We have lots of good things to report regarding Friday’s big event! Most important is that it’s still happening this Friday, Jan. 23, starting at 6:30 pm, at Bertucci’s in Medford (free pizza and rolls, cash bar). Details are in this post. We very much hope we’ll see you there. Other stuff to know:
- There will be a silent auction, at which, among other items, a pair of Red Sox tickets will be available, thanks to a generous donor! You’ll have to show up to bid, so there’s a good reason to come. If you’d like to donate anything, we’d be most grateful – please let us know.
- Judging from the comments on the last post on this subject, it’s looking like we will have a lovely turnout of lovely people. We encourage you to RSVP if you haven’t already, either in the comments or via email to us, just so that we can give Bertucci’s an idea of how many people will be attending. But if you forget to RSVP and realize on Friday that you want to come anyway, please do! The more the merrier.
- Since the last post went up, we’ve had a veritable flood of new subscriptions, for which we are tremendously grateful – thank you!! If you’d like to support BMG by subscribing, detailed instructions are at this link. We love seeing those little gold badges all over the site.
We are looking forward to Friday, and we hope you are too! See you then.
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I think I can manage to crawl out of my underground bunker for this 🙂
Schedule cleared today for Friday. Money en route as well.
How will we roll our eyes at each others’ spelling if we’re in person?
… I was originally planning to attend while wearing a T-Shirt, the front of which is emblazoned with the words “Tea Shurt” and which has the word “FRONT” on the back… but I can’t seem to locate it.
But then I decided I’d put my long disused ninjitsu skills to the test and attend incognito: you’d never know I was there… I could be the waitress; or I could be the screaming toddler three booths over; or I could be the last dinner roll in the bucket… you know the roll everybody eyes after they’re already well past full and know they shouldn’t eat it but spend an inordinate amount of time struggling against the urge to eat it… that could be me, ninja.
But, alack and alas, it looks increasingly like I will not be able to make it. I will not say so definitively, but as my schedule concretizes and my paycheck vaporizes, the wherewithal to lift a glass with you all seems increasingly fleeting. Be assured that should I not be able to make it, around 8:30 PM that night, I shall rouse myself from the foetal position and raise a glass to you all and hope one or two of you might drink a toast –either to my health or to my confusion, whichever you choose — in the knowledge that I’ll be thinking about all y’all.
All the same, you should keep an eye out for that last dinner roll. You never know.
N/t
Will try to be there. Friday traffic and a special election…
Three *longtime* BMG pals. Will be great to see you.
I truly regret being unable to attend. I would love to meet each and every person whom I’ve come to know here on-line.
My wife and I will be in New Orleans, visiting my youngest daughter in her first year at Tulane.
All my friends who went to Tulane or took jobs in NOLA haven’t come back-they love it too much!
Right now, I’m the one tempted to stay.
I am, after all, a piano player.
I am not a piano player, but my father owns a piano.
Given all our exchanges over the years you were at the top of my list of BMGers I wanted to meet in person.
It would be great if these could happen more often. I’m really sorry to miss this one, because it’s right in my neighborhood.
I did attend one several years ago, I think it was in Everett or Lynn (I don’t remember). Could that have been 2006? I was new to BMG at the time.
It would have been fun to put names to faces, buy some beers to pay off long forgotten wagers and buy some goodwill from foes, and have these discussions in person where my frequently mangled syntax and occasional lapses into lecturing won’t occur (well at least the former…)
Alas, I will have to console myself by becoming a subscriber this year. Maybe not this month, but consider this a public pledge.
Everyone who says they can’t come has to subscribe. Or else get downrated and receive a Santorum for President t-shirt.
Incredibly dorky. Horribly so. But damned if I’m going to spend two hours in a room with (put your name here) and not take advantage of the chance to say hey in person. Maybe a sign-in sheet and we do intros? I dunno.
…though in my case that won’t be difficult:)
It shall be so.
And if one of the BMG triumvirate ends up in Inman square in the future, let me know and I’ll buy you coffee and write a check, but I don’t need a subscription or a halo.
It will a pleasure to hob nob with fellow bloggers, + or _ .
I’m 400 miles away this week, in an idiotic place where they think their local football team should be in the Super Bowl because the Cheating Cheatriots had footballs a millimeter off, but they’re happy to cheer for a guy who destroyed evidence after his friends killed a guy, another guy who poured bleach on his wife and son, and a third guy who knocked his fiancee out cold in a hotel elevator.
Scuff-law, maybe
Don’t forget that a former Patriot is currently on trial for murder.
five minutes after he was arrested?
Remember guys, the entire league and every team is criminal. It’s a walking antitrust violation, it illegally covered up CTE findings from its own players in violation of its contract with the NFLPA, it routinely extorts billions in public subsidies by teams threatening to move to LA (Raiders, Niners, Vikings, and now Rams all guilty of that), it covered up domestic violence, and it probably has a massive PEDs scandal waiting to happen. Oh and it corrupted the college game by using it as a farm league, Belichick won’t be the only Super Bowl coach with ethical violations on is hands after all. Louis CKs thoughts on white people can be easily applied to being a modern NFL fan.
I thought the NFL had been legitimately granted an exemption.
If we “have” to discuss deflated balls tonight maybe someone will be so kind as to explain to me why a game needs 24 balls and why they are provided by the teams and not by the NFL.
Been there a few times to meet up with my old roommates who are from the area. Faidley’s crab cakes are the best, when he moved back in with me last year his parents shipped him some and they were awesome. Rye is his favorite cocktail bar, and he is a bit of a mixologist himself so I trust his judgment. The other roomie is a beer guy and likes The Brewers Art.
And get yourself a pit beef and lake trout like they did on the Wire.
Fortunately the one I’m watching the Super Bowl with hates the Ravens. He is more of a Euro football fan, but figures if the most Americans hate the Pats he should be for them.
Everyone have fun – I’m running a camera for a jazz program on local access cable, which is a real blast. We have the Buddy Tamagni Trio tonight. We should have meet ups more regularly!
I’m planning a Blue Mass Group BBQ at my humble home this summer. I’ll keep you posted.
…and could even be induced to cook a batch of Chili for the occasion. But I would stipulate that, for me, both advanced notice and proximity to pubic transportation are required. I daresay I may not not be the only one with these constraints.
And — for what it’s worth– any home in which you can bring forth BBQ is not ‘humble” (in a good way =-)
Sorry I can’t be there. Shooting for next time.
I’d like to meet you all in person. I don’t know where Medford is, but I don’t think it’s some place I can get to after work on Friday at rush hour. Besides, I had to take my daughter to horseback riding lessons.
n/t
take my money already
all the info you need is at this link. Or, if you prefer to just send us money, you can use the Paypal button in this post (scroll to the bottom).
Thanks for coming!
and it was fun swapping lies with friends never met before.
I especially wanted to meet David, Bob and Charly to thank them for all they have done for the progressive community over the years. We are so fortunate to share fraternity with them.
I also want to thank my friends Mike Lake and Holly for their support and to give a special tip of the hat to my friend, Anthony Guardia, who David signed up as a new supporter.
Lastly, I was so happy to meet Scott Ferson, consultant to my new Congressman Seth Moulton. We shared fond memories of our friend and mentor Senator Ted Kennedy and
look forward to the March opening of his Senate Institute
wing of the JFK Library. Scott says that the design includes a replica of the Senate chamber where visitors can actually debate.
We shouldn’t wait another 10 years to do this again. How about making it an annual event ?
Fred Rich LaRiccia