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NYC Barbe-meet for all you lazy bastards who never show up

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14:48 / 20.02.03

When? Where? How?

16:48 / 20.02.03

Ack, pft, I'm not lazy, I'm a spazz. Here's the reasons I've flaked in the past:

1) I have barely enough time and money to spend on my girlfriend, and isn't there an age issue? Several of us are too young to hang out in bars.
2)I'm terrified that you other New Yorkers will be hipper than me -- I know several of you are Billyburgers and in this town if you're not ultra-hip or mobbed up you might as well be wearing white Reeboks and an acid wash mini-skirt and grooving to O Town.
2a) Sometimes when I'm not hiding behind my keyboard I turn into this really shameful old skool Loisida curmudgeon. It's not entirely voluntary.

If you're willing to cut me some slack on these ends I'd take a chance on my brittle ego and dusty wallet. Could do a movie tomorrow night, I think, but it's hard to plan further in advance than that.

Whatever happened with those Hunter Thompson/Bill Gibson signings?

17:08 / 21.02.03

Hey, I'm also not old enough to get into bars. That's why I always recommend a different venue. Like...the lobby of the Citicorp/Citigroup Centre or alt.coffee at 137 Avenue A.

What happened at the book signings? Books got signed.

Actually i was at the Thompson one for only 5 minutes but Enamon was there for the whole ordeal. He tells me some guy passed out, Hunter was an hour late, hopped up on alcohol and, possibly, coke. He signed books and stuff happened.

At the Gibson reading/question-taking/signing there were a few stupid questions asked, a few very good questions asked and books were signed.

Uhm.. that's all I can say right now. So.. any ideas?

Matthew Fluxington

19:05 / 21.02.03

Well, I don't really live in NYC anymore, though I am in town frequently. I've got a few good reasons for avoiding meet-ups...

1) It's just a pain in the ass for me. I can't stay out too long, cos I'm a slave to MetroNorth's schedule.

2) I'm only really interested in meeting up with people who I have a pre-existing relationship with on the boards - I'm just not that interested in meeting lurkers and such. But don't be offended: It's not you, it's me.

19:05 / 21.02.03

That's what I mean -- teenager germs, ugh! No, I kid, I know you're about to be 21.

I'll be moving around the 1st of March. Anyone want to help? It would be a fucking unique Gathering, nothing those London toffs have ever done. C'mon, it'll be fun. I'll buy ye sodi pop.

I kid! Ouch! I kid!

alt.coffee at 137 Avenue A.

I grew up at 151 Avenue A, at the corner of 10th street. I think there's a burrito place there now. Cheap one, too. I could give you a walking tour of all the places where I got in fistfights -- I think they're all expensive restaurants and tattoo galleries now.

19:08 / 21.02.03

Um, there's also Kristina's Kitchen, where Allen Ginsberg used to hold court. On 1st and, like, 12th, I think. We could have brunch some Sunday, like regular gangsters.

We're not offended, Flux... would it help if we offered you a Steely Dan bootleg or something?

19:33 / 21.02.03

So then I guess the only questions which remain are: When? and.. Who else wants to meet up?

22:00 / 21.02.03

No fooling, Lionheart, I'd love to put faces and hairstyles to some of the names but my "whens" are very hard to work with right now. Maybe end of March/beginning of April?

But let's hear from some of the other New Yorkers around. Where youse douchebags at?

03:06 / 22.02.03

The burrito place is San Loco. Mmmm. San Loco.

But, I'll just for the hell of it plug this again. My friend's band, and they're actually good, are playing the Mercury Lounge Wednesday night. www.angel13.com.

The Mercury Lounge is on Houston and Ave. A. It is, however, 21+.

However, I think the Dream House, on Church btwn Franklin and White, would be a way cooler place to meet. (Dream House: http://www.melafoundation.org/)

07:41 / 22.02.03

Isn't the important thing to declare clearly and uniquivocably

WHERE
WHEN

set it for a time in near but not too near future
make it fairly accessible on transit
see who shows up
commit to this act repeatedly on some sort of semi-regular basis
and there is possibility of creating some sort of loose knit
Barbelith "community" in NYC

blessings

07:52 / 22.02.03

btw.... i personally (not that anyone knows me yet really or anything) am not free until sometime in march. is suggesting something like the 23rd of each month at some location too forward (and cheesy with the 23rd thing thrown in)?

18:42 / 24.02.03

I'm indeed a flaky New Yorker, mostly for the same reasons given by Qalyn above. But thisMcSweeney's related event that sounds weird enough to go to.(Barbe-thread on McSweeney's)

HOW TO GENERATE A WINNING CHARACTER

(more specifically: Dungeons, Dragons, and other Role Playing Games)

by

RHIAN ELLIS (female 6th-level magic-using novelist) discussing her Player-Character crushes;

J. ROBERT LENNON (male novelist-illusionist, Master Trickster-level) reading "Four Thousand," the story of one woman's plight in the house of gamers;

FRED H. NICOLAUS (human paladin game master), inviting America's children to the planet known as Abantey;

JOHN SELLERS (lawful neutral freelance writer, armor class -2) recounting the historical rise and tumble of the 20-sided die; and

JOEL STEIN (half-elven magazine columnist andknower of the Thieves' Cant) searching for traps in a Los Angeles hotel room with Elijah Wood.

With appearances by:

David GUION & Michael HANDELMAN, experienced campaigners,

The Dungeon Master known as CHUNG,

And GABE SORIA and STEVE BURNS performing the original song "D&D Woman."

