Back in 1999 — this is the pre-accordion — I lived in a condo at the corner of Yonge and Carlton and sometimes got together with friends and friends-of-friends at Fiddler’s Green and talked over beer and pub grub. One particular night at the Green stands out in my mind: I think we all drank a little too much and one of the girls, in one of those “Too Much Information” moments, told us stories of her offbeat sexual proclivities. You can’t unhear such things once heard; I will simply say that thanks to this story, I cannot ever again watch A Charlie Brown Christmas — especially the ending — without cringing.
The night after that, I got into the only bar fight I have ever started in my life: I clobbered my gay friend at a gay bar. It wasn’t a queer-bashing thing; he was monopolizing the girl with whom I was on a date. He has since forgiven me and The Code of Dudes clearly exonerates me in this matter (statute 5: “Cock-blocking is wrong, dude”).
Ah, good times, good times.
Anyhow, this is all preamble to my reminding you that the Blogstravaganza, which I mentioned earlier, takes place this Friday at good ol’ Fiddler’s Green. Organized by Bob “Let it Bleed” Tarantino (and supposedly by Jason “Cherniak on Politics” Cherniak, but I’ve been plugging the event harder than he has), it’s a gathering of Accordion City’s bloggers, blog readers, curious onlookers and people who just need to know the details behind the Charlie Brown Christmas story.
I’ll let Bob do some of the talking:
Everyone walks away from last night’s excitement with something to keep
them happy: Conservatives have a victory, the NDP has an increased seat
count and the Liberals remain a relatively strong Official Opposition.
Which means everyone should be in a good mood for Friday night’s blogstravaganza!
C’mon down! Once again, it takes place at Fiddler’s Green, located at 27 Wellesley Street East, on Friday, January 27th at 8 p.m..
Fiddler’s Green is a decent Irish pub that I used to frequent back when
I lived at the corner of Yonge and Carlton. It’s a nice central
location that’s also right on top of Wellesley Station.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl8zhYA0BHU Definitely not anything I would’ve predicted.
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Hi accordionguy, did you know there was an accordiongirl (me)? That's OK, I didn't know about you either, but I was amused to find out about this coincidence. My blog is accordiongirl.blogspot.com. Good luck with yours, and your accordion, as well. -Accordiongirl
Hey, Accordiongirl! Pleased to meet another accordion player -- especially one who likes the Weltmeister soft accordion knapsacks! I had two myself (one's still fine, the other is damaged beyond repair).
For those attending Blogstravaganza: yes, I will be bringing the accordion.
I would sure like to attend the 'ganza but since I dont have relatives in TO anymore to haul my butt out of jail should I have a misadventure ( pinching Zerb's butt comes to mind) and also the weather being what it is in the Great Near North I must take a pass . Sounds like it will be a fine glug fest.