As the result of an investigation spanning just over two months, we now have indisputable proof that bloggers do, indeed, exist in three dimensions. After years of general acceptance by the scientific community that bloggers were entities created solely of bits and existing only in the realm of cyberspace, our investigators have accumulated sufficient evidence to turn that long-accepted theory upside down.
The following bloggers, commenters, and readers have actually materialized as real, live human beings and have been spotted at least once at Memphis on Main since April 3, 2007 (in alphabetical order):
A Bartender You Know
And now for something completely different
Anonymous
Dan Fielding
Eggs Ackley
Former UC IMC Junkie
Gamera
Glock21
IlliniPundit
James Mortland
Karen Foster
Kevin Sandefur
Laura Sandefur
Matt Gladney
Ractivist
Run4cvrlib
Wandervogel
Wayward
Xian
A couple of folks whose names I don’t remember (apologies!)
And of course, yours truly.
While these elusive creatures may venture in at any time, the period with the highest frequency of blogger-spotting occurs on Tuesday evenings starting around 4:45-5 p.m. and generally lasting around 3-4 hours. They tend not to arrive or leave in groups, but do have a tendency to gather together while on the premises, and have even been observed rearranging furniture in order to promote their social rituals.
It really is fun. And as Eggs said in a now-put-to-bed thread, it’d be fun to see if we can get a better showing next Tuesday. So this is just me trying to stir things up a little to see if we can’t get on a few more calendars. Hey, where else are you going to hear phrases like “thread necrophilia” spoken out loud?
I can't make it next Tuesday, but I hope you all have a great time!
Remember - hate the thread necrophilia, not the thread necrophiliac. :-)
I may consider attending after January 1st, but certainly not before.
"I may consider attending after January 1st, but certainly not before."
:-)
We are hip deep in softball, still. I have an awful lot of fun with everyone when I can go to the Happy Hours, but it just doesn't seem fair to leave Kev to deal with an entire team of little girl softball players (complete with bandaids, snacks and keeping the batting order straight--all while trying to coach their play!) He's a good guy and a great Dad, but THAT is too much to expect of anyone as a solo act.
We should be done with our season by mid-July.
You have got to know that it was very difficult to leave last time to go to a meeting about Open Meetings and FOIA. I wanted to attend the meeting--don't get me wrong--but I really did have fun with everybody there at MOM.
Hope to see you all soon. If you feel like a road trip come watch us play!
Laura
Laura-We know you can't leave to go to the blogger get together because you do everything, and Kevin has four thumbs on his left foot. I think we should go to a game.
I really need to bring my 3-D glasses next time I come out... QOM! You never told me the show was in 3-D! I've been missing out!
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Glock21 Op/Ed
alright. maybe I'll make the next one. everytime I get my sights set on coming Mollie always has some stupid chore for me to do. this last time was to get her another gallon of mineral spirits so she could take her makeup off for the next 3-7 days.
Wait isn't Mollie coming, I have heard she's a real babe?
I have to agree with Arvid about not attending until after 1/1/8, although I do remember during the discussion about the smoking ban that bar owners were receptive to requests for non-smoking events. MOM - Any chance you would make the bar smoke free for a see you blogger happy hour?
Oh boy, I'm just sure I'm gonna get flamed on this one...
*Queen pauses to fasten seatbelt in anticipation of bumpy ride*
I do know of some bars doing (or willing to do) that sort of thing. And if it were just me, I'd have no problem at all designating a few smoke-free hours every now and again. And I imagine my fellow smoking bloggers would courteously step outside to smoke without protest during that time.
But one of the promises we've made to our regular customers since day one has been that I'll never schedule any kind of band or event that will cause them to walk up to the door and wonder, "What happened to my bar?" And yeah, we do call it their bar, not ours. They tell us what they want, and we try to make it happen. That's a big part of how we've built up such a loyal clientele.
So if we were to do that, Tuesday could wind up slow, making a smoke-free time inconsequential to our regular customer base. On the other hand, we could conceivably wind up turning away (in their minds) 30-50 of our bread-and-butter customers that evening. Trivial as I'm sure it must sound to nonsmokers, the hard truth is that a "no smoking" time would (for want of a better phrase) freak out any regular customers who might happen along at that time. In this fickle business, all it takes is one unhappy experience to lose a customer forever; and I'm afraid that's a risk we're not ready to take on.
That being said, I've said from the start that I don't have any kind of lock on this happy hour idea. I just happen to be of the "social director" personality type, and I think it's understandable why I would pick our own bar for it. But if y'all were to decide you wanted to gather somewhere else, instead, I certainly wouldn't boycott it.
Wouldn't it be easier just to have it outside that week, if we knew in advance?
I think it should be moved to Springfield tomorrow, since I have to go to a conference there. Road trip!
If we sit in the back of the bar as usual, there's hardly a hint of the burning weed, and I've observed that the smoking bloggers are polite souls who don't light up back there. Dan Fielding never lights his. So unless you're not attending just out of principles, all you need to do is hold your breath for the 5-10 seconds it takes to get past the front bar. And there probably will only be a few smoking at that time anyway. There most certainly is not a hazy smog in the air.
And as an aside, if I don't push away from the table and the PBR a bit more, I'm soon going to be a 4-D blogger.
Eggs now you have done it, everyone’s going to show up including the cops, since Wayward gave them the flowers, they are probably monitoring the site. We maybe in luck if Mollie shows up and bogarts all the evidence.
Eggs: I've always said you look positively devastating in 4-D.
Run4: I hope you're right! We have a weakness for cops. And some of them have a weakness for us...
Glock: I'd have told you, but I assumed the 3-D glasses would interfere with your X-ray vision.
Wayward: Dang!! I don't think our liquor license covers that much distance.
Dan: Help me keep an eye out and let me know if it's time to move outside. I think we could cover that one pretty spontaneously.
My x-ray vision is dependent on my whiskey intake... or maybe its just my imagination run wild... either way... I love it! Certainly made the all female YMCA rendition more bearable on kareoke night.
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Glock21 Op/Ed
"Dan: Help me keep an eye out and let me know if it's time to move outside. I think we could cover that one pretty spontaneously."
What, and miss Glory Daze? [dies]
Don't panic. It's not a done deal yet. :)
Boy that was some blogger bash. Wenalway showed up and he’s not such bad guy after a few beers and a bottle of Jack. I heard we have a new blogger coming on line, I will wait until his debut and you can guess who he is. Glock was wearing x-ray glasses and I am not sure what he was looking at. Dan, Queen and Now for something were playing games, when Queen wasn't signing orders to have Egg's but in the dungeon.
Wenalway is gone.
There's no reason to keep bringing him up, OK?
"Uh, did you say the W word? The W word is bad, OK?"
Mr. Mackey, South Park Elementary's Counselor.
Eggs were have you been, we were going to send the dogs to look for you.