8/31 - 9 p.m. - Soda Bar

sterlingguy

Subject: Will it help if I dress up as a giant Cardinal?

Cupcake writes: "Will it help if I dress up as a giant Cardinal?"

Yes. Yes it would. Guys dig bird costumes. It is Wesleyan's bird, as you know, and if you wear it tonight then I won't feel so silly wearing my brown bear suit (alafairnadia said I have to if I want to smoke cigars).

And the magic words are "Mocon Rave". Or: "Where were you sitting on Foss Hill during Spring Fling?". Or maybe: I LOVED Susan Lourie, too!

cupcake

Subject: Re: Will it help if I dress up as a giant Cardinal?

SterlingGuy wrote: Cupcake writes: "Will it help if I dress up as a giant Cardinal?"

Yes. Yes it would. Guys dig bird costumes. It is Wesleyan's bird, as you know, and if you wear it tonight then I won't feel so silly wearing my brown bear suit (alafairnadia said I have to if I want to smoke cigars).

And the magic words are "Mocon Rave". Or: "Where were you sitting on Foss Hill during Spring Fling?". Or maybe: I LOVED Susan Lourie, too!

I don't have the Cardinal suit yet. I'll have to knit it which will take considerable time, time during which I'm hoping he'll come around to my considerable charms. Or time during which I can acquire some charms. Whatever.

I've made notes of the magic words and will attempt to casually sprinkle them into conversation next time he is near.

candicissima

Cupcake wrote: I currently have a crush on a Weslyen guy '03. Maybe you can give me the magic words that will make him realize it is our destiny to go forth and make lots 'o lefty liberal babies.

Will it help if I dress up as a giant Cardinal?

I graduated from Wes '03. And I was editor of the yearbook! I probably know the guy and/or might have pics of him...there are a few of us running around the nabe I know.

And the magic words are "Mocon Rave". Or: "Where were you sitting on Foss Hill during Spring Fling?". Or maybe: I LOVED Susan Lourie, too!

Ugh..Mocon! I still don't miss that food!

sterlingguy

Subject: Mocon

Back in '92 I was their student manager. Crappy job, but it paid the phone bills to a girlfriend in Mexico. But their raves were pretty fun.

Yeah, the Wesleyan mafia is a wide-spread and well-oiled machine in our neighborhood and throughout Brooklyn. For better or worse, us liberal arts kids (Wes, Holyoke, Amherst, what have you) make good gentrifyers.

Back to tonight: seriously, will someone have a button or something? Or should I just walk around and ask: do you blog here often?

jayce

Subject: Re: Mocon

SterlingGuy wrote: Back to tonight: seriously, will someone have a button or something? Or should I just walk around and ask: do you blog here often?

i'll be easy to pick out at least. i have very short red hair. whenever i tell people that, they can pick me out from a mile away. i am a walking button. want to look for me? i'll be there pretty close to 9ish.

arielbl

Maybe a large banner with The Vent could be created for these occasions.

candicissima

Subject: Re: Mocon

SterlingGuy wrote: Back in '92 I was their student manager. Crappy job, but it paid the phone bills to a girlfriend in Mexico. But their raves were pretty fun.

Raves in Mocon? That's just...something I can't even imagine...

Back to tonight: seriously, will someone have a button or something? Or should I just walk around and ask: do you blog here often?

Or you can ask: "Have I run into you at El Carneviento before?"

cupcake

Cupcake wrote: I currently have a crush on a Weslyen guy '03. Maybe you can give me the magic words that will make him realize it is our destiny to go forth and make lots 'o lefty liberal babies.

Will it help if I dress up as a giant Cardinal?

I graduated from Wes '03. And I was editor of the yearbook! I probably know the guy and/or might have pics of him...there are a few of us running around the nabe I know.


We must talk!

jayce

Hey folks.
It was nice meeting so many of you last night at Soda. Who knew I had so many cool neighbors!

sterlingguy

Subject: last night

I heartily concur with Jayce's assessment. And thanks, Jayce, for bringing your red hair -- as you know, without it we would have been lost!

It was an honor to meet y'all!

bluedove

I'm so sad I had to miss it Please do it again soon so I can find who I've been spending all this valuable time talking to

sterlingguy

Subject: What we all look like

Oh, Bluedove, but you already do know what we all look like! EmilyM is a newscaster, alafairnadia is an orthodox Jew smoking a bowl, our fearless leader is a ping-pong star... and if you ever see a large brown bear strolling down the streets of Brooklyn, you know that is SterlingGuy!

carnivore

Sorry I didn't get to meet any of the newbies, but I didn't get out of work until about 11:30.

