:36 PM
Wolfson Indiscretion Error!
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:36 PM
It is not an error, silvana. We've been through this before. Open secret, secret only from google. Read her "about" page and tell me how I've been indiscreet.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:38 PM
Hm. Well I don't quite understand what you mean but if it will serve the cause, go 'head and edit my comment. (If it is within Your power -- and how could it not be?)
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:39 PM
Precisely. The original post, listing three bloggers who don't post here, needn't be googleproofed, but Wolfson's critique of it makes it a problem.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:39 PM
Actually, I don't even know what the secret, open or otherwise is. I just felt like calling an error.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:40 PM
Osner, see.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:42 PM
Is the blogger of whom you speak the one to whom I referred using her real name? If so I beg pardon; I had looked at her "about" page and not recognized that it was she.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:46 PM
74: Well now this is definitely indiscreet.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:47 PM
Y'all are gonna get SUED when she finds out about this.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:49 PM
O-oh, so that's what Ben was giving dire warnings about.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:49 PM
Osner broke a written rule unwittingly.
Wolfson committed, as he himself would say, an indiscretion error.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:50 PM
At some point, ogged or FL will show up and fix this, surely before lawsuits are filed.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:52 PM
She can't sue me, she doesn't know my real name.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 12:53 PM
I think "Alameida" is far more likely to kick someone's ass than to sue them.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 1:09 PM
Or at least to set her little sister loose on them.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 1:10 PM
Having her little sister set loose on me is a fate I would be willing to accept.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 1:15 PM
The punk-rock one?
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 1:16 PM
I dunno, Wolfson, a sophisticated examination of the video footage suggests she has you on reach and speed.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 12-13-05 1:24 PM