In the thread about philly bike shops some people were discussing the spring garden gang(and others) gettin together for a night of cruisin and boozin, but it just sort of dwindled off. Jason's NE thread makes me think we should do it officially out here.(and of course have a thug-off with the NE gang where we wrap our wrists together with a toestrap and knife-fight ala Michael Jackson's "Bad" video). But seriously... lets get out and meet the other West Philly BF members next weekend. Its supposed to be 50 and not rainy. Thoughts?

WOW.. can we say "NO LOVE?"

Can we just unite the west, south, north, and north east into one ride/hang-out? Or I could just migrate between the groups.

Haha! of COURSE we can unite!! I was just trying to get the other guys that said they lived out here on S.G. to make good on their offer to get together for forties. If none of them speak up in this thread ill just keep up on the NE one and see if I can make it. I jsut thought it would be funny to have different "sects" of the same group and have contests, races, etc where we all wear our cardinal direction's color and such.

tuesdays at midnight, a group of people meet up at the art museum steps and we go to the center city soft pretzel factory.

thursdays: meet in front of love park at 10pm and slow 5 and then a fast 20 if you can handle it.

right there with ya 'rik. sounds like a blast. and knife-fights? anytime, anywhere. and skelly, i wanted to try to get some city hall laps in, but a few kids said it was too far away. i dunno, not my inclination. if we want to do city hall. name a time. i'm there.
-jason

i usually ride circles around city hall, then around logan's circle, then around eakin's oval. they're all within a few blocks.

I have enough problems navigating eakins oval on my daily commute... Ive certainly come the closest to dying there more than anywhere else.

im all for cruisin and boozin but alas for those of us under the age of legal alcohol consumption, or for those fo us who got thier fake ids taken at the state store, boozing might be more difficult

penn better count as west philly...the pirates can vouch for my badass-ness

(i hope)

ps. philly - my band is playing on feb 5th down there with Amateur Party and probably fighting dogs! dunno the address yet.

I kinda lump university city and west philly together

penn is to west philly as disney world is to florida, dig?

just effin around, but it is kinda like that...

or to keep it real local, penn is to west philly what south street is to south philly.

it aint south philly until washington, it aint west philly if its between lancaster and woodland, and i dont know anything about the existence of anything north of girard, haha.

hahaha word!

I'm down. Spring Garden represent.

if penns west philly what is st. joes?

i'm sayin penns DEFF. not west philly. nor is south st souphilly.

hey! my popped collar and boat shoes dont make me any less hard core than anybody else (although sometimes the boatshoes slip off the pedals...fortunatley my nantucket red pants hide the blood)

Haha. No one will ever claim south street as their own.

Sure.. you can subdivide things infinitely, but its much easier to think of things as center city, then the area west of it, south of it, norht of it, and NE of it.

Is that still going on... as in tonight? I haven't been out to one of those things since the Summer. If it's still a regular event I might show up tonight.

P.S. 35th and Lancaster representin'! An ex-coworker of mine used to live around 38th and Lancaster. One day he was chilling out with a bunch of people in his living room when a group of thugs armed with various instruments (such as baseball bats and possibly a few guns) literally busted down his door spouting various threats like, "We're gonna git you!" However, once inside, the thugs exchanged confused looks, appologized, and left, as they had apparently entered the wrong house. I love West Philly!

oh...
it's on!

let's do it tonight. i can probably go. i heard it was 11pm though. 11 or midnight?

P.S. - that story is both hilarious and disturbingly scary.

11:30.... P.M.

in front of the art museum steps. bring your condiment of choice.