SE meetup - Wine & Roses 7pm, May 21st (Thurs)

I will be sitting at the bar with my bberry & book.

I'll be there - probably jet-lagged, so expect more gris than eminence.

I will be there. I will probably be wearing glasses and looking around anxiously for someone to say "hey, are you here for the Streeteasy meetup?"

i will be there, looking for evnyc to cover my back. also looking for squid in the chrysler hat.

I really must post more--rather disheartening to realize that noone will be looking for me!!!!

i'll be there....

bump

You mean you'll be the one with the bump? Thursday nights I visit my mother in Westchester, but I'm so curious, I might just put her off.

Bump the post up. I will be at bar with bberry and book.

dang it... cant' make it... sorta busy with a new business venture.... first round on me... send me the bill :)

i'm willing to venture over to the west side for this.

I'll be there. 21st is better for me.

Condoholics Anonymous. Here is where we make peace with ourselves by making peace with those we have hurt.

Speaking of which... Julia and trinityparent, your first pinot is on me.

bump, for the evening browsers.

I will buy for all, but why do ya'll want your cover blown???

Really, patient09, you'll buy me a condo?! Fab! I'm totally gonna show now!

As an additional game: guessing who's who. That's paRT 1. PART 2: I'm looking forward to reading post-meetup threads.

I might buy a condo, and instead of calling it a youth hostel, i'll call it an SE rehab house. You're all welcome.

youcannot, i suspect we don't mind blowing our cover because we stand by what we say. no one will need to guess who I am.

youcannot, will you be showing? i'd love to meet you.

although obviously i'm speaking literally for only myself.

w81 is a sellout, who was "sponsored" by a rental broker. lol

lol, so you won't be going us? what a pity.

Rufus is coming, right?

I will attend if work obligations don't get in the way.

Why? Because I am nervous that if the attendees (nyc10023, West81st, AR) meet up and take their discussions offline, I will lose my daily fix of RE crack. I want to be in on whatever the cool kids are doing.

columbiacounty, will you be there? I would love to find out whether you are nearly as grumpy as your online persona!

Who is everybody else dying to meet?

Count ME in

Who's bringing the crack? Come on W67 let's relive the good old days.........

I'm a bit older myself, shrooms, won't necessarily kill you.

lol, I'm not quite sure what to think of you yet.

I will be easy to spot, I am Babs!

aboutready, I'm in Rome now, so I won't meet you.

when in rome...

To be honest, I have this aversion to anonymous posters who don't mind have their cover blown. If you really don't, post under your real name. Otherwise it smacks of childish egocentric attention starvation. Gimmicky stuff.. But it's just me.

youcannot, if my husband weren't a local managing partner at an international law firm, and my daughter weren't at an ues private school, i'd announce. but a limited amount of discretion, at the least, seems reasonable. if i get raging drunk one night and post something i shouldn't, i'm sure the reprecussions won't be severe. but for the benefit of the others in my life, a thin veneer of discretion isn't too much to aim for.

by the way, youcannot, who are YOU?

patient09 is my real name, I think my mother may have been a bit omniscient about when I would make my next purchase. Amazing really.

at least she didn't name you Elvis.

aboutready, again, I already know about you a million times more than I want to. Sorry.

Also, I don't believe I'm interesting or intriguing enough to pique popular interest. I'd rather know about different real estate-related services. Not opinions, mind you.

then go elsewhere. ciao.

Is this your site, Aboutready? Or is it free to everyone to post and chose the topics and posters?

Oh please. You tell me that you find anon posters full of pretense. Then I tell you why I don't come forth freely and you give me some bs about why you won't. Then you post some oblique comment about how you "know about" me. Then you give some lame-assed excuse about how your own rules about revealing yourself don't apply to you because you're not interesting.

Are you implying that I am interesting so I should reveal myself to you, who is certainly adverse to my self-interests?

There are some threads that deal with real estate-related services. Find them if you need to. You are on a thread about a gathering of people.

Piss off.

Aboutready, are you all right?

yes. piss off.

aboutready, you've been a riot lately, and extremely informative. Hopefully youcannot will find the ignore button. Don't waste your time.

Oh-oh. It's going to be some meetup...

thanks tenemental. the succinct piss off has been doing well. i have some thoughts actually, but truly i don't care. i just respond when it amuses me to do so.

I'm with youcannot. I hate anonymity. I will show up at the event prepared to fully reveal my identity- in hand- w2s for the last 7 years, a letter of recommendation from my high school math teacher, and a tear-stained hand-written essay about the night I lost my virginity.

it is kind of odd that as a goof, "lol" has resurfaced a bunch of random blasts-from-the-pasts from different people, but aboutready was the only one to resurface HER OWN thread:

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/10892-my-own-blast-from-the-past

Makes you think that youcannot is onto something when he states - "Otherwise it smacks of childish egocentric attention starvation"

I've alway thought that might be a good tactic if I said something irreparably stupid... bury the thread. What we need to find is the very last posts anyone made before lol started posting. Those are our primary suspects.

nycgal1, noah, steve, many repeatedly claim that they have said things time and time again. lol's postings made me a bit nostalgic for the not-so-good old days so I did a bit of trolling. I actually posted it for one comment I made, the one about lenders caring about owner occupancy rates, which everyone told me I was crazy to think about.

nice of you to impute psychological shortcomings, though.

nycgal1, you coming on the 21st?