Thanks to daveb, candicissima, lucas, alafairnadia, and medusa for being hardcore and sticking it out! 8)

Not in the Dan Hoyt sense. :P

cupcake

I agree it was a great time. Special thanks to SterlingGuy and Jayce from rescuing me from the fate of wandering around Soda introducing myself to small groups of people as "Cupcake", which, let's face it, makes me sound like a Texas Cheerleader. I'll post a detailed account on my blog today because I don't get out much and I have to write about something.

Highlights? Brillant one-liners? Favorite over-heards?

It was truly life-changing to finally behold EmilyM and DaveB. I haven't been that close to celebrity since I saw Corey Feldman and his nipples in a theater downtown last month.

daveb

At this time, I'd like to offer up my deepest apologies for my all too frequent and repetitive imitations of the mad subway masturbater, last night. Sometimes I just gotta keep it real. 8)

kate

I am sorry I missed the good times, my intention was to make it but this lead to that and it just didn't happen. I also hope we do this again soon...

emily

Cupcake wrote: It was truly life-changing to finally behold EmilyM and DaveB.

I'm glad we lived up to our billing. People are sometimes surprised by how intimidating we are in real life.

bluedove

Subject: Re: What we all look like

SterlingGuy wrote: Oh, Bluedove, but you already do know what we all look like! EmilyM is a newscaster, alafairnadia is an orthodox Jew smoking a bowl, our fearless leader is a ping-pong star... and if you ever see a large brown bear strolling down the streets of Brooklyn, you know that is SterlingGuy!

Right...just wave hello to the painted skeleton in the funny hat

daveb

EmilyM wrote: [quote=Cupcake]It was truly life-changing to finally behold EmilyM and DaveB.

I'm glad we lived up to our billing. People are sometimes surprised by how intimidating we are in real life.

My Jesus pants can be blinding, I accept this as just another cross I have to bear as a passenger here on Spaceship Earth.

cupcake

daveb wrote: [quote=EmilyM][quote=Cupcake]It was truly life-changing to finally behold EmilyM and DaveB.

I'm glad we lived up to our billing. People are sometimes surprised by how intimidating we are in real life.

My Jesus pants can be blinding, I accept this as just another cross I have to bear as a passenger here on Spaceship Earth.

I believe Jesus wore a dress.

sterlingguy

Subject: re: Iosus

Not to be too provocative... but as the self-appointed default theologian of the Daily Heights crew, I have to ask that you decide WHICH Jesus we are talking about. The historic record is very unclear, and last I counted (from my research at the Seminary) there were at least dudes named Joshua (the real name, later changed through Greek mispellings) walking around curing the blind and turning water to wine (part-ay!).

Irregardless, I bet they all wore dresses. But if one of them comes again, I am sure they'll be ass-wrapped in Wranglers.

jayce

Subject: Re: re: Iosus

SterlingGuy wrote: ...Irregardless, ...

ugh, buddy... you had me in your corner on this debate until "irregardless." ack.

carnivore

Subject: Re: re: Iosus

jayce wrote: [quote=SterlingGuy]...Irregardless, ...

ugh, buddy... you had me in your corner on this debate until "irregardless." ack.
I once knew someone who would say "irregardless" on purpose in conversation with people he'd met as a sort of test to see if they'd correct him.
Dickish move, but kind of interesting...

cupcake

What's going on here? SterlingGuy at the Seminary? DaveB at the Monastary? Although I have to admit, DaveB's story about the Japanese monastary did sound an awful lot like Batman Begins...

daveb

Like I said, it was just a school attached to a monastary. Like monks who make cheese to support the place, there's a school there that supports a large posse of international students and pays the bills, completely separate, boring and without benefit of Jesus pants.

Aikido Shohei Juku

sterlingguy

Subject: Irregardless

Oy, this was a "dickish" move? I meant it as a self-effacing joke. I have to start using those emoticons. I will now retreat into my actual job and not assail anyone with my moves...

jayce

daveb wrote: Like I said, it was just a school attached to a monastary. Like monks who make cheese to support the place, there's a school there that supports a large posse of international students and pays the bills, completely separate, boring and without benefit of Jesus pants.

this all sounds so "Kung Fu The Legend Continues."

carnivore

Subject: Re: Irregardless

SterlingGuy wrote: Oy, this was a "dickish" move? I meant it as a self-effacing joke. I have to start using those emoticons. I will now retreat into my actual job and not assail anyone with my moves...

Not you- I meant the guy who would intentionally say it to see if people would correct him.

daveb

Cupcake wrote: [quote=daveb]Like I said, it was just a school attached to a monastary. Like monks who make cheese to support the place, there's a school there that supports a large posse of international students and pays the bills, completely separate, boring and without benefit of Jesus pants.

Aikido Shohei Juku

And that little boy grew up to be Ra's Al Ghul.

I'm not really feeling this. How about you move on to something else, huh?

jayce

i find this whole thread entertaining.
we are all like ships passing in the night today.
its like the meet up threw off the online mojo.