Email bostonliterature at gmail if you're interested & I'll give you the place & time.
>Why?
If you've been to university organizations, reading groups, or hung out in a cafe up here, you've noticed the stifling eggshell-walking culture. And also that no one reads Yea Forums books.
>What?
Something in the vein of Ben Franklin's Junto. Discussion, critique, &c.
I've never gotten a single coherent account, but IIRC DC and Boston Yea Forums meetups ended in acrimony, mortification and scandal, but it's been long enough that hopefully new people will recompose the groups and they can start fresh. This peaked to ansurdity when rogue members would call ahead to the hosting restaurant, bar or coffee shop and warn them about incelibate internet nazis were planning to discuss their Day of the Rope plans in their humble establishment
Josiah Richardson
I do not like most of you people. You are abusive, sadistic, and mean. Why the hell would I meet up with you? If anything, you'd try to stalk and murder me for shits and giggles. Fuck you and your meet-up. I come on Yea Forums to remain anonymous for a reason. Last thing I'd want to see in this fucking world is your face.
Can someone post photos from the previous Yea Forums meetups? Those were hilarious.
Brody Peterson
Why wouldnt you just do a couple bar hops on dorchester ave or out by harvard square.
they never, ever pass unless they have a weak chin, weigh 115, and have an LA makeup crew behind them
Ethan Williams
That's what we always do
Isaac Morales
Ew alcoholism
Andrew Nelson
the shaking hands at these are unsettling
Luis Brooks
Use warosu
Jeremiah Ramirez
During the fifteen minutes that I stood near the meetup, I did not hear anyone complain or confront them. I watched a family of about eight, a man and a woman, both about fifty, with their children, aged about one, eight and ten, and two grown up daughters of about twenty to twentyfour.
An old woman with snow-white hair was holding the one-year old child in her arms, singing something to it and tickling it. The child was crowing with delight. The man and wife were looking on with tears in their eyes.
The father was holding the hand of a boy about ten, speaking to him softly. The boy was fighting back his tears. The father pointed to the Yea Forums table, stroked the boy’s head and seemed to explain something to him.
At that moment a daughter shouted something to their waiter, who took her over to the maître d'.
I still clearly remember the dark-haired, slim girl who pointed to herself as she passed close to me and said, “Not interested.” I walked to the far side of the bar and found myself standing with the perfect view of the unfolding mess. The tables were so closely packed, one on top of the other, that something was bound to happen.
The bartender asked what I wanted and there was a glass-shattering commotion from the far side of the room.
The restaurant was already two-thirds full. I estimated that it already contained about one hundred people. I looked round for the man who had assaulted them. He was a man who had been sitting at the bar with a narrow ponytail, his legs dangling from the stool. He had a waxed mustache and skinny jeans.
The two injured kids, completely shocked, hurried out down some steps which led to the bathrooms and tried pushing through the people standing there, to the place indicated by the Gentleman's sign. They both fell down in front of the restaurant after some men grabbed them under the arms and escorted them out.
Then I heard a series of shouts. I looked over to the meetup table and saw that the remaining guys were arguing with the panicked-looking family next to them. Blood was on their tablecloth.
>they never, ever pass unless they have a weak chin, weigh 115, and have an LA makeup crew behind them
Huh?
Robert Brooks
Care to explain what it's all about? Cba to read it all.
Lucas Ramirez
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Ayden Johnson
>Red socks >Red socks >pack the cah in the yad >Red socks >boysten paulie >plastic paddies >boisten IRISH >red socks >chowder >knights of st columbus, real head breakers
It is our duty as the most literary part of the US to keep the torch burning. The entire country depends on our efforts. Do not flag, do not sway, do not bend, do not compromise. Give it your all. Or doom will annihilate us all.
i went to the Boston Literature Meetup. i was there when it happened. i kissed the sky and danced with the angels. i saw the future and the future was me. tomorrow had melted into today and there was no more time, but only Boston. you could never understand that because YOU. WEREN'T. THERE. you don't know what i saw! you don't know what i went through!