As of now, Thursday is looking to be rainy (c'mon May, get it together). How about the newish The Hollow Nickel on Atlantic? Close to all your favorite public transit lines.
Update: Now that this is moved up a week, who knows what the weather will be. We can update it to an outdoor place if it looks like it'll be nice.
posted by wintrymix
on May 6, 2013 -
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I keep saying that I'm going to organize a meetup at Sycamore so let's do it! (On a Thursday, not a Wednesday, so I can actually be there.) Come enjoy the greenery of Ditmas Park while drinking tasty beer!
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posted by mlle valentine
on Apr 18, 2013 -
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Ok, so no one got around to putting this up earlier, so this is last minute, but if you people are interested: weekly meetup, Soda Bar.
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posted by Hactar
on Apr 16, 2013 -
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Our May meetup will be Saturday the 11th. 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. March's board game meetup lasted 9 hours, and April's lasted 8, so feel free to come over even if you can't make it for the first hour or three.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Apr 14, 2013 -
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This week: Spike Lee's
DO THE RIGHT THING ("The hottest day of the year explodes on-screen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast."). Because it's on a weekday, we're starting a little later: food at 7, movie at 8.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Apr 10, 2013 -
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This week, we're trying out moving our Criterion night to Thursdays, with: Akira Kurosawa's
I LIVE IN FEAR ("his most literal representation of living in an atomic age"). Because it's on a weekday, we're starting a little later: food at 7, movie at 8.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Apr 9, 2013 -
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Nobody likes 61 Local! Let's go somewhere else! Like Zombie Hut!
posted by showbiz_liz
on Apr 8, 2013 -
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Our April 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. March's board game meetup lasted 9 hours, so feel free to come over even if you can't make it for the first hour or three.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Apr 3, 2013 -
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I see the darling rope-rider is on hiatus for a bit and I forecast myself wanting a beer on Wednesday. Perhaps others have a similar drink outlook. Someone else at the last meetup suggested
61 Local, so maybe let's try that? Open to venue change if that's really inconvenient for people or if people are afraid of change.
posted by wintrymix
on Apr 1, 2013 -
10 comments
Due to some travel we each have planned in the next few weeks, we're taking a two-weekend break from Criterion Sunday - but not to worry! We will return on Sunday, April 7th with: Akira Kurosawa's
DODES'KA-DEN ("by turns tragic and transcendant...all of his hopes, fears, and artistic passion are on fervent display").
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posted by ocherdraco
on Mar 20, 2013 -
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This week's film: Orson Welles'
MR. ARKADIN: The Comprehensive Version.
Time Out says: "Long unavailable for theatrical screening...
Mr Arkadin assumed an equivalent patina of myth and legend to that cultivated by its central character.... Flamboyantly melodramatic, it's a playfully egocentric display of a magician's perverse revelation of his own trickery."
We are back to our regular schedule this week. Potluck dinner from 6pm, movie starts at 7
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posted by ocherdraco
on Feb 25, 2013 -
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Have a beard? Want a beard? Want to show off your beard while someone throws popcorn at your face (consensually)? Then this meetup is for you! (Non-beardeds welcome as well).
posted by the young rope-rider
on Feb 24, 2013 -
28 comments
As the IFC Center describes it: "David Lynch once described his stunning debut feature simply as 'a dream of dark and troubling things,' but the unclassifiable
ERASERHEAD is so much more: an expressionistic headtrip, a Grand Guignol nightmare, a pitch-black comedy of manners, and even a deeply personal allegory about the (post-) nuclear family. Amidst a monochromatic wasteland teeming with smoke and shadows, Jack Nance’s wire-haired wage slave Henry struggles to navigate the horrors of mutant offspring, sinister hallucinations and, most terrifying of all, his new in-laws." How can you resist?
This week there will be no potluck, but feel free to bring snacks to eat during the movie. We're starting a little later than usual. Screening starts at 8pm sharp.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Feb 18, 2013 -
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Our March meetup will be Saturday the 16th. 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. December's board game meetup lasted 8 hours, and January's lasted 9, so feel free to come over even if you can't make it for the first hour or three.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Feb 14, 2013 -
35 comments
Last night's screening of
Diabolique was a lot of fun! On to the next Criterion Sunday: each weekend we* will gather for a potluck dinner and watch one of the hundreds of Criterion Collection films available through Roku/Hulu Plus. This week (2/10): Mike Leigh's
TOPSY-TURVY, "an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema’s great artists." *
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posted by ocherdraco
on Feb 4, 2013 -
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What's the point of having access to the masterpieces of cinema if you never actually watch them? It's time to remedy this sad state of affairs, one movie at a time.
