Author's "Cafe" or what not

[Chicklet]

Hey everybody!

Just wondering if anyone else thinks it might be a cool thing to have a place for us authors to babble about random crap instead of the somewhat serious discussions going on in the Hangout.

I think it'd be nice to have a sub-forum just so that we could keep the Hangout serious for those of us who like the seriousness, but still have a place to hang for those of us who like to chat with the people we like to chat with. Having a sub-forum might also attract new and interesting people who think we Hangers are a little bit more serious than they'd like.

Discuss!

Chicklet

 

[Guest]

java and alcohol, please

Hi Chicklet, I think you've been missed, at least on the AH. Nice to see your cheeks again.

I like the way things work out already; I'd say we got over old WC's and zoo experiences just fine, but I do like the idea of an author's cafe, or cafe w/bar for us older folk .

There's a place on the SRP called 'Rick's Rooftop' after Bogart's character in "Casablanca"; could be fun to come up with a special name if we go with this.

First drinks or lattes will be on me (we are talkin' cyber bucks I hope).

thirsty Perdita

 

[Chicklet]

Re: java and alcohol, please

Hi Chicklet, I think you've been missed, at least on the AH. Nice to see your cheeks again.

I was gone, what, a whole two days?

I do like the idea of an author's cafe, or cafe w/bar for us older folk

grin at the "bar"

Okay so two for

 

[Guest]

 

[Chicklet]

How about naming it "Algonquin Roundtable". Or has that been used already?

(taking the risk of sounding like a dumbass)

wtf is that?

 

[Guest]

How about naming it "Algonquin Roundtable". Or has that been used already?

I like that, but maybe altered for Lit.

Algonquin Cybertable?

Can I be Mrs. Parker?

 

[MathGirl]

Betcha thought I was too young to know.......

Originally posted by PierceStreet How about naming it "Algonquin Roundtable". Or has that been used already?

Dear PS,
I think it's been used, but about 65 years have passed since H. L. Menken, Dorothy Parker and that bunch used it. I'm sure nobody would much mind if it was used here. Of course, nobody would know what it meant, either.
Unhelpfully,
MG

 

[Guest]

(taking the risk of sounding like a dumbass) wtf is that?

Those cheeks could never belong to a dumb ass; you're just young.

It was a table at the Algonquin Hotel in NYC where some illustrious writers regularly hung out, e.g., Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Max ___ the playwright, the ed. of the New Yorker, etc.

p.s. at the risk of teasing you, two days w/o Chicklet all over the board is a long time.

 

[MathGirl]

wtf is that?

Dear Chickie,
It was a meeting at the Algonquin Hotel in NYC in the twenties and thirties where the regulars sat around and insulted each other, but wittily. Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, H.L.Menken, and a bunch of writers and broadway types I can't remember now. It must have been fun, but you could never let your guard down.
MG

 

[Guest]

Re: Betcha thought I was too young to know.......

Of course, nobody would know what it meant, either.
Unhelpfully, MG

Maths, we can explain it at the beginning of the thread. Let's give credit before we pull the rug out from the lot.

Purd

 

[Guest]

Mrs. Parker

is a fun film starring Jennifer Jason-Leigh (a fave actress of mine) in the lead. She has the weirdest American accent ever, annoying to some but I enjoyed it. You'll get a good taste of the Algonquin regulars from it.

One of my fave lines: D. Parker's husband is an alcoholic and she lets him be mostly but one time she tells him (this is from recollection)--

"Darling, you don't want to be known as the town drunk now.

(pause)

Not in Manhattan."

 

[Quasimodem]

I was unaware that our discussions were all that serious to begin with, but having a special forum in which to be silly, or worse, would tend to keep the 'serious' threads on topic.

There is nothing wrong with "Rick's Rooftop" other than it has been done elsewhere.

Off the top of my head, I would suggest "The Daffy Club."

While it has no literary allusion, the name alone gives the uninitiated an idea of what it's all about, even if they don't recognize the title’s antecedents.

 

[Guest]

O, I *want* a literary ref.; how about

The Alogonquin Dafts?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The Algonquin Round Table was actually founded by the chief of the Algonquin Indian Nation, known as KingArthur Wise-ass. He appointed different Nato-Amerindians as Knights and they would squat around the "round-table" and make witty fun of White People. The fun ended when the table was sold for thirty pieces of silver to Alexander Woolworth who went on to found a Five and Dime empire under the alluring slogan, "Thirty-One Flavors".

