So, I'm finally coming to New York - 14th-21st December. Let's go for beer and stuff.

Also I've kind of lost touch with who is and isn't in NYC at the moment, but if anyone has any contact details for Mary/Geeta/Felicity/Phil/other people who aren't checking the boards these days then let me know.

You could try http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/ which has a lot of cheap guest house type places.

geeta's reachable on facebook. get a hotel ASAP, i imagine it will be packed out everywhere round then. i would recommend the hotel i stayed in which was lower midtown and very cheap (under 50 a night) but it was pretty skanky and i bet it will be bloody freezing there in Dec.

I will be there in november and december, but I guess I should start another thread.

hotel 17 has done right by several ilxors.

Mary is back in NYC, I believe she's librarianing for real! I've got Phil's number as do many others, and Felicity's too.

Cool - I'm not about to phone any of them but might sling them an email going "hey I'm coming to your city fancy a pint?"

Hotel 17 looks pretty good - is that a decent price for New York around that time of year? I'm afraid I have no real frame of reference here.

it's really cheap

that price is really good. it's not the swankiest in terms of decor, of course, but it's an excellent location. generally, it can be hard to find decent options for under $200.

Hi Matt! I tried to talk to you on aim but you disappeared. Looking forward to seeing you, and everyone else (I'll be in NY by the end of October). There was another hotel in Gramercy that people have stayed at--I forget the name(?) But I'm not sure if it's any better (cheaper) than Hotel 17. Geeta is in Montreal I believe.

I'll be in NYC the first weekend of November, so any hotel suggestions appreciated (I may stay with friends a couple of nights).

Right, Hotel 17 booked, thanks for the recommendation Lauren.

I hear whispers I may not be the only Londoner in NY that week, as well.

I've heard rumors that it's going to be a British Invasion. Yay, Matt. Come and visit me in Astoria (Queens).

Yeah that'd be great (this is Mary, I assume?)

I will be there with a pretty big group of Britishes (like, 20+) but I'm not going to be spending all week with them and most of them have nothing at all to do with ILX so I'll probably split off from them for any internet mentalist-related stuff.

Yes, I am Mary. Why so many Britishers?

New York I love you and I'm coming to town.

That is, I'm paying a fleeting visit from Monday-Thursday next week if anyone is around and fancies a US pint-equivalent? (even, if it really exists, a drop of the mythical Brown Drink?)

Um, you might remember me from such oldie-timey ILx roles as Edna Welthorpe, Mrs and Jerry the Nipper.

don't forget fellow britishers, take some id out with you - i got id'd to death around the village area bars and i'm 33 y/o lol !!

Trousers! Wowow awesome, we shall imbibe.

I can probably come out. What is the brown drink?

WAIT!!!! I've just forgotten the infamous "BROWN DRINK" available only at Welcome to the Johnsons on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Or in your own kitchen. Here's how to do it:

* Fill a pint glass half-full of ice cubes.
* Pour one shot of Raspberry Stoli.
* Fill glass about 3/4 up with Dr. Pepper.
* Top off with Guinness.

Yummier than Buckfast and twice as lethal.

-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, June 14, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago)

I visited Johnson's a year or two after Tracey's recommendation, but requests for The BD were met only with quizzical expressions.

Dean Young is doing a reading at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday. I'm assuming tickets are still available.

Hello NYCILXers. Right then, I fly into New York on Friday night (like, arriving at midnight) and will be around for a whole week. Also London ILX's very own Anna will also be in town from Sunday to Wednesday. Two Londoner for the price of one.

Joint FAP on Monday evening anyone? It's the only night both of us can manage but I'm pretty flexible for other nights of the week.

YES, we have been loosely planning noise FAP for same time. Don't think we have a venue yet tho?

Anywhere reasonably easy to get to from the East Side suits me fine - I'm not hugely fussy about these things. I'm staying here, not sure where Anna is.

somewhere in the east village/les? if past lodgings are any indication, then anna will probably be midtown-ish.

take the chic and super hip l train to livonia ave - its the latest hotsotpsO!

Hello - yes, I'm staying at the Hudson, so Midtown, but don't worry - I haven't suffered finding the Lower East Side/ East Village on previous trips. Will be good to meet more of you.

Felicity has said she'll be able to come along for a bit if we do Monday night in Williamsburg. Anna is that likely to be possible for you?

This is going to end up at Dadd'y's isn't it

try the margavesa, it's delish

;_______;

What about someplace on Grand?

I mean hell, except for Felicity we could have it at WW quite happily.

Monday is pretty much my only free night, but I'm not realy bothered about the area - I'll leave that to the locals.

I can't go back to my favorite bar on grand anymore.

THANKS TO THE LAST TIME I WENT THEIR WITH UKIANS

Is this Pete's fault by any chance?

I would prefer Williamsburg especially since I've been planning to go there anyway and Monday seems as good a time as any. this and this have been mentioned and both look pretty great.

In Williamsburg on the weekend, never trust anyone in a vertical striped dress shirt. always deny their request to "pound it brah"

Oh fine, just let me know where you all decide on. Neither of those would be my choice of bars but you can't have everything, eh?

I'll go for the biergarten, at least it looks like there stands a chance of being an out-of-the-weather smoking area.

