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It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again, but it’s that time of year again: mildly niche pop culture blog’s birthday time! Hooray! Videogum is celebrating four years of existence this April, and we are inviting you, our best friends forever, to join us. Technically, the official birthday is April 8th, but that’s on Easter Sunday this year. Amen. So we’re throwing a party on Tuesday, April 10th. You should come! This year we’re getting back to our roots by returning to the location of our very first Anniversary Party: the upstairs bar at Professor Thom’s, on 2nd Avenue in New York City’s glamorous East Village. Ooh-la-la. So old school. #CRISP. Everyone wearing a Crisp hoodie gets in free. (Everyone else also gets in free.) We’ll have some delicious cake, and there will be drinks, and hopefully we will have a couple other fun surprises (Characters Ideas Welcome) to make the night a Prom To Remember*, so won’t you please just come and celebrate? What, you already have plans on Tuesday, April 10th? Liar Liar.
Details after the jump.
Where: Professor Thom’s Upstairs (219 2nd Avenue)
When: Tuesday, April 10th
Time: 7PM-11PM
Why: Videogum’s Fourth Anniversary
Age: 21+
This event is FREE and even more importantly FUN. You can meet Kelly and argue with her about whether or not You Can Count on Me is a good movie. (It is. I don’t know what’s wrong with her.) A real case of He Said/Kelly Said. Shake hands with someone from Stereogum. Marry a fellow monster. Eat a whole cake by yourself if you want, Steve-O Jr. Stage an Improv Everywhere Mission. Whatever, man! Follow your bliss. Write it down: “April 10th, follow my bliss.” See you soon!
*We reserve the right for this to not be anything like a prom.
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“WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We’ve spanned four years already?! What the fuck! I thought it’s been like A MONTH! How the hell did we get to four years already? These people have barely done anything in those two years!” -Kelly
Oh no, I missed the last “two.” Bummer! Happy Birthday Videogum!
Ewww Stereogum is invited too?
god she is so cute
Don’t worry, they’ll come original.
Don’t make me turn this cake around!
What should people who don’t live in NY do during the party? (Don’t say ‘kill yourself’; there are other nice places to live besides NY.)
Masturbate while thinking about how great your life would be if you were in NYC at the party. Duh.
I was hoping someone would bring a laptop so I could iParty with the people.
Well, that or drink, alone in my apartment. But I do that every night. This should be special.
Open thread! Or chat! I’ll be writing papers, but I can do that just as well drunk and I’ll already be in front of a computer…
A Michigan bar, Gabe? Really?
Also a Sox bar.
I was about to throw on the Papelbon dance gif, but then I remembered that he plays for the Phillies now and said Philly fans were “smarter” than Boston fans. So, fuck him.
Yet another fun Videogum party that I can’t attend. WHEN WILL THE PAIN END?!?!
I will be there with bells* on!
*pants
don’t make promises you can’t keep, lawblog.
or should I say, pantsless mcgee.
I keep visiting New York at the wrong times aka this weekend instead of next next Tuesday. I don’t even know what to do there this weekend! Bummer.
I hear you. I’ll be out there 2 weeks after this party. It’s probably better, though, so that people don’t learn how awful I am in real life.
If you are at the Of Montreal show on Saturday we can have a mini monster party
I wish. But I will definitely be at the fifth birthday party (because I got into graduate school and will be a New York monster by that point).
Congratulations! More like the best!
Thank you! I am very excited.
Yay, wurst! That is the best!
Am I supposed to caption this? What a weird looking birthday party
I’ll be happy to host the L.A party! Everyone meet at my house, we’re just gonna do a Downton marathon.
LA party simulcast sounds like a good idea to me!
I don’t want to go to a party that will have ghosts as guests. Monsters are fine but NO GHOSTS.
Having the party in NY hardly seems fair. I vote for moving it to the exact geographical center of the United States: Lebanon, Kansas. I’m fairly sure that 100 upvotes is enough to get the party location officially moved, can I count on your vote?
I have actually been to the exact geographical center of the United States (read: cool person) and I LITERALLY cannot imagine what some professor’s bar in NYC has to offer that Lebanon, KS does not. In fact, I doubt this professor’s bar even has one single plaque from the Corps of Engineers, an unbelievably tiny all-faiths church, or one sad picnic table, so…clearly less adequate. Le-ba-non! Le-ba-non!
But what about Hawaii- and Alaskamonsters? That’s only the contiguous center!
FINALLY. As a Chicago Monster now located in NYC, I’m very sad to not be with my midwest friends, but I’m happy to hang at the REAL PARTY LOSERS.
Also, I would definitely encourage the throwing of local parties. I met many friends I commented with everyday, and people I didn’t even know commented that way. V cool. Go for it dudes!
He speaks the truth. In fact, Kateness and I drove up to Chicago from Alabama once for one, and it was one of the best weekends ever.
So does this mean there’s gonna be a Chicago party that no one tells me about until the last minute? If so, I can just throw pity party for myself. I just need to know so I can plan ahead*.
*buy a refrigerator full of beer**.
**Just kidding, my refrigerator is pretty much full of nothing but beer already.
I told you people about parties until my voice bled and the same people always came, no one new. Ball is in your court.
Am I allowed to attend the party if I comment here less often than once a week and by week I mean month? Do I get brownie points for going to every Mr. Coconuts?
I think the unspoken rule is lurkers and infrequent commenters can attend, as long as they stay close to the walls of the party room. SO for those keeping count. Guys on one wall. Girls on another. Lurkers on another wall. Gabe on one wall. Kelly on one wall. Birdie.
Good thing we booked out that hexagonal bar for the night.
Since Courtney Stodden isn’t old enough to get in, she’ll be hanging out in the alley behind the bar with her rat dog.
I’ve been weighing job options in NYC and right now my primary ‘pro’ to move is to be able to participate in these sorts of parties and Mr. Coconuts.
I may come down from Albany for this!
Gah – is it really going to end at 11pm? Your friendly Union Hall door girl who works in Park Slope til 1030 would like to know! Party like a grown-up, Videogum! You’re 4! Stay out til midnight!!
We’ll figure it out.
I’ll bring the subs.
We are going to fuck up your new white carpet SOOOOO bad! Zou bissou, motherfuckers!
Hmmm. I might hit up this muthafucka. The balcony on the 2nd flr is mad fun to yell random obscenities or just to scream like a madman at the pedestrians below lol.
I may take a 5 hour train from Boston Tuesday morning. But y’all don’t even know me. How will I guarantee to be welcomed with open arms?
Wear a big badge that says your name with your avatar on your face. We will all embrace you, of course.
Yay!
How will you know who’s a VGer and who’s not? Will there be a secret passphrase, Prohibition-style? Ooh, how ’bout “Sophia is in the barn!”