TANKARDS of ale available from a full bar, if by "tankard" you mean "glass" and by "ale" you mean "whiskey."

Please note: dressing as a wizard or thief is not required.This is not a Renaissance Faire, but merely:

Little Gray Book Lecture No. 17: HOW TO GENERATE A WINNING CHARACTER

Wednesday, March 5, 2002, 8 PM
Galapagos Art Space (Back Room)
70 North Sixth Street, between Kent and Wythe
L Train to Bedford Avenue
(718) 782-5188

15:24 / 26.02.03

I have class Wednesday night. I mean, I'm pretty classy most of the time (white Reeboks notwithstanding), but on Wednesday night my sense of class demands that I attend class until 10pm.

But youse guys should go. In fact, what if we skipped the lecture and just played D&D? You know you want to.

Matthew Fluxington

15:38 / 26.02.03

If you have any desire for me to show up at anything (and it's all about me, obviously), you really ought to try to plan something during the day.

16:04 / 26.02.03

See, Flux is completely night-blind - after dusk, he just starts to walk into traffic and bump into trash and it's really not fun to see at all...

Okay, how about some Friday between now and June, we go to Guggenheim and sit through all 5 Cremaster movies at once? I'll take off from work for that, I guess.

16:53 / 26.02.03

Next Wednesday I have stuff to do. But next Friday is the 2600 meeting so we can meet up then.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

21:59 / 26.02.03

Well, at some point between April and June, Genre City #1 will go to press and I plan on taking over somewhere swank (unofficially) and, well, everyone here in the tri state area is definitely invited. Todd, I ought to be at that McSweeney's gathering right now, but p. 22 lists away on Photoshop as we speak and to it I am committed.

22:07 / 26.02.03

I still say either karaoke in Chinatown or this ILA lecture at Columbia on literacy in Andean South America.

I can't believe no one else is interested!!

01:53 / 27.02.03

The Cremaster movies thing sounds good to me. We can fit them in before 5pm can't we? I have work then.

Matthew Fluxington

18:26 / 27.02.03

I'll pass on Cremaster. If you want to know why, just go over to the art forum and check the Matthew Barney thread.

I'm thinking about seeing a few movies on Saturday - Citizen Ruth at MoMA's theatre in Gramercy Park at 1 PM, Far From Heaven at a theatre on E. 12th street in the afternoon, and Movern Callar at some tiny theatre in the village at 9 PM.

Does any of that sound good to anyone?

13:31 / 28.02.03

The Cremaster thing was simply Flux-bait, sir, which you promptly took. Next I was going to invite you to the Ryan McGinley thing and see how apoplectic you'd go over him....

14:04 / 28.02.03

Ooh, ooh, let me try!

Aside from Mark Waid's run on Captain America, Alan Moore is the greatest thing that ever happened to comics!

14:05 / 28.02.03

What about karaoke at the ILA lecture?

15:26 / 28.02.03

Yes! In Quechua!

18:34 / 03.03.03

Lionheart, you started this thread. Set a time and place and YOU show up for sure and it will gain momentum.

04:08 / 04.03.03

Okay. I know that I'll be in Manhatten on Friday for the 2600 meeting. More info at ww.2600.com. Click on the meetings link and find New York City.

I'm obviously available for anything else.

Including the whole Cremaster film thingie.

04:23 / 04.03.03

I think Lionheart's tried that before, Caleigh. He's trying to shame us into showing up this time.

17:07 / 04.03.03

Yes, yes I am.

And for all you tourists out there, here's a short newbie guide to nyc2600 meetings..

http://rtf.kracked.com/2600.html

I'm in a few pics over there. You could play "Spot Lionheart".

11:57 / 05.03.03

Well, if there was a place and time designated, and it was on some regular basis (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) I would show up if at all possible. But I guess for now I will just have to hope that I will spontaneously bump into people from here as I go about my daily life. Oh, wait, I couldn't recognize the people from here even if we were standing beside each other.

16:23 / 05.03.03

Well, the 2600 meeting is on the first friday of each month.

Or we could make up or own schedule.

02:14 / 09.03.03

So I'm guessing that none of you showed up?

11:55 / 09.03.03

I work Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, nights and I don't know the first thing about hacking.

yawn - thing's buddy

13:50 / 10.03.03

Jeez, get it together you guys!

20:57 / 11.03.03

NYC is too hateful a town for successful Barbemeets, though Staten Island, where Lionheart lives, is a bit more Barberific.

23:06 / 11.03.03

First, you don't need to be a hacker to attend the 2600 meetings.

Second, the monastery is a cool place. I've been there this past fall with a friend of mine. The pics are up somewhere on the net. There was a fire there a few weeks back, on the second floor. The fired epartment people think that it was some teenagers who got frunk and didn't know what they were doing.

There's also a hospital called "Sea View Hospital" that has a shit load of abandoned buildings right by it. Plus the soil around it has a very high magnesium content. It's one of only 6 places like it in the world. All the plants there are "special" because they've geneticall evolved to survive in that type of soil.

There was also a girl's orphanage that burnt down a few years ago.

Also, if you dare risk trespassing charges, there is Vanderbilt's tomb to explore in the Moravian cemetery. There are also supposed to be at least 2 abandoned cemetaries on the island.

So, if oyu want to drag yourselves to the Island then no problem. I'm sure we can find something to do.

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