Hey Ryan M! Here’s your invite to my party.
Join DC scooterists (as well as people from as far away as Houston, TX, Rhode Island, and Cincinnati) for Scootergate, this June 6th, 7th, and 8th.
http://www.scootergate.us/
The great thing is you don’t even need a scooter to attend. (If you’re a hot chick, or, ok, dude, you can probably convince someone to ferry you around all weekend on the back of one of their scoots.)
Ok, so without a scooter you’ll miss a ride out to White’s Ferry on Saturday, but you would probably be too drunk after Friday night to want to go anyway.
For $25 bucks this is what you get:
Thursday meet up at the Red Derby at 8 pm for a showing of the quintessential Mods vs Rockers film: Quadrophenia.
The Pietasters, Spitfires United, Alleged Bricks, and The Break Up will be at the Rock and Roll Hotel on Friday night. In addition Mark Zimin (of Mousetrap and the Wag) will be spinning 60s Mod, Soul, Funk, and Reggae upstairs. We have secured the private rooms upstairs for nudity and shenanigans so you get that, too. No wristband = no nudity and shenanigans.
Also upstairs, Remix Vintage clothing (www.remixvintage.com) is hosting a fashion show and will have some great threads on sale.
(Just to reiterate what a deal this is, if you just buy a ticket for the Pietasters at the RnR ticket booth they will charge you $17.)
Saturday we’re feeding you breakfast at the Pug. Yes, that’s included.
Then we’re going on a ride.
Then we’re meeting at Vespa Washington in Georgetown and you’ll get fed there, too.
Saturday night’s events start at the Pug with giveaways, games, and a raffle (we’ve got two cases of some primo imported Vodka to give away), and when you’re tired of that, go next door to the Red and the Black to catch the Black Hollies (former Rye Coalition) and Amanda Otto of Baltimore DJing.
Sunday meet at my house for brunch, also included in pre-registration.
In addition to all this, you get a t-shirt, a rally patch, and discount coupons for Granville Moore’s, Sticky Rice, Philadelphia Water Ice, and did I mention three free meals?
Beat that anywhere for $25. Exactly. You can’t. How do you get this deal?
PRE-REGISTER at www.scootergate.us by Thursday (pre-registration is coming down Thursday, then you’re kind of screwed).
The Pietasters:
The Black Hollies:
FYC: Good Thing:
Oh Chadikins, you know we’re still coming to see you.
June 2, 2008 at 6:33 pmholy shit. you don’t fuck around.
i like to cuss.
the scooter i would ride is embarrassing compared to your imported beauty. can i borrow your (’72?) 350? it’s almost a scooter.
Wow, I wish I had a scooter, and I’m also a dude. :(
HOWEVER, I do have long flowy hair that’s kind of girlish, maybe i could pass for a hot chick?
June 3, 2008 at 9:08 ami need to fast forward my life ahead two years.
June 3, 2008 at 9:18 amI can’t reiterate enough how much you don’t really need a scooter - there’s only one real ride (ok, there are some impromptu (though not really, we’re just not advertising them) rides to strip clubs and the monuments late night), but we really designed it so anyone could come and hang out and enjoy good bands etc.
Oh and get fed three meals over the course of a weekend. Or enjoy discounts at H St places.
Oh, and I should mention the Pug is going to be open all day on Saturday. That’s right. Stop by and drink in the middle of the afternoon…
June 3, 2008 at 9:27 amAmanda - why do you want to be barefoot and pregnant and living in a trailer park in Fredricksburg already?
It will come in time, enjoy your youth.
June 3, 2008 at 10:16 amThe big question is, WILL there be nudity in the private rooms of RNR? I think that’s the make or break here.
June 3, 2008 at 4:55 pmN - I’m providing the rooms, RnR the booze, the rest is up to attendees…
June 4, 2008 at 8:09 amWhere’s the commentary from Ryan M?
June 4, 2008 at 10:00 amwhat time is brunch?
