tantek wiki / ValentinesDayParty2007

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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
We're having a party,
Guess who's invited? You.

Come celebrate the all the fun and frivolity that is Dating in the Digital Age: Love, Like, and - our favorite - Lust. Join your hosts - Tantek, Carla, & Aubrey - for a Valentine's Day party you won't soon forget...come for the movies. Or the food. Or the drinks. Or even just to start up a rousing game of spin the bottle...it *IS* Valentine's Day after all.

We know there's a lot going on that night, so swing by before your romantic dinner a deux. Or come by after stalking your ex on MySpace. We don't care, just swing by. Seven minutes in Heaven won't be the same without ya.

Party naming thoughts

Valentine's Commons (i.e. compliment attribution, food share-alike, non-commercial, degenerate works allowed)
Valentine's Day 2.0 - You generate the content.

For more ideas see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentines_Day

Details

Tags: valentinescommons, valentinescommons07, valentinescommons2007

Location: Port Zero

Time: 7:30pm - 7am

Who

Add yourself if you are interested in attending and especially organizing! Note your projected ETA (earlier than 7:30pm is ok, it just means you volunteer to help organize and setup :) and if you think you might want to crash.

Aubrey (organizer, 7pm, stumbling home a few blocks)
Carla (organizer, 5:30pm, crashing)
Tantek (organizer, 5:30pm, crashing)
... (organizer or participant or sponsor. ETA time. crashing? Y/N/M)
Daniel (8ish, potentially crashing or stumbling to my co-worker's apartment)
Eran
Leah
Nomi
Sean
Marjorie
Sarah
Buzz
Hyland
Raines Cohen + 1 (8ish)
James

Maybe

Jesse F. +1
Todd E.
Chris M.
Emily H.
Cameron
Matthew L
Matthew R
Irina
Silona
Eddie
Amy
Keely
Lane/Courtney
Ted
cee dub
Jonathan G
Charles

Dress

costume suggestions? thoughts? red/white/black
minimum requirements? (at least a toga, or equivalent coverage)
...

Bouncing

The privilege of controlling the virtual red velvet rope. Sign up for a shift:

7:30pm-9pm - Aubrey
9pm-10:30pm -
10:30pm-midnight -
midnight - admission closed.

Activities

Dinner/Menu Ideas

Potluck! Consider bringing red or white (or even pink) food for ironic effect. Pick something from below (or suggest something too)

Tantek: Brown rice sushi from Whole Foods
Raines: Bread
Carla: roasted red pepper hummus, couscous w/sun-dried tomatoes, feta & olives, pita, falafel, tzatziki, cashew chili, quesadillas
Dessert: heart shaped cakes, N()mi is bringing cupcakes
James: chocolate cake
...

Beverages

Carla is bringing 2 bottles club soda, 2 bottles ginger ale, tonic water, run, vodka, gin, bourbon, triple sec, lemons, limes, frozen fruit, ice & maraschino cherries
Aubrey is bringing tequila, margarita mix, a few bottles of wine and her hot hot self.
Daniel will bring wine: two red & one white wine...Paso Robles

Dinner Discussion

Proposed topics:

Geek 2 Geek (g2g) Social Interactions
Dating Etiquette
Dating Dilemmas
Is dating an obsolete/inefficient protocol? What improved / more efficient alternatives could replace / are replacing it?
How to interact with a multitasker (getting a slice of their continuous partial attention)
How to be a polite multitasker (optimal interrupt prioritization and time allocation)
When multitaskers need to put away their devices and socialize
How to introduce oneself to new people in a non-threatening way (for you or them)

How to introduce oneself (e.g. in a public profile description) in such a way as to filter in more compatible people and filter out more incompatible people

Blogging/Twittering/public discourse about your love life
...

Games

Should we play games?
Like Scrabble, or other magical things from Tantek's plethora of games?
Charades, with Valentine's or romantic themes (heh! i think Tantek *hates* charades)
Spin the Bottle - We'll bring the bottle. You bring your smooching. Pucker up, peeps.

Movie Suggestions

Post game-playing, I suggest we watch a movie, perhaps something valentine's day themed, or not.

People enter movie suggestions here :)

Singles
The Matrix (i know! but there's some love that happens...) (Oh but that's probably the worst scene in the movie, so forced)
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (with realtime critical commentary of character flaws etc.)
Dead Again (love comes back in the second go-round)
Shortbus (Dani recommended this for the party, not sure if it is available for rental yet)
Annie Hall (it's playing at Red Vic - for those who aren't going, we can have it on)
Meet Joe Black (Does that count as a "love" movie?)
Say Anything...