I’m still mostly on a blog vacay, but I thought I’d give a pic from the BJ Meet-Up. A surprisingly telegenic group of vituperative foul-mouthed hippies!
I had a great time and I’ll try to do one on the left coast sometime soon, I’ll be out there a fair amount this fall and spring.
It occurs to me that we’ve gotten everything right about the election — that demographics would play a key role and work to Democrats’ advantage, that Obama’s first debate didn’t doom civilization as we know it, that Nate Silver and Sam Wang were more likely to be right than Peggy Noonan and Michael Barone.
Face
OK….who’s who? Is that you in the background, Dug Jay?
Cris (without an H)
What’s the opposite of “sausage party?”
Bruuuuce
@Cris (without an H): Traditionally, “hen party” or similar.
Carnacki
LIEberal demon spawn! /rightwingnut
Schlemizel
From what I have read about lefties I am amazed you all have your cloths on & not a bong in sight!
Chris
I remember something you once told me
And I’ll be damned if it did not come true
20,000 roads, I went down, down down…
and they all led me straight back home to you
joeyess
Why don’t you try holding one in fly-over country, you elitist bastard.
JPL
More pictures, please. Since I live in the Atlanta area, I can only dream about a meet-up.
Metrosexual Manichean Monster DougJ
@joeyess:
When you rednecks start building large enough cities, we’ll start holding meet ups there.
Anoniminous
Also have to toss some kudos to the people at and the 700,000 volunteers at OFA.
Omnes Omnibus
@Metrosexual Manichean Monster DougJ: Chicago isn’t big enough for ya?
shortstop
What a pleasant- and happy-looking group of societal mooches. Hope you guys had fun!
Kane
Great smiles all around.
Patricia Kayden
Lovely photo!! Happy folks.
joeyess
@Metrosexual Manichean Monster DougJ: Ha ha ha ….. touche’
bodacious
Any chance the Portland OR crowd (including those lucky-duck legal tokers from Vancouver WA side) could hold a together? We can mooch just as well as those easties.
joeyess
I’ve been called an elitist bastard but I’ve never been called a redneck. And to think…. right after the re-election of America’s first African American president and the dirty, filthy, foul, racist, fuck-the-dog-whistle-campaign that was run against him, and his winning despite all of that. Just when you think you heard it all…… ya get called a redneck. Well, couple this with the Justin Bieber news and I have to say……. I’m just a little butt-hurt.
Neutron Flux
@joeyess: Living in the KC metro area, I am confident this is not the first time you have been called a redneck.
joeyess
@Neutron Flux: well, not by anyone around here. I’m a liberal atheist/ex rock and roller with a “I’m not a Republican” magnet on the back of my car. So, yeah. First time. As far as I know. No worries. I’ll just go out to mah porch and start a-whittlin’.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@joeyess: Not enough decadent enclaves in fly-over country?
Either fix that or send the Coastal Elites a travel guide.
/snark I’ve been to the decadent enclaves in Madison, Ann Arbor, Boulder, Santa Fe and Lawrence
Neutron Flux
@joeyess: I’ll join you. We can wear our gimme Seed Co hats, chew plug tobacco, and bitch about that elite right coaster Doug J.
lamh35
Hey, what a out the South?? Not all BJ live in the East or West coast. Jeez, the South gets no respect.
Omnes Omnibus
@Neutron Flux: Doesn’t DougJ live in the cousin-marrying part of New York?
joeyess
@Neutron Flux: Ayup…. that elitist, Metro-sexual DougJ can kiss mah *phootooey, ping! right in the spittoon* backside.
joeyess
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Lawrence. Now that’s a decadent enclave.
Jewish Steel
It would be just like us middle America bumpkins to wait for a coastal elite to organize a Baloon Juice meet-up for us.
blingee
“Nate Silver and Sam Wang were more likely to be right than Peggy Noonan and Michael Barone.”
Jesus titty fucking christ I hope you are being sarcastic by that “more likely” understatement. I would also hope you could just as easily have made that understated comment in Oct.
Paul in KY
@joeyess: Make sure you whittle a gun.
Paul in KY
@lamh35: I’ve asked about a Louisville/Cincinnatti area meetup, but I guess we’re too declasse.
Calming Influence
Who the fuck are you calling vituperative?
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
We’re just going to have to do our own. You, Raven, SIA, and I know there are a bunch more around these parts. We don’ need no steenkin’ Metrosexual Manichean Monsters to have a BJ meetup Southern Style.
Calming Influence
Which is the motto on my family crest, by the way. In Latin, of course.
Calming Influence
The emblem on the crest is a snake dragging its heels.
eldorado
i’d drive over for a lawrence meetup. maybe even austin.
eta: semi-proper grammar
wrb
It’s a three hour drive to the nearest town with a Best Buy or a shopping mall so I’m thinking there will be no meet-up.
PurpleGirl
Yes, a good time was had by all. Thanks for the picture, DougJ.
Felonius Monk
And I’ll bet —
Ted & Hellen
Wow. Big turnout.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
How about Cleveland, we poor, miserable, sports-cursed, LeBron-less buggers who ACTUALLY PUT THE PREZ OVER THE TOP, eh?? What about us?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Paul in KY: I keep hoping Zandar will help with that. But we are, indeed, déclassé it would seem.
James E. Powell
I’m in Los Angeles and will go get a beer with pretty much anyone any time. Call it a meet-up if you want, but I just like socializing.
karma gyurme
Thank you for the gratuitous Gram Parsons reference.
Splitting Image
I wonder if there are enough BJers in Toronto to warrant a Canuckistan meetup.
Another Halocene Human
@lamh35: Hey, what a out the South?? Not all BJ live in the East or West coast. Jeez, the South gets no respect.
Don’t worry, we earned it.
I am so fucking butthurt about this election it’s not funny. At least Obama took Florida. Thank you Jesus.
Splitting Image
Also, I call shenanigans on the photo. Everyone knows there are no women on the internets.
Another Halocene Human
You know, we could have a meetup … on Skype.
Just sayin’.
Omnes Omnibus
@Splitting Image: I have seen pics on the Internet that leave no doubt.
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hippies.
SectarianSofa
Dallas, anyone? Yeah, nevermind — I wouldn’t want to come here either. I’d drive to Austin. There would have to be a lot of people, though, so I could slink into the background.