Meetup Mania! (2 Updates)

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I’ve been a bit busy, so I haven’t been able to ask you about SM Meetups, but I promise I’ve wanted to do so for several weeks. Those mutinous, offline melas are very much on my mind these days, as I contemplate the end of summer and where I will spend it. You see, not only do I think it’s high time for the second-ever live mutiny in DC, it seems that excessively homesick-me will be in the golden state for much of early September (w00t Northern California!!!). I think it’s time to overwhelm Greco once again; let’s take that possibility from tentative to definite, shall we? Let’s also hope the wifi works this time, as it usually does. 😉

Amardeep inspired me (yet again) to post once he issued his gentle invitation to Philadelphia-area readers to join him for that city’s first meetup, before a very cool-sounding concert he just blogged about. Even if you don’t take him up on his tempting offer, I want you to know that it won’t be an anomalous event– Philadelphia is a great city and I’d love to hold regular meetups there, as well as NY and SF. What say all of you, and when I type that I mean ALL of you, wherever you are. Depending on how much demand and notice we get, we may be able to coordinate sepia soirees elsewhere, since many of us travel, some of us, far too much. 😀

DC: When should We Chocolate City mutineers will have our next carb-laden, veg-friendly fiesta on August 19th? August 26th. Who knows, if we don’t tell Abhi, we might be able to facilitate a “Yo Dad” appearance which ISN’T moderated! Imagine the possibilities for information-gathering!

SF: What about you, oh citizens of Baghdad-by-the-bay? How many of you will be around for Labor day weekend? I was assuming your answers would be a sea of “not me”s, so I was tentatively glancing at September 9. Thoughts?

Finally, as for you New Yorkers, any weekend you want to shriek and giggle until the Manager yells at us (cough LaLanterna cough) is fine with me. 😉

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Update #1: The people have spoken. DC’s meetup will be on August 26th. 🙂

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Update # 2: NYC’s loveliest saves the date and suggests something fantastic to meet up for– SummerStage at Central Park with a whole lotta brown choons. Pack your pick-a-nick baskets for Yogi and Booboo to plunder; New York’s meetup will be on August 13th!

129 thoughts on “Meetup Mania! (2 Updates)

  1. Here was some talk of a Windy City meetup. Anyone interested?

    What excellent timing you have– someone bearded in the bunker who shall remain nameless was just asking if anyone wanted a Chicago meetup… 😉

  2. I can do a Chicago meetup some time in September. However, Vinod and I have a SF meetup in the works for August 6th. Post coming soon!

  3. I had a blast at the last DC meetup and would definitely be up for coming out to another one. I’m playing a wedding in the ATL on the 19th, but I’m down for the 26th.

  4. Hmmm.. mebbe the time has come for me to get off my sorry behind and show my face at one of these soirees. They seem to be fun. Next one in NY/Philly on a weekend, count me in!

  5. What excellent timing (FYI, they sent it eight hours before I posted this):

    Dear Anna…
    Hope all is well!
    Just wanted to reach out and invite you to Leela lounge for a drink. Please let me know which evening suits you best.
    Yours Truly,
    Leela Lounge

    To their credit, they felt awful about the Manhattan-meetup-mix-up last time and they wrote me afterwards apologizing for closing on Memorial Day on such short notice. I told them, “All’s well that ends well; we had a FANTASTIC time at La Lanterna, our last minute venue.”

    Anyway, looks like we have a new-old venue for our next NYC meetup, if any of you are so inclined. 🙂

  6. Hmm…first time I have actually placed my real name into the Name: field…..but anyways….would be interesting to drop by and say hello for the NYC meet up.

  7. Aw, that’s so sweet of Leela Lounge. I’m down for an NYC meetup =)

    When should we have it? This Saturday? August 5? 12th? 🙂 Siddhartha? Kobayashi-san?? Where you at?

  8. i would vote for a meet in NYC … chat wid fellow mutineers over some chaat hopefully .. lol ..

  9. i won’t even mind a meet in dc on 18th tho .. m in the city for a while …

  10. Ack I’m finally in a city where there’s going to be a meetup, but I’m going to leave before it happens! Is there anyway the DC meetup could be moved up to Aug 11 or 12th?

  11. Let’s meet in NYC. This time, we’ll get a place across from LaLaterna. And really stick it to them. I am sure they’ll notice the loss.

    Incidentally, I went to LaLaterna a few days back after the meetup with some anti-vegetarians who insisted on getting the carpaccio and the salmonella that came along with it. After the natural sequence of events, these guys called LaLaterna and gave them a good talking to. But I digress….

