MeFi IRL

WORD — Women Organized to Resist and Defend — is calling on all those who can to join the protest in Austin on July 1, and for those who can’t to organize and join solidarity actions across the country. [more inside]

We will be attending the Live Riff of Starship Troopers by Rifftrax this Aug. 15, at the Cinemark and West Jordan! Hope to see others there or catch up before/after. [more inside]

I want to eat at Red Lobster. [more inside]

Who's up for board games again? [more inside]

Anyone up for beers in Beijing, the City of Blue Skies? I'm around and very free the week of July 8, and would be pleased to get together with my fellow Beijing Mefites on the rooftop bar of our collective choosing.

Complaints have been raised re: our lack of recent board game meetups. Perhaps it is time to fix this. [more inside]

Tragically, we don't have a Runes visit to celebrate or anything special like that, but why should we let that stop us? Let's get together and catch up and celebrate things! [more inside]

Although the Illinois State Senate flaked out on us this year (booooooo), SCOTUS just gave us two more reasons to celebrate equal rights, rainbow flags, and drinking at Pride on Sunday. [more inside]

I and Eideteker are headed to Coney Island so I can experience sensory overload. Care to join us for hotdogs and then a wander around the boardwalk?

School is back in session. Who's up for lunch? [more inside]

I got my FOID card a couple of months ago and would like to gauge MeFiChi's interest in an outing to the shooting range. You don't have to own a gun to participate. [more inside]

Tuesday from 6 to 9, it's board game night at The Windup Space. I know some MeFi folks have gone in the past. Anyone else interested in making it a bona fide meetup this time?

Horace Rumpole and I will be back in the country and ready to help the Taters win back our glorious Geeks Who Drink trivia crown. Show up with brain guns a-blazin' Monday at 7:30 at Tommy Doyle's Harvard Square.

Europe's best craft and boutique beer festival, held at Brouwerij de Molen, in the Netherlands. [more inside]

A few months ago, the NoVA Mefites got together for dinner at Carpool in Herndon, and it was good. How about another round? [more inside]

The first Wednesday of July is the 3rd, which means that we have a pre-holiday goatup! I don't know if this means there will be a small showing or a magnificent karaoke fest, but it's TRADITION, so. July 3. GOAT. [more inside]

Hello Toronto Mefites! Shepherd and I will be in your fair metropolis as a last-minute-holy-cow-Via-Rail-fares-never-get-that-cheap visit from August 25-28th. [more inside]

I was supposed to schedule this weeks, wasn't I? I was hoping to get people to come north, but given the last minute status of this post, I'm saying Soda Bar again. See you there. [more inside]

The official book release of my book about the new coach of the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles (and former coach of the Oregon Ducks) will be at Theatre Exile before the 8pm showing of "The Philly Fan," a one-man show about sports. This is not a biography or Xs and Os book, but rather a look at the philosophy and innovative management strategies underlying Kelly's success at Oregon (46-7 over 4 years, a BCS bowl every year). The Tao of the title is not glib; I argue that -- wittingly or not -- Kelly's football programs are near-perfect implementations of Taoist principles such as The Uncarved Block, tzu-jan, minimizing ego and emotion, and the pursuit of spontaneity and flexibility through long experience and focused, humble observation. Book signing and reading at 7, plus a Q&A after the play.

Next Saturday (June 22) is the Coney Island Mermaid Parade The parade starts at 1 pm and is generally full of wonderfully dressed sea creatures. [more inside]

The mid-Wilshire convergence of a crapload of bikes, Korean BBQ and Pacific Standard Time: Modern Architectural Boogaloo. I propose we meet in the beer and wine (and makgeolli) garden. Or near it. At some point. [more inside]

I was kicking around an idea in chat about a meetup at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden along with noms at Din Tai Fung. Who would be interested? [more inside]

Husband and myself will be visiting Down-east Maine for a the week starting on the 18th (we'll be near Augusta, in a cabin in the woods, but we're okay with visiting Portland and the like.) We would like to meet up with Maine/New England Mefites and also get tips/suggestions/recs on "Spooky New England" stuff, mystery spots, haunted houses, tourist traps, roadside attractions, fun fairs, etc. Let's all meet and talk!

