July 25, 2006
Meetup Mania! (2 Updates)Meetups!
I’ve been a bit busy, so I haven’t been able to ask you about SM Meetups, but I promise I’ve wanted to do so for several weeks. Those mutinous, offline melas are very much on my mind these days, as I contemplate the end of summer and where I will spend it. You see, not only do I think it’s high time for the second-ever live mutiny in DC, it seems that excessively homesick-me will be in the golden state for much of early September (w00t Northern California!!!). I think it’s time to overwhelm Greco once again; let’s take that possibility from tentative to definite, shall we? Let’s also hope the wifi works this time, as it usually does. ;)
Amardeep inspired me (yet again) to post once he issued his gentle invitation to Philadelphia-area readers to join him for that city’s first meetup, before a very cool-sounding concert he just blogged about. Even if you don’t take him up on his tempting offer, I want you to know that it won’t be an anomalous event— Philadelphia is a great city and I’d love to hold regular meetups there, as well as NY and SF. What say all of you, and when I type that I mean ALL of you, wherever you are. Depending on how much demand and notice we get, we may be able to coordinate sepia soirees elsewhere, since many of us travel, some of us, far too much. :D
DC: When should We Chocolate City mutineers will have our next carb-laden, veg-friendly fiesta on August 19th? August 26th. Who knows, if we don’t tell Abhi, we might be able to facilitate a “Yo Dad” appearance which ISN’T moderated! Imagine the possibilities for information-gathering!
SF: What about you, oh citizens of Baghdad-by-the-bay? How many of you will be around for Labor day weekend? I was assuming your answers would be a sea of “not me”s, so I was tentatively glancing at September 9. Thoughts?
Finally, as for you New Yorkers, any weekend you want to shriek and giggle until the Manager yells at us (cough LaLanterna cough) is fine with me. ;)
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Update #1: The people have spoken. DC’s meetup will be on August 26th. :)
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Update # 2: NYC’s loveliest saves the date and suggests something fantastic to meet up for— SummerStage at Central Park with a whole lotta brown choons. Pack your pick-a-nick baskets for Yogi and Booboo to plunder; New York’s meetup will be on August 13th!
anna on July 25, 2006 06:00 PM in Blog, Events, Meetups! · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
Here was some talk of a Windy City meetup. Anyone interested? Leave a comment or email me.
What excellent timing you have-- someone bearded in the bunker who shall remain nameless was just asking if anyone wanted a Chicago meetup... ;)
I can do a Chicago meetup some time in September. However, Vinod and I have a SF meetup in the works for August 6th. Post coming soon!
So much Sepia in SF!?! Yay for us!
Oh, exciting. Count me in for the SF meetup (either weekend).
"Either" my callipygian backside. I haven't seen you in FOREVER. You best pick MINE. ;)
Wow, I just realized that picture was taken a year ago, today! Awww, Kingsley...it's our anniversary. ;)
I had a blast at the last DC meetup and would definitely be up for coming out to another one. I'm playing a wedding in the ATL on the 19th, but I'm down for the 26th.
Hmmm.. mebbe the time has come for me to get off my sorry behind and show my face at one of these soirees. They seem to be fun. Next one in NY/Philly on a weekend, count me in!
What excellent timing (FYI, they sent it eight hours before I posted this):
To their credit, they felt awful about the Manhattan-meetup-mix-up last time and they wrote me afterwards apologizing for closing on Memorial Day on such short notice. I told them, "All's well that ends well; we had a FANTASTIC time at La Lanterna, our last minute venue."
Anyway, looks like we have a new-old venue for our next NYC meetup, if any of you are so inclined. :)
Aw, that's so sweet of Leela Lounge. I'm down for an NYC meetup =)
Hmm...first time I have actually placed my real name into the Name: field.....but anyways....would be interesting to drop by and say hello for the NYC meet up.
When should we have it? This Saturday? August 5? 12th? :) Siddhartha? Kobayashi-san?? Where you at?
Anna, you are a one-woman meet-up machine.
BTW, speaking of earlier inspirations (and the thread that wouldn't die) how does "Dr. Dhruv" sound?
I'm down for a NYC meetup anytime :-)
Two SF meetups in the next 2 months? Sweet!
SF Meetup sounds excellent - let's do this.
A N N A
I'm out of town on the 19th -- my vote for the DC Meetup is the 26th!!!
