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News & ArtsThursday, May 14, 2009
Housekeeping What Happens When You Turn Your Advice Column Over to a Bunch of Drunk People In a Bar?
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Tonight, at Slog Happy, Dan Savage will find out—he's handing his column over to you Slog readers!
Dan has chosen four Savage Love letters to bring to tonight's meet-up and we'll be passing them around, along with pens and notepads, so everyone can jot down their advice. (It's easier than passing around laptops, okay?)
That means your advice (should it be funny, smart, and/or legible) could end up in a future installment of Savage Love. Exciting! Then maybe Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert will want you on their shows. (Probably not, though.)
Slog Happy starts at 6 pm at the Roanoke Tavern, which is located at 2409 10th Ave E. You can read some reader reviews (or write your own) here.
I will also be bringing those terrible Strawberried Peanut Butter m&ms, just so you can experience them for yourselves, but that's not nearly as exciting.
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Oh shit, really? This is the best Slog Happy idea yet! (The Savage Love letters, not the Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms - they are an abomination.)
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I am coming to my first SLOG happy for this opportunity. The chance to comment on one of the letters that Dan gets, really, oh please don't be lying to me in order to get me to eat your fowl M&M's. I could of course stay home and write my paper for class, but ummm not gonna do that. I shall have to prefunk in order to have that gin fairy on my shoulder. Yes the same one that may have guided Lindy West at the Gong Show.
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Oh, I so wish I could be there. I've been lamenting most of this week that I can't be there (unfortunately my plans to come out to Seattle aren't until later in the year).
I'll be thinking about you all though.
Details, please share details for those of us who are currently too far away to join in the festivities.
Drat!
I'll be thinking about you all though.
Details, please share details for those of us who are currently too far away to join in the festivities.
Drat!
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You had best not be fucking with me... Thats it, thats my tipping point. I am coming to my first Slog Happy ever tonight!! I dont care if I have to eat a bag of those shitty M&M's if it means I not only get to be in the same room as Dan but have a chance to look at actual letters and give my humble, snarky opinion *swoon*, I dont care how scary you all might be in person I am so not missing this. Count me in!!
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@6
You will quickly learn that we are not scary at all. Picture the math club from your high school, but grown-up (in age if not maturity) and drinking beer.
You will quickly learn that we are not scary at all. Picture the math club from your high school, but grown-up (in age if not maturity) and drinking beer.
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@7 That actually sounds adorable, I cant wait!! Do I have to dress like the math club from highschool? what does one wear to Slog Happy? I mean I assume Mr Poe arrives in assless chaps, but what about the rest of you?
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@8 Actually, I think joh would be more likely to show up in assless chaps than Mr. Poe.
Just come as you are. Contrary to popular belief you are not required to wear skinny jeans and/or ironic facial hair in order to hang out with Stranger staff and SLOG regulars.
Just come as you are. Contrary to popular belief you are not required to wear skinny jeans and/or ironic facial hair in order to hang out with Stranger staff and SLOG regulars.
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I wish I could grow ironic facial hair. I would not wear skinny leg jeans even if my legs were skinny, though.
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@9 Well as long as someone is wearing them...
Whoo hooo NAKED TIME!! Oh you ment come as you are as in clothes, didnt you... Crap, well i will just go home and drink and stare at my closet till 5:45pm and then freakout slam beverage and throw something on and head over... cause you gotta have a plan.
Whoo hooo NAKED TIME!! Oh you ment come as you are as in clothes, didnt you... Crap, well i will just go home and drink and stare at my closet till 5:45pm and then freakout slam beverage and throw something on and head over... cause you gotta have a plan.
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I will not be able to attend, as I have a prior engagement. I'm watching my niece tear up the stage in "The Wedding Singer" at Nathan Hale High School.
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#8, I just wear work clothes. Usually jeans. Today I'm wearing khakis, a collared shirt, and my favorite cardigan. Poe usually dons a similar outfit, just black pants instead of khakis, and he usually wears a tie.
It's not Line Out Happy, it's Slog Happy.
It's not Line Out Happy, it's Slog Happy.
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@15 Thank you, that is helpful. For some reason this feels like going on a blind date; its weird, I have read Slog for a few years now and the Stranger for what seems like forever, but the concept of meeting in reality is somehow daunting. People are weird creatures.
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My advice will be that everyone wondering about a threesome should do it.
After all, if you can't screw up your life that way, you won't ever learn.
After all, if you can't screw up your life that way, you won't ever learn.
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Look for a table with (usually) free tea, free books, and nametags. Fill out a nametag, put it on, mingle. Remember commenters whose comments you've enjoyed and talk to them. Don't try to hit on all the lady commenters indiscriminately. Do try to hit on all the gentlemen commenters indiscriminately.
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I put on my skull button-down for the occasion. I know how to dress it up.
(There will be tea. I even remembered what kind Megan likes this time.)
(There will be tea. I even remembered what kind Megan likes this time.)
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Here now.
I swear to god if no one talks to me I will revert back to junior high and hide behind my computer... wait, that is already what I am doing... fuck.
I swear to god if no one talks to me I will revert back to junior high and hide behind my computer... wait, that is already what I am doing... fuck.
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@27 - If I were there, I promise, I'd talk to you ('cause I'd be feeling a bit lost, since I'd be a visitor to your fair city).
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i've been to a marvelous party! with aislin and abby and joh(thank you, noel coward).
it was a smashing time on the back patio, with the best conversation in seattle, or anywhere, for that matter. i couldn't have liked it more.
dan, was 'newt, i think you're cute' in when pigs fly?
it was a smashing time on the back patio, with the best conversation in seattle, or anywhere, for that matter. i couldn't have liked it more.
dan, was 'newt, i think you're cute' in when pigs fly?
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