  12. Incidentally, I went to LaLaterna a few days back after the meetup with some anti-vegetarians who insisted on getting the carpaccio and the salmonella that came along with it.

    Alllll righty, then. The venue for the next NYC meetup will be Leela Lounge. 🙂 Now PICK A DATE, already.

  13. Another suggestion: this event is on August 13th. Maybe a meet-up in Central Park? Potluck and all?

    Oh, we HAVE to go to that! I knew one of you New Yorkers would come through with a “can’t miss” event to anchor our meetup to…August 13th it is! THANKS, POOJA! 😀

  14. Geez, what happened at LaLaterna on that fateful day? I feel awful; I was the one who suggested the place.

    Pooja darling, I thought the back garden was pure enchantment. I loved it so much, I had planned to take my sister there if we made it to New York. Your suggestion was lovely. 🙂

  15. And while we are on the subj. Is Asha Puthli the new MIA?

    I think you got it twisted; MIA was the new Asha!

  16. I’ll be there early. I’m a big picnicker and will have a blanket enough for 6-7 people to sit on and lots of snacks. Cold Cervazas can be bought there. Doors open 90 minutes before which means at 1:30pm and I assure you that it will be packed and once it’s packed they will not let anyone in. So GET THERE EARLY.

    BTW “Please do not bring alcoholic beverages, glass, bottles, coolers, pets, bicycles, rollerblades, folding chairs, beach umbrellas, video cameras or tape recorders. No flash photography is allowed. All bags are subject to search.”

    And they strictly follow this rule so bring blankets to sit on, water and food but don’t bring any wine the way you do for concerts on the Great Lawn.

  17. I am once again posting through an anonymizer, to say that, speaking of San Francisco, and waaayyyy far in advance, if anyone wants to meet up Thursday November 9th, I’ll be there, because the Balboa Theater is gonna have a screening of the “Sita Sings the Blues” work-in-progress that night. Maybe we could get dinner before or drinks after. Or just popcorn during.

    If and when there’s a NYC meet at the Leela Lounge, I’ll be there; not sure about sitting in Central Park (I’m something of an enochlophobe, and also a mosquito magnet).

  18. If you’re a mosquito magnet then it’s a public service for you to come along 😉 There are no mosquitos in central park, silly, the rats eat their larvae.

  19. So I am fairly new to Sepia Mutiny and I am very intrigued by a potential meetup in SF.

    What exactly happens during a meet up? I am guessing it is just a meet up..(and thus it is called a meet up) of everyone who loves this website. Am I right? Or do these meet ups come with an agenda/presentations etc?

    I have been dying to meet some browness in the city, but have not had such luck because of my crazy work hours….that and the fact that I have only been in the city for 3 weeks and did not know a soul when I moved here, so I have no idea where to meet like minded, desi people.

    I am definately missing hanging out with browness.

    Count me in if the invitation is extended to everyone!

  20. not sure about sitting in Central Park (I’m something of an enochlophobe, and also a mosquito magnet).

    I’m enochlophobic, too. Especially when the “crowds” in question are composed of nosy, bitchy Aunties. 😉

  21. What exactly happens during a meet up?

    The surgeons are gentle.

    The floggings cease as soon as morale improves.

    Anna’s skin stuns.

  22. For desis, it’s not a crowd until it goes above 10,000 people or so. Largest crowd I’ve been in was 750,000 – as large as the population of SF or Boston. However, that did bring out “crowded rat” behavior – guys started pushing each other and starting fights b/c they were in each others space.

  23. What exactly happens during a meet up? I am guessing it is just a meet up..(and thus it is called a meet up) of everyone who loves this website. Am I right? Or do these meet ups come with an agenda/presentations etc?

    Bring handouts and email me your .ppt file ahead of time. Carry a backup on your USB drive just in case.

  24. What exactly happens during a meet up?

    You’ll have to ask Jai. Though I will say that it involves bowls, keys and several kinds of openness.

    I am guessing it is just a meet up..(and thus it is called a meet up) of everyone who loves this website.

    Correct.

    Am I right? Or do these meet ups come with an agenda/presentations etc?

    Oh, I have an agenda all right. No, nothing so formal. Though I’m highly tempted to hold a spelling bee one of these times… 😉

    Count me in if the invitation is extended to everyone!

    You have been counted. 🙂

  25. Thanks! 🙂

    It was a genuiune question. And I knew as I was typing it that I was going to get picked on 🙂 Don’t blame you. I might as well have had a sign on my ass that said Kick me 🙂 But hey, I am new to this meet up stuff.

  26. i’m a regular (read: compulsive) lurker, and a occasional (read: rare) commenter, but i am willing to delurk myself for a windy city meetup! any time in (or after) september would be lovely!