I have my son Saturday through Tuesday, so I don't know if I can pull it off, but I'll try to get a sitter.
What about earlier in the day than our usual after-work hours? I'd be happy to gather somewhere (even Fresh Salt) and sit in the sun, wearing sunblock.
Weather for the weekend is cloudy with showers, so outside might not work. But late afternoon sounds perfectly reasonable.
Afternoon or evening should fit my usual frenetic social schedule.
Christ, don't everybody comment at once!
Yeah, I was thinking afternoon would make more sense, as my hosts are throwing a housewarming/10 year [poly] anniversary that night.
Also, I guess Light Rail Tycoon and me and my non-Unfogged friend are having lunch on Friday somewhere in the gritty megalopolis of Portland, Maine. Others are welcome to join us if they exist, and are not squamous, non-Euclidian abominations that creep out of the mist on slimy rocks to do the bidding of the Great Old Ones.
I'm a free lancer, is that okay?
I'm going to be in San Francisco, so unfortunately I'll be missing it. But given who the guest of honor is, and recent events, surely you want to do it at Fresh Salt. I walked by the site yesterday and there were maybe 200 protesters, tops and at least a hundred cops.
I'm in the claws of the swimming-industrial complex at lunchtime -- I could maybe get back downtown around four? Does four sound like a time?
NY isn't as densely populated a locus of commenters as it used to be.
I'm in the claws of the swimming-industrial complex
Best euphemism ever for sex with Ogged.
And really, there are so many. Resetting the Tivo, shaving your collarbone, expressing the ol' irremediable sadness...
4 sounds good to me. I mean, if it's just me and LB, we can geek out about SM Stirling books the whole time.
Given what happened the last time I went to a protest while on vacation, I think I will be sitting this one out though.
I will be there, but I have to leave at 5 to pick up the kid.
Seem to have picked up a cold that I'd rather not share; will see how generous I feel in a few hours.
I'll be there at 4 with a generous cold! (Actually, I'm probably no longer contagious.)
11: I was one of the 900 March 20, 2003 arrestees in Chi-town.
I'm heading in to Manhattan now, on a liquor run for my friends' party, but I will be there at 4, or maybe earlier if I'm bored.
I'll be there.
I am 15 minutes out from Whitebearsville, or I'd be there.
If today were next Friday, I'd be there.
I am going to a steak house for dinner tonight for my birthday, because we have a gift card. I am looking at the menu, and all of their cocktails are kind of new-age girly. (I like all kinds of girly drinks but not at a steak house!)
I very much want to order a side car but will take a martini. They definitely have cointreau, but I see no brandy or vermouth in any of the other drinks. I will be very sad if the bar tender can't make one.
If today were next Friday, I'd be there if I were Stanley.
20 should have been marked as OT, but it does include a discussion of alcohol.
If I were Stanley, today would be next Friday.
NY isn't as densely populated a locus of commenters as it used to be.
Yeah, these days Anchorage is the place to be.
I'm at the meetup! I'm at the meetup! I'm... oh, no, yeah, no, I'm not.
I'm still not at the meetup, but I did just get invited to go later on to sample some moonshine. Which is just like a meetup.
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Our shop, Lilac Wine, is opening at this very moment. I neglected to bring my laptop for music, but then I remembered that I had (what I think is called) "The All or Nothing Mix" from (I believe) k-sky on my phone. So that's our soundtrack. Thanks, k-sky!
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This sign was posted on the way to the meetup, with the arrow pointing the right direction and everything. Sadly, it was not true.
That said, I had a fine time with Natilo, JM, Upetgi, and LB (who had photographed the same sign). I had to leave early; for all I know they're still there, drunk and preparing for karaoke and/or knifefighting.
Miss meetup or spend a few days in SF. Hmmh, long walk from near downtown around the peninsula and out a few miles past the Golden Gate in absolutely perfect weather, then wedding stuff. Worth it. Only draw back is wearing a damn suit tomorrow. FIrst time in years.
god, guys are such pussies about clothes. just imagine walking around in 4-inch heels before you come bitching about the indignity of being forced to wear a perfectly comfortable, acceptable outfit, which requires zero thought on your part. consider all the variables a woman faces in deciding what to wear to a wedding.
Plus, today had all those free concerts.
how do you think I felt when I went to a fancy restaurant in savannah where they were also having a wedding (it was a restored historical house, reasonably large), and I realized I was wearing the same dress as the bride.
she didn't go for white, obviously, it was floor length grey, with flowers. I think I managed to avoid her seeing me at all, but fucking hell. I felt like the world's biggest asshole.
just imagine walking around in 4-inch heels
Nobody's forcing you to wear the cruel shoes.
Not too many injuries sustained in the inevitable knife fight.
And then you sent Natilo off to get busted on Brooklyn Bridge?
Nah, he decided to make this vacation a non-getting-arrested-at-protests vacation for a change.
Not a dramatic meetup at all, although at a couple of points I was laughing hard enough that it degenerated from actual laughter to just making strangled snorting noises.
33: Mumble il faut souffrir pour être belle mumble.
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Mike Konczal ...does a lil' aggregatin' and collatin' some theory behind Occupy Wall Street, and engages. Jodi Dean, Doug Henwood, David Graeber. (Direct Action and History of Debt are waiting to be read.)
(I agree with the anarchists more than most people would believe. They just have some counter-productive starting assumptions and rules. There are no rulz for anarchists. Gracious Be.)
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From the comments to Konzal's post (his links are also worth following)
Second, I think the kind of rhizomatic, carnivalesque activism that has characterized a lot of the left since the 90s ignores two of the central aims of the left: the equitable (maybe equal) distribution of material wealth and the extension of popular control into areas of civil society traditionally organized through raw domination (the workplace, the family, etc). The redistributionist project can only really be carried out through outright violence that contemporary anarchists seem unprepared to engage in (expropriation of land, factories, etc)
Rob Wohl, former anarchist
(and this will be all today. The old blogs like CT are getting kinda old, aren't they.)
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Okay, Bostonians, we need a meetup. I sent an e-mail to thsoe whose e-mails I know, but I don't have NW's, and I don't have a new one for arthegall. I need an excuse to try this stuff.
I predict neb will take issue with their categorizations.
Yes, thanks to everyone who met up! I had a great time.
Did stop by the Occupy Wall St. park yesterday. Nothing in particular was going on. Lotsa hippies. I've been trying to explain to people here in NYC that a lot of "Wall St." is actually in New Jersey nowadays.
I'll be leaving my friends' house soon in search of Moishe's falafel. We had falafel at Oasis in Williamsburg yesterday. Good falafel, only partly compromised by the hipsters. It was actually kinda funny how many of them there were, although there were certainly a lot of people there who needed a good smack in the mouth to wipe the stupid expression off their face.
Last night, my son hit a new personal best in picky eating. He announced that he only would eat the outside of the falafel.
47: You should probably have another kid and hope they can work out an arrangement for falafel eating. Apparently, my mom and her sister had a thing with pizza: one of them refused to eat the tops; the other refused to eat the bottoms. Worked out splendidly.
We just gave him something else.
A thick ear?
43: outright violence that contemporary anarchists seem unprepared to engage in
I know a lot of current anarchists who would agree with that critique 100%. There are a bunch of received truths still active in anarchist circles that we got from the New Left which need to be jettisoned, a.s.a.p.
Anarchist participation at OWS seemed haphazard and minimal, although perhaps a lot of people were still in jail when I was there.