I agree that we are overdue for a SF meetup and will try to join any and all of them. :-)
i would vote for a meet in NYC ... chat wid fellow mutineers over some chaat hopefully .. lol ..
i won't even mind a meet in dc on 18th tho .. m in the city for a while ...
DC: August 26th, it is!
Ack I'm finally in a city where there's going to be a meetup, but I'm going to leave before it happens! Is there anyway the DC meetup could be moved up to Aug 11 or 12th?
Awesome! It's my sis' b-day that day as well, I'll try to drag her out as well.
Let's meet in NYC. This time, we'll get a place *across from* LaLaterna. And really stick it to them. I am sure they'll notice the loss.
Incidentally, I went to LaLaterna a few days back after the meetup with some anti-vegetarians who insisted on getting the carpaccio and the salmonella that came along with it. After the natural sequence of events, these guys called LaLaterna and gave them a good talking to. But I digress....
Alllll righty, then. The venue for the next NYC meetup will be Leela Lounge. :) Now PICK A DATE, already.
hmmm... watching this space for more NYC news...
This weekend works for me :).
Another suggestion: this event is on August 13th. Maybe a meet-up in Central Park? Potluck and all?
Oh, we HAVE to go to that! I knew one of you New Yorkers would come through with a "can't miss" event to anchor our meetup to...August 13th it is! THANKS, POOJA! :D
Yeah, the 13th is good. I am in Bwah-stun this weekend -- slacking off.
Geez, what happened at LaLaterna on that fateful day? I feel awful; I was the one who suggested the place.
And while we are on the subj. Is Asha Puthli the new MIA? Yes/No/Maybe?
It's not your fault really. Most people with half a brain would not eat raw meat in the Village. Or anywhere outside of Nobu.
Pooja darling, I thought the back garden was pure enchantment. I loved it so much, I had planned to take my sister there if we made it to New York. Your suggestion was lovely. :)
I think you got it twisted; MIA was the new Asha!
I'm down for August 13th...yeaahhhhhh
Will you go to Central Park early and set up picnic blankets for the rest of us? =)
I'll be there early. I'm a big picnicker and will have a blanket enough for 6-7 people to sit on and lots of snacks. Cold Cervazas can be bought there. Doors open 90 minutes before which means at 1:30pm and I assure you that it will be packed and once it's packed they will not let anyone in. So GET THERE EARLY.
BTW "Please do not bring alcoholic beverages, glass, bottles, coolers, pets, bicycles, rollerblades, folding chairs, beach umbrellas, video cameras or tape recorders. No flash photography is allowed. All bags are subject to search."
And they strictly follow this rule so bring blankets to sit on, water and food but don't bring any wine the way you do for concerts on the Great Lawn.
I might be able to stop in briefly on the 13th in NYC ...
Excellent idea. Count me in.
I am once again posting through an anonymizer, to say that, speaking of San Francisco, and waaayyyy far in advance, if anyone wants to meet up Thursday November 9th, I'll be there, because the Balboa Theater is gonna have a screening of the "Sita Sings the Blues" work-in-progress that night. Maybe we could get dinner before or drinks after. Or just popcorn during.
If and when there's a NYC meet at the Leela Lounge, I'll be there; not sure about sitting in Central Park (I'm something of an enochlophobe, and also a mosquito magnet).
If you're a mosquito magnet then it's a public service for you to come along ;)
There are no mosquitos in central park, silly, the rats eat their larvae.
So I am fairly new to Sepia Mutiny and I am very intrigued by a potential meetup in SF.
What exactly happens during a meet up? I am guessing it is just a meet up..(and thus it is called a meet up) of everyone who loves this website.
Am I right? Or do these meet ups come with an agenda/presentations etc?
I have been dying to meet some browness in the city, but have not had such luck because of my crazy work hours....that and the fact that I have only been in the city for 3 weeks and did not know a soul when I moved here, so I have no idea where to meet like minded, desi people.
I am definately missing hanging out with browness.
Count me in if the invitation is extended to everyone!
I'm enochlophobic, too. Especially when the "crowds" in question are composed of nosy, bitchy Aunties. ;)
The surgeons are gentle.
The floggings cease as soon as morale improves.
Anna's skin stuns.
For desis, it's not a crowd until it goes above 10,000 people or so. Largest crowd I've been in was 750,000 - as large as the population of SF or Boston. However, that did bring out "crowded rat" behavior - guys started pushing each other and starting fights b/c they were in each others space.
