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The Boston Bawl 2.0: Save the Date of December 16
While you are already perhaps saving the date of December 10 in New York City (6 to 10 p.m., at the Gallery Bar, 120 Orchard Street) for a reader-sponsored Hawliday Bawl, perhaps you live in the greater Boston area! If so, our apologies, but here: Boston-area Awl readers are throwing a party for Boston-area Awl readers.
Yes, this just in!
The Boston Bawl v.2.0 is scheduled to begin at 6:00p.m. on Thursday, December 16 at the Green Street Grill (in their downstairs bar), which is located at 280 Green Street, Cambridge, MA.
Handy map above.
And yes. The Boston Commenters Bawl is in Cambridge. Of course it is!
Questions? Talk to your cohosts, Garge and BoyOfDestiny.
I'll be at Charlie's eating double cheeseburgers
Save me some waffle fries! Add cheese for ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS!
While I can't make it up there (THOUGH I WILL BE AT THE NYC BAWL AND YOU SHOULD ALL BE EXCITED ABOUT THAT) I strongly encourage all of you who can to go meet these two delightful people!
Toronto? Orangeville?
Yeah, I'm here. Fucking Boston and NYC are already at Bawl #2 and Hogtown hasn't gotten it together even once! And I know there's a few more of us here.
Seriously, Toronto.
Well, Cambridge is like the, what? The Brooklyn of Boston? The Hoboken of Boston? There's some analogue here that makes sense.
In Boston thah is no thah thah. In Cambridge thah is no pahking.
Allston is obviously the Brooklyn of Boston.
Mmmm, I dunno. I think Cambridge is akin to Brooklyn, where Allston would be more Hoboken.
I actually don't really want to think about any of this.
Unfortunately, Allston is way too shabby to be Hoboken.
Hmm, I consider Allston to be more of a Rikers Island?
::considers ducking? decides not to bother::
Elitist
Allston:Boston::Camden:Manhattan
Dammit, I just realized my Dad's in NYC on December 10th. I could bring him, I guess. It's been too long since I was last written out of a will.
I might actually make this one, I could do with getting shitfaced drunk.
Getting shitfaced drunk is one of the few effective survival strategies for New England winters.
Please come, LL! Then I won't be the only pretty much middle-aged Awlite in attendance…
Aw shucks, Bittersweet, I just trashed you in the comments and here you are!
Last Boston Bawl was an intimate, sloshy affair. What's the opposite of intimate? Let's make this one that but keep the sloshiness.
I do sort of hope someone will break a chair, so it can become a "tradition"
Oh! Me!
The NYC Hawliday Bawl ends at 10 p.m.?
Hey, some of us have CHILDREN now.
@Clarence: I have not yet gotten the birth announcement, but I presume you're bringing the wee Rosario to the Bawl? Never to young to indoctrinate them, you know!
@jolie: the wee Rosario might be busy working on her tumblr.
@Miles: I'll be throwing PBR and Jack Daniels. Down my throat.
And some of us will be with child soon after.
I noticed that, too, but didn't say anything on the assumption that the NYC Hawliday Bawl, Bender Edition starts promptly at 10 p.m.
@Miles: You will have spilled ten beers by then, it will be time for you to go home.
I will have THROWN ten beers by then and finally gotten into a groove.
I'll just say this now: MOMMY WILL NOT BE HAPPY IF SHE GETS A BEER THROWN ON HER.
Afterparty at the Purple Shamrock. Don't forget your $10 cover, and watch the pile in the corner where you put your coat, lest it get puked on.
My parents first office was above the Purple Shamrock, and as a result I have long been fascinated by the place. (That also probably explains so much. Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be Massholes.)
My instinct is that it'd be better to have an office over a bowling alley than that place, but who knows.
What, no love for Daisy Buchanan's?
I don't like being that guy that says "Daisy Buchanan's brings back bad memories," but Daisy Buchanan's brings back some bad memories.
It's really so perfect – I mean, The Awl is soooooo Cambridge-y. (Disclosure: I spent 9 years in school in Cambridge, which explains so much, doesn't it?)
EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE NOW.
It fucked me up but good.
>:[
Aww. We'll pour one out for you, deepo.
Take the silver line from Logan airport to south station; take the Alewife-bound red line to central square. It is ONLY a block away!
(I'm a little mad Choire didn't make an Awl Marks the Spot map for my party. Sniff.)
I am flattered that my little work was mistaken for a Sicha original! But no sniffing necessary!!
Garge: This is no way exempts you from attendance in nyc.
@nac: Have Four Loko, will travel.
I love the map, excellent work
@garge: I should have known. vid even helpfully explained how to identify a Sicha Orginal just the other day! (Also: "I think just pie?")
I'll trade you Cuban cigars for Four Lokos at http://www.bannedcommodities.com
I'm new to commenting here, but I've been a reader for a long time. Cool if I come?
We're throwing this party for you, JILGA&M! Please come.
I get very anxious* and introverted** around new people. Could I just stay perched on my stool in the Lenox and text back and forth with everyone?
* read: drunk
** read: pass-out drunk
Of coooooourse! In fact, I beseech you to come on time, so I don't sit at the bar by myself, drinking too quickly while reliving middle school nightmares of throwing unattended parties.
Don't worry, garge, I'll probably be early (unless Alewife traffic really sucks). OK, never mind, I'll be on time.
Oh, I should be able to come this time! The odds of me breaking something (if not a chair, then at least some glasses or something) are very high, so I guess that's what I can add to the party…
It's always nice when everybody brings something.
I will be there for sure this time.
I'll drink a bottle of wine in my apt in Atlanta. Happy Holidays!
Oh hey, as usual I'm late to the party, but I will try not to be late to the *actual* party this time!
We were keeping a seat warm for you!
Very exciting to see everyone representing (ahem? BITTERSWEET??)! If anyone has any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to email me at aka.garge @ geemail.
Sorry for the late representing…got caught on some conference calls for a few hours.
And now here's the obligatory asdfal;kjfl;akjf;lkjadf to show how psyched I am.
I am just glad we didn't have to call your emergency contact!
Obligatory ajklfhdasjkfh second–
Just to be safe, disconnect your phone as soon as you get to work on the 16th.
The 16th is my last day of work before 2011, so I'll be running around getting everything done, probably with the phone glued to my ear.
That will make the Bawl all the sweeter that night, though…
DC Brawl?
When is that high speed train getting built? Will it be done by the 16th?
I feel like Bawlder, Cawlorado would be the perfect place for an Awl Bawl. But I also feel like it might be party of one.
I will be in Cambridge tonight! For my birthday! I will stop by Green St. Grill and lurk, shyly, at the Bawl! On my birthday! If you see someone who is suddenly, incredibly old tonight, buy me a drink!