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Save the Date: The Holiday Awl Bawl, December 2nd
You are cordially invited to a holiday party.
Date: December 2, 2011.
Time: 6-9 p.m.
Location: Flaming Saddles, 793 9th Avenue, New York City. (AKA our favorite bar.)
Dress: Any way you like.
Questions? Just ask Jolie right here in the comments.
oh boyyyyyy oh boy oh boy
High-waisted 90s jeans and midriff top MAKE IT HAPPEN MAURA.
So in love
The preacher's face turned red
@Matt I SAID CORDIALLY
Tearful reunion in the U.S.A.
Day, by day
Those memories fade away
No marigolds in the promised land.
There's a hole in the ground where they used to grow.
Aja
When all my dime dancing is through
I run
To
You
are you with me, Dr. Wu?
You know she's no high climber.
@Brad Nelson : Based solely on the well-chosen Steely Dan quotes in this comment thread, my personal attendance at this event is mandatory.
@Art Yucko : are you really just a shadow of a man that I once knew? Are you crazy? Are you high?
Brut and charisma
Poured from the shadow where he stood
@Matt – The Cuervo Gold,
The fine Columbian,
makes tonight a wonderful thing.
after a night of drinking kirschwasser from shells, living hard will take its toll.
@Art Yucko : This ain't no one-night stand, it's a real occasion, close your eyes and you'll be there
We could stay inside and play games, I don't know
This coincides with the Paul Violi Memorial Reading at the New School. You will be there past 9:00 p.m., right?
@Michael Schiavo Assuredly yes. Well. I may have my annual Awl Bawl Panic Attack at 8ish and split out the sidedoor to breathe deeply into a tub of OxiClean, but others will be there, yes.
Related: We're starting it early because the folks at Flaming Saddles mentioned that there tends to be a line after 8p on Fridays, and also because I am an olden person, but mostly because of the line thing. You've been warned!
@Michael Schiavo Also surely there will be an afterparty.
@Choire Sicha Speaking of afterparties: Where are all those Choire Alexander babies I was promised last year?
@jolie If you irish goodbye this one, I will be quite sad. Do we have a space reserved or anything?
@cherrispryte But it's tradition! I just… I get overwhelmed, you guys. There are a lot of you, and only one of me!
We don't have a particular space reserved for us, but the guys at Flaming Saddles know we're coming (I do not, however, think they understand exactly what that means but who doesn't love a surprise?!?) and are very excited to have us. Also there is a 2-for-1 happy hour from 4-7p (Bud Lite drafts/Bud bottles and all well drinks), so come early!!
oh damn yes
Anyone up for doing a sort of gay Dukes of Hazzard (redundant?) thing? I haven't taken the Rainbow Non-Racist General Lee out for a spin in ages.
"boyofdestiny promises to make it down for the Awl Bawl but sheepishly backs out for some nonsense reason" will NOT be an annual tradition!
@boyofdestiny Can you bring me a pound of Polcari's? As, um, a hostess gift?
I have a 5k the following morning! Noooooo.
@Vicky No problem, just don't drink.
@SeanP Oh that's not the problem. It's in DC.
Dammit! I have a hockey game at 8:30.
And no, that's not a euphemism for something.
@Clarence Rosario: Forfeit.
@Clarence Rosario Bring them! It can be one of those gay country Brooklyn hockey bars!
@C_Webb
Once all the scarf-with-sleeveless-tee-wearing young boys who are hunting for old guys with money give up and clear out, that's pretty much the direction this place will be heading.
Have fun, East Coasters.
@johnpseudonym WISH YOU COULD BE OUT HERE WITH US CHOPPIN' WOOD
@johnpseudonym If there were an Oakland or a Chicago Awl/Hairpin meet-up at a bar, I'd be interested. I'll be in both cities at different times. I'm only one man.
I'm considering the symbolism of the potential presence of a mechanical bull…
Nuts. I'm out of town then. (Huge sigh)
Jolie, How can this be so fucking cool?
Any chance we can get Balk's Cock drunk and convince it to go-go dance on the bar?
@ShanghaiLil : O PLEASE O PLEASE O PLEASE GOD MAKE THIS A REALITY
Yayyyyyy this is on a Friday!
Jolie, you are the bestest.
@cherrispryte : I know! A Friday outing basically guarantees my attendance.
I walk by Flaming Saddles all the time and a friend tells me it's great(mechanical bull!) but I haven't been because really, you could call it Blazing Saddles and people would get that it's a gay bar.
I am worried that the sparkling wit I've cultured through carefully-worded comments will fall to pieces in person. Also, how old are Awl commenters, out of curiosity?
@Bobby Womack 6,000 years old.
@Bobby Womack I can't speak for all of the commenter, but I, at least, am older than aged dirt.
@dntsqzthchrmn Roughly.
I am twelve.
@Bobby Womack "Timeless"
Brad is twelve.
@Bobby Womack I am this many.
@Matt Matt is (#)26.
@Bobby Womack : I for one am older than sh*t
@Bobby Womack Most of us worked in the Ford Administration.
@NotAndersonCooper You have all made me laugh out loud in my office. I'll be there.
@Bobby Womack The square root of our commenter numbers.
@NotAndersonCooper I still have my "Whip Inflation Now" T-shirt!
Living in South Jersey, I feel as if I should go because it's just a (long) train ride away. But then I think, how the fuck am I going to get home, short of staying up until the next morning?
@NFK You seem to have answered your own question there.
@NFK Save a train, ride a cowboy?
@NFK Penn Station is quite festive after everyone misses the last train out. Bring water and some crackers, and your own bathroom.
@NFK As a fellow South Jerseyan we can keep each other awake, like in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
If there are any '175,000'+ gay commenters, I would be happy to accompany you. If you're not picky, neither am I.
All the 175,000+es are robots, dude.
@Matt but are they gay robots?
@Matt Even better.
@Matt I believe the correct term is gay-bots.
@hman – what about #179?
@sigerson Why aren't you #99?
"Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening"
OMGGGGG
I just realized that I've been responding to two-week-old comments in this thread. I need to get out more often.