People never look like their email posts (bump)

Looking forward to attending!

I'm in

I'm not interesting, but if I can pry myself away from work at a decent hour, I'll be there!

booyakasha...you're posting on streeteasy and that's a guarantee you're interesting!!

I'll try to make it - where is this place? Maybe I can go uptown with aboutready

www.wineandrosesbar.com - 73rd & Columbus.

I'm just as fun and interesting in person as I am online. You guys would love me.

Did I mention intelligent and good looking as well?

JuiceMan, I'd pay good money to see your drunken Kumbaya singalong with Steve at night's end.

I may send my husband in my place since he's always wanted to try this place and, well, i make fun of him for it everytime.

You'll like him. He's very nice.

will not attend, but will be ready to read some of the post-meeting gossip. make sure a bull shows up, like alpine, otherwise it'll get personal.

and booyakasha, i guarantee i have you beat for "most uninteresting" these days...barefoot and pregnant is all i have to offer.

10023 - is wine and roses big enough for this group?

cccharley, if you can make it let me know. aboutreadyse mail direction @gmail.com

tenemental, I would enjoy a bike ride with you through crackville much more. Plus, steve doesn't drink and he is mad at me for my masturbate comment on the other thread.

how about a streeteasy meetup twitter account???the updates would be hysterical for those of us unable to attend...And don't forget to tweet the inevitable pictures of aboutready and Julia dirty dancing JuiceMan and uwsmom's hubby on the bar!!!!

nyg, that's just harsh. JM and I just want to discuss anarchy and Milton F.

or so he'd have you think--he's already admitted to having a thing for supersmart real estate savvy women and still nursing a broken heart from the whole west81st debacle...Also I hear he's really hot!

>>and booyakasha, i guarantee i have you beat for "most uninteresting" these days...barefoot and pregnant is all i have to offer.<<

uwsmom, that makes two of us :) At least now I won't be the only one drinking Shirley Temples all night!

So that's how a support group is formed!

nyg...you have me laughing out loud...

"tenemental, I would enjoy a bike ride with you through crackville much more."

Anytime, Juice. I'll even lend you a bike.

"Plus, steve doesn't drink"

Unless that's a new development, Steve doesn't drink about as often as aboutready doesn't hit refresh on financial webpages (that's meant with affection for both parties).

"and he is mad at me for my masturbate comment on the other thread."

Missed that one, but he'll get over it. You guys would give each other kidneys.

oh tenemental, sometimes I even wander from one financial webpage to another.

I suspect that we'd like the same crackvilles, however.

i missed the masturbate comment also, those buy v. rent threads can get so loooong (self-deprecating laughter).

LOL... it'll be almost as bad as missing my HS reunion. :) Please get drunk and have a good time and by all means pray to the porcelain gods ;)

McHale... I limit myself to drinking, with my personality.. anything more addictive would just make me into a crack whore :)

nyg, have we met before? You had me at hello.

this is seriously hilarious.

omigosh JM--hot AND cinematically erudite!!!!

nyg, now i'll be looking for you.

oh yay I've made an impression on the cool kids! I rock!

ar: psst, you may have some latent stalking tendencies, but I'm down with that.

nyg.i've never seen you on streeteasy before but you are very funny...

i guess this string just brings out the tiger in me!

This may be too much to pass up.

nyg, all that and a great vocabulary. I had to Google erudite!

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendhip

Wow, at first I said no way, I want to get out of the city asap for the long weekend, but now...I'm actually considering going. I'll be the one at the bar with the 'brokers suck' hat and a raging opinion.
Agent Rachel will be my date

UWSrenter, I'm sure Rachel is looking forward to it. :)

hold on...she said she would meet me there.

CC: She lied...are you that surprised...

hey i was just kidding...don't want to waste my time...i'm taking the power broker with me.

p09, stalking for all the right reasons... could there be a country song in there?

p.s., I like john hiatt, the chilies, the stones and social d (among many others). so don't brand me with the country label, although if you like that i'm cool. one of my bestest gf's is a professor of lit and a country crooner. like touring and producing crooner. I'd like that energy as a single mom with two kids.

No seriously, I'll have the shirt that says, "Co-ed naked power brokers"
this should be interesting....I think I'm gonna go, my gf has to work that night, so I'm not leaving early

did someone say karaoke?
doesn't sushi hana have it on thursday?

nyg, you are absolutely correct. you must post more often.

jm and i have a written past that might not promote dancing on the bar. although, with a few too many...

This is so Seinfeld meets Friends! AR, I am serious: start taking your notes girl. You could channel your drive and writing style into a new career, like our Most Valuable Poster did. Start writing your first novel. Or an academic paper on the impact of niche virtual communities in the markets. Or at least finish the country song! Do you know Patty Loveless?

more like John Hughes meets Fellini!!!

mimi - wish you could attend. I think i'd like you more than a little. I actually have a couple of topics in mind for a book, which ironically makes makes spend time on SE, because I'm doing a number of different areas of research, some of which are se related.

*****IMPORTANT*****

CHANGE IN LOCATION

The get together will now be held at:

HIGH FLOOR CORNER 1 BEDROOM - 407 PARK AVENUE SOUTH #18B

it will be free food and open bar because he gets no greater joy than "serving you people free food."

Oh mygod