Imagine that next summer we were able to have either one or several Protein Wisdom get-togethers. If there were one in the East, I’d be willing to have it here in Vermont, if that were suitable. If there were one for flyover, and one for West coast, where ought such locations be? How many of us would be willing to pay transportation and expenses for Jeff and, possibly, family? No need for commitments. I’m just testing the waters.
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October 1, 2007
A Hypothetical [Dan Collins]
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Comment by mgroves on 10/1 @ 2:41 pm #
Ooh, ooh, do Columbus, Ohio! I’d pitch in if I didn’t have to spend a lot of time or travel expenses on myself.
What sort of activities would occur at such a hypothetical gathering of the finest minds in the nation?
Comment by mgroves on 10/1 @ 2:42 pm #
BTW, they always tell me that 80% of the U.S. population is within a day’s drive from Columbus, Ohio.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 2:48 pm #
Prolly Armadillo Dancing, exchanges regarding narrative, interpretation and hermeneutics, perhaps a bit of drinking, excursions to Burlington to collect Edwards bumperstickers, lake activities, bicycling, antiquing, camping, DVD viewing, musical entertainment, waterfall diving, hiking, hangover tending. Goodness knows what else.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 2:50 pm #
Circular stair diving.
Comment by SarahW on 10/1 @ 2:50 pm #
Try for DC.
Comment by OHNOES on 10/1 @ 2:50 pm #
A day in the Clintonian sense, you mean, unless you all regularly put in 12+ hour drives for pleasure purposes.
Were I not a lowly student on an income twice as meager as you all and no freedom of travelling handy, I’d love to put in for this.
Of course, when I get there, I’d probably just shake Jeff G’s hand, and break down into sputtering histrionics befitting more a fangirl than a grown man.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 2:50 pm #
Compact ideological circle jerks.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 2:55 pm #
OHNOES, if we start collecting soon, we might have money enough for a scholarship or two. Sarah, they’d save money flying into DC, probably, but they’d spend it and more, soon enough. Please make your case for DC, though, by all means.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 2:56 pm #
There’s probably room for 12 visitors inside here, and 5 decently spaced 3 or 4 adult tents on the grounds.
Comment by Aldo on 10/1 @ 2:59 pm #
Goodness knows what else.
Waking up in a motel room in Tijuana with a new surgical scar, and a missing lung?
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 3:06 pm #
Maybe Montreal.
Comment by JD on 10/1 @ 3:10 pm #
Dan – As I mentioned previously, I would gladly host one for flyover country.
Comment by Drumwaster on 10/1 @ 3:10 pm #
Don’t forget the glories of Southern California. Roughly 8% of the US population is within two hours’ drive of where I live, and that’s better than a full day.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 3:11 pm #
Where’s that, JD?
Comment by JD on 10/1 @ 3:12 pm #
Indianapolis is practically the dead center of the land of the great unwashed.
Comment by SarahW on 10/1 @ 3:12 pm #
DC- Boobies!
Also it’s a hundred miles from me.
Then there’s some of those buildings people are always trying to blow up. Rocks from space, and the hope diamond, and lunar landers and the chair Archie Bunker sat in.
Comment by JD on 10/1 @ 3:13 pm #
Maybe I could host one in conjunction with the Indy 500, The Brickyard, or the Moto GP. I have got clearance from the tower, ie. permission from the better half, and she will likely scram for a weekend of shopping while we frolic.
Comment by SarahW on 10/1 @ 3:14 pm #
The shopping is good. The Metro makes traveling around town so very easy.
You can even stay in cheaper places like Maryland and ride it into town.
No end of meeting spots, and it’s a major airport hub.
Comment by SarahW on 10/1 @ 3:17 pm #
The president would probably like to shake our hand.
Comment by Jonn Lilyea on 10/1 @ 3:19 pm #
Well, I’d do Vermont – but only on that one day of summer ya’all have each year.
Comment by SarahW on 10/1 @ 3:21 pm #
powerball.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 3:22 pm #
I thought blogs were get-togethers for agoraphobics
Comment by Phil K. on 10/1 @ 3:30 pm #
Here’s a vote for Chicago. It’s easily accessible, it’s chock full of booze, and it’s America’s best city in the summertime. All of those reasons are secondary, however, to the fact that the People’s Republic of Illinois needs a PW happening in a way that most of flyover country doesn’t.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 3:30 pm #
Ain’t got no Agora here.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/1 @ 3:30 pm #
Someone a floor up just won a sixty million dollar lottery.
