Have you been so, so angry that the Wonkette Drinky Thing and Meetup World Tour has not yet made its way to you? WE KNOW! JESUS! Well, with the coming conventions, we’re pleased to announce a lineup of tour dates for you Right Coasters.
We will start with a party at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, so sometime between like Aug. 27 and Aug. 29. We don’t know the date yet. Whichever night is neither the keynote, nor Michele Bachmann’s veep acceptance speech. It will probably be in a titty bar, knowing us. Please don’t bring your guns into town.
Then, it’s your turn, Atlanta! Be ready Sat., Sept. 1! At a place to be determined!
From there, we will grace with our presence Charlotte, North Carolina, and the DNC. We have to check with our aunt first before we get a date for this one. “What are your plans in Charlotte?” she emailed us. “I’m a member of the DNC so have a vote, for what it’s worth.” “Wait wait wait, let me guess,” we emailed back. “RANDALL TERRY???” We guess she didn’t think that was funny, because she never wrote back again, but we for one found it FUCKING HILARIOUS.
From there, we will hit DC — let’s call that “September 8″ — and then Philly (Sept. 11, Never Forget) and NYC (Sept. 13). Are you happy now, Actor 212? ARE YOU???
By all means, donate your sad little muneez below. (And by the bye, did you know that if you click through on our Amazon linky to the right, any shit you buy gives us a sweet little cut? Well, now you do.)
As to those of you who donated to our Beer Fund, expect your NPR totes and kitten with a whip stickers in August. We just have to, like, print them first.
Keep calm and carry on.
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Seriously, DC- the 8th- when I will be in Philly! and Philly the 11th when I will be back in DC! Do it Friday night the 7th- I don't leave until Sat. morning!
Stay in Philly a few days longer!
You get what you get and you don't get upset.
This is not the final happiness someone like yourself deserves.
Great night in DC on the 8th! Wonkette meetup followed by Bob Mould or Mission of Burma (your choice)!
MOB is paying in DC? Cool!
Reverse your trip and go to two.
Mrs. Noun and I have been talking about a trip back to civilization in September, now I have something to live for.
Yay Atlanta! I think we need Havana Club rum!
Atlanta is s five-hour schlepp, but Mrs. Beer reacted positively when I brought up the possibility.
You spelled Boston wrong.
*Pats bbk's little head. I'm in Boston too. They'll get here eventually.
Rebecca, you are invited to come to Boston for Election Boxer Day on Nov 7, when we can celebrate our many victories from the night before (yay, Liz!). Or get pissed, drunk, malicious, dress up as Indians and throw our civil rights in the Boston Harbor.
Great, I've got 2 months to save up the trainfare to get to New York City!
Will there be hats and party favors as shown in the publicity photo above?
Look, Editrix asked for pictures of me being balled.
I figured she misspelled it.
Every time you linky-click and glom onto official Wonkette tchotchkes, another cancerous mole grows on Sherman Adelson's back.
I didn't know cancerous moles could grow on a cancerous mole.
You've convinced me, I'm buying.
I'll take one of everything.
For the DC meet, I vote for the C St Christian Fellowship house on Capitol Hill. All kinds of nasty shit goes on there http://bit.ly/zvHrRB
And they know how to parteeeee!
Madam's Organ or GTFO.
I commented on this before, but I traveled up to DC for my daughter's 21st birthday three years ago this week, and we went to Madam's Organ for dinner. You can't know how proud a papa I was to sing along with "Here I Am, Baby" by Al Green with my little girl, half schnockered.
Only half? Come on back, and we'll give you another chance. Also too, happy father's day.
That link's pub date, c. 2009, feels like so long ago.
And yet that story seems like it was just yesterday.
I hear the kids are to die for!
That's just a rowhouse. You want the Union Pub.
Will Jim be inviting us to "Wonkette House"? So we can meet his cat, etc.?
Boston? Land of Romney 1.0.
Alas, we're too European and leftish, what with our gay marrying and RomneyCare™. No Chick-Fil-A, neither.
Dress appropriately.
http://ryanseacrest.com/wp-content/gallery/the-20…
I don't insist my wife wear that stuff and nothing else, but she does look very nice in it. And besides, if people who dressed like that back then didn't fuck we wouldn't be here.
"We will start with a party at the Republican National Convention in Tampa"
Will there be a field trip to see the Cock-Rocking Kings of Tampa?
Maybe the Palin look-alike stripper! http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/23/sarah-palin…
Yay for coming to Philly – and it'll be while MissTaken is out here, so that can be her second Wonkette drink-up!
You two can provide the entertainment!
