I'd like to make my donation contingent on a sincere effort on Emerson's part to seduce IA.
The question is, if that was really her, how long has she been a reader? If not a regular reader, how did she happen on that thread?
I would offer my doorless extra room, but my roommate has already double-booked our extra-space. Plus: I'm afraid of Paypal. Can I send a pitifully small check somewhere?
That's a question for John, who is probably getting one of those elderly person's cat naps.
I would offer my doorless extra room
You crawl in through the window, or what?
She's commented before (see the archives), but back when she was blogging. I wished I'd known about blogs back then.
She just says, "no door." She doesn't say, "wall."
That's no monkey, that's a tamarind.
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
(Not one of my best.)
(Not one of my best.)
Edgar! How's your cousin Poon?! Is he still making barely-legal fuck flicks?
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['Hadda ask.']
w-lfs-n, I'd explain the room without a door, but since I am not in a position to offer hospitality to Emerson, I would find further elaboration to be impolite.
Agree with JM in #4; not crazy about Paypal. If there's a drop box available, I will liberate the non-compliant tip jar from the closest Starbucks and forward the proceeds on to Emerson.
Jackmormon -- I'm having trouble understanding your self-correction in 17. Is it that you spelled "elaboration" correctly in 16 and wanted to make sure we recognized? Or are you pointing out that had you been writing auf Deutsch, the word which translated as "Elaboration" would have been capitalized? Please clarify.
"I'd like to make my donation contingent on a sincere effort on Emerson's part to seduce IA."
I'd like to remind you that John Emerson is my crazy uncle, which makes me his (at least potentially crazy) niece. We don't go in for that sort of thing here in the Big City.
We don't go in for that sort of thing here in the Big City.
You are clearly going to the wrong bars.
I'm not willing to take on any seduction obligations at this point. Maybe in my next life.
And my niece-seduction experience have all been bad.
The donations are entering the lowest-price ticket zone. Those tickets are highly restricted, but as soon as I find an intersection of the two curves I'll buy a ticket.
But someone has to tell me again when and where this event is, preferably also explaining what general area of NYC we're talking about.
As I understand, overnight housing not too nearby is available from annie, who's not going herself.
Excellent.
The info is here, John. I'll leave it to a New Yorker to tell you which part of the city that's considered to be.
My understanding of overnight housing is the same as yours.
John, add $20 on to the amount of donations in the hopper -- if I cannot between now and next week figure out how to give PayPal my money, I will hand it to you in person.
And also, public transportation to the event is pretty easy from any of the 3 major airports nearby, LaGuardia, JFK/Idlewild, and Newark. Getting there from any of these three by train alone would take 60 to 90 minutes and cost about 5 dollars. For either of the first two you could do it substantially faster and a bit more expensively with a taxi. When you know where you are flying to let me know, and I'll give you more specific directions. Or if you're flying in earlier than right before the event, figure out where you want to spend the day -- there are several nice museums around -- and I'll give you directions to there from the airport and from there to the event.
(Thinking about it, probably give preference to LaGuardia if the tickets exist, and secondarily to JFK/Idlewild.)
That's no monkey, that's a tamarind.
That's no tamarind, that's my wife.
I can't kick in until Friday, when I get paid, but I'll do it then for sure.
Niece-seduction experiences go here.
I saw a cheap $200 ticket and I'm trying to buy it. Donations 3/4 cover it. I'm "pending" and am worried that my address change will screw up the credit card. There were time restrictions and I ended up coming into Kennedy 3:27 pm Sun 11 and leaving Kennedy Wed 14 12:31 pm (noon).
I'm checking in with a few other non-unfogged NYC blog friends, where I might stay one or more of the nights.
Sounds good, John. Let me (us) know if you run into any complications.
Sounds like you don't need airport-to-event directions then. The closest subway stop for Old Town is 14th St. on the N/R or the 4-5-6.
Are the non-unfogged friends fogged?
Jeremy, the places I want to see while I'm there are mostly bookstores: Labyrinth at 536 W 112th and Oriental Culture at 13-17 Elizabeth Street. (Gotham and Strand look easy to find.)
Only if you accept Aristotelian logic.
The ticket confirmation just came through so everything's cool.
Labyrinth and Oriental culture are similarly easy to find. To get to Labyrinth, take the 1 to 110th St., get out, walk up Broadway to 113th, turn right. There it is. To get to Oriental Culture, take the N/R to Canal St., walk east on Canal a few blocks, turn right on Elizabeth, there it is. (The street address is 13, not 13-17. I think 17 is the suite number.)
I just looked at the NYC weather reports, which is in the 30-40 Fahrenheit range. So I won't be wearing my ethnic costume.
I should think "ethnic Minnesota" costumes would be pretty chill-resistant.
Yeah, but 30-40 degrees is warm. No joke.
Yeah I had that thought immediately after I posted 41. "Oh maybe I was not understanding him correctly."