One more time…
Commentor Abo Gato and her husband are visiting NYC from Albuquerque, and area resident Diana volunteered Ballaro, in the East Village, as a good place for a meet-up.
Confirmed so far: PurpleGirl, NHOJ, MattR (work permitting), RedDirtGirl, Katie5, Gary Malone, Psifighter (work permitting) and Brooklyn Lurker (after 7:30pm).
Directions to Ballaro at their link. From Diana:
Ballaro’s long and narrow; I’ll be at the back, where there is typically more space. Excellent coffee, excellent wine, excellent prosciutto (the awning identifies it as “Cafe Prosciutteria” which in Italian means a place that sells coffee and prosciutto, but which in American English means a restaurant named Prosciutteria, which, however, has not led them to alter the awning) usually quiet (some nights they have live music; I’ll check) and generally a good place.
MaximusNYC
I have something else to go to later, but I’ll try to swing by. I’ve managed to miss every other NYC meetup, so it’s about time I got to one.
IowaOldLady
I’m very jealous. Have a good time, everyone.
NotMax
Do they have free wi-fi?
Liveblogging it would be a BJ first. :)
MomSense
Have fun NYC BJers!
Diana
yes, they do have wifi, but it’s not always working…we’ll see.
I have actually scored a balloon — a white one, with paw prints in honor of Steve and his fellow cohorts of Balloon Juice pets. Come and find the balloon, everyone! See you there.
Dee Loralei
Y’all have a blast! I’m jealous! We need a Mid-South meet-up some day!
JPL
Have fun!
Tommy
@IowaOldLady: Same here. I once had a meet-up with folks I met online A strange bunch of folks and a nice group of folks. A motley group to be sure.
NotMax
BTW, just an acknowledgment that today marks the first primary (Texas) of the 2014 elections.
? Martin
Looks like everyone is colluding with the NSA:
This is the 2nd major security bug to be found in open source code. Probably safe to say the NSA has known about both of these for some time.
ranchandsyrup
Enjoy it, party people.
BruceFromOhio
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
Oh! And Happy Fat Tuesday!
Patricia Kayden
Hope y’all New Yorkers have a great time meeting, yapping and chowing down.
Tommy
Hey seems like I can post this here. Maybe the coolest video you will see this month. This year. His name is Danny MacAskill. He does stuff like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Fa5zAbP9w
If you have time, well try this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw
The video of him on his bike is only as good as the music and the visuals.
My family came here from the Isle of Skye back in the 1860s.
Tommy
@BruceFromOhio: Laissez les bons temps rouler.
I went around saying this all the time today. I actually say it not on days related to Mardis Gras.
NotMax
@Tommy
Could describe her casting on the spin-off series a Good Times Rolle role.
(Ouch.)
Tommy
@NotMax: If I am not mistaken she was a black women. The first to hold the role of a black women in a major sit com.
Roxy
@Tommy: You had me at Edinburgh and Isle of Sky. I saw the first one a couple of years ago. The second one is just as amazing as the first one. Thanks for posting this.
NotMax
@Tommy
Yes, she was African-American (the spin-off came from her playing the maid on Maude (which was also a spin-off).
Not the first on TV though to have a sitcom lead role*. That would be Diahann Carroll in Julia in 1968.
*A non-stereotypical black in mass media role. The first African-American woman to star in a TV series sitcom was way back in 1950, in Beulah (which had originated on radio). Ethel Waters and then Hattie McDaniel played the role, a servant (“the queen of the kitchen”) in a white household, on TV.
Roxy
@Tommy: Diahann Carroll. She starred in Julia (1968), one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role.
ETA: Oops. NotMax beat me to it.
Tommy
@Roxy: My family came here from Scotland. Oh I got stories cause we are letter writers. The stories are amazing. I read these stories and stunned.
PsiFighter37
Sorry friends – not going to be able to make it (out of work a bit late, and have some wedding things I need to circle up on this evening). I promise I will be there next time if I can…I feel like the amount of time sunk into wedding planning is only going to increase as the day draws nearer.
BruceFromOhio
@Tommy:
Oh I got stories cause we are letter writers.
Let the stories be told
They can say what they want
Let the photos be old
Let them show what they want
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock and roll hair
Let the good times roll
SiubhanDuinne
@Dee Loralei: Could you make it to Nashville with sufficient notice? I expect to be passing through in the next several weeks.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tommy:
My most favourite place on the planet. Have you ever visited the Ancestral Isle?
Belafon
@? Martin: “The NSA: Thinking evil thoughts so you don’t have to.”
I’m not the kind of person who spends his days thinking how evil other people can be. I have other things I’d rather be doing.
Tommy
@SiubhanDuinne: No I have not. I ponder that/this. Need to get there.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tommy: It is beautiful. It is magic.