Bring handouts and email me your .ppt file ahead of time. Carry a backup on your USB drive just in case.
You'll have to ask Jai. Though I will say that it involves bowls, keys and several kinds of openness.
Correct.
Oh, I have an agenda all right.No, nothing so formal. Though I'm highly tempted to hold a spelling bee one of these times... ;)You have been counted. :)
Thanks! :)
It was a genuiune question. And I knew as I was typing it that I was going to get picked on :)
Don't blame you. I might as well have had a sign on my ass that said Kick me :)
But hey, I am new to this meet up stuff.
i'm a regular (read: compulsive) lurker, and a occasional (read: rare) commenter, but i am willing to delurk myself for a windy city meetup! any time in (or after) september would be lovely!
Don't fret, my pet. My booty is so 'licious it could support an entire billboard. ;) Can't wait to meet you!
This lurker is ready for a windy city meetup too.
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Hi,
No update about SF meetup day?
Would be joining for sure until and unless you guys plan to do on Monday with group of college-goers ... im not racist btw :)
Hrmmm...I will be here (SF area) Aug. 6th and Sept. 9th. And, Nina P., I can help organize something around Nov. 9th, if you'd like. I really want to see "Sita Sings the Blues", and I can (on occasion) be pressed into social butterfly mode and plan stuff :)
Bombay? Delhi?
Any ex-expats or simbly Indian readers around who want to do a meetup in Bombay/Delhi? Leave a comment here if you're interested. I'd love to attend either (or both) if there's enough interest.
I'll (try to) be there.....but if not...I vote for a post-meet-up fiasco Here PS: sorry for the underhanded link to my site =)
the above was for the NYC people =) (sorry for two posts)
Full feelings coming. I will down another shot of cuervo especial to us, and to more meetups on dates of your choice . Salut!
Geez I am sorry everyone! I didn't realize that I would need to click on the link button on the left to actually insert a link....SORRY - the mod's can delete my other two posts.....
so once again: here is a suggestion for the people in the mood for few brewskies (sp?) after sittin in the hot sun in NYC's summerstage
Anna, et al. I can probably make a September meetup... August sucks for me, too much going on.
frequent reader but first time commenter! yay for philly meet ups! wish i could make this one, but i look forward to the other ones!
Ajju, I'm in Delhi right now. Would love to attend if a meetup happens
New to SF, New to Sepia,
Also remember to wear lots of different-coloured bracelets on your wrists. Don't worry, just turn up like that and you'll rapidly find out what the
rainbow partymeetup's all about.....Trust me, you're going to end up knowing a whole bunch of people very well indeed by the time
they've all had their wicked way with youthe party ends.i am like so totally going to like be all up in at the DC meetup
Dude, I'm going to be in NYC that weekend. Am I allowed to come to 2 meetups in one month?
If you're bringing picnic blankets et al, pick a corner to stake out for the sepia crowd. That way we'll know where to converge once we walk in. The center's too sunny usually, and if we get too close, we're going to have to stand, what with everybody else around... and I don't know how you loquacious enochlophobes will deal with that.
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this is so cool. a concert and a meetup all in one. vat a bargain.
my chukarays, i will see you there. olé.
It's been a while since I have been able to make a NYC meet up... It be a blast to see you all again
Ende ponnu monay, we're already karuthu. No point in avoiding the sun now. ;)
What city are you in?? So much to plan! So much to do!
Anna: Let's hope Abhi does'nt read this! On August 26th Saturday "Yo Dad" just might make a "Cameo" appearance. There is nothing more I cherish than witness young and bright "Mutineers" getting together and discuss and solve all the problems of the modern "Brown" world. During Labor day weekend we will be in Chicago to attend a wedding of my "Parsi" friend's daughter. Anyone listening in "Windy City"? Anna, you are the best when it comes to throw a party. I mean it folks!!
Oye Anna you don't have to worry, there will be no nosy bitchy aunties to check out Talvin Singh :-)
Dude you better be there to protect me from the swarms of people that will want to take over the space while I try to reserve it for others!!!
thangawd I can make the 26th DC meetup...no other Aug weekend works for me, so thanks!!! If you're trying to get numbers, it will be me + 1
Msichana, tuende pamoja siyo?
mutineers at NYC : would we have a flag wher we can converge ... or is it gonna be a game of spot-em-in-the-park ....
