PoP! Goes the New Year 2009

Orlando & Halloween saw the first annual PoP!toberfest, now PanelsOnPages.com & Chicago present the first annual PoP! Goes the New Year!!

Food, Drinks, Champagne for those legal enough, and Music & Dancing await you!!

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HELP!!

Still trying to figure out where to host this! If anyone has any ideas or eligible places, PLEASE send me a Private Message! It has to be affordable, too! I ain't made o' money, lol! No houses, unless you have enough space for a dance floor and a good number of people. PoP!toberfest had about 35 guests, and I'd like to meet or beat that number!! (I was thinking a church gym, maybe?)

Overnight lodging is available for out-of-towners (& drunks, but if you puke in my house, you're sleeping on the porch)!

A church gym for us heathens???

Hey, no one's Pentagram tattoo would be burning more than mine, but I figured a church wouldn't charge that much - if at all - for the use of their facility...

Sounds like fun, but I don't know. I more of a stay at home, order some portillo's or deep dish, watch some movies, kiss my wife at midnight type of guy. Just let me know the details and I'm sure Amy and I will be there.

You can still kiss your wife at midnight...but you also get to dress up, dance, and hang out with a bunch of your friends...

You might get a better response for this when you lock down a place to have it, Chris.

Planning a party without a venue is kinda like inviting people over for Thanksgiving and expecting them to bring the Turkey.

TENIME_art wrote:You can still kiss your wife at midnight...but you also get to dress up, dance, and hang out with a bunch of your friends...

You had me until you said DRESS UP.

Silent K wrote:You might get a better response for this when you lock down a place to have it, Chris.

Planning a party without a venue is kinda like inviting people over for Thanksgiving and expecting them to bring the Turkey.

Yeah Chris,wtf?!

Let's just all meet in the lobby of the Hyatt and eat pizza there again.

Ska wrote:Let's just all meet in the lobby of the Hyatt and eat pizza there again.

HA!

Silent K wrote:

Ska wrote:Let's just all meet in the lobby of the Hyatt and eat pizza there again.

HA!

Hey, at least I can get in there.

Well, I was only supposed to be helping plan this, not taking on all the duties myself.

I can neither afford to, nor have the time/ideas to make this what it could have/was going to be.

I got it out there now because by the time I might get things "locked down", everyone else is already going to have plans. This way, it gives me more incentive to get things done, and more of a reason to even try. Not only can I not afford to pay for this whole thing by myself, I really can't afford to throw all my money away on planning a party that no one will come to.

And, yes, "dress up".

I'm not a social butterfly. I'm not a partier. But there are certain times when "staying at home" and/or wearing t-shirts & jeans is boring as fuck, and dressing up and going out is fun as shit.

If you can't do that on New Year's Eve - when can you do it!?

I am a bit of a recluse and holidays kind of bring me down a bit so I don't really go out for New Years, I just stay at home usually. I may be up for something though if it is near enough and wont cost too much

TENIME_art wrote:Well, I was only supposed to be helping plan this, not taking on all the duties myself.

I can neither afford to, nor have the time/ideas to make this what it could have/was going to be.

I got it out there now because by the time I might get things "locked down", everyone else is already going to have plans. This way, it gives me more incentive to get things done, and more of a reason to even try. Not only can I not afford to pay for this whole thing by myself, I really can't afford to throw all my money away on planning a party that no one will come to.

And, yes, "dress up".

I'm not a social butterfly. I'm not a partier. But there are certain times when "staying at home" and/or wearing t-shirts & jeans is boring as fuck, and dressing up and going out is fun as shit.

If you can't do that on New Year's Eve - when can you do it!?

How about you find a local NYE event that's already going on, and everyone can just meet up? That way you're only out of pocket gas, admission (if applicable), and whatever drinks you drink?

I wanted a PoP!-run event.

TENIME_art wrote:I wanted a PoP!-run event.

Don't you realize that wherever PoP! goes, we run shit?

Hyatt Regency O'Hare »
Editor's Pick
8 p.m.-1 a.m.; $39

Want to make a quick getaway on January 1? Party out by O'Hare at the Hyatt Regency's reasonably priced bash, which includes entertainment by Modern Day Romeos, C-Factor, JakTripper, DJ-SPIN, Tony Ocean and the Lori Brittin Jazz Quartet. Your party ticket gets you access to all entertainment, five hours of open bar, a champagne toast, party favors and a fantasy casino. Add on a chef-inspired dinner buffet with prime rib, lobster bisque and more for $30 (this can be done alone, as well). Or book an entire package that includes two party tickets and a deluxe guest room for two for $189. Visit ohare.hyatt.com to book packages, and ticketweb.com for tickets.

I can guarantee half the "yes"es and most of the "maybe"s saying no to a cover charge that much.

Thanks, though.

5 hours of open bar.

And that's still too much for some people.

Shit, that's too much for me, if that's the biggest draw.

"Whooo!! Open bar!! Oh, wait, I don't drink. There goes money down the toilet..."

Yes, I'm going to have fun with this, because I can and he's one of my closest friends so he understands.

