I’ll be in Sydney on Sunday night Oct 9th and thought it would be good to meet up with anyone who wants to. Rafe has posted the details on both Troppo and Catallaxy.
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Yeah Nick’s good value. As we discovered in Melbourne, get some toot up his nose and you’ll be dancing with him to Black Box on the pool table at The Daily Planet in no time.
Forget the nose-candy, you want Nicholas to party on, just call him a bludger.
Can’t make the Nicholas knees-up on the 9th, but must apologise to Naomi. I’ve been waiting for the footie season to close and, I admit, to clear my present work traffic jam (a sure giveaway that I’m really pressed is that my blogging increases. Discuss.) Will get organised for our slow Sunday sojourn in the mountains promptly, or pretty promptly.
Nick
Tell us when this event to celebrate the coming of the Gruen begins. Rafe has already suggested a venue which conveniently enough is near where I live but I’m happy to meet up wherever if there’s a critical mass and certainty to the event. I can then post a reminder on catallaxy closer to the date with time and place details. Should be able to round up a few other bloggers - Liam whom I still haven’t met, Amanda, hell maybe Jack Strocchi and Fyodor might turn up (I can contact Jack) - wouldn’t that be something?
How about - say 6.30 for 7 for drinks and then those who want go on to dinner. Rafe has suggested Clock Hotel in Crown Street, Surry Hills which is OK by me. It would be good if there were a quiet cheap hotel nearby - I think the University Motel would qualify - and there are presumably plenty of good places to go eat. I can be more definite when planes are booked and other arrangements are in place. But I think it’s safe to put arrangements in place around these broad markers - what do you reckon?
I’m having a weekend away then but I’ll be getting back sometime Sunday evening so it might or might not work out. Will try.
I’d love to rock up, but I have a hot date with work. All day.
Sunday night huh. Like Amanda I will attempt, especially if there’s a prospect of a Fyodor versus Citizen Strocchi stoush™. Please?
That would guarantee my attendance too. Don’t let me down, Fedya! I’m going to “A 1930s English Country House Hunting Party” themed soiree out in the sticks Sat and staying overnight so it rather depends on how much gin, pheasant, servant-beating and inappropriate relations with the gameskeeper I have indulged in. I may be in no state, Stoush of the Century or no.
that’s a plan, nick. I’ll put up another reminder closer to the day. Fyodor, please turn up, I’ll try and get Jack along.
For all things Fyodor someone ought ta talk to harry and the forbattle crew. If I wasn’t incommunicado away from my addressbook I’d let him know back-channel but… harry… come out for a beer…
Back to your cabin, Haiku-Boy.
You folk should remember that this shindig is for Nick Gruen. I have no intention of interfering with it via a gratuitous and tawdry outing.
Fine, whatever. I’ve got your number now. My new theory is that harry and Fedya are one and the same. I think back, and it becomes clear. All those times we say round drinking Cozalcoatl and Anti Ob’s red wine, obsessing over Fyodor. That day at the pub with Zoe. harry was always there, subtly egging us on, further and further in the wrong direction.
Two words: Keysar Soze
Then that long running Oz culture-JJJ-economic crap exchange you’ve been having. It pleases me to think of one person cyberally running back and forth batting for both sides. How you keep the name/mail/website details straight I’ll never know. But of course, a nerd like you would have two dedicated computers.
Oh yes, it all makes so much sense now. The greatest trick you ever pulled, Ha-Fyo, was convincing us you exist.
Orright, you rumbled me, guv. Take me down the nick.
Kaiser Fyodor killed my whole family. Just sayin…
Fedya, it’s true we’ll be looking forward to chatting to Nick Gruen when he comes down to Syd-er-nee. Perhaps he’ll even draw us some frogs on beer coasters. That’d be cool. Still, let’s all be honest and admit to ourselves that the only reason blogger meetups happen at all is to push the pseudonymous commenters out of their cover. That, and for the Guinness.
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Harry = Fyodor? Definitely. Don’t know how it passed by unnoticed.
Jack Strocchi = Nic White? I can see it.
Homer Paxton = FXH? An interesting theory, more research is required.
Liam Hogan = Evil Pundit? We have no comment at this stage.
Oi!
Yes, I will be coming for beers on the ninth.
It is easy to tell us apart: Fyodor is the one who looks rich and who is telling the other one he’s an idiot.
Besides, liam and Amanda know I really exist, so why would I create a fake personality who was funnier and more educated than the real me? And why would I then choose to write screeds of boring economics bullcrap on Catallaxy for fun?
And if you took me “down the nick” the most cursory of frisking would reveal the truth. hellooooo ladies.
Talk to the hand.
Whose elbows are sexier (and/or funnier)?
I vote Zoe for sexiest elbows.
“Whose elbows are sexier (and/or funnier)?”
Funny as in ‘haha’, or funny as in weird?
“Fyodor funny?”
Well, he regularly makes me laugh like a fat chook.
I have a grazed elbow at the moment which appears to have been caused by having sex, but I’m unable to remember how!