I hate mondays.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/1 @ 3:31 pm #
Phil, Milwaukee’s America’s Best City in Summertime, but otherwise Chicago gets a nod.
Comment by The Ouroboros on 10/1 @ 3:37 pm #
When you say “…pay for transportation..” you mean like Greyhound, right?
Comment by Aldo on 10/1 @ 3:41 pm #
What about Las Vegas?
Comment by McGehee on 10/1 @ 3:41 pm #
Aren’t you forgetting us ignernt hillbilly bumpkins under the Mason-Dixon line?
We’uns could put up a bunch of tar-paper shotgun shacks for y’all, and have the party down in the
swampback forty (square feet).Or, you know, we could arrange to take over a local sports bar or sump’n.
Comment by McGehee on 10/1 @ 3:42 pm #
‘Cause really, about the only way I think I’m ever going to attend a blogmeet is if I wake up one morning to find it on my doorstep.
Comment by The Ouroboros on 10/1 @ 3:43 pm #
By the way, Jeff lives in the dead center of the country (in Denver).. why not take the party to him instead of trying to have it on either coast? We could go to Casa Bonita or karaoke at Armida’s…
Comment by McGehee on 10/1 @ 3:43 pm #
Literally.
Comment by dicentra on 10/1 @ 3:47 pm #
Party on Jeff’s front porch. I’m jake wit dat. ::cough8hourdrive::
Comment by Pablo on 10/1 @ 3:56 pm #
Scheduling is more important that location, AFAIC. Advance knowledge would go a long way in assuring my attendance. and I can drive to VT.
Comment by ccoffer on 10/1 @ 3:59 pm #
How about Dawsonville Georgia? Its centrally located. Its right in the center of Dawson County.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/1 @ 4:08 pm #
The last time someone on the intartubes wanted to meet me I was on TV for not one, but two whole nights.
I’m in. And this time I’ll wear cleaner socks..
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/1 @ 4:08 pm #
I had an Agora cat once.
It kept hiding under the couch.
Comment by bains on 10/1 @ 4:28 pm #
You’re kidding I hope. Half this group would be ‘cliff diving’ before the rellenos arrived.
Comment by JD on 10/1 @ 4:29 pm #
FWIW – I would be willing to travel east and west, as well as hosting an event. I have 7000 square feet, 3 extra bedrooms, and plenty of room in the theatre for those that wouldn’t mind sleeping bags or air mattresses. And, my new bar in the basement will be done by then.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/1 @ 4:35 pm #
If I were JG I would not want my home address generally known. It would terrify me a lot really, if I were JG.
Comment by thor on 10/1 @ 5:00 pm #
I’m down with JD’s 7000 sq. foot pad. Amazon stippers take up lots of room on the dance floor, not to mention Dr. Ric undulating with a hula-hoop, so we’re gonna that sort’a indoor footage. And a gin and juice bar in the basement, fu u u u ck that’s perfect – arf, arf, – anyone like to watch/wager on some pitbulls playing King of The Mountain?
Comment by Mike C. on 10/1 @ 5:54 pm #
Another vote for Vegas.
Comment by Major John on 10/1 @ 5:55 pm #
If anyone can make it to MND-SE, IRAQ. I’ll see if I can get them guest quarters. Mind you, it will be with the Iraqi Army – so no armadillos. I think they are haram…
Comment by Chairman Me on 10/1 @ 6:17 pm #
“BTW, they always tell me that 80% of the U.S. population is within a day’s drive from Columbus, Ohio.”
How depressing.
Comment by Great Mencken's Ghost! on 10/1 @ 6:27 pm #
LA or San Diego. There are plenty of
hovelshostels where we could put The JG’s up economically.And I just might be able to recommend one or two gin mills locally…
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/1 @ 6:33 pm #
Dan, be sure to bring cases of Magic Hat to where ever you guys end up in flyover country (JD’s hizouse is sounding like a destination, however). If I could put faces to the personalities of this place, it would be a trip. Or we could just crash at Jeff’s. But no matter what, Dan, you must bring cases of Magic Hat’s IPA to the event. That stuff is ambrosia.