Matt, across the street from Spuyten Duyvil exists FETTE SAU, a pork BBQ & beer by the gallon place run by the same people. NOM NOM NOM

Also Spuyten Duyvil is much more centrally located for uppity Manhattaners and cranky South Brooklyn G train riders.

Yeah, I mean, it's a FAP, just pick something I guess.

Pretty sure neither Spuyten Duyvil or Fette Sau serve Budweiser but fuck it. You're driving me to tequila, I just hope you know that.

Pretty sure neither Spuyten Duyvil
or Fette Sau
serve Budweiser
but fuck it.

You're driving me to tequila
I just hope you know that.

Just pick the best bar in the area that's easy to get to, I'm not especially bothered. I think a decent smoking area might be considered an advantage though.

Spuyten Duyvil appears to serve something called Tower of London MEAD. I have never once seen mead on sale, even in London.

It's nice to know that pub indecision is by no means confined to London fappage.

We're not so much indecisive as we are overly opinionated, Matt. It's sort of the reverse of the "Oh, go ahead, you choose" "No, YOU choose" "No, really, I just couldn't" that I imagine LondonLX doing.

Also hating 85% of the available bars is kind of my thing.

Haha your imagination is so wrong - we do this every time, and are still counting the casulties from the fierce pub v bar fite when Alba came to visit three years ago.

i see no pic of anyone staring down at the table

also, who is v-neck flat cap man who looks as if he were dropped in by some continuously circling british blimp?

that would be gr8080

gr8080 q. wellington III esq. o.b.e.

hi guys it took me til 4 am last night but my paper is done and i am officially on winter breakz so maybe i will lighten those pics tonight! they are not that great though.

and i suck at image adjusting... anyone good at it who wants to do it for me?

here is what happens when you think it's "fun" to not use flash but don't adjust the exposure and then have to self-brighten.

jody + matt
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/2123432835_6350f3f659.jpg

blurry grady (still pretty dapper)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/2124206434_cdf9da1965.jpg

ghost riderz
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2220/2124206346_2bb6377349.jpg

F still looking at camera

max still looking at grady?

oh 3 image rule.

last 2:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/2123432497_99fa68cd65.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2382/2124206152_2172c14403.jpg

and who is the floppy-haired dude in the last photo?

max

an a+ bro, would get drunk with again

i thought this was max:
http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/8/5/24/alkiecat/f_maxm_dfc6ef6.jpg

that is also max.

I'm anticipating a pretty good photo of me and Grady looking like muppets.

if anyone's still unclear as to who i am i can post some more pictures

floppy-haired, topknot, short hair, u name it

slut

hmm....a bit too dark: can't see if matt's doing his patented 'shit-eating grin'

Really lovely to meet you all. I had a good time, idiot faux-coat-loosing aside.

I'm anticipating a pretty good photo of me and Grady looking like muppets.

-- nabisco, Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:36 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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lol jk
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me unknowingly capturing our server as she confronts my friends about an $8 tip on 4 pitchers of beer ($78).
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i love you aaallll

max you are so CUET! what an awesome smile :)

who is that babe with the fringe and glasses? is that bell_labs?

That's former ILXer Ally with the glasses. I've got a few more pics I'll put up in a bit.

I had 1x amazing week, but now absolutely destroyed after a night time flight plus 7 days of constant walking and excessive drinking and not very much sleep. Thank god I don't have to go into work for another week and a half.

i thought i had posted this one, bell labs and ian:

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/277.jpg

Here we go:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2161/2128432841_612a0e3e72.jpg?v=0

L-R - Lauren, Nabisco, Anna

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/2128432913_873b5ab084.jpg?v=0

Ally, Tehresa, Bell Labs

it was cool meeting everybody, i'm really glad i got the chance.

i was there with some non-ILX friends before everyone showed up and had kind of briefly explained to them how i knew these people who were coming to the bar soon. later, my friend told me that when the first few ILXors approached our table, he "knew they were grady's friends because they just looked like they were from the internet."

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2303/2129210728_5f94b37863.jpg?v=0

Anna, JBR, Laurel

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/2128433027_cb8cd19cd6.jpg?v=0

This one rules

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2188/2128433127_0d6d5ff545.jpg?v=0

Felicity and Carey

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2295/2128433195_9890e26508.jpg?v=0

Photo #37 of Grady posing in a cap. Whippet hidden just out of shot.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2128433265_3f652b53a2.jpg?v=0

Oh and Anna I think I picked your scarf up at the end of the night, after you'd left. Which would be brilliant had I not idiotically somehow mislaid it on the way back to my hotel.

who is the dude in the blue shirt?

it's max!

nabisco looks nothing like i imagined.

:|

so adorable
srsly if i had been there, what with the holiday season and the booze and the cuteness, i wld have been unable to keep from constantly hugging you all, which may well have verged on unbearably squee

i think we were reasonably squee as it was!

you all seem grate! i'm gonna have to do this one day, as long as the authorities let me step on US soil.

wish you could have been there, though, rrrobyn!

I was being very squee for pretty much the entire night. Embarassingly so in places. I think at one point I remember drunkenly exclaiming to JBR "OMG no one writes transport planning papers like you do!"

nabisco, you are v v distinguished looking! i didn't mean what i said in a bad way!

ian is SMILING

ilxors are a rather good-lookin' bunch

^^^^ Agreed. Everyone is damn cute it's ridiculous.

um okay THANKS MAX for pointing this out to me. i like never clicked on this thread for some fucking reason. next time =|