Return of Happy Hour
Man: Say Phil, what do you say to Happy Hour after work?
Phil: I'd say looks like Cheryl's gonna have another black eye to explain to the neighbors.
[both laugh]
Phil: Come on, I'm buyin'.
—Family Guy, "Let's Go to the Hop" (6/6/00)
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When I got back from my Disney excursion, naturally one of the first things I did was check on the backlog of email. Among the literally hundreds of emails I got (most of them spam) was a bunch discussing an upcoming event. By the time I got to read them, the discussion had completely wound down, and Snay had apparently managed not to kill himself in West Virginia. In reviewing Danielle's blog last night, apparently just being on the email list makes me somehow part of the ruling class, according to one person.
So anyway, I now share the details with you (cribbed from Danielle):
What: The October/November AKA Octovember Blogger Happy Hour.
With: Your hosts! Danielle and Charissa.
Who: Baltimore Bloggers. Any Bloggers. Blog Readers. People Known By Acronyms on Other People's Blogs. Me and You and Everyone We Know.
Where: Holy Frijoles, 908 W. 36th St., Hampden
When: Friday, November 2nd, 6pm.
Why: Beers. Bloggers. More beers. More Bloggers. Margaritas. What’s not to love?
It's a welcoming bunch, honest to god. Even the ruling class.
You're making assumptions that don't correlate with what I said. I was just making the point that all happy hour organization debate was public at one time. Now it's private. The hosts of this event or anyone else can twist it however they want, but only people who were part of the internal discussion were allowed to add their two cents as to the whens and wheres of this shindig. No matter how you slice it, that ain't transparent and it certainly delineates between insiders and outsiders in the local bloggist community. That's all I was saying. And I was right.
But still, I'm looking forward to it. See you there!
Posted by: SC | October 08, 2007 at 05:08 PM
P.S. I'm VERY interested to see how welcoming the ruling class really is.
Posted by: SC | October 08, 2007 at 05:09 PM
Meh, in my head it's kind of a dumb argument. I was just being facetious.
If I were staging a BBHH I probably wouldn't ask around at all. I'd have just picked a date and hoped for a decent turnout. So never mind the ruling class, I'm a friggin' dictator at heart. (-:
Posted by: Claude Call | October 08, 2007 at 10:24 PM