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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Housekeeping Happy Slog Happy Eve

Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Tomorrow is Slog Happy Day and I can't wait. For those who haven't heard: It starts at 6 pm at Cafe Metropolitain, and it's going to be one part Slog Happy and one party fancy birthday celebration! The very generous Scary Tyler Moore won the party at Cafe Met via last year's Strangercrombie, and she's sharing her prize with all of us!

Here's just a small list of the goodness that awaits you:

*Yummy vegetarian finger-food
*Lovely Stranger folks including Dominic Holden, Lindy West, Christopher Frizzelle, and Bethany Jean Clement
*Extended happy hour including $1 PBRs
*Free books courtesy Paul Constant
*Cupcakes

And more! There's always more. But I have a very important question, Slog Happy attendees: What kind of cupcakes should I make? I'm terribly indecisive, and I have a whole cookbook of delicious choices.

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I'm intrigued by this "Cotton Candy" cupcake.

Posted by @ on March 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Would these be Special Brownies?

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM

You left off the correct choice, which is "cupcakes are stupid, I want olives or walnuts or pumpkin seeds".

Posted by Fnarf on March 11, 2009 at 12:26 PM

...no pie? :(

Posted by The Cupcake Tyranny Must End on March 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM

You're getting veggie finger food, Fnarf- we want sweets too!
And I don't care what the poll says- Anything with caramel beats everything. And with spiced apples it sounds too yummy to be denied.

Posted by Enigma on March 11, 2009 at 12:34 PM

The other children in school used to dread Fnarf's birthday. "Fnarf's stupid birthday olives, AGAIN! Where are the goddamn cupcakes?!"

Posted by Julie in Eugene on March 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM

I vote for Red Velvet Cupcakes.

Ill probably be there early, because I like to build up a good booze buffer before I'm forced to talk to Matt Hickey for a few hours.

Posted by Joh on March 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Are the cupcake choices and analogue for our sexual tastes?

Posted by pragmatic on March 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM

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I recently heard a story about a straight razor, a black cat and Fnarf's bare buttocks. Ill share it with you all tomorow.

Posted by Joh on March 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM

Brownies > cupcakes.

Posted by Aislinn on March 11, 2009 at 12:44 PM

Aislinn just wants Scooby Snacks because she quit drinking for Heathen Lent.

Posted by Joh on March 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM

ugh, worst bar in town. pointlessly douchey staff and SLOWWWWW. have fun watching them serve their friends behind you and try to work their bad POS system.

Posted by three strikes on March 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM

@11,

seconded.

I may be there tomorrow. I may bring the caramels. It depends on how motivated I am this evening.

Lost is a repeat....Hmmm.

Posted by wisepunk on March 11, 2009 at 12:52 PM

@12: No, I just hate cupcake wrappers and frosting-fingers. Cupcakes make me wish for a fork. Cupcakes would be so much better if they were just cake.

Also, thanks for blabbing about Lent, jerk. I'm slightly apprehensive about my first (and hopefully only) Sober Slog Happy.

Posted by Aislinn on March 11, 2009 at 1:01 PM

Joh @10, I'll tell it to you in person if you like. Mr. and Mrs. Fnarf will be in attendance. Where'd you hear it, Hernandez?

Julie, I got most of the olives, but Fnarf's Birthday Martinis were always pretty popular back in junior high.

Posted by Fnarf on March 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM

I'm all for Red Velvet cupcakes, mostly for the frosting. I like cream cheese anything.

I'll do your drinking for you, Aislinn. I have Friday off.

Posted by Abby on March 11, 2009 at 1:18 PM

@15: I've done several Sober Slog Happies. They're enjoyable, and even occasionally super-entertaining if people get really trashed.

Posted by Paul Constant on March 11, 2009 at 1:22 PM

@16 I'm assuming he heard it from the same person I did.

Free cupcakes means I'll probably actually eat something this time, which would be an improvement. I always have the worst hangovers post-Slog Happy.

Posted by Hernandez on March 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM

Mocha cupcakes are always my favorite, but I can't be there, so my opinion is entirely irrelevant, except to myself.

Posted by Geni on March 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM

Cupcakes? Who needs cupcakes when there will be plenty of Twinkies?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM

@14: get on the ball, son! Your public wants- nay, DEMANDS- your caramels!

Posted by Jessica on March 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Fnarf;

You feed Swan a beer and mention your name, and you have to ask him to stop talking about you. I think he has a man crush.

Posted by Joh on March 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM

@15

You should have done what sam and I did; give up not snortin cocaine for lent.

Posted by Joh on March 11, 2009 at 2:38 PM

I love red velvet cupcakes even though they turn my piss burgundy.

Posted by Greg on March 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM

There are just as many or more funny stories about Swan, but unfortunately my brain is made of cake dough and I can't remember any of them.

Posted by Fnarf on March 11, 2009 at 2:52 PM

sounds like number 13 hit on one of the wait staff and got shot down in flames. well thank gawd YOU won't be at SLOG happy, mister pissypants.

Posted by scary tyler moore on March 11, 2009 at 4:32 PM

@18 for the win.

It actually is kind of fun watching them when they get out of hand.

Plus, you don't feel wasted the next day.

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 11, 2009 at 4:54 PM

I would like to add a sixth option: "Megan should bring a champagne fountain"

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay on March 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM

I'm not going unless Megan makes brownie cupcake cookies with Blue Velveeta frosting, each one served with a peanut butter flavored Swedish Fish on top.

Posted by Cookie W. Monster on March 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM

Someday, Catalina, someday.

You have one, right? I think we should all chip in to buy a case of champagne and do it.

Posted by Fnarf on March 11, 2009 at 8:24 PM

Fnarf dear, I appreciate the thought, but that would require me climbing up into the attic and actually finding the damn thing, and I'm not young.

Also, we'd have to get a banquet permit from the WSLCB, and they haven't let me get one of those since that unfortunate misunderstanding with the Burien police.

No, I'm afraid I shall have to wait until dear Megan goes to the Petty Cash desk at The Stranger and gets the money to rent one. (Confidential to Megan: I have pictures of your boss dressed as a woman, and I'm not afraid to post them. Maybe that will get him to expense the champagne fountain. If not, I'll tell everyone about the night he tried to pick me up at The Brass Connection. It was years ago, before Edison invented the light bulb. Plus, he had his beer goggles on.)

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay on March 11, 2009 at 9:24 PM

I drove by the old Hostess© building on Aurora yesterday... and I wondered if there's anything going on inside. Is it safe to assume that cupcakes no longer issue from within those grimy brown walls? I miss them... because of the cream inside...
^..^

Posted by herbert browne on March 11, 2009 at 11:40 PM