If you're inviting, say, Ezra Klein to fun YearlyKos-related parties and have been leaving me off your lists out of a misguided belief that I must have better things to do, consider yourself corrected, I'll be in Chicago and am eager to attend your function! Otherwise, you'll find me crying myself to sleep blogging after hours in my hotel room.
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31 Jul 2007 11:02 am
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Matt, you want to go to Beaumont's. You really want to go to Beaumont's.
Hey Matt, stop by for an interview on Thursday with YearlyKos in Second Life. We'll have a crew in the empty ballroom doing live video interviews that we're streaming into YKSL. See www.yearlykosconvention.org/yksl for more information.
Matt, I'll put together a party if you want, even buy everyone drinks, but you have to make sure to bring along Glenn Greenwald. I want to pick his brain (but not in a zombie way!)
- "If you're inviting, say, Ezra Klein to fun YearlyKos-related parties and have been leaving me off your lists out of a misguided belief that I must have better things to do"
The sad lament of the B-Listers...
That's harsh, man.
If Matt is a B-lister, I guess that means my list can't even be found in the alphabet.
Say, Jay, do you have any actual schedule of events for YKSL available yet? The web site is still mum on all of the details, which isn't helping my decision-making process at all.
Can Matt be counted on to refrain from getting drunk and starting a knife fight?
Sure, rea, Matt's not stupid. He only starts knife fights when he's cold sober.
Heh. Reminds me of this beautiful girl I went to high school with who later, oddly, wound up living with a girl I was dating. She told me she spent most weekends at home alone or with a couple of girl friends; people always assumed she had better things to do, so no one ever asked her out.
Of course, Lollapalooza is going on in Grant Park at the same time, so you may want to think about that too. Some pretty good bands, actually, so you can liveblog that too.
Forget YearlyKos, there's plenty of other things to do around Chicago.
But please skip the Sears Tower and Navy Pier. All the tourists go there.
Special to Ray Radlein - the schedule (which is totally overwhelming) is indeed up on the YKos website - you just have to go a couple of layers in. Go to "Convention Info" and then "Schedule" - aka "Agenda." It's all there.
But not the parties - as Markos just posted over at DKos, the party invitations are likely to show up on the tables at the convention, as they did last year (so I'm told, I wasn't there).
In fact, if you're looking for a "Chicago experience," I recommend seeing local blues band the Kinsey Report at Buddy Guy's Legends (754 S. Wabash, about 2 miles north of the convention site) on Friday night.
I won't be there (I'm doing something else with friends who live in Chicago), but I've seen the band a couple of times over the years, and they're excellent.
I wonder if any of these parties can be crashed by people not going to the convention...
Alan, some of the parties are what convention planners call "concurrent events" and are scheduled to take advantage of the presence of the convention crowd. Those are usually WOM or an announcement is made up front by the planners that attendance is open. PFAW is having an off-site party and as far as I know they're not requiring you to be registered at the conference--but they are asking for a $25 donation for admission. There is more info on their website.
Wow,
Matt, Ezra and Kos -- hide the women the LOSERS are here!
For the PFAW event, you don't have to be registered for YKos, but you need to register--like now. It's open bar so the list has to be set sometime today.
http://www.pfawmidwest.org/site/c.hoIJLMOpGlF/b.2831785/k.D248/Welcome_Event__Yearly_Kos_2007.htm
It now says 5 PM today for the last time to RSVP.
Gee. I had assumed that since Matthew is a Harvard man, he simply slept with 60 year old women to get party invitations.
Matt, you want to go to Beaumont's. You really want to go to Beaumont's.
Oh God. Well, it's definitely an experience.
Matt, I'm in Lincoln Park about a block from DePaul or so, and I'm probably going to be sitting at home watching the Angels game(s). You're free to email if you want to grab a beer
That's about the cutest blog post I've ever read. Rest assured that wherever the Cool Kids are at YKos, there you will be also.
Schedule of official conference events: here.
I'm pretty excited about all the local-blogger roundtables, and the trivia contest on Thursday.
Instead of pouting why not start YGos? (or should it be YearlyYG?)
Y'know, let a thousand flowers bloom, yadda, yadda.
Kos's post over at dailykos.com:
"Yglesias worries that he's not being invited to the good parties at YearlyKos. That's a lament that pretty much everyone -- including me and my esteemed contributing editors -- share. Last year, party invitations were handed out at the event. There were tables full of them. So that's when most people (me included) will get the invites. Well, except for Time Magazine which believe it or not, is having a party at yKos as well.
I threw that invitation into the trash."
Hey Matt. My family is getting together on Saturday at my place down in Indy. It's about a 3 hour drive from Chicago but if you still can't manage to scare up anything else you're welcome to come on down and hang out. I think we are gonna grill or something.
Note: I was gonna throw a snark tag in there but figured you really may just completely strike out so to be nice just consider this invite completely legit.
Sure, rea, Matt's not stupid. He only starts knife fights when he's cold sober
Steven, the evidence is rather to the contrary . . .
http://www.matthewyglesias.com/archives/2007/01/mortal_combat/
Matt, let's start our own blog and hold a party and NOT INVITE any of the YearlyKossers. God, that would teach them a lesson! Really, we could do it right, with strippers and cakes and magic acts and white tigers.
Underground Wonder Bar!!!
Special to Ray Radlein - the schedule (which is totally overwhelming) is indeed up on the YKos website - you just have to go a couple of layers in. Go to "Convention Info" and then "Schedule" - aka "Agenda." It's all there.
That's the schedule for YearlyKos. I was asking Jay Ackroyd for a schedule of events for YKSL, the Second Life version of YearlyKos, which is what he had been talking about at the time.
As of now, the closest thing there is to a schedule page for YKSL still says, basically, "details coming soon."
Oops, sorry Ray, that's what I get for not reading all the posts more carefully - saw your name and leapt in feet-first to, uh, help.
Oh, well.
Beaumont's? You've got to be kidding.
Matthew,
Does that mean you are now fair game for O'Reilly?
I look forward to reading O'Reilly rants in Crooks and Liars comparing you to Nazis, KKK, terrorists.
Have fun.
I haven't gotten my invitations either. It's enough to make me wonder if Time magazine even cares if my 200 hit a day blog shows up...
Of course they do, Screwy. Hell, they named you Man of the Year, didn't they?
Seriously, Matt, if you have any extra time and want to do something interesting while in Chicago, I suggest taking the architectural open deck boat tour down the Chicago River where an expert lectures on the buildings which you see close up. I found it fascinating. It was an option that I chose at my NWLS reunion years ago and was great. Then, of course, there is the Art Institute and their amazing collection.
Who amongst us does not love party invitations?
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"If you're inviting, say, Ezra Klein to fun YearlyKos-related parties and have been leaving me off your lists out of a misguided belief that I must have better things to do"
The sad lament of the B-Listers...
Posted by Petey | July 31, 2007 11:15 AM