The original "round-table"--which was actually an oblate spheroid--can still be seen in the Lucky Algonquin Casino in Wampanaug New York where it serves as the cheap no-tax cigarette concession. "Sir" Harpo Marx Running Dove's gum is still stuck to the underside.

---dr.M.

 

[Chicklet]

re: Algonquin Roundtable

So I think this would be a killer name if we had such a forum. Witty insults, eh? I think we'd need a sticky thread at the top with post upon post of everyones different explaination of the name. Mine would be that it was nonsensical babble that everyone had made up to confuse me in a huge plot to take over my apartment and steal my waffles.

So far it seems like people think that the sub-forum would be a good idea. I wanna know if anyone's opposed, too...

 

[Guest]

I want to hear from the Brits, but no publican names with animals, please.

 

[Chicklet]

I want to hear from MG and Svenskaflicka...but 'flicka's in London, isn't she?

 

[Guest]

Yes, we must have Flicka, but MG's above hon.

Oh, and Earl must have a say, please (he must be getting that precious beauty sleep already; or just getting *some* )

 

[MathGirl]

What's in a name?

We want it to be sort of a private area, right? We could call it "The Gar........" oops
MG

Ps. Dr M: Mr Woolworth's first name was Eff.

 

[flawed_ethics]

Correct me if I'm wrong...

Isn't this what the General Board is set up for?

Or do you mean a sub-fourm in the way the Playground exists off the Personals? In that case, why not establish a Playground thread for you guys from the AH to visit? Post frequently and passively ignore those who jump in w/o a clue as to what you're discussing, and it should become your own jibber-jabber thread in no time.

Or set it up here. Whatever works.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I like the idea of a sub forum

 

[KillerMuffin]

Interesting thought. Actually, I kind of like it. I don't know how much of a pain it would be to do this, but maybe it might be kind of cool to have the editors forum and the story discussion circle as subforums of the Hangout. Make the Hangout the cafe and the subforums the "serious" discussion only lot.

So my subidea of Chicklet's idea would be have the "Hangout" as the chat area, the SDC as a subforum, the Editor's forum as a subforum, and an "On Writing" forum as a serious Author's subforum. I think I'd like to have the friendly, more populous face on top.

This is what else I think, make suggestions, then take the suggestions and make a poll. That way the Big L has some easy to read feedback before she makes a decision.

Good idea, Chicklet!

 

[Just-Legal]

Hmm.

Sounds good KM!

 

[Chicklet]

So my subidea of Chicklet's idea would be have the "Hangout" as the chat area, the SDC as a subforum, the Editor's forum as a subforum, and an "On Writing" forum as a serious Author's subforum. I think I'd like to have the friendly, more populous face on top.

That would be awsome, actually! The "Hangout" being for chit chat and a new "on writing" for serious...I like it A LOT

This is what else I think, make suggestions, then take the suggestions and make a poll. That way the Big L has some easy to read feedback before she makes a decision.

Good idea, Chicklet!

Actually the reason I started this thread is that I made a comment in the new BDSM free-for-all board that we could use a sub-forum and Laurel PM'd me and asked me to see what everyone else thought...so I think she's thinking about it already...heh. Would like to take credit, but, really, not me.

Chicklet

 

[TheEarl]

How about Fangio's bar?

I don't expect anyone to get the reference given the board's painful ignorance the last time I mentioned Lazlo Woodbine, so I'll explain. Robert Rankin is an English author who writes quasi-surrealist stories. A lot of his stories have running jokes and one of these is a story within a story about a fictional detective called Lazlo Woodbine, who appears in books such as 'Death wears a Blue Homburg.'

Woodbine is an old-school detective which means that he only ever works in the first person and only works the four locations: His office, where the dame who'll do him wrong comes to visit, the alleyway where he gets bopped on the head and disappears into a whirling pit of blackness, the rooftop for the final showdown with the villain and of course Fangio's bar, where he sits and talks a load of toot with the fatboy barman.

Oh come on, it's funny. No, don't run away...Ah bloody Americans and their unsophisticated sense of humour. I'm gonna start my own thread with blackjack and hookers. In fact forget the blackjack and the thread.

Ah screw the whole thing.

The Earl