June 5, 2008 at 6:06 pmAround noon. You don’t have to register because I like you and know you won’t come to any of the other events (because you can’t get in. Ha!)
June 5, 2008 at 6:41 pmalright, i’ll be coming after CHURCH! WOOT! WOOT! (and thank you for rubbing my age in my face, i know, and i know that you will all be making fun of me for my reason for being late.)
June 6, 2008 at 12:12 ami don’t understand modern-day scooter culture in the us. it’s like people still wear mohawks or kids that wear korn shirts.
June 8, 2008 at 9:37 amOr it’s like people who simply like working on and restoring 50 year old works of art.
June 8, 2008 at 10:26 amMichael: somehow i missed your comment about my future, before. i have no idea how this happened.
anyway, trailers are gross, and i do not plan on having children for at least twelve years, but i do enjoy going barefoot. that’s about the only southern gene i inherited from my mom, god bless her!
June 8, 2008 at 5:46 pmTim: I spent a few hours today with scooter-enthusiasts and still have no idea what all the rage is about AND i still haven’t ridden on one (sad).
Korn sucks, do people really still listen to them? probably. they’re the same one’s who enjoy nickelback and creed…and live in trailers.
Michael: i should have asked you today, but i didn’t. i think you owe me a scooter ride, well maybe not owe me, but you should give me one because i’m cute.
June 8, 2008 at 5:49 pmWell you have people who are really into the Mod scene still for the music and fashion and scooters are a by-product of that.
You have people that like working on them to restore, or working on them to make them go really fucking fast (that’d be me). You think 100mph is fast in a car? Try it 8″ off the ground on tiny wheels.
You have people that are just into them (and buy new ones) because they’re fun to ride.
There’s a lot of reasons. Typically the Mods/Skins/Vintage/Mechs hang out together and the new riders hang out together - different interests and reasons, same basic vehicle so kind of merge. In cities where there are thousands of scooterists you have vintage-only rallies to keep the noob honker and wavers away, but DC isn’t big enough for that, and probably wouldn’t go that route anyway.
But sure I’ll give you a ride. The brunch ended at 9 pm btw.
June 9, 2008 at 9:50 ammichael, your place is awesome and your back yard kicks ass. your neighbors must have yard envy.
i read your other post and it looks like i left way too early. but the heat, oh the heat.
anyway, thanks for the hospitality and grub. (could have fed most of dc with all of that food). you’re a great host. good peeps, good time. thanks again.
June 9, 2008 at 11:20 amoh, i forgot. polkadots, you definitely need to make house calls with those scissors of yours. ha.
June 9, 2008 at 11:22 amEddie - thanks. Were you there when I rigged up a curtain on a rope on a Magnolia tree so the aerial dancing girls from Philly could do their stuff?
I was peeled off the air mattress at around 9 pm by my friends from New York asking how in the hell they could find the interstate because they had to be at work in the morning.
I think a slip-and-slide party would be tits…
June 9, 2008 at 11:39 amwhat!? wtf are you talking about, aerial dancing girls from philly? i *definitely* left too soon. do you have pictures of this? damnit!
slip-n-slide party in that back yard would kick ass. it’s like a quarter mile long. no time like the present! i’ll help you (i only live a few blocks south in ledroit park - with a much smaller yard).
June 9, 2008 at 12:02 pmeddie - the girls from Philly (the redhead and the blonde) don’t go to gyms, instead they do stripper pole workouts and aerials. So we set up an aerial of sorts which worked great until my buddy Mike got on it, I heard it ripping, didn’t warn him, and laughed my ass off when he fell on the ground. The really fun part, I assume, would have been watching drunk me trying to throw a hammer attached to a rope up into the tree to string up the curtain.
June 9, 2008 at 1:30 pmand one more time i must say that i left too early. slip-n-slide it up and i will refuse to leave until the last asshole falls out of a tree. lol
June 9, 2008 at 2:16 pm
whatever
June 2, 2008 at 5:43 pm