who wants to roadtrip down to DC for the inauguration?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

i do!

I am making plans for this now

I have (1) futon

welcome!!! we had thousands of people dancing in the streets - like a lot of other places in America. But 1/20/09 is going to be INSANE!!

i am down for this yall

Totally doing this.

I'll be there in Fallout 3.

seriously if you want to do this and don't have a place to stay all the hotels are booked up already. I have one (1) futon.

ok i wanna go maybe stay outside of town??

maybe amon will let u stay his his place in b'more?

my sister and bro-in-law live in alexandria - sure we could fit a few people there!

my uncle lives in DC and so does my buddy dave

Do you need tickets to the innauguration?

if you can't get tickets you can volunteer to work security and get in for free http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/opportunities.shtml

u on the list, jon?

oh man we are gonna get so drunk

i would have to check with the wife but i could probably let a couple people stay at my place in PG County. although this thing is on a weekday so i might not be on board with going, i dunno.

How much do I have to donate to the DNC to get into this?

i think 600 for a seat? its pretty easy to see from the street though. ill be there dudes, lets all hang!

this is gonna be awesome. USFAP!

uh it will be called DCFAP b/c u will be in DC

we pay taxes but have no representation

but please, come to our party!!!!!

seriously considering this.

hmmmmmm

This is tempting.

WaFapU

$317 MSP to DC

chinatown bus, bitchez!

though i think jw should spring for acela tix for all nycers!

I just got a $3000 medical bill!

how much of it do you pay?

I was At the last one

my sister was, protesting.

how much of it do you pay?

This is after insurance.

;_;

did you know that going into the surgery?

me + fam are considering this. how insane would it be to do w/ a 4 + 7 year old?

do they smoke weed and listen to boredoms

gabbneb i actually thought i saw a shot of you at obama's speech the other night

i was like "is he from chicago or something"

XD xxp

a case of the 'that's a gabbneb lookin' mother fucker' syndrome.

lets all stay in the same hotel in bodymore murderland

xpost i said that out loud, tza!!

ok so

swearing in ceremony - $515 - $6825 (talk about running the gamut)
inaugural parade - $645 - $1815
inaugural ball/gala - $1350 - $1950

seriously if you want to do this and don't have a place to stay all the hotels are booked up already. I have one (1) futon.

i just found an available room, but it's $5000 ;__;

i found some more rooms at a 1/4 of that cost, non-refundable

wow.

tombot's futon not appealing to you, gab?

hey the hyatt's only 650/nt

i checked out some listings for tombot's futon and they were definitely below 650/night

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r34/brotherofmine/being_there.jpg

what happened to ghost rider

is he grady now?

his skull caught on fire while riding a motorcycle and then he died

pretty sure he was posting as 'deeznuts' for a while

now i think hes 'velko'

xpost - i'm the lucky ilx poster. will have to leave Tombot to drink alone. I work for USSS. 8 years of work finally paying off.

i mean 8 years of working at USSS. Came in right before Bush. wait long enough you get a nice ticket to history. study up folks

Congrats, I didn't think you got to do stuff like that.

i would like to come, there is even a CMU bus trip but I am already freaking out about the amount of work they want me to do.

i don't do stuff like that for a living. but i am lucky enough to work in the same section as our production crew. Past 2 inaugs I said hell no, but this time I asked in August.

hope you are enjoying Pittsburgh.

you guys need to come and visit, this is a good town.

has you enjoyed the delights of the cathedral of learning and the second largest inner-city park in the states yet?

(my only experience of pittsburgh)

very envious of anyone who's going to be in dc on tuesday. came very close to some drunken flight-buying last night but it didn't quite happen.

schenley park can wait till it warms the fuck up, or at least gets close to freezing.

this is as close to the cathedral of learning as i have got but I must get over there.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3528/3201148419_428650c59d_b.jpg

might be seein de la @ the moveon party XD

cool to meet jergins in nyc the other night, good luck on your ny-to-dc inauguration train trip / moodymann marathon

rip my inauguration trip!

<3 you all let's still be happy and celebrate

damn this city is already a zoo

no doubt. just walked around downtown for a while. tons of people

in my neighborhood a few blocks away, there is a giant inflatable george w bush with pinocchio nose (it's about 20 feet tall, like.. if you ever see those giant rats the unions bring out for protests) & has a target on the front where you are supposed to throw shoes at it. lots and lots of shoes left there

I am going to go to Next Door and try to find seats

leaving for the mall right now

good luck usa

wear coats usa

it was so cold out there guys!

http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp127/deanofsomething/inauguration-small.jpg

I did eventually find seats at Next Door and I had a half smoke with everything on it and lots of chouffe and I made the 23-year-old puke

omg, some of the Dunbar marching band majorettes are wearing American Apparel shiny red robot leggings. awesome

hey so this was pretty rad

didja at least get a replica of Aretha's hat

not sure where i would have done that...... i dont think they were selling replicas of arethas hat....... they would have had to make it pretty quickly......... or had advance knowledge of what it would look like

woulda tried Air & Space Museum

where on Mall were you and did you see Robert Gates' original president fly away?

awz satellite imagery http://www.popsci.com/content/inauguration-day

so jealous max!

hey so this was pretty rad

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^^^^

my friend + i woke up @ 430 AM to get there (his parents live in prince georges county & we stayed w/ them) and took the train in -- after the inaugural met some friends for drinks in georgetown, that spent the day bar hopping/walking to capitol hill, took a cab somewhere else, went to three more bars, stayed out until 4am @ nite, crashing at a friend's place -- stupidly i stayed up to watch the lakers-cavs game the night before

my sleeping schedule is way messed up and i gave myself a cold but it was a great time

the crowd was insanely huge

damn deej why didn't you tell me you were in my general locality

i found out afterward that four or five of my coworkers & a former colleague who i hadn't seen for a year (and had moved to atlanta, isn't in DC a lot) were pretty much in the exact same part of the mall right by the washington monument. didn't run into any of them. oh well!

wish i'd had the energy to go bar hopping afterward but just ended up getting korean food for dinner & crashing out at home.

They said on the news there were 0 arrests! wau

i found out afterward that four or five of my coworkers & a former colleague who i hadn't seen for a year (and had moved to atlanta, isn't in DC a lot) were pretty much in the exact same part of the mall right by the washington monument. didn't run into any of them. oh well!

haha, i think everybody was right near the monument--so was my whole family (didnt see them, they didnt see each other) and some other friends--i guess it was cause they had the jumbotrons there + they blocked off 14th st (corny)

i was by the 3rd jumbotron back -- was the sound + picture off at the other jumbotrons also?

why would they hv arrested anybody when Bush & Dick went out the back door?

yeah i think there was an audio delay on all the jumbotrons

hey so this was pretty rad

i ended up just behind the reflecting pool, in front of the jumbotrons. came out of the 395 tunnel and got really really lucky. there wasn't even a security screening at my checkpoint, they just let people through.

my video of GWB going byebye

i met tombot. tried to go see moodyman but nothing was doing. ended up in an irish bar where people dirty danced with an obama cutout. slept on the floor of union station

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0007.jpg

im really glad i went

me too. anybody get into the parade? i found a decent spot a block or so away, slightly obstructed, but couldn't handle the cold and didn't know when the parade would roll by

my video of GWB going byebye

LOLLLL

awesome

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

find jergins

holy shit thats things amazing

wow! cool

ufo @ inauguration