Wassup peeps!
Wear Green if you're single and ready to mingle
Wear Yellow/Orange if you are married but looking
Wear Red if you're in a committed relationship
Looking forward to a nice evening of getting my toes sucked by some brown honies ;-)
KD...sindio. Siwezi kuenda mpeke yangu bila wewe! Aii!
what about an Austin meetup!?
So what is anyone bringin something to eat for the NYC meet up? If so, be ready be wowed by my 10-min tandoori chicken ;)
I'll bake a cake for dessert. It'll say "Sepia Mutiny Rocks" on it. (Or anything more witty you all can come up with.)
If you don't know me by now...you will never never never know me, ooooooooooooooooooo... ;)
Just look for me, I look like ... oh yeah, just look for Anna, it's simpler ;)
I'll bring tandoori chicken, marinated 24 hours and kicks major ass.
So it's me and Masale Wallah for the delhi meetup. And no one yet for Bombay. Bhaiyo aur behno Meeeetup lelo, kanda lelo, doodhi lelo...ek ke saath ek free...saste ke bhaav me! (ok no kandas and doodhis just meetups, but ek se saath ek free!)
Hope and pray I ll be in DC by 8/26th *closes eyes* :)
-P
"I'll bake a cake for dessert"
Pooja, you're going all auntie on us!
Preston! Preston HAS to come. It's not a real meetup without the Parsi Paparazzi. :D
Preston = Parsirazzi?
How long can I resist the inevitable ;)?
duly noted and adored. much more efficient, thank you. ;)
Not to be confused with the Parsi ROTC, which is something else entirely.
Time to register the domain name! You all are too clever.
Are they still banned at the Ivies? Poor Parsis. Let them flourish, I say. :D
hmmm... Where have all the Chicago-ites (ers?) gone?
Meetup in August?
September?
Chicago meetup coming in September. I'll have a post up later today talking about SF and Chicago meetups.
Sorry about the multiple posts, but taking a leaf from the New Yorker's book, the event on August 13 at Millennium Park looks interesting.
so we have the tandoori chicken and cake.
all thats left is the frozen kerala parotha, microwaved to perfection.
unless you prefer rice. mallus and bongs, much
eddi, nammalay kanaan nalla ruji aa.
and JOAT, we'll need to coordinate this invasion. I am available to intimidate any uncles in the crowd. you'll need to handle the aunties.
except pooja, of course. :P
Oh no!!! I'll be probably be somewhere between here and Texas on Aug 13th... Please have more NYC meetups soon!!
(New SM reader here, i followed a T-shirt link to y'all :)
Ennis, a humble request from SF: how about a non-Greco location for August? Don't make me come to North Beach twice in 4 weeks! ;)
I am totally fine with that. Greco is MINE, bitches--It's not a m e e t u p unless there's assloads of Illy, sugar (either from cake or gelato), sympathetic wait staff who leave us the eff alone and tables in the window. ;) So please, thrill brimful and choose elsewhere. Maybe on the peninsula? We've never done a meetup outside of North Beach, so the possibilities are endless.
Hey, let's not get crazy here!
Wow, I'm being a really pain today!!
Isn't that where our favorite Home Deepa Esq. lives?
It's not Ravi Shankar man it's Talvin (vat does he do for a liwing) Singh there will be no uncles and aunties except those who think they got game. Email me closer to the date if you want to coordinate getting there early and scoring space. We need a Mutiny Jhanda to draw attention!
Don't be too sure, JoaT. I know a good number of (cool) aunties and uncles who know what he does and dig his stuff. (I am thinking of asking my parents to come along.)
Yes!
Yikes taking it back! My parents won't go near anyplace where the potential of running into 18 year olds desis who wear pants that show their buttcracks or underwear exists.
Any word on whether the chica with all the tricks will be back from Sierra Lanka in time for the meetup?
Isn't she more of an Office Deepa these days?
