10: And here again, epistemologist by vocation, employer of highly dubious logic by avocation. The mere fact of observing that you had tried to insinuate yourself into Becks' affections does not constitute an attempt, on my part, to arrange a match, thus no secret passion of mine is revealed by transitivity or any other property.
Which is the true Weiner? Does he even know anymore?
The act of noting that I desire Becks is itself an attempt to fix us up, because I am so irresistible that on learning that the shining glance of Weiner's attention has fallen on her she must inevitably succumb.
Or: I didn't try to fix us up before, either, I just betrayed my own secret passion.
Eh, doubtful (that link is work-safe, but clicking through is decidedly not). Your best option would be to save all your hott Becks-style lovin' for me.
26: Blondish, but definitely not strawberry. If I were to grow a beard, it would be redder, but that hasn't happened since a frisbee injury put my shaving hand in a splint for a few months.
Will there be interest in food at the meetup, or are we drinking our dinner? (Personally, I vote for Zeitgeist, since the weather should be nice enough to sit out back and there'll be plenty of space, but as a lurker I don't know how much my vote counts for.)
I can get to a meetup between 7:30 - 8. (Meaning surely by 8 but may show up earlier.) I have no concept of SF geography or drinking establishments so will gladly just show up where told.
Hmm, now that I am looking at a map I see that neither Orbit nor Zeitgeist are more than minimally BART friendly. On the other hand, if Becks can't come till 8 you probably shouldn't plan around me at all---I have immovable obligations on the other side of the bay and was only hoping to drop by for an hour or so. I may have to encourage the fruit of climbing plants to seize the day some other time.
I know. And well done, too.
'bout to check out the new Royall Tyler translation. Genji, it's not just a book, it's a life-devouring obsession. Not unlike unfogged.
Sorry to be popping in and out unpredictably -- I can probably do 7:30 if it's closer to Union Square. Would that be closer to the Financial District and, therefore, better for Saheli?
Also, I heard that Zeitgeist is where Drinking Liberally is held on Monday nights so that could get a little crowded.
Ah, yeah, you're right about Drinking Liberally, though the backyard at Zeitgeist is so big I can't see it being a problem. Union Square would in fact be closer to the Financial District; there's also North Beach and SOMA. I can go pretty much wherever.
Ok - 2 places near the financial district. Please pick one, boys. Bacchus Kirk at 925 Bush Street or Hyde Out at 1068 Hyde St. (Sorry - no links. Commenting from my phone.) If we meet in that part of town, I can do more like 7:30 and it will be closer for Saheli. Saheli - would that work for you?
Oh wow, you really shouldn't plan on me, b/c I really do have immovable obligations that may make me a giant flake. Between those two Bush Street slooks better, but can I suggest something in North Beach? (I know it's almost as tacky as the Financial District, but as a bridge gal I'm sentimentally attached to them) Vesuvio's or the recently shown to me by a native, Spec's? Both near Columbus and Broadway, I think Vesuvio's is 255 Columbus.
Kiss the
Blarney Stoneon my behalf.Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 9:25 AM
Er, um, that is:
Kiss the
Blarney StoneCoit Tower on my behalf.Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 9:27 AM
You should definitely blog that. I await your post Coital.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 9:32 AM
STANDPIPE RULES OK
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 9:33 AM
Woo! Somebody stop me!
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 9:35 AM
(Becks, dude, we're trying to set you guys up! Don't go inviting everyone else to come along!)
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 9:46 AM
If I actually got together with everyone people have tried to set me up with on Unfogged, I'd be the biggest ho in blogland.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:39 AM
ogged, Wolfson, Mutombo, Drymala, who else?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:50 AM
The Janus-faced Weiner feigns innocence, though he well knows his own name should be on that list, due to his own efforts.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:52 AM
Dude, by transitivity that means yours is too.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:53 AM
Yes, as if you yourself haven't suggested more names than that! Forsooth.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:54 AM
that means yours is too.
"is" s/b "should"
Posted by Ayn Rand | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:57 AM
8: Wastn't there an effort at one point (perhaps ongoing) to fix Becks up with the man whom some call Tim? Or am I imagining things?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:58 AM
Er, so I guess that means I won't be meeting anyone, preferably sometime including the hour of 7, at a place tackily near the Financial district?
Posted by Saheli | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:02 AM
11: Which other names? I honestly can't remember, it all blurs together in a haze of good deeds done dirt cheap.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:07 AM
10: And here again, epistemologist by vocation, employer of highly dubious logic by avocation. The mere fact of observing that you had tried to insinuate yourself into Becks' affections does not constitute an attempt, on my part, to arrange a match, thus no secret passion of mine is revealed by transitivity or any other property.
Which is the true Weiner? Does he even know anymore?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:17 AM
at a place tackily near the Financial district
*Near* the Financial District is not a problem. *In* the Financial District is a problem. (I'm in.)
Posted by Josh | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:20 AM
The act of noting that I desire Becks is itself an attempt to fix us up, because I am so irresistible that on learning that the shining glance of Weiner's attention has fallen on her she must inevitably succumb.
Or: I didn't try to fix us up before, either, I just betrayed my own secret passion.
It's gotta be one or the other.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:24 AM
I'd be the biggest ho in blogland.
Eh, doubtful (that link is work-safe, but clicking through is decidedly not). Your best option would be to save all your hott Becks-style lovin' for me.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:24 AM
God, Weiner, if that's how you ask a girl out, the bloom of youth will have withered on the vine while she parses the sentence.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:29 AM
"To note my jones is to jump my bones"
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:32 AM
the bloom of youth will have withered on the vine while she parses the sentence.
