...at least, they will be when we throw them at you! So, for those who are interested and in New York City, there will be the First Annual Awl Commenters' Bawl tonight. Info follows, if you know where to look.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
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I'll just have to leave my little postcard on teh tumblrz. :(
Who will be in LA drinking alone, sadly packing up boxes full of dirty dishes? This guy.
(I'm moving upstairs to an apartment with a dishwasher this weekend!)
Is it silly to ask if there's a critical mass of folks in Boston that could stage a fake one of these?
No, not silly. A little late for this evening, but not silly at all.
I'll try to plan one the next time I'm home!
Someone else assumed ringleader duties. Yes!
There's definitely a few others. (As for tonight, I actually already have plans to go out, by some sort of miracle. Maybe I will just pretend I'm at an Awl party.)
Also garge was maybe collecting email addresses a while back, but I don't know if anyone else sent one except for me.
We could probably go back to the Coakley-Brown posts and figure who is one of us. On second thought, let's not revisit that debacle..
Yes please on the Boston Bawl! I'll get my email to garge soon.
Boston Bro-awl! With Awling and Icing!
This is a wicked n00b question, but who is this garge of whom you speak?
@boyofdestiny: Here, I found the posts where we were discussing it before: http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/keep-those-comments-coming#comment-100432
Much obliged. Go Cs.
I'm in. Who's on for next week?
Well, I should be in, though not much use for organizing purposes.
@boyofdestiny: Not for nothin', but having met garge tonight (yays!), she should really be called gorge(ous). No joke!
True story: Mantooth is loverly, and clearly philanthropic!
Also a true story: I strongly considered arriving early and stealing her name tag, masqueradingly capitalizing on her first class commenter cachet until I was discovered (at which point I would flee into the night like charlatan cinderella)!
And, finally, Boston people who haven't emailed me yet: aka.garge @ gmail, and I will use all of the technology at my disposal to synchronize our watches and compasses.
The good news is that it looks like an All Boston Awl Bar Team is forming! So if you are interested, do send an email. The bad news is I am getting spammed, so I have to go dig out the sage and phone my shaman.
Email sent! Good luck with the spam. I am so awesomely tech-savvy that I put NOT SPAM in the subject line so you wouldn't auto-delete.
Pics or it didn't happen
There better be pics! Also, someone think of me and pour a little of your white wine on the rocks out on the street. I will be there in spirit discretely checking all the guys packages and then later being sloppy drunk.
I so want pics...but without any ID. I want play "guess the commentator".
I'm gonna photoshop myself into them! (actually I'll just sob quietly here in metro Washington)
Have fun everyone!
@hockeymom: oooh! yeah! the next awl contest!!!
god knows they've been stealing from the change bowl for smokes and the damn thing's empty.
I probably have to work late tonight but if I can catch a gay taxi in midtown I'll be there for sure.
In the interest of fashionable detachment, I will be doing my drinking in Brooklyn, alone.
Waaah. LIVE BLOG FOR NONLOCALS PLS.
WEB CAM! WEB CAM! WEB CAM!!1!!!!1!1!
We'll have to pixellate Balk of course.
@Goons: if you dig around Guest of a Guest or somesuch, I'm sure someone can print out an oversized Balk-unawares head and mount it on a stick.
This would involve effort which, no.
true! nevermind.
Someone should make a Flat Stanley.
Art someone needs to post that strip-o-gram clip again.
Art & Goons
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2290/2219381990_c28c500e56_m.jpg
see, that's the kind of sleuthing i'm talking about
Thanks kitten, I'll take the credit.
Pro tip: Look for pics from Leitch's book party.
(fills messenger back with Smirnoff Ice)
(salivates)
some bros bout to get cold
My jealous is so big it is suffocating.
bloggers may be drunker than they appear
commenters will be drunker
Partly sober, with intermittent periods of inebriation.
The DC Awl Commentariat is not pleased.
Same reply to the Boston folk, except opposite direction (and not 'home'). Promiseseses (as Choire would say).
STRONGLY SECONDED.
THIRDED.
!
Please! Please! Please!
@cherri- are you in DC?
@scroll_lock - I very much am in DC.
Am I crazy to say that what you're really saying is the drinks are on US, in every which way possible?
(since no one has sent me airfare, I shall be drinking alone as well)
Have fun you guys!