Comment by guinsPen on 10/1 @ 6:53 pm #
Bright light city gonna set my soul,
Gonna set my soul on fire.
Comment by lee on 10/1 @ 7:03 pm #
Vegas Baby!
Comment by Darleen on 10/1 @ 7:28 pm #
I’m in So Cal, the IE, so any El Lay or San Diego is easy drivetime.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/1 @ 7:45 pm #
Hey Darleen! We could car-pool.
…like we didn’t for that LGF meetup a couple of years back (because I thought I had would have to leave early for a prior commitment).
Comment by The Lost Dog (El Pero Perdido) on 10/1 @ 7:52 pm #
Hey ya, Dan.
Vermont?
Yeesh. I haven’t been there since it started becoming the North Bronx.
After reading so many of your posts, I can’t believe that you haven’t been lynched yet. You must be way out in thr sticks.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 10/1 @ 9:52 pm #
I vote Florida. What with all the global warming and all, by the time y’all arrive I oughta have beachfront property.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/1 @ 9:55 pm #
ooooh, what part of Florida? I didn’t ever live there, but my parents are in Boca Raton.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 10/1 @ 9:57 pm #
I live in that cultural wasteland, Orlando.
Always wanted to live in some wasteland or other, after that Who song.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/1 @ 10:01 pm #
Disney World!!! heh.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 10/1 @ 10:03 pm #
I live at approximately 100 feet above sea level, so you’d better hurry.
Comment by CraigC on 10/1 @ 10:09 pm #
The West Coast get-together should be in San Jose, of course.
Comment by Rob B on 10/1 @ 11:16 pm #
OK, I’ll make my pitch. Dallas. We have a shitload of topless joints, the armadillio would be a God down here, We killed JFK, we can visit crawford in under an hour and shit on cindy’s property, we’re a concealed/carry state and we have mexican food made by mexicans fresh from mexico that very day.
Comment by tomaig on 10/2 @ 6:35 am #
Vermont would be OK as long as you all keep your clothes on…
Comment by Jim in KC on 10/2 @ 7:48 am #
If you want primitive, I’ve got 40 acres near KC. But by primitive, I mean no facilities whatsoever other than a road by which to access it…
Comment by Slartibartfast on 10/2 @ 9:09 am #
And, more often than not, a few dozen pawnshops within walking distance, should you run short of cash. And if you don’t like walking, they have drive-through pawnshops. And drive-through liquor stores, sometimes.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 9:11 am #
Jim–Do you have a mule, too?
Comment by Phil K. on 10/2 @ 9:52 am #
Phil, Milwaukee’s America’s Best City in Summertime, but otherwise Chicago gets a nod.
I like Milwaukee a lot, too, except for all the Packers fans.
Comment by McGehee on 10/2 @ 9:53 am #
Nah. Nobody knows the way.
Comment by Jim in KC on 10/2 @ 10:48 am #
Dan,
RACIST!!1!1
Actually, I don’t think I’m on the reparations list…
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/2 @ 10:51 am #
“Phil, Milwaukee’s America’s Best City in Summertime, but otherwise Chicago gets a nod.” What it’s not Cleveland!
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/2 @ 11:51 am #
mmmmm, Beer Barn.
Comment by JD on 10/2 @ 2:34 pm #
Dan – How about Memorial Day weekend in Indianapolis? The Indy 500 is on Sunday, and it is a 3-day weekend. Folks could come in as early as they wanted, to go to qualifying, Carb Day, etc … and we could make a weekend of it. So long as Thor promises to bring his Michael Vick blow up doll.
Comment by mgroves on 10/2 @ 8:04 pm #
Would Memorial Day weekend in Indy be the most expensive possible time to travel there? Just sayin: Columbus has Skybus you know!
Comment by thor on 10/3 @ 8:51 pm #
JD, of course I’ll being the Micheal Vick inflatable.
It doesn’t have a black, 9-inch, vibrating inflate nozzle in the crotch. I don’t mean to deter Dr. Ric from attending our ho-down but I don’t want to build up his hopes either.
Comment by JD on 10/3 @ 9:00 pm #
mgroves – One might think that, but flights in and out are rarely expensive to Indy, even during the 500. The prices are higher for The Brickyard, and were quite a bit higher during the F1 races.
thor – I am sure that Caric would be an absolute laugh-riot ha ha to have around.
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