Update: Black Squirrel owner Amy Bowman is all kinds of space awesome.
Having seen this post, she shot me an email, offering us their party room and asking me to give a call – which I did. It seems like the party room is a little too big, quiet and away from the jazziness of the rest of the Squirrel for our group, so instead they’re going to put together some tables and save them for us in the tap room.
And just like that, the Black Squirrel just became my favorite place in Washington DC.
So for those of you in the DC area, it looks like we’ll be getting together this Friday from 6:30 to much later at the Black Squirrel in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.
If you have ever dreamed of getting together and sharing drinks with League contributors and readers in a bar named for vermin (and really, who hasn’t?), this is your golden opportunity.
To quote my own bad self from last week, anyone and everyone is welcome – whether you are a contributor, a long time commenter, a regular reader who has never bothered commenting, or just someone that stumbled onto this blog today and is very, very thirsty.
It looks like we might have a nice turnout, with about a dozen contributors and readers already confirmed. We’ll kick things off around 6:30, but clearly this is not a “you need to be punctual!” kind of event.
If you want more information, or want to RSVP, feel free to do so in the comments section, or email me at rtodkelly@mac.com. I’ll look to make a group email list of those that tell me they are or might be coming, so that if anything changes or we migrate to new watering holes everyone can be kept in the loop. So if for whatever reason you want your email address kept private, let me know and I will blind-copy you.
The Black Squirrel is at 2427 18th Street NW.
Hope to see you there!
Jealous now!Report
Me too.Report
I was about to type, “None of ya’ll ever come to Austin,” and then I remembered that my internal dialogue this morning went something like, “Oh, it’s going to be nice and cool this afternoon, at only 95.” You’d have to be a fool to visit a city in the summer where 95 degrees F is considered nice and cool.Report
Actually, Austin is – along with DC and New Orleans – one of three US cities I have never been to but desperately want to visit.Report
Austin is awesome, even in the summer. All my trips there were during the summer and, unless I was incredibly lucky, the heat seemed very dry, which I am fine with (and actually love, at times). We had a blast each and every time.
NOLA is awesome. I had my bachelor party there and barely came back alive, but was wholly ready to get married in a way that I hadn’t been beforehand.Report
But DC…? meh.Report
DC is a great city–if you disagree, well, your call, but you’re missing out. It’s not perfect, but I wouldn’t want to be somewhere that is.
That said, visiting DC for the climate is probably ill-advised. Luckily you seem to be catching fall, which is one of our two nice seasons, but if you’d been just a week or two earlier you’d be in swamp-ass territory.Report
“but I wouldn’t want to be somewhere that is.”
OK, but you should at least visit Portland sometime.Report
Portland rocks. The wine country in and around Portland rocks even more.Report
Dan-
I had a reply typed out that subsequently disappeared. Anyway, I apologize if I insulted your city. I called the DMV area home for two years and it never stuck with me, which was partly a combination of not wanting to move there in the first place, living in a less-than-ideal spot, hating my job, the city lacking the key components I look for in a place to live, and having to visit the monuments 19,489 times because every person who came to visit just had to see them.
But it is a great place to visit and I myself will be traveling down for the weekend. My apologies all around to anyone offended or if I put a sour note on what I know will be a great weekend.Report
No offense taken!Report
I called the DMV area home for two years
That was one long line.Report
New Orleans makes every other city in this country look boring. New Orleans also makes just about every other city in this country look safe.Report
Looking forward to it.Report
Wish I could be there. Seriously looking at NOLA for Leaguefest 2013.Report
Very excited! I will be taking this as a “you need to be punctual!” kind of thing, and so I will probably be hammered around 6pm.
Also, that picture rules.Report
This is one of those things where I said to myself ‘DC is sorta in the Southeast!’, and then I realized it’s a 10-hour drive from Atlanta. . .
If y’all are still going around 10:30, I’ll be pouring myself a nice bit of Eagle Rare and raising my glass your way.Report
“And just like that, the Black Squirrel just became my favorite place in Washington DC.”
We need some sort of certificate that we can distribute to Friends of The Ordinaries for times like this.Report