Anyone from NYC?

[Vahz]

Or close?

It would be cool to meet new people and I'll be willing to pay for dinner all around. Raises rock.

[Ike]

Anyone going to see Finishing the Game this weekend?

[t-tocs]

Would love to but I have to work the next 3 weekends.

Anyone going to see Finishing the Game this weekend?

[MiNiBoiE]

I'm gonna catch FTG at 4:40 at IFC saturday. Chances are I'm going alone too, damn friends ditching me

oh and yes I do live in NYC. Queens FTW

[Scowl]

Bastards. Where were you all when I was still in NY?

Now I'm in Houston and all the Houstonauts have disappeared. I guess I'll just have to hang out with white people then!

[Ike]

I'm coming home for Thanksgiving break next week... and I will be legal to drink! =)

[nightshade]

I'm coming home for Thanksgiving break next week... and I will be legal to drink! =)

Go get drunk at Congee Village. Heh. I'm sure they would have served you without ID, but where else will you get four dollar martinis in New York?

[Ike]

Haha whoops, that was in response to Scowl. Home is Houston.

[DijabutiA]

Haha, you wanna buy me a plane/train ticket?

[Scowl]

I'm coming home for Thanksgiving break next week... and I will be legal to drink! =)

Wanna meet up?

I'd say that we should have a Houston meetup but let's face it, ain't no 44s in H-town.

[chocolatebutterfly]

I am in NYC..Always looking for new friends! I didn't get a chance to see FTG but I did pose with the guys from the movie. I have a picture I just have to figure out how to post it...

[l7y2n2n]

yep, from NYC as well. i saw FTG during its premiere week. it was pretty goofy :)

[chocolatebutterfly]

ahh fudge! I am so sorry I missed it!

[Dialectic]

We've had a whole lot of NY 44s in the past, but it's hard to say who the active members are now. I'm pretty drunk, so pardon the lack of comprehensability (is that a word? I think not!); NY is awesome, so there's no need to wish you all the best, as there's always a sweet party around.

[Kuroyama]

HAH I finally bust on D being drunk instead of the other way around!!!

This is funnier than an episode of 30 Rock. I mean, the Tracy Jordan Show, I mean TGS featuring Tracy Jordan.

"The circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the Learner, now I am the Master!"

[blockthebox]

NYC -- great place, but who needs the stress? I do miss May Wah though. And Cake Man Raven. Oh and this awesome banh mi place in Bay Ridge.

[uRB4N]

No but about to move there in a few months. What is this all I keep hearing about stress?

[blockthebox]

^ It's not sooooo bad. Speaking as a non-native New Yorker, I just felt like I had to hustle all the time and eventually got tired of it. But it's a totally dynamic and awesome city once you set your own pace, find things and places that you like, carve out your own little niche and make good friends. I hope you like it there! Took me a good two years to really feel comfortable.

[Anarchrist]

"Live in California but leave before it makes you soft, and live in New York but leave before it makes you hard." Me and a couple of 44s grew up here. Gotta say its had its adverse effects.

Have a lot of friends who have come and gone though, and the funny thing about New York is the New York Syndrome. I'd say it infects about 60% of the people that move here. That means there's about a 40% chance that you remain sane.

The other 60%? Maggie was a conservative protestant girl from a rich west virginian family that came here for college. She ended up in a six person no-condom orgy in my friends dorm-room junior year, and now she's a pregnant unmarried self-proclaimed bisexual.

Or else there's N who was a fairly effeminate friend from Beijing who came here for a masters. Within three weeks he turned into a mascara-drenched flaming bottom to a gay Jewish Post-doctorate Columbia student. He currently lives with said partner on the lower east side for $400 a month. (I guess he pays out the ass in a less figurative manner.)

I'm an advocate for a plethora of lifestyles but the New York Syndrome is something a little more insidious. It's the speed at which newcomers embrace the lifestyles of New Yorkers around them - it seems forced. New York has a nasty way of being like a high school the size of a metropolis to out-of-towners.

[blockthebox]

^ Haha, I guess it's a place that let's you be who you wanna be at the moment. It's incredibly liberating.

[pk4l]

NYC -- great place, but who needs the stress? I do miss May Wah though. And Cake Man Raven. Oh and this awesome banh mi place in Bay Ridge.

Isn't May Wah back? I was on leave during the christmas week and has some pork chop over rice from there. =D

[barsonlyone]

New York is probably one of the hardest places to live in. it has its own distinct flavor, and its because of the people that live that gives it it's flavor. i guess in a place where there are millions of people crammed into one area, be it that they work there or live there, people try to find ways to stand out. it can get very exhausting sometimes. i guess thats New Yorkers have a uniqueness to them, competition. stress is a given to anyone that lives in a place like New York, its a way of life for New Yorkers.

[HurricaneSteve]

Hey everyone, I'm heading up to NYC for about a week (7/23-7/29) so if anyone wants to meet up and grab a drink or two post here!

[TheMac]

Hey everyone, I'm heading up to NYC for about a week (7/23-7/29) so if anyone wants to meet up and grab a drink or two post here!

I'm in the City for now.