Introducing: Criterion Sundays, where each weekend we* will gather for a potluck dinner and watch one of the hundreds of Criterion Collection films available through Roku/Hulu Plus.
This week: Henri-Georges Clouzot's DIABOLIQUE, the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never got around to making.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Jan 27, 2013 -
12 comments
Our February meetup will be either on Saturday the 9th or Sunday the 10th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. Please let me know if you're bringing a snack or a drink, so I can say, "Hey, we need more people to bring drinks!" or similar. December's board game meetup lasted 8 hours, and January's lasted 9, so feel free to come over even if you couldn't make it for the first hour or three.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Jan 17, 2013 -
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FINAL.
Muchmore's is having a comedy thing, and our beloved (and be-liked and be-"he's okay I guess"ed) mefite Greg Nog will be one of the people doing a comedy thing. I hope everyone finds this fun and has a fun time. It costs $5 which is about as much fun as I plan to have. There is cheap beer there.
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posted by the young rope-rider
on Dec 17, 2012 -
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There's live band karaoke until 9 or so, so let's go to that and then convene at Soft Spot. Thanks to Ragged Richard for the suggestion!
posted by the young rope-rider
on Dec 4, 2012 -
4 comments
Our January meetup will be on Saturday the 12th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. December's board game meetup lasted 8 hours, so feel free to come over even if you couldn't make it for the first hour or three.
posted by ocherdraco
on Dec 2, 2012 -
38 comments
Let's try again, shall we? We have Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, Scrabble, and Risk, and I will probably buy Small World or Dominion before this comes around. We have three tables for playing games, and will provide a small amount of snacks. Bring snacks and drinks that you'd like to have. I propose that we do this on either Saturday, Dec. 1, or Sunday, Dec. 2. Once again, we'll start at 2pm.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Nov 5, 2012 -
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I want to play board games with you fine people! I can host such an event on Sunday, Oct. 28th. We have Ticket to Ride, Scrabble, and Risk, and I've been looking for an excuse to buy Pandemic or Dominion. We can either use my place (we have three tables that could be used for playing games) or somewhere else.
posted by ocherdraco
on Oct 15, 2012 -
51 comments
98.1034 Bottles of Beer on the Wall provides drunken encounters with compulsive systems. A program continually preens itself, inserting lines of code to change its visual representation, but along the way, introducing glitches and new patterns of behavior. A therapist program tries to dispense advice as her logic slowly breaks down. Sound editing software turns simple geometric shapes into hallucinatory landscapes. Photoshop generates intricate patterns in an attempt to hide visual compression. A book displays the abuses and absurdities of the DNS system, an addressing apparatus that has seemingly exhausted meaningful combinations of English words.
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posted by rottytooth
on Sep 23, 2012 -
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Let's have another
dog meetup. Same time, same place works for me. Let me know if it does for you.
posted by griphus
on Sep 22, 2012 -
24 comments
I moved up to Greenpoint a few weeks ago, and was really eager to explore my new neighborhood, preferably in the company of a few MeFites. So, I decided to hold a meetup there. NOTE: this will also be the weekly Brooklyn meetup this week.
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posted by bookwibble
on Sep 16, 2012 -
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What is popcorn? What is dinner? What is Part II? What does it all mean? How awesome is the
4th Ave Pub? And why is this description entirely composed of questions?
posted by the young rope-rider
on Sep 15, 2012 -
27 comments
This week's meetup completely slipped my mind. Perhaps all those
Cosmonauts gave me Space Amnesia. No fear, faithful friends (and new friends to be!), the meetups continue at the ever-lovely
4th Ave Pub next
Wednesday Thursday, the 13th. See you there!
posted by the young rope-rider
on Sep 6, 2012 -
25 comments
this meetup is at the 4th ave pub. There will be a mystery door prize. I can't tell you what it is, because it is a mystery. SPOOKY? PERHAPS
posted by the young rope-rider
on Aug 23, 2012 -
48 comments
Barcade. I know you all had good suggestions for other bars, so shoot some of those my way when you get the chance, okay? Okay!
posted by the young rope-rider
on Aug 20, 2012 -
8 comments
Since several of us are from the Ditmas Park/Kensington area, we've been talking about having a meetup at Sycamore, the neighborhood whiskey bar/flower shop (don't worry, they've also got beer). There is a backyard, so let's meet there if the weather is nice!
posted by mlle valentine
on Aug 8, 2012 -
18 comments
Besides that nasty olive flavored beer, everything about the
4th Ave Pub is amazing and wonderful and superlative. Even the popcorn.
Especially the popcorn.
posted by the young rope-rider
on Aug 2, 2012 -
32 comments
