This Friday: Awl Readers Drink Themselves Silly in NYC (New Venue!)
Alert! Code red! This coming Friday's Awl reader's party, a party thrown by readers for readers, also known as the Awl Hawliday Bawl, has a change of venue! We hope you will join us there. (Yes, you!) So the new venue for Friday, December 10, is the Ella Lounge, at 9 Avenue A, which is located, unsurprisingly, between 1st & 2nd streets. Why? Let us tell you!
In an ironic twist of fate (that is not actually ironic), the nonprofit outfit Transportation Alternatives was double booked for our previous party space! Hmm, where have I heard that name before? OH RIGHT! For much of the 90s, in exchange for a lowered rent from our East Village landlord, the nice boys (and I do mean boys, though that looks somewhat improved) of Transportation Alternatives were employed as the supers of my apartment building. Yes. You can imagine how well that went: a bunch of bike-crusading fellows were supposed to like, sweep the stairs and change lightbulbs and deal with the trash. Oh yeah. In any event, eventually they left. And SO WE MEET AGAIN.
In other news, next week's party in Boston (AKA Cambridge) is still on track.
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I WAS JUST PULLING UP MY ORGINAL SUBMISSION TO POST IT MY DAMN SELF. But then tumblr broke again.
(Sorry, I've been really stressed about this whole thing.)(I'm calmer now.)(And I love you so much and I hope you come and I'm going to make a double batch of bourbon bawls this time so when BrianVan hogs up more than his fair share there will be reserves for the rest of you.)(Not that much calmer actually.)
And I'm bringing spinach dip and brownies to complement the bourbon bawls.
And I am bringing cookies made in my BRAND NEW KITCHENAID STAND MIXER THAT I AM VERY VERY EXCITED ABOUT!
@cherri: IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
@cherri: LOVE the Kitchenaid. What color? Racing flames?
This is my first one, is this for real a bring food thing? If so I'm way in.
@olddirtybassist: It is for real! Last time we had lemon squares & bourbon balls and an OUT OF BOUNDS spinach dip. Come!
@dinosaur: Is your spinach dip served in a pumpernickel?????
I use coarse brown bread usually, but I had to go to the bodega for crackers so I thought I'd just skip the bread part and go straight to the townouse crackers.
TOWNHOUSE CRACKERS (CLAP CLAP, CLAP CLAP CLAP)
THE PACIFIC LIFE HAWLIDAY BAWL
It's like you knew that I need at least 48 hours to adapt to change!
I already had my lower-east-side outfit pick out and now I have to go back to the drawing board. Oh, the humanity!
This is how out of touch I am: There is a difference between Lower East Side chic and East Village chic?
Ask yourself: Would I be reluctant to jaywalk Houston in front of a line of red-light running limos wearing this?
Jolie is this open bar and if not where do I pick up my 25 free drink tickets
Now that Choire has posted the venue change and I can stop having a heart attack I'm going to try to arrange for some drink specials. No promises though!
Yup, Dad's definitely in town, so I've got to cut out at 8 and meet him for dinner. Hopefully people will be slutty early? If not, then clearly I will have been cawlk blawlked.
Hey Yucko, we should do a KC Hawliday Bawl? Who's with me? CHL? Um…that's it for KC, I think.
This is CONVENIENTLY LOCATED for my stumble home.
Precisely.
Time?
6-10.
Noon?
Never trust a man on a bike.
I'll be there, right before I turn shy and sneak out.
I'll be 40+ blocks away, remaining shy. (And drinking to forget the Bush tax cut extensions.)
There is no excuse for being shy! Everyone is super nice and alcohol makes the ugly ones more attractive.
@don't squeeze the charmin: those of us benefitting from the Bush tax cut extensions will buy you a drink.
Brent, I have a reccomendation – go there, but pretend like you are there by accident! Then you only have to admit whyso if your case of the shys goes away. (this is my plan)
Shyness. Indeed. (Check my commenter number! And I've been reading for a long while.)
Shys (Shies?) Unite!
Listen, shies. I am going to tell you a secret that I picked up at Bawl numero uno: we outnumber the charismatic [freaks] exponentially. No joke. And everyone, even the charismatic [freaks] are nice people, which I know seems statistically impossible, but I swear. I wouldn't lie to you! I am ONE of you!!
OK, it's close enough to the F to make an appearance.
MILES, BE THERE AT 6 SHARP OR MISS THE PBR AND JACK.
THAT IS EXACTLY WHEN I GET OUT OF WORK BUT I ASSUME CHEAP TELEPORTATION WILL BE ABUNDANTLY AVAILABLE BY FRIDAY SO OKAY
BRING THE SPAWN, ROSARIO
I am royally steamed I can't go. Hopefully there's another in a few months!
Equally steamed!
Steamed like cafeteria broccoli.
DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED!!!
Do you guys really get out of work that early? Must start planning escape route: bring extra coat to leave on chair/have recording of tapping heels and me swearing quietly playing from hidden speaker?
I'll try not to show up quite as drunk this time, but the late six o'clock start is really pushing it for me.
Dude, the Brooklyn IKEA has a smorgasbord going on that night.
This and then Tumblr Media Meetup? Or Tumblr first, then end with this?
Ours starts earlier and will be way cooler.
Is it just me or is the clicking on name to see profile thing not working? Cuz I'm not gonna lie, kind of wanted to comment stalk people to make sure I know 100% who's who and what jokes I remembered as being funny before friday.
It is not just you.
Maybe it will be fixed by Friday and it will be a Bawlmus Miracle!!
OHMYGOD I THOUGHT I MISSED IT BUT I CAN COME WOOOO!
I mean, maybe. Not like I care or anything. It's casual.
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This is the second one of these in a row that I'm going to miss. Here's my promise: if there's a party for the Vernawl Equinox, I'll be there!