I've written a geek rom com set at a science fiction convention that involves Doctor Who cosplay. It's going to be amazing! Tickets on sale now. It's my first show at Edinburgh Fringe, but we've got an amazing cast on board - including Cameron K McEwan, better known in Doctor Who fandom as Blogtor Who. [more inside]

Hey, I'll be in Guatemala from the second week of July through the second week of August. Will any other mefites be in the country? I'll be in Antigua, but will have a good deal of flexibility & could possibly travel within the country.

It's high time we had another Western Massachusetts meetup, so we're having one on July 27 in Northampton. This will be a multistage meetup: early arrivers will gather for lunch at La Veracruzana, then the gang will head to Hinge for meetin', chattin', drinkin', and possibly gamin' through the lazy afternoon hours and into the evening, when eventually the die hards will proceed to Herrell's for ice cream. It's been five years since the last Western Massachusetts meetup, at which awesome people attended and great times were had, and I hope a lot of you can make it! [more inside]

In light of our newest title and because it has been FAR TOO LONG, I propose we take a break from our usual debauchery and have a meetup!

**Update** We'll be meeting 7 p.m. onward at The Passenger (1021 7th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.) next Tuesday, June 18th. ¡Viva la D.C. meetups revolución! [more inside]

Hi folks! In recognition of World Listening Day 2013, I'm presenting an all-night (9pm-5am), immersive, in-the-dark concert of field recordings, ambience, drones, found sound, shortwave recordings, etc., in a secret location outside of Joshua Tree National Park. [more inside]

Hey, 7segment and I are headed to Houston to see the Houston Dynamo/Stoke City game on the 24th of July. We'd like to see if we can schedule a meet up at a bar on the 23rd in order to meet some Houston mefites. I know zero about Houston. I'll be staying near the Dynamo stadium so somewhere near there would be awesome and around the 7pm-8pm hour works best. Suggestions?

Hartford's Living Room, the La Paloma Sabanera coffee house, is shutting its doors at the end of this month, and its owner, Virginia, is moving on to other, better things. We (i.e., people who have run and participated in events at La Paloma Sabanera over the years) are marking this occasion with a bit of sadness but also with a big party on Wednesday, June 26, from 6pm to 11:30. [more inside]

From the post on Gil Garduo NM Gastronome blog, there was a discussion of a series of meetups to eat delicious food. To this I say YES! Torinos' @ Home was suggested as the first place to go, so let's do it! The question is: when? The answer: Saturday, June 29 at 12:30! [more inside]

Asheville NC meetup. Possibly at a venue serving beer or beers. Mid July? [more inside]

I have never walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and would really like to sometime this summer. Anybody interested? [more inside]

Any Front Rangers going to the show tonight? I want to get there early and snag a spot in the balcony.

This is the Sunday Brunch spin-off of the IRL original thread. Near the corner of Paseo del Norte and Wyoming, see inside for details.

Hi all - the American Library Association conference is happening here in Chicago June 27-July 2. IANYL - hell, IANEven*A*L - but it sounds like the type of thing where significant MeFite repping is possible. Should we try for a meetup during the conference?

I'm in Denver from 6/7 to 6/16 and could do the 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th or 15th. I would love to see the mile high mefites again!

Anyone here going to Nowhere, the regional burn for Europe? [more inside]

My wife left me and took the kid ... on vacation! Ha! Anyway, I'm baching it, and I decided instead of just eating all the pancakes I can manage (a la Almanzo Wilder in the Little House on the Prairie books), I should see what ruckus I could start with others. EDIT: this is now a thread for a Saturday night dinner meetup at Rasoi (110 Yale Blvd SE, ABQ), with the Sunday brunch having its own thread. [more inside]

Our JULY meetup will be Saturday the 13th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. Please post in the thread what you're bringing so others can make sure they don't bring the same thing, and/or so they can drool over the thought of homemade cookies. These meetups usually last 8-10 hours, so feel free to come over even if you can't make it for the first hour or three. [more inside]

Who's up for a meetup at Hopworks to discuss the beach meetup? [more inside]

I'm visiting Saint Louis and have no plans for dinner on Sunday, June 16th. I'm hoping you can help me with that, maybe around 7pm? *crosses fingers* [more inside]

Hi all, I am in the Faroe Islands for the next week or so. [more inside]

Hi all! My husband and I are new to Madison (we moved two days before the huge snowstorm in December!). We’d love to meet some of the local Mefites. I haven't seen any Madison meetups proposed, but there seems to be a lot of Mefites around... [more inside]