It will be hot-hot-hot-hot-hot! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxgIwOpvUBE
Looking forward to getting plastered with the Philly Wonketteers!
I would walk to Philly from New Mexico for a chance to have a beer with you, MissTaken.
Can you come to Austin if we have a southwestern drinky thing?
Is Austin being considered? That would be the BEST!
Yes, please!
Paging Actor212. Clean up on aisle 4.
I deny the spurious allegations raised by the Editrix.
Besides, I haven't worn that tie in ages.
I'd make the long trip from New Haven, but I don't want everyone to discover that I'm actually an 11 year old girl.
metro north.
BTW, nice hat.
Needz moar Taxachusetts
NYC is rather open ended. I have in mind a ironic hipster open air beer hall like in Williamsburg or Greenwood, or that crab joint in Red Hook. Instead I am getting the sense it will be outside some OTB branch past closing hours in Jamaica Estates.
Please not some stupid ass place like Jamaica Queens or Redhook that will take most people IN NYC over an hour to get to. And Greenwood? You must live in Greenwood. I say Bushwick… in fact, Roberta's Pizza– look it up. Good
Red Hook is like a ten minute train ride and walk. It's just west of the Heights/Park Slope.
You can also take the (almost) free ferry from lower manhattan to Ikea and then walk.
Been waiting for that new crab joint to open. Every time I drive by after getting my groceries from my local Fairway. It's right by the water, it'd be cool…. we can wave at Lady Liberty.
Ohhhh, and then the key lime pie place!
10 min from you. It's like a weird train and bus ride, or a weird train and ferry then bus ride, depending on where you are. LAME
http://robertaspizza.com/
Doesn't everyone loathe that Red Hook crab place?
I haven't been but my younger friends have. I loathe my younger friends so you may have a point.
Well, I was just taking the word of the Yelpers. And also, apparently, everyone else on the planet?
You know who else had their big meeting in a beer hall …
Mittens?
This comment putsch me over the edge.
Bushwick or GTFO
during the gun shooting or when its on a cease fire?
Nah, Bushwick's far too close to Queens.
Everything is far to close to Queens.
Bohemian Beer Garden
That is all.
I say Staten Island. And let's make it a fund raiser for Mindy Meyer. If you are going to do irony, DO IRONY.
You've given me an idear….
I'm in and I'm in the East Village. I love Red Hook and the ferry or any place you want. I actually do look like the lady in the black dress so I will need a reminder and a car service and another reminder. Staten Island should be saved for the New Jersey people though because as far as I am concerned that is where it is located for more reasons than one.
All I heard was Tampa and no guns…do you know how long it takes to pack a bazooka, and now unpack…geesh.
I'm working on it. Añejo 7 años. I promise nothing.
coaster elites! when are you coming to the midwest where the real people live?
Right after you people get indoor plumbing.
who do you think they make this product for? highbrow coasters?
http://www.giftys.com/images/products/26123×13406…
A good product to use to wipe away the Santorum.
Hey, I'm pretty sure we have indoor plumbing. We just don't know how it works.
It's a series of tubes, like how I telegraph my codez to teh womkettes.
"Sink's broken! It won't flush!"
That's the South, my dear. We're the one with the corn the snow and the Kansas-sized tornadoes; they're the one without the potable water and teeth and cousin-fuckin'.
Let's hope the stupid embargo gets lifted after Barry's re-elected, shall we?
This.
Come to think of it we should all just go to the editrix's place and plan to crash there after the party.
San Francisco to the east coast…never have so many felt like fly-over states.
I will donate to this cause. I feel the stars have aligned for the DC date to fall on a weekend. It is possible that Riley Waggaman will still be in the country, nay even in that area around that time*. And based on past experience at the DC-based shindig years ago, Virginian area lurkers come out of the woodwork for these things. So Yes, and Can't Hardly Wait.
* any suggestions how to entice him to join the festivities are welcome. I suspect his time overseas put him in touch w/ enough experiences to temper one's perspective, as I know living overseas did for me at that age, enough to feel one had "outgrown" certain past endeavors~
I'm still reeling from Halloween '10 at the Big Hunt. This will be the true test of sobriety. ; )
As long as there's food for thought available, served warm. Whatever washes it down will pale compared to the good company for savoring.
