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[sabotabby]

New meme. This one is for rohmie, and the good news is that you don't need to repost it in your own El Jay or anything like that. (Unless you want to repost it.)

Here's the thing. We are going to Chicago for the IWW conference and to hang out, because hey, it's not every day one gets to wander a strange city with someone one has never met in person. By the way, if any of you are going to be there from June 23-30 and want to hook up, do let me know. Also, if anyone knows free/cheap places to stay...

But back to the meme. Given that rohmie has never met me in person, and given my somewhat checkered reputation, he was wondering what kind of a drunk I am. Now, I counted, and there are approximately 21 people on my friends list who have seen me drunk. Your homework assignment as follows...

1. If you have been drunk with me in person, what kind of drunk am I? (Stories are encouraged. I'm making myself a target for mockery, but I have strong enough self-esteem. I can take it.)

2. If you've never been drunk with me, what kind of a drunk do you think I'd be?

Remember...IWW stands for I Want Whiskey!

EDIT: Doctor Who + This Is Wonderland (and SVU, were it not a rerun of a terrible episode) = Best. Telly. Night. Ever. Who's with me?

Comments

If you've never been drunk with me ...

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Well, if you were here, I'd expect to run into you in one of the local hippie bars, not the fake Irish one, unless you really wanted Harp on tap.

I suppose you would get louder as the evening progressed, telling stories that would keep everyone else laughing (or turning red, if you knew them well). As the evening progresses, you would lean on the person next to you, increasingly listing further to port. Leaving the bar, you would teach everyone an off-color Wobblie song, which we would all sing on the way down the street.

Re: If you've never been drunk with me ...

[sabotabby]

Ugh, no. I'll take real Irish bars over most other sorts but most other sorts of bars over fake Irish ones. Harp is yum, though. The description is fairly right on, although I'd need some prompting to think of an off-colour Wobbly song. I suppose "Mr. Block" might do it, but I can't remember most of the lyrics.

Re: If you've never been drunk with me ...

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

I don't think there ARE any off color Wobbly songs -- I think sex was one of their (few) blind spots. I mean, Covington Hall (and Boxcar Bertha, separately) could joke about brothel strikes, but they had little written culture about sex, unfortunately. I could be full of shit, though, and I would completely LOVE to be proven wrong on this. So far, as far as I know, Emma Goldman is as good as you get on the historically authentic sex positivism among anarchists or anarcho-syndicalists.

Re: If you've never been drunk with me ...

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

There is a Industrial Union for sex workers within the I.W.W.

It's I.U. 690. I shit you not.

However, I don't know how recently it was begun. It existed when I joined in 1999.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I also want affidavits from anyone you have gotten lost in a strange city with ;)

I found another Chicago contact that I had completely forgotten about. The Good Ex of the East reminded me about him. He is another alcoholic atheist in the pirate scene, so he should be good company. I have contacted him but he hasn't gotten back to me because it was about a minute ago.

[sabotabby]

I believe the only person who fits that qualification is annaotto; fortunately, she can attest to the fact that it's happened more than once and I've still managed to get home.

There's a pirate scene? What is with people keeping me in the dark lately?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

There's a pirate scene?

Well, when he lived in Louisville, he and his Chicago girlfriend attended a "Talk Like a Pirate" party and they were pretty impressively decked out. She especially in her leather corset, poet shirt, lacy ruff, striped leggings, pantaloons and captain's hat. I think I also remember a plush parrot of some sort perched on her shoulder, but that may be my imagination playing tricks on me.

I suppose I may have used the term "scene" too loosely. Maybe I was thinking of a different scene.

[sabotabby]

Ah, "Talk Like a Pirate" parties. I'm unable to say "aaaaarrrrrr!" in even a vaguely menacing way. Especially since my voice sounds like that of a 12-year-old.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

there is a possibility i will be vsiting my girlfriend in chicago on the 24-6. word.

[sabotabby]

Yay!

[rote.livejournal.com]

Well, if you ever come to Minneapolis, look me up. We can look at the kitten photos in my wallet!

[sabotabby]

You do that too, huh?

[rote.livejournal.com]

[sabotabby]

It's even the ducktarded kitten!

Also: Active hero! My Red Cross card does not say that. Mind you, now that I'm ineligible for blood donation, it's kind of irrelevant. But still.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

Hey, you know, they don't call them "wobblies" for nothing.

I'll be in Chicago at the end of June being as how I live here. How many people do you have? I may have room on a futon (which is now unfortunately in my fready quasi-conservative roommate's side of the apartment).

[sabotabby]

Two of us that I know of. (rohmie's friends, I think, are staying only for the conference. And mine have yet to confirm because they're all flakes.) In any case, we should definitely meet up.

What means "fready"?

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

"Freaky" i.e. the fact that the d and k are nowhere near each other on the keyboard but somehow I managed to switch them. :)

Yeah, we should meet up for sure. Where is the conference. It might even be in my neighborhood if it's the same place that a couple of the leftie conferences were - the Congress Theater?

[sabotabby]

University of Chicago, I think.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

That's nowhere near me or close to public transit. It's kind of surprising the IWW would have their conference at a site that requires cars to get to for even people living in the city. And a relatively conservative university to begin with (though it was Barack Obama's home district when he was a state Senator).

[sabotabby]

Huh? My stepdad said it was right downtown. Maybe I'm confusing it with another university.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

UofC is on the south side. UIC is close to downtown. That would make more sense and is actually on the same train line as my apartment.

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

I'm so tempted to go to this conference... if, by then, I've gained employment for the fall, I think I might blow some money I barely have. Wobblies past and present, surrealists and aficionados of the Dada, music and drunkenness, Chicago and labor history... ahhh, joy.

[sabotabby]

Do it! You know you want to...

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

IWW conference? I assume it's like a history symposium of some sort.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha

[sabotabby]

Yeah, very funny, guys.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

What's so funny. I don't get it.

Also Enclosed

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Other contents of the package will include:

1) The Imp an irreverent and insightful history of Jack T. Chick tracts that looks like a giant Jack T. Chick tract.

2) A spiral bound version of my Simplicissumus paper that includes color copies the art. It is only enclosed so that you can see the art. I wanted to recreate the handsome package that I had turned in to my profs.

3) The finally finished chapter 1 plus an embryonic chapter 2. I expect chapter 1 will simply be pleasure reading, since I don't intend to change much. I'm also sending along a premature chapter 2 because there's a lot in it which will appeal to your anarchist imagination.

4) Two big refrigerator magnets that can also go on filing cabinets, etc. The first is a color version of Rosetta the Riveter and the second is an old art deco Spanish Civil War poster which reads "Your anarchist books are weapons against fascism" in Spanish. Rosetta is just under page size and the poster is about half page sized (it was originally a large post card). Needless to say the magnets are gifts.

Ummm...I don't know about being drunk with you...

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

...but I can attest to the fact that you're a cute, cheerful, friendly drunk. And mostly a pleasant, slightly rueful hungover-person (or can one use "hangover" the way one uses "drunk," as both noun and adjective? I don't believe one can. Is there a word that means "hungover person"? I defer to those with more experience in these matters (hangovers, that is, if not words)).

Re: Ummm...I don't know about being drunk with you...

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Is there a word that means "hungover person"?

Um, Alan Rickman?