I reckon she will be overpowered by the syntax -- give her pretty strawberry-blonde ponytails a girlish toss, giggle, and fall into his arms.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:34 AM
Anyway, Saheli, you should disregard us and totally plan to come to the meetup.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:39 AM
strawberry-blonde ponytails
I think TMK has me confused with another. Or, perhaps, the Becks that would fall for Weiner is not the True Becks but the one of TMK's invention.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:44 AM
And to Saheli and Andy, yay! I'm just waiting to hear back on one thing before I know when I can meet up.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:46 AM
I thought Weiner had the strawberry blond hair. (No pigtails, though.)
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 11:57 AM
24 -- I was talking about the generic girl whose youth was going to with on the vine whilst she tried to unravel Weiner's proposal.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:00 PM
And Cala is right that pigtails is what I meant, not pony-. How come I always get those two nouns mixed up?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:01 PM
wither
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:03 PM
Maybe you should just say she gives her tail a toss.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:06 PM
Joe D now, Joe D forever. (And, seriously, "Jody and Becks"; cute.)
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:17 PM
If I actually got together with everyone people have tried to set me up with on Unfogged, I'd be the biggest ho in blogland.
And what's wrong with that?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:17 PM
I am
Nothing
You are
Wind and water and sky,
Joe D
If only he were around to appreciate that.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:18 PM
I've heard good things about the Orbit Room, including that Alberta Straub recently won a contest with a drink incorporating cucumber water!
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:23 PM
And what's wrong with that?
Oh, stop frontin', B. You aren't even trying.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 12:26 PM
I am a big fan of cucumber anything.
Posted by Saheli | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 1:12 PM
36: You don't say.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 1:18 PM
26: Blondish, but definitely not strawberry. If I were to grow a beard, it would be redder, but that hasn't happened since a frisbee injury put my shaving hand in a splint for a few months.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 1:24 PM
Who am I to stop cucumbers from mating?
Posted by Saheli | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 1:48 PM
Will there be interest in food at the meetup, or are we drinking our dinner? (Personally, I vote for Zeitgeist, since the weather should be nice enough to sit out back and there'll be plenty of space, but as a lurker I don't know how much my vote counts for.)
Posted by Josh | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 2:09 PM
I can get to a meetup between 7:30 - 8. (Meaning surely by 8 but may show up earlier.) I have no concept of SF geography or drinking establishments so will gladly just show up where told.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 2:29 PM
Hmm, now that I am looking at a map I see that neither Orbit nor Zeitgeist are more than minimally BART friendly. On the other hand, if Becks can't come till 8 you probably shouldn't plan around me at all---I have immovable obligations on the other side of the bay and was only hoping to drop by for an hour or so. I may have to encourage the fruit of climbing plants to seize the day some other time.
Posted by Saheli | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 2:42 PM
I am so irresistible that on learning that the shining glance of Weiner's attention has fallen on her she must inevitably succumb.
Too much Genji, Wiener.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 2:59 PM
I was aiming for that effect.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 3:13 PM
I know. And well done, too.
'bout to check out the new Royall Tyler translation. Genji, it's not just a book, it's a life-devouring obsession. Not unlike unfogged.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 3:19 PM
Sorry to be popping in and out unpredictably -- I can probably do 7:30 if it's closer to Union Square. Would that be closer to the Financial District and, therefore, better for Saheli?
Also, I heard that Zeitgeist is where Drinking Liberally is held on Monday nights so that could get a little crowded.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 3:22 PM
Also, I'll be popping out again in a bit but will check back in later tonight.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 3:22 PM
Ah, yeah, you're right about Drinking Liberally, though the backyard at Zeitgeist is so big I can't see it being a problem. Union Square would in fact be closer to the Financial District; there's also North Beach and SOMA. I can go pretty much wherever.
Posted by Josh | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 3:54 PM
From whom did you hear that, Becks?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 3:54 PM
35: Mock my virtue, if you must, but I have a boyfriend and you don't.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 4:15 PM
I have a boyfriend and you don't.
I have a southern sense of what's appropriate to say in public. Maybe I have a boyfriend or maybe I don't.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 4:57 PM
49 - Your mom.
Ah, so, not much progress in the last few hours, then?
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 9:20 PM
Ok - 2 places near the financial district. Please pick one, boys. Bacchus Kirk at 925 Bush Street or Hyde Out at 1068 Hyde St. (Sorry - no links. Commenting from my phone.) If we meet in that part of town, I can do more like 7:30 and it will be closer for Saheli. Saheli - would that work for you?
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:12 PM
You can comment from your phone? Freakin' sweet. Where can I get me one a them?
Actually, I probably could do it from my phone, but teh interweb on the phone is teh expensive.
Posted by Jon McGee | Link to this comment | 04-26-06 10:51 PM
I have a southern sense of what's appropriate to say in public.
Sure you do, Mr. Hugecock.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 9:11 AM
Only my boyfriend gets to call me that.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 9:15 AM
Oh wow, you really shouldn't plan on me, b/c I really do have immovable obligations that may make me a giant flake. Between those two Bush Street slooks better, but can I suggest something in North Beach? (I know it's almost as tacky as the Financial District, but as a bridge gal I'm sentimentally attached to them) Vesuvio's or the recently shown to me by a native, Spec's? Both near Columbus and Broadway, I think Vesuvio's is 255 Columbus.
Posted by Saheli | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 10:51 AM
Oh never mind, Becks should be near Union Square. .hmm. . .
Posted by Saheli | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 10:51 AM
Yep, Union Square, please.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:13 PM