AWWWW! I've got a bag full of bourbon balls, a pie server, a knife and pink plates and a messenger to squire the lemon squares from my home to the bar. Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Gang, I'm leaving my computer machine now but if anyone is having a panic attack and needs reassuring email me at justsayjolie @ gmail
Dang. And I JUST made plans to go eat at Hill Country. Meat wins out. This time.
who's bringing the blueberry hummus
We know who can bring the pine nuts to put on top.
and a pineapple kugel
you're all going to Hell.
LALALALALALALALALALAIcan'thearyou!
FIRST!
...to pass out gets their bra frozen.
LAST
...call.
I dunno, that abs post is the one with legs.
Have fun...I'll be toasting from an undisclosed location in fly-over country.
My plan for tonight is to find a bar in DC where I can sit alone with my drink and read these printouts of old comment threads while weeping quietly to myself. I'm sure it will be almost like being at the Scratcher.
I will be standing at the rail at the 9:30 club, reading comments on my iPod Touch while waiting for this concert (WHICH BETTER DAMN WELL BE WORTH IT, AS I AM COMING UP TO NY TOMORROW ANYWAY.)
I MISS YOU 9:30 CLUB. This is a night of infinite sadness!
9:30 club was full of goth chicks and lesbians. Was awesome/slightly horrific. But mostly awesome.
I destroyed my great-grandmother's watch at the 9:30 in 1995. Good times...
An Awl Bawl should require a password like Fidelio and masks.
I have a sneaking suspicion that last sentence was directed at me.
Yes, we DC people should organize a live reenactment of the Matt Cherette thread. Or perhaps an interpretive dance.
Oops. That was meant to be a reply @delrayser.
Interpretive dance, yay! Video uploads, please.
My interpretive dance will be a tribute to Balk, set to the haunting sounds of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
West Coast San Francisco version is at Sens in Embarcadero 4 - super trendy!
Latin American Club would be more fitting. Or Phone Booth.
The Latin American Club!
I was there on its opening night ... that seems like a long time ago.
house of shields before it closes! sidenote: what kind of asshole closes a 102 year old bar?
Would love to be there with you guys tonight but life got in the way.
Hope to meet you all soon.
Wish I could say the same you talentless hack.
KISSES!!!
email me Goons:
saythatscool (at) yahoo.com
really? Yahoo?
I did.
NOpe. not silly at all. I'm in.
I advise a smock.
This is exactly one month before I move to New York (with Matt Cherette and perhaps 500 other young writers rich with wit and self-importance?), so, um, if this is successful, will there be more? I would like to enter the 36 chambers of drunk with some or all of you.
You're adorable. Who are you, you adorable critter? For no apparent reason you instill paternality in me. (NOT A WORD, I KNOW.)
brad let's chilllllll
... :D
Ha, good morning, I thought that said PATERNITY.
The LA commentariat shall be doing the same thing but 3 hours earlier/later depending....
I'll be in flyover country for the next couple of weeks. Damn!
Jelis. So hey, y'all, please to have such a wonderful time that you throw another one later this summer, but NOT such a wonderful time that all you do at the second one is talk about how the first one was better.
I'm at the bar. As are two others trifling with iPhones. They haven't said hi to me. So I'm not saying hi to them.
On the 6 train platform at 28th. On my way.
Trifled from my iPhone
I'm on my way down now, and cursing myself for not bringing my camcorder to work today.
Choire better be in swim trunks.
Even a (mostly) lurker might show up!
ok... what should I wear to this thing. oh, haha, how about this. throw a bone @ SVMMER OF MEGADETH. fvkin' DVH.
this is kind of a lame selection, but I'll take a Jameson OTR, because this is a fucking Awl party.
I am taking a screen shot of these for my scrapbook. Which resides in my hope chest.
you too, could have bottles aplenty someday! have hope, young lady!
and by "bottles aplenty" i mean a handful
"really? that's interesting..." (ok, this is looking a little awkward. I think I'm just gonna head home and clean the bathroom... or something. Bye! have fun, y'awl.
Almost makes me wish I tumbld!
I would so follow your tumblr, deepomega.
I bet he'd be like the baby Mozart of tumblogs, wouldn't he!
worst.live.blog.ever.
The Camden County, NJ contingent of this party will be sure to get drunk on Yeungling and Wawa Lemonade Iced Tea. Best of luck to you awl.
Yuengling! In my fridge! Drinking to commence...NOW
Appropriately, I am in LA with a Sierra Nevada. Locationally themed drinks!
I might actually wait until Game 7 starts to get really boring, like in five minutes.
I'm in the bay area SF drinking anchor steam!
Are Angastora Bitters still in the Gaza hold?
I was hoping the comment thread would be like this:
- Is that you?
- It's Me.
- In the corner?