Quite true. (Confidential to Deeeeeeeee: "blah blah blah")
;)
It's slightly confusing with two meetup-related threads running simultaneously, so let's recap:
Philly: TONIGHT! (Amardeep)
SF: August 6th (Ennis and Vinod)
NYC: August 13th (me)
DC: August 26th (me)
SF: a soft September 9th (me)
I write "soft" because we haven't officially chosen that date. I don't mind meeting the weekend before and I'm not booking my ticket until we finalize, but it seems like it will be the 9th...
man i want anna's life....bouces around DC, NYC, SF & has all the boys singin in the yard.....girl is there anything you don't do? ;) (btw....nice to meet you A N N A)
Gaurav, I much prefer it when I do the girl-ass-grabbing. Poor Nina Paley. I just couldn't resist her in that dress. ;)
Nice to meet YOU. :)
A N N A, I'm sure all the boys here prefer it too. Lipstick Les...., er, Lipstick Libyans are always appreciated by the average red-blooded randy desi.
Not by me, of course. I think that young South Asian people have far too much freedom these days and that any homoerotic activities should be confined to dodgy-looking lanky moustachioed men back in the motherland who fondle each other in public far too much yet insist that they are "like brothers". Everyone else should be as chaste as possible before marriage and ideally after marriage too. Any canoodling is purely for procreation and should be undertaken with the lights out, under the sheets, and the distasteful monkey-business should be completed as quickly as possible so that everyone can get back to normal and insist that Indian babies are delivered by storks.
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to get back to admiring the flower of British womanhood in all those tightum-tight clothes that the foxy ladies are wearing due to our current heatwave in London, along with daydreaming about tanned lovelies in bikinis and strappy high-heels and whatnot.
I don't think anyone here knows who I am, but I will be sure to meet you all on the 13th, anyway.
Hahahahah Jai you are killing me man. Too bad you won't be at the NYC Meetup I'd really enjoy meeting you.
hullo my brown kittens - I'm back and missed y'all terribly. Will be at the Aug.13th meetup fo sho. mr.cicatrix might make a very special appearance too.
~raising hand in the air~
(and somewhat diffidently:)
will there be another nyc meetup soon? 'Cos i'm not sure if y'all always plan meetups this way, and if there is a mailing list or something, i'd like to be on it.
On another note, any news on the Austin meetup? --that's where i'm gonna be visiting while i miss the nyc one.
signed,
Ms. New to SM
This IS how they always plan meetups. No mailing list. PLEASE do not suggest one. I haven't slept in four days, don't give them any ideas.
*whimpers*
A "maybe" for central park summerstage, but YESSS for the event @Knitting Factory(thanks for the link Gaurav).
The closer I can get to Talvin, the better ;-)
If some of you guys are heading there afterwards, I'd love to introduce myself and meet you mutineers.
Ohh... are you one of the
monkeysinterns from the bunker? If so, THANKS!!! and pleased to meet you :)YOur welcome Kavita....problem with me promising either the day or the nite meetups is that I start a new rotation come August 7 - so no clue what my schedule will be like. :/
and ohh... re.
i'll keep mum
DAMN IT!!!! A N N A! ! ! I'm out of town on the 26th celebrating my 27th in Veg-ASS. Can we have another meetup in September for those who are leaving DC and are konkani? And can we do a SM meet up in SF in October or November? :)
Can we just work around MY schedule? haha.
Yes Office Deepa, Esq. is making her home and office on the Peninsula (for now), but SF is waaaay more fun - so let's kick it up there.
Didn't someone mention Chaat Cafe? (which the fabulous brimful introduced me to, btw.)
Janeofalltrades,
That's really nice of you, I'm sure meeting you would be fun too. Although I'm scared of what happens at these things once the gates slam shut behind you and you're suddenly surrounded by all these strangers in masks discreetly taking off their saris. And that's just the men.
oh! i'll be back in time for the NYC meetup! can't wait!!!
Hahaha the last one I went to was super. It was a lot of fun and I got to meet all the people I've admired here. I also ran into people I knew, you know the 2 degree of separation rule with desis. It was really just a very pleasant experience. After having encountered so many Indian message boards out there with a bunch of nimrods who drain your brain it was personally very exciting for me to meet other desis who are the complete opposites.
JOAT...now u got my hopes up.....and watch....I'll be the nimrod at this meet up ;)
whats the record for the oldest person showing up at these meets (the dc one)? records are meant to be broken.
So what are the final plans for the DC meetup?
is the DC SM bloggers meetup only for SM contributers? I'd be more than willing to come along if you'll let a fellow desi blogger (albeit blogger-lite) join the convoy : )
Jay (nice name by the way),
As far as I know they let anybody turn up to these things, as long as you sign a confidentiality agreement and complete the form in triplicate confirming that you won't sue anyone for any injuries you may sustain during the meetup.....