TENIME_art wrote:

And, yes, "dress up".

NO!

TENIME_art wrote:
I'm not a social butterfly. I'm not a partier.

Agreed.

TENIME_art wrote:
But there are certain times when "staying at home" and/or wearing t-shirts & jeans is boring as fuck, and dressing up and going out is fun as shit.

Speak for yourself pal, dressing up is a pain sometimes and Chris...when is "shit" ever fun? It's stinky, that's why we flush it down the toliet and we light it on fire and put in on the porches of old people houses and Mikey's, so we can hear them call the shit, poop.

TENIME_art wrote:
If you can't do that on New Year's Eve - when can you do it!?

Christmas, weddings, funerals, parties, business meetings, high school reunions, going to the office every day.....

Silent K wrote:Hyatt Regency O'Hare »
Editor's Pick
8 p.m.-1 a.m.; $39

Want to make a quick getaway on January 1? Party out by O'Hare at the Hyatt Regency's reasonably priced bash, which includes entertainment by Modern Day Romeos, C-Factor, JakTripper, DJ-SPIN, Tony Ocean and the Lori Brittin Jazz Quartet. Your party ticket gets you access to all entertainment, five hours of open bar, a champagne toast, party favors and a fantasy casino. Add on a chef-inspired dinner buffet with prime rib, lobster bisque and more for $30 (this can be done alone, as well). Or book an entire package that includes two party tickets and a deluxe guest room for two for $189. Visit ohare.hyatt.com to book packages, and ticketweb.com for tickets.

Holy hell, that sounds awesome.

Spider-Man wrote:Christmas

Hell no.

Spider-Man wrote:weddings

Last wedding I went to was 9 years ago.

Spider-Man wrote:funerals

Last funeral I went to was 12 years ago, and since when are funerals "fun"?

Spider-Man wrote:parties

Not a partier. And when everyone else is in jeans & t-shirts, as they are at most parties, showing up in a suit & tie looks ridiculous.

Spider-Man wrote:business meetings

Hell no, and how is that fun? I'd imagine funerals would be more fun.

Spider-Man wrote:high school reunions

Home schooled. Will never have a high school reunion.

Spider-Man wrote:going to the office every day.....

Hell no, and again, how is that fun?

Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving: those are "stay at home holidays". 4th of July, too, but you're not indoors.

New Year's Eve should be "going out" fun.

I didn't even know the clock turned over last year. I was lying in bed, watching Alien 3. Wow, so much fun.

If you don't want to get dressed up and go dancing with friends, that's fine. No one has to.

I'd like to.

And, no, "no one's stopping me". Unless all my friends decide they have better things to do. Then, yeah, everyone's stopping me. That's exactly what's happening.

PoP!toberfest was some of the most fun I've ever had. But not everyone can, afford to, or want to go to Florida for a Halloween party. Why would my friend Sam & his wife Kim want to go that far to spend time with people they either hardly know, or don't at all? This helps spread the PoP! love around the country more. Spread to people who no matter how much I or Knize or Kerouac nag them, they won't visit the site, much less sign up for the boards.

My main reason for loving the idea of this so much (it wasn't my idea to do a PoP! New Year's in Chicago), is it helps get the site more recognition. One step closer to PoP! Con. It has to start somewhere. It has to grow. It can't just be us, meeting once a year, in the same place.

It also was going to help me feel like I contributed to the site that my friends created.

I didn't just meet The Forefathers. I've known them awhile before they even got the idea for this place.

And, while I don't "need more to do", nor do I feel "excluded", I do feel like "just a fan", instead of "part of it".

That's another reason why I wanted to do this so badly.

Going to someone's house where people are excluded because it's either too small, or people I know don't know the hosts well enough, or people "you" know don't know me well enough is just stupid. Going somewhere that's hosted by someone else, where a thousand people - that I would most likely hate - couldn't give a flying shit about us "running shit" doesn't sound much fun either. If I was by myself, looking for something to do, yes, Jase, that does sound awesome.

But that's not the awesome I was looking for, nor would it benefit any/everybody else.

Tripper just asked me why do I "give a fuck what anyone else wants"?

She's right.

I shouldn't.

So I won't.

TENIME_art wrote:

Spider-Man wrote:Christmas

Hell no.

Spider-Man wrote:weddings

Last wedding I went to was 9 years ago.

Spider-Man wrote:funerals

Last funeral I went to was 12 years ago, and since when are funerals "fun"?

Spider-Man wrote:parties

Not a partier. And when everyone else is in jeans & t-shirts, as they are at most parties, showing up in a suit & tie looks ridiculous.

Spider-Man wrote:business meetings

Hell no, and how is that fun? I'd imagine funerals would be more fun.

Spider-Man wrote:high school reunions

Home schooled. Will never have a high school reunion.

Spider-Man wrote:going to the office every day.....

Hell no, and again, how is that fun?

Have you seen the movie Wedding Crashers?

Spider-Man wrote:
Have you seen the movie Wedding Crashers?

That movie would have been so much better if it was called 'Funeral Crashers'.