1. That's CORRECT Coast to you – not Right Coast;
2. There is a conspicuous lack of Boston on this list.
Any news was good news
And the feeling was bad at home
I was out of mind and you
Were on the phone
Lonnie was the kingpin
Back in nineteen sixty-five
I was singing this song
When Lonnie came alive
Bring back the Boston Rag
Tell all your buddies
That it ain't no drag
Bring back the Boston Rag
You were Lady Bayside
There was nothing that I could do
So I pointed my car down
Seventh Avenue
Lonnie swept the playroom
And he swallowed up all he found
It was forty-eight hours til
Lonnie came around
Bring back the Boston Rag
Tell all your buddies
That it ain't no drag
Bring back the Boston Rag
I think somebody might be testing your ability to keep posting obscure song lyrics?
It's gonna be a while then…
Holy codfish balls, that's William Burroughs.
The guy up there yelling, "BINGO!"?
Nah, that's George Herbert Walker Bush!
Funny, I don't see Mrs. Burroughs… What? Never mind.
She's under the table. Where she's been for several years.
One-time Wyo. Sen. Alan Simpson, I b'leeve.
I met William Burroughs once. He looked a hell of a lot older than that and wasn't in a rest home.
I always assumed I was adopted.
He got a lot of joy out of Mountain Dew served in champagne flutes.
If you had any cojones (although being a feemail probably precludes that), you'd hold a drinkee thingy somewhere really hostile and challenging — like Phoeniz AZ, at Sheriff Joe's favorite watering hole, the Pink Underwear Lounge. C'mon, woman up!
I promised my dear departed Mom I would never set foot in Arizona again but I have a very cool cousin who would love to find a few nice peoples in her home town.
"We will start with a party at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and we will end with every Wonketteer on the East Coast suffering from a brain-curdling STD."
You bring the beer, I'll bring the syph.
But I'm not going to any of the do's until NYC!
Praise the Lord and pass the entertainment deductions.
Where in D.C.?! And, no conservatives or Repubicans allowed.
Except Michelle Malkin, if she wears a bikini.
Should she bring her own ping pong balls?
A la Wendy O. Williams?
Ah. RIP.
She has to promise not to bare her teeth.
And the beautiful, educated and talented and politically-experienced Mindy Meyer can come if she wears a bikini, too! Mindy Meyer for President!
Please don't say that because she !!!!TOTALLY!!!! will.
See you in Charlotte!
I'm not going to that shit in Tampa. I don't want my Grindr blown up every 2 minutes from some headless asshole in a bedbug infested motel room.
Hey Philly, don't forget the 9/11 gift exchange.
Why did Wonkette run a photo from Joe Liberman's birthday party?
I don't see Minneapolis on that list.
Hurrrrrumph Madam!
That's right… harrrrrrrumph!
MG, perhaps you can get the Editrix attention if you can work with Marcus and put together a surprise party for She1ey. For example in yer parts the rental rates on those throw the ball at the target dunk tanks should be a steal in The first Wednesday after the first Monday in Blovember. Also too, She1ey should find taking a dip outdoors at that time of year downright refreshing.
Great photo our Congress. Virginia Foxx is looking off da chain.
Looks like she forgot to put her teeth in.
She didn't forget. That's why the guy in the hat is so happy.
Excuse me while I go bleach those thoughts out of my brain.
It always looks like she forgot to put her eye in, if you ask me.
We must have our Austin/Central Texas Drinky Thing before long.
That would be fun. I'm thinking Wonkette is a little reluctant. There's a bunch of crazy ass Austinites up in here, and it might end with arrests and deportations.
Wasn't there a gal from Waco back several years ago? I hope the Baptists didn't absorb her.
Well, you can play it safe in Atlanta and have it in Little Five Points, where nobody is judged-regardless. You can have it in Buckhead or North Highlands, where everybody is just too fucking refined to be rude, or you can party in the Belly of the Beast, my hangout in Cobb (Whitebread) County, in Marietta (Whiter-Bread) at Mulligans (Shit-Kicker Biker Bar where everybody but me hates the "Bammer"). I promise to be on hand (to referee, mostly) and it won't be your average soiree, ladles and germs, you can be sure of that.
ttommy, don't go putting ideas into anyone's head about going out to Cobb Co. It's too far for me to drive drunk and to redneck for me to say the word democrat.
I'll drive you home, I don't drink. I'm Liberal, but I can barely say the word Democrat without throwing up in my own mouth. I consider them only minimally less sold-out the the Repugs.
Manuel's Tavern!