- No.. with the shifting looking character?
- That's Cho in real life?
- Yes. Can't you see the Lemon squares?
- Ah yes.
- Now are you going to put you Iphone down and join us?
-No.
And from all of us from west of Pocatello, north of Seattle, yet south of Juneau, we dearly wish we were there.
Now who wants to organize the Awl Canadian commenter's bawl.
I HEAR THIS PARTY IS GOING REALLY INSANELY. LA LA LA LA. ENJOY!
But I am already trounced.
Also Cord Jefferson was just called a "fucking cold stone fox."
A cold stone fox? Does that mean he really likes overrated ice cream mix-ins?
No it means PEOPLE BE DRUNK!
OMG was that HIM?! True story
I can testify to this in a creepy lurker way.
Also, Cord, about that los suns shirt?
I can testify that garge is adorable.
Can I bring my avatar?
I hate my night job TWICE as much due to missing this event.
Everybody figured out where to congregate once the food was out. Gushing over mr hippity, notandersoncooper, miles Klee, Tyler, rod and Jolie and Clarence Rosario commenced. Someone brought an autograph book.
Did anyone bring a pikcher taking device?
Oh and balk's cock was mentioned in passing.
$6 PBR and Jack reprazent!
Oh good, you made it home safe, I was concerned.
Who said anything about home?
clarence was prone in a pool of blood when i left
(this being some hours after we decided to revel in the $6-for-a-PBR-and-shot-of-Jack-Daniels special)
That's called a non-flammable heater-maker
Hey, did anyone else participate in the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge instead of going to a fun Bawl? No? THAT WAS SMART.
Sigh, pictures, please!
tipsy in chicago. It's like i'm there.... no it's not.
Why isn't there a Chicago chapter?
Extra-skeevy good times happen at Phone Booth. No love for the east bay (I know our bars suck).
That was meant as a reply to Clarence Rosario.
The Mallard? Club Radio? The Ivy Room?
Blue Moon is awesome and George & Walts. I love the Mallard.
hey now. the east bay's got plenty of great bars as long as you don't mind being completely unhip while hanging with old people, drug dealers, and lunatics. smitty's (and they let you smoke!), the alley, the 2101 club, soon's lounge, first and last chance, merchant's, the lemon tree, kim's backyard, that one on 19th st. that's always blaring fox news, missouri lounge (the closest to being anything even remotely hip). shit. i never go to the city save for a show. it's cheaper and i don't need to smell nice.
ugh, have you been to the ivy room since it went "chic"? the east bay's finest honky tonk turned into its most tackily designed cocktail lounge.
liars! I went hoping for a drink thrown in my face but all I got was tasty lemon squares and jolie's cute pearls.
That last bit? so didn't make sense. I blame it on my anti-shyness meds (alcohol).
I am saying from now that if you all start spouting inside jokes all over the place that were spawned at this gathering, I will become even more annoying than I already am.
I hate you all.
And CS, you KNOW that's what the Awl's going to be about from here on out. Bitches.
Everyone was surprising and lovely! People were missed. People were druuuunk. SOME bloggers will be getting a dry cleaning bill from me. Infinite thanks to Jolie! A lovely hostess if there ever was.
i will never pay so just forget it
DRUNKEN LAST
Pics or it didn't happen.
i have a picture of jolie and matt ealer cuddling on a bar stool but i took it with an iphone camera so you can't tell it's them or anything
LASTLAST
Drunken Miles is so surly!
I am drinking in Reno and I will not let Miles be last.
Clarence Rosario, Ziggy Stardust, Miles Klee, Jolie, Matthew Gallaway, Matt Ealer, and Dorothy Mantooth (as always)--I'm sure I'm forgetting others--, couldn't have been nicer.
Have all the light weights passed out yet?
What's up with everyone posting at like 2ish? NY bars don't close til 4 you wankers.
Gah. No wonder I don't like hanging out with the elite NY'ers, they don't know how to drink properly.
I was home by 11 - martinis make decisions for you!
LOL I don't close down until the drinks stop personally...
iPhones, obvz.
I HUGGED MAURA IN LOS ANGELES! I WIN!
We BOTH won!
it sounds as though a good time was had by all. this pleases me.
(in which I apologize for talking David Cho's ear off)
Van Goawl?
Mary HK Choi: coolest racist ever.
she insulted my whole heritage but made it feel like she was just insulting me, you know?
I know, right? It was so CHARMING.
Coffee anyone? It's going to be a rough morning...
What time is this again?
Lovely time. Thanks Jolie planner!
