Are you in town, you bastard?

I was for the show, beeotch.

You dumbass. We could have hung out.

You don't call. You don't write.

*sniff*

Wait - you were in town, too, Cala? WTF?

Cala don't do meetups.

I wasn't in town. But I coulda been.

Cala met w-lfs-n.

You don't call. You don't write.

Drunk text messages must count as some hybrid of the two.

ogged, look, here's how it normally goes around here.

Random commenter, somewhere in the basement of the thread: I might be coming to Big Unfogged Meetup Town sometime in the next month or three.
Unfogged bloggers: Quick, three seahs of fine flour and let us put up a post to find a date and location!
Cala: Hey I'm going to the APA! It's in SF the first weekend in April.
ben: Cool, we should have a meet-up.
[crickets]

Why would I pursue a meet-up when the best evidence showed no one was interested?

But we could be getting drunk together! And text messaging each other from across the table!

Cala, I'd totally meetup with you. You just have to email one of the bloggers unless you're meetuping in a city with a good meetup infrastructure already in place. Those SF people don't have their shit together.

Cala, I'm hazy on the details, but I remember being convinced that it was all your fault.

Cala met w-lfs-n.

Lies.

Cala, I apologize again. The APA totally snuck up on me. I wasn't really aware that it was the weekend it was until about the day prior. You know I wanted to have a meetup—to meet you. Please, baby, can't we give it another shot?

Cala met somebody, didn't she? If it wasn't w-lfs-n, who was it? Weiner?

I'm pretty sure it was the Apostate.

No problem, ben. I just didn't get into SF early enough and so missed the day you made it.

Ok, it's coming back to me now. I expressed interest in a meetup, and then Cala maliciously expected me to take the initiative, so rather than emailing me to say "Hey, I'm going to be in town!" nothing happened. I'm brimming with resentment just thinking about it again.

Note, I don't actually have posting powers on the blog. You blogger. Me commenter. And two of the myriad bloggers knew I was coming to SF.

I blame everyone but myself.

But if you're near enough to NY to show up on a random day, what's wrong with either next Tuesday, or a day of your own choosing? We're mostly very good about that (except for swampcracker, who showed up on a weekend which means no Becks, and no me, and that weekend no one else was around either.)

Left coast people are useless.

Those SF people don't have their shit together.

Left coast people are useless.

I sense a theme. And perhaps a blogputsch.

21: You'll laugh but thus far every single NY meetup has happened on a day where I have been out of town or out of the country.

Poor planning on your part. But give us a heads up when you're going to be in NY, or come in for the sole purpose of drinking with us. (If you bring shivbunny, we can all talk about his plans for beating up Apo!)

his plans for beating up Apo

I move like a cat.

He moves like a 200lb guy who plays with dynamite for a living.

Apo spends a lot of time napping in patches of sun with one foot draped over his nose.

Slowly?

A 200lb Canadian, though.

Well, at least we're in the same weight class. I would think playing with dynamite would entail moving veeeery slowly.

Until you light the fuse, at which point a certain nippiness becomes appropriate.

Plus, Apo might bring the mullet. What would shiv do in the face of that fearsome hairstyle? Pray that it passed over him, that's what.

Quick, three seahs of fine flour

Now there's ya some quality scriptural allusion right there.

Actually, I am assured dynamite is very safe, that it can't blow up accidentally and that there's no reason for me to worry, baby.

I will email everyone next time, I promise.

I would think playing with dynamite would entail moving veeeery slowly

Maybe not dynamite, but nitroglycerine, definitely.

You flew into NYC just to see the Serra show, art fag?

I travelled to NYC just to see the Serra show, yes, you bearded 'mo. It's not like those things are easy to move.

So what's the show like? I have this feeling that I would love Serra, but I've only seen his work in photographs, not in person.

For my money, I think the Serras at Dia:Beacon are better but the MoMA show has a lot more works. Also, I'm not usually a fan of audio guides but the MoMA one is really good (it's narrated by Serra himself) and free. I did each of the galleries twice -- first on my own and then with the audio guide.

And, for those of you in California, there's a great Serra at the Gap headquarters at Two Folsom Street (free and open to the public).

And if there's even a whiff of rain, see the sculpture garden first.

And, if you're playing tourist, consider the Top of the Rock/MoMA combination pass. If you're going to do any of the big buildings in NYC, do Top of the Rock and not the Empire State Building. The ESB sucks ass.

Those SF people don't have their shit together.

MOST of those SF people don't have their shit together. Hmph.

Perhaps some sort of discipline and reward system is in order.

I should go back to the Serra show to do the audio guide. My personal experience involved zooming around with my right eye really close to the walls making car-acceleration sounds. I am five.

Perhaps some sort of discipline and reward system is in order.

The reward last time everyone flaked was to see the Heebie-ass live and in person. I don't know if we can get a more motivating incentive than that.

I've only seen pictures. Is it magnificent?

There's always the discipline side.

You'll have to come to the next meetup she attends to find out.