Sure, play it safe. The main watering hole for white Democratic Pols and Hacks. Fuck that and fuck them! Ps Virginia Highlands? Really?Sent from my iPhone
Somebody's been borrowing teh meth from his biker buddies…
My reply to your suggestion included no personal attacks or references to you. I'm used to generalizations (bikers are drug abusers), false equivalence (only the drug-addled would find disagreement with you) and marginalization (therefore my opinions don't matter) from the Right; but I rarely see Wonketeers use such lame tactics. They do nothing to bolster your argument. I've been riding (on our roadways) since I was fifteen but have never referred to myself as a “biker” because of the negative implications of the term (which I'm sure you intended). If your intent was to piss me off a little, then you done good. If your intent was to move the discussion about a meeting venue, then I fail to see how that was accomplished. Your move.Sent from my iPhone
It may be an obvious choice, but I do love me some Manuel's. I remember watching the Quayle/Bentson VP debate there. Racous drunken times were had by all.
Or, you can have it in College Park and scare the hell out of everybody.
Exactly! We have rental property in Jefferson park, you are so spot-on.Sent from my iPhone
Can it be somewhere Marta accessible? I may well be in Atlanta that night(I will tell people why at the meet-up)
Or, you can call 404 372 9907 (with a little advance notice) and get a ride there and back, free, of course.
Thanks! I am pretty sure I will be in Atlanta that weekend(I just told someone else -not wonkette- that I would be).
Offer stands.Sent from my iPhone
I will see you there – without a doubt. I will help start the trouble that you can break-up and drink all the liquor you won't. We will have so much fun!
I am a-quiver with anticipation-or is it the Palsey?Sent from my iPhone
Oh my fucking Lord. I have GOT to be there. I'm looking forward to meeting you, FS.
Now…how to get out of some un-get-outable plans for that same night…….
How many Bostonians here?
We could go to NYC or Philly together!
Wish I could, dammit.
I want to be in teh sideways picture. (So I'll look tall)
Okay, now I'm gonna have to schedule some days of panhandling downtown to get some $ for DC. I mean, I wouldn't be able to just do an overnight stay. I'd have to make a weekend of it, for sure (I don't travel well all hungover and shit).
Fuck it. I probably won't be able to make it. But I will be there in spirit, leering at the cute Wonker menz.
WOOT! Atlanta!
Well — I'll go to at least one of them — but I'll be drunk every night that one is happening, just out of respect.
It's a question of honor, really.
But this differs from every other week…how, precisely?
Shhhh.
Is that H.W. Bush?
You have got to be fucking kidding me. My first wonkette drinky thing and I just realized that night I have absolutely un-fucking-breakable plans that night.
Un fucking believable! I'mma gonna have to drive to Charlotte and find a nice couch to sleep on.
Yay. Charlotte. Now good luck getting a venue without a $12k fee or having to give the DNC a cut.
What about MYRTLE BEACH???
To hell with Charlotte.
The action's in Myrtle Beach!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're going to pray about going to Atlanta. We will ask the Lord for guidance as we may have to skip out on tithing for that week to get there.
God understands.
God's going to be in Atlanta that night. Buy her a drink and she'll call it even.
I have friends, and a lady-friend, in DC and Philly, respectively! I'm tempted to budget some extra days off work, and follow Wonkete up the mid-Atlantic like a Grateful Dead tour.
Incidentally, if we're looking for a place to hold this in New York, I feel honor-bound to mention that the Original Famous Drinking Liberally meets Thursdays at Rudy's in Hell's Kitchen. Which is nice and accessible to most city folk. So, it might be an option to either hold it nearby, and drop in before or after, or to just hold it at Rudy's and take over DL for a night (I've asked the organizers in the past, and they're totally cool with that!!!)
Hell's Kitchen is a nice central location served by mass transit.
There is a Williamsburg drinking liberally that's only once a month. I've never been to the Hell's Kitchen one even tho I work there. I second this idea to take over/merge the Drinking Liberally. Indeed, I was going to invite the wburg crew to the Wonkette drinking thing once we found a place.
I love that place. I will definely go there and the hot dogs are nice and cheap. Okay I am officailly begging for Rudy's and I will wear my Drinking Liberally button.
No Austin? What a bummer.
Hell, this means I may just have to fly back to my hometown, as the only way I foresee getting through another family visit is if I can attend a Wonkette gathering just afterwards.
/fixed
Never having been to one of these
train wrecksfestivities, what should one expect? (Also, please not Williamsburg. I am too old and too poor. I am not allowed there.)Drinking. Fun people. More drinking. Good conversation. Even more drinking.
They're great.
WHOA!!!! I skipped something- ATLANTA- 9/1 – I may well be in Atlanta 9/1. I hardly know Atlanta except for the airport and the Flying Biscuit near Midtown/arts center
I do love the Flying Biscuit. That would be a great hangover spot the next day.
Looks like someone forgot the third coast.