Someone please gene splice me a piece of HK. I wanna be like her.
And apologies to Dave Bry for mispronouncing his name. Sounds like Bree!
Davebry
My apologies. It's spelled wrong. Yes, really nice to meet folks in person. Cheers for Jolie.
Thanks to Jolie for organizing this whole thing- I had a great time despite a terrible case of nerves. You guys are all intelligent, hilarious, and exceptionally good-looking. Let's do it again!
Yes, thanks Jolie. And yes, everyone was not only smart, funny, and good-looking, but also (at least the ones I met) nice.
Oh, and Jolie, please don't tell my high school classmate that I thought he was a tool. I was (duh) drunk when I told you that. And I really only thought it at the time because I was jealous of his way-too-good-for-him girlfriend. (Jocks should not be allowed to date the smart funny girls, dammit!)
Besides, in high school, to people like Potsie, Ralph Malph, and me a tool was a Craftsman wrench you borrowed from your uncle so you could get your jalopy running.
I stood at the bar and waited until someone said something so I could reply with an overly long and too elaborate comment that I hoped would draw everyone's attention. And it worked. Everyone was very nice, attractive and charming. Good time. Thanks Jolie.
You are all of the same as well! Don't get off the bus!
Ugh. My head hurts.
A lemon square compress will help.
i mixed some lemon square into my jack daniels and it was delicious and jolie called it a cold toddy
that frightened and aroused me.
THE VUVUZELAS AREN'T HELPING.
ha!
I hope you don't have to be all popular in these comments because I wanna go and I know NOBODY here. But I read and I like!
oh my god it was last night I'm such a dork.
Did everyone tell you it was tonight so that you wouldn't show up last night?
Ha. No. thank god. Anyway I'm still floating around in my own little commenter bubble. although hey! there's you!
Show up tonight anyways.
It's a costume party too. Be sure to wear one!
Oh, I would too. And I'd stand at the bar all shy and no one would talk to me and then I'd think you all were a bunch of jerks.
BAWLS TO THE WAWL.
Your dress. That is all.
My neck. My back.
CTRL+F tells me that none of you ingrates have complimented Dinosaur's spinach dip. It was awesome, as were the squares and balls.
Dips, squares, and balls. Yes, that is my summary of the evening.
I missed all the food! It was devoured prior to my late arrival. I take your word that it was worthy and delicious.
The Spinach dip topped my mother's. That is the best thing I can say.
Awwww Thank you!
@HG: Is there any dip in New York who hasn't topped your mother?
it was great and i would have eaten more if i hadn't gotten so full from a SINGLE BOURBON BALL
FISTICUFFS NOW!!!
IT'S ON!!!!
MILES, FETCH ME THE WHIPPING STICK!
STAY OUT THIS MILES - THIS IS BETWEEN THE HOMO AND THE MUPPET!
heyheyheynow, no need for sticky muppets.
Stick around buttplug, I may need you later.
I am fully capable of buttplugging you both, if that's what it takes to get you to settle down.
ALL OF THIS.
I doubled sampled the spinach dip. One on bread, one on a Ritz - Both delicious!
I wish I had some spinach dip right now...
Does this place take EBT?
I started budgeting for a visit to NYC that I could build around this. Seriously! But by the time I had everything planned out, the plane ticket prices had shot through the roof and the trip was no longer possible. I HAD A SAD.
Then I spent this week being miserable and sick. (Also kind of getting fired!) I would have been unable to taste the lemon squares, and then sneezed in my whiskey and gotten it everywhere, and generally lived up to my screen name.
The moral of the story? TICKET PRICES FLUCTUATE FOR A REASON.
Anything's better than being the guy who sneezes in the whiskey.
If you're still sick: Hot chicken broth + tabasco (not a lot) + drink it = you're welcome.
Sorry I couldn't make it, hope y'all went bawls to the wawls!
FIRST.
LAST and Always.
*last*
(last)
Last?
lst
I am posting so past you fuckers you don't even know.
First of all, I am a little drunk
Secondly, if you have Pandora, tune it to Love and Rockets radio
Thirdly, there's not really anything else except to say I fancied New York as the place where I would sally among the erudite (and yeah, that's a joke) and I even went to a journalism school and still there was nothing and then after all that came the Awl and people who write and think the way you all do and I am happy for that.
LAST
good kitty
Everlast.
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in my lasts.
Hey guys I just got a new car battery. The brand, I think, is Duralast.
lst.
Wrong again.
LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Annnnnnd I'm last.
lst...
clarence, your breath is so fresh.
You must use lasterine.