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The Boston Bawl: December 13
We know you are all anxiously anticipating Friday's Holiday Awl Ball at Flaming Saddles, and why wouldn't you be? It's the social event of the season! But what about those of you who are not in the New York area? Perhaps you are somewhere more northlike. New England, for example! Well, get your calendar out and mark that sucker up for Tuesday, December 13th. Come 7PM, the place to be is Stoddard's, for the Boston Bawl. Have questions? Your host, boyofdestiny, is here with answers.
Is the crazy lady who yells at commuters from the plaza in front of the Park Street stop invited? Because she's my date.
@Astigmatism She's the cohost.
Oh I'm so glad the Boston Bawl got a better post than my party. Sure. Fine. I fucking hate you all anyway. *storms off, soothes self by eating the entire batch of bourbon balls*
Jolie! What can I do to make this right? Some Billy Tse's spring rolls?
@boyofdestiny Shove some chopsticks under Choire's fingernails. That will make me feel better.
@jolie: The Boston post is showy and so nouveau. You're better than that.
@NotAndersonCooper Showy and nouveau! Pawl Revere is spinning in his grave.
Yay, I think I can come to this one! And it's on the Green Line, which is the best. (By which I mean best for me, certainly not best T line.)
@major disaster: And on the Red Line! Boyofdestiny is a genius.
@Bittersweet I thought better of having it in Brighton Center.
Wait, THIS is how we finally get a picture of an awl on the fucking page?
@Clarence Rosario The Philadelphia Bawl has to have the awl where the William Penn statue on top of City Hall has his erection.
Just what I needed: another reason to drink in this town.
@msdixon It's important to go out and drink before leaving the house becomes a totally unreasonable proposition.
Actually, allow me to threadjack: Do you guys have feelings about baked goods? I sort of think we might be past the point of bringing foodstuffs to these things, but I also don't want anyone to get upset if I show up without bourbon balls. Talk to me, geese.
@jolie I'd feel cheated, but I would also understand if you didn't make them. Does that help?
You all can thank @boyofdestiny for successfully guilting me into making the bourbon balls. If you need me, I'll be at the market buying more Karo syrup.
This could be fun. Marking my calendar.
Of course when you make a bawl for those not in New York you locate it THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM WHERE I LIVE.
#OccupyAwlBawl
@keisertroll Yes! Occupy it! That's the point!
@boyofdestiny Damn you for co-opting my movement.
If "northlike" is Boston, how does Balk refer to Canada then?
@Murgatroid America's Depressed Thought Balloon
Well, this seems like as good a place as any: A couple Hairpinners and I discussed how awlsome it would be to meet Awlers in Denver.
Any takers? If so, we can make it happen people.
Let me know at soxy feet at gmail dot com
While we're on the topic of northlike, does someone who isn't me want to organize one of these things for Toronto?
When are we doing one of these in L.A. again? And by "we" I mean you folks who have Bawl'd in the past. Me, I've always been lame and stayed in my dark closest of Internet anonymity. Clearly, I have Bawl remorse.
My attendance on Friday is contingent upon a) this cold sore disappearing or b) successfully clawing it off my lip without bleeding out.
@C_Webb Try abreva in the tube from the pharmacy. Costs abt 18 bucks but works FAST!
Wish there was a way I could make this bawl, especially so I could call shenanigans on Stoddard's to its face for that "Ladder District" bullshit. The name was made up by some PR flack in the mid/late 1990s acting as fluffer for clients who didn't want their schmancy establishments described as being in the Combat Zone. I spoke with her when I was fact-checking for Boston Magazine. The More You Know!
@cinetrix As a former resident of the Combat Zone, I'm actually ready to embrace the Ladder District as a location! I consider the Combat Zone to be more along the Stuart St. corridor, which the Ladder District is perpendicular to. It's got a fun geographic kitchiness to it that I like! I'm perfectly willing to hash this out at the Bawl.