I don't know any commenters who live in the city of New Hampshire.
We're just doing our best to prepare you for a Boston meetup to be filled with little bitches.
I was going to make a "New Hampshire is East Coast" joke, but I just checked and it has 18 whole miles of coastline.
I'll be in Charleston SC around then, but no time to go north.
2 I've heard of people going Back East to St Louis.
Get up, get get get down
New Hampshire is an east coast joke in your town.
Is Nashville the place with the Parthenon? You'd be foolish to meet elsewhere.
7: No, that's Athens, which is in Georgia. You know, one of the countries that Putin has invaded.
I've been to both Parthenons and the one in Nashville was nicer.
I just right now got one of those "This is an important message about your credit" calls from a Nashville number. I'll stop now, Nashville telemarketer.
That's because to see the good bits of the original Parthenon you have to go to London. You know, in Ontario.
Where in NH? In the SE (Greater Boston metro area, Seacoast) or somewhere else?
Barbara Harris rocking the Parthenon in a scene that I still find very affecting.
In searching for that I came across this awkward clip of her accepting an Emmy in 1967 while apparently under Warren Beatty breakup-induced sedation.
You know, in Ontario
Which is in remotest eastern Oregon. Inconvenient, but worth the trip.
I would be all about a New Hampshire meetup, but I won't be around until July.
12: Aunt Betty's. My control over the itinerary is as vague as my grip of downeast geography... right, the Dwarf Lord says " "she's just over the border and you can bus into Boston in 40 minutes." Which I still don't know where.
I will likewise miss you by three weeks or so. Looking ahead, though: clew, you're still in Seattle, right? Charlie and I have made preliminary rumblings about catching a game at Safeco this summer if he's out there. Anyone else in Seattle?
17: If it's 40 minutes, it has to be Nashua-ish.
The NYC commentariat, while small, is pretty easy. Name your evening, and Fresh Salt is your oyster.
(Come to think, Barry? We should have a sendoff evening before you leave for your job as Imperial Librarian of Arrakis.)
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Speaking of meetups, I'm in Washington DC in early May. If anyone is around there.
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The NYC commentariat, while small, is pretty easy.
Perfect combination, really.
21: Would love to meet you. Have someone throw up a front page post a week or two in advance?
"Down east" refers specifically to (part of) Maine. For NH you can say "you know, up 95 or whatever".
12: Manchester or Portsmouth, of course.
I will announce a date for Fresh Salt as soon as the planners have planned.
And, re Seattle, I am in the middle, and with advance coaxing we might persuade NickS to make the trip.
19: it's the bus to Nashua but only just over the border? Which suggests it's in the catchment of a Boston meetup anyway
Talking of which, X. Trapnel on Tuesday night? With that pseud he is practically obligated to meet in some MacLaren Ross pub like the Pillars of Hercules
I don't even know that I could make this putative meetup, but sometimes I'm in a bar and I think, this is a place with plenty of seating and food and alcohol that is more conveniently located than Fresh Salt. There was one recently that was sadly lost to the recesses of my mind, but others include: B-Bar and Grill, near the Broadway Lafayette stop, and La Caverna, where the food is not exactly amazing, but is fine, and which has tons of seating and is impressively quiet until late at night when it turns into more of a dance venue, I understand. Plus you're surrounded by plastic boulders and cave paintings. Just throwing that out there.
I'll show up anyplace, pretty much. Fresh Salt's major virtue is that it's reliably not awful, but there's no reason not to go someplace else. Of the two you mention, B-Bar is a better location for me, but not enough that I have a strong opinion. Tons of seating and impressively quiet sounds very good.
Selfish hijacking: Pittsburgh people I haven't spoken to already, I canceled our spring break trip there and am taking the girls to Cleveland next weekend instead. If there are any Cleveland people who would like to meet us, I'm game. We'll try Pittsburgh this summer when the girls can meet the Rothlets and ride an incline (funicular? I forget whether you have a different word) and I'll let you know.
Have fun in Cleveland. I hear it's nice.
35: We were at our local historical museum today and Mara was fascinated with the little model train-type reproductions of the ones that used to be here.
We only have two left. Only one of them is near a bar.
Talking of which, X. Trapnel on Tuesday night? With that pseud he is practically obligated to meet in some MacLaren Ross pub like the Pillars of Hercules
Ooops, the business trip is actually now Wednesday/Thursday, not Tuesday/Wednesday. But Wednesday night would work, if anyone's up for it. I've never been in London before, so I'm fine with going somewhere for the sake of pseudonymous propriety.
Business trip? Does that mean you're employed in .at?
I am an independent contractor, who just happens to have a single SF-based client. (And that client has a customer in London.)
I certainly can't make weds and thurs because I will be in Yorkshire
20 I would love to have a sendoff meetup. I would have requested one myself but my departure is likely about a month away and I've been holding out hope someone from outside NYC would come through and request one. Unfortunately I will almost definitely be gone by the time clew is in town so perhaps sooner rather than later?
I'm sorry I won't meet you but you surely should have a sendoff!
44: if I said Bradford would you understand?
Whitby meetup! In the cemetery on the hillside with the weathered headstones and the sign informing people that Dracula is not buried there. Preferably during a rainstorm. Bring your own knives.
Bradford seems to have settled into a role as the Detroit of England in recent years. Every time I see a story about how bad things are in England, it's about Bradford. Racial strife, unemployment, stately buildings sadly decaying, deadly sports stadium disasters, serial killers, birth defects, etc.
Whitby meetup! In the cemetery on the hillside with the weathered headstones and the sign informing people that Dracula is not buried there. Preferably during a rainstorm. Bring your own knives.
I will be there.
I now have a green light from the Imperial Library of Arrakis and I'm being asked to give a departure date (yay!) so perhaps we should set a date for a NYC meetup. In general, Wednesdays are best for me but I'm flexible.
21: I could probably make a DC meet-up in early May. Remind me closer to the date, and I'll put something up on the front page.
What about not this Wednesday but the one after -- April Fools Day? Jackm? Tia? Flip? Blandings? Anyone else in NY I'm forgetting? (Teraz, if you're around?)
That works for me. What about the other regulars (irregulars and lurkers most welcome!)?
49 fills me with longing. Forks just isn't the same.
So, anyone up for a last-minute London meetup near King's Cross (or somewhere easily reachable via tube from there by someone who's never been to London before), tomorrow (Wednesday) night?
If nobody's around to meet up you could try and cross the interdimensional boundary to Valhalla.
Should this get a bump with LB's 54 added and then we can wait till the regular reprobates have chimed in?