She's forgetting it as hard as possible.
I don't understand why……..
Rats. I have a fambly thing for the DC drinky thing. Horse heads in my bed would be the least of my worries if I missed it.
So, the Texas shunning continues.
Not that I blame you.
BTF, I am sure I should know this. Where are you in TX? I am in Dallas.
My condolences. I habitate San Antonio. However, the Casa de Flagass is located 25 miles north of town, and therefore only a hop, skip, and a half-jump from everone's favorite Texas town.
Liar. Lubbock is more than 25 miles from San Antonio!
You forgot Poland.
I can tell by the photo that I would so get laid there.
If no one shows up there with stories as good as yours, I will have to page you. "PAGING SAINT ROND!!"…
September 13, huh?
I'm getting my hair done that day.
Actually, I'm moving to Austin.
Actor, are you running from the law, or Rebecca?
I'm letting her chase me, and doing other posters the favor of getting the drinky thingy in their home towns.
I'll probably go. You know, if I don't find
someonesomething better to do…Sorry, no can do. actor512 already lives there.
I laughed so hard I cried – bravo.
Dibs on actor737!
What am I, chopped liver? You give Actor 212 a shout out but I know I am the biggest fucking whiner around here. Fuck you, I'm gonna come to all of them, I am gonna follow the Wonkette tour like one of those Greatful Dead trustafarians!
Can you drive a railroad spike with your penis?
That's when you get the shout-out
What's wrong with New Jersey? Are all you hip New Yorkers afraid you'll get bridge-and-tunnel disease if you come over here?
Probably just afraid Gov. Crisco will eat them.
Enough with the STDs already.
we need a wonkette facebook page so we can know what people look like and stuff..or is that most of the fun? BUT WILL KEN BE AT ANY OF THESE PLACES WITH THE BANHAMMER I HEAR ITS BIG!
Hope to see y'all in Philadelphia on the day on which we must all NEVAR 4GET – NEVAR 4GIVE!!!!!1
Please come to Bloomington Indiana – you'll love it here.
chicago is still pissed.
don't piss off chicago.
Well, maybe commiegirl can make it in the fall sometime or we'll have our own whingding with LIVE BLOGGING!!!!
Make it in the fall … so November?
Although I would register as a lobbyist so I could lobby for October. I probably couldn't make a November meetup.
I would be greatly honored to share a cold beer with you and have some laughs, Chascates.
October sounds good. Could be in the low 80s then and not so hot. We could have a picnic on the State Capital grounds across from the Texas' Governor's Mansion.
Where do you live Histori?
I have a whole crazy trip planned for October. I will be going from Albuquerque to Tampa, to see Victoria Grace and then up to Delaware to see Christine and Mina, the megabeast, then to DC for our 6th wedding anniversary, and then over to Chicago for Jeff's best friend's wedding.
I have tickets for San Diego in November for a Chargers v Ravens game. We will be staying at Jeff's dad's place in La Jolla, for that event.
I'll be in Vegas, twice in between all of this hooey. I hope that one of these trips would be convenient for you. If not, you just have to come along with us.
October Wonkette headline : "Wonketteers deny involvement in latest fire at Governor's Mansion"
I'm thinking we'll be in Vegas the weeks of September 9th and October 1. Barb and I first met September 12, so that should work. October 1 is the week of the big gaming show, and I usually have to make an appearance at that.
My friends are on the chain crew for those games. Wave and tell them Steve sent you.
I'm in Houston. Accepting the fact that Austin is a) far more friendly territory for a drinky thing and b) more central for the rest of the Texas Wonkette contingent, I'm willing to do Austin.
I just need to make sure I have good timing to keep Mrs. Historicat happy.
I don't want to go to the big gaming show, please. I don't like the people, the vendors suck and it is too much like speed dating. Yeah, you are sitting 10 inches away from me and I don't have the ballz to say this to you.
TTommy! Joke! You seemed a little tense, is all, so I was free associating and, being from East Tennessee (accent on the FIRST syllable, motherfuckers!), my head went towards chemicals. The "biker" reference came from your description of the bar as a "Shit Kicker Biker Bar". One plus one apparently equalled 57.
I'm sorry that I offended you, really and truly.
Cranky old farts need a clue; maybe a smiley face. Had a hard day yesterday, sorry, my bad.Sent from my iPhone
Sorry. "Teh meth" was supposed to be the reveal.
I hereby owe you one drink of your choice, with an option to renew.
Edit: Oops. You don't drink. Well, damn.
Big spender! You know I'm a tee-totaller, right? ;)Sent from my iPhone
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