Frost Heaves Meetup Show this Saturday

[Nephew Twiddleton]

That was before the Highland Games were announced, damnit. We'd have to go from fucking HOPKINTON to Boston. Not just Providence, no, motherfucking South County. The fucking EDGE OF THE WORLD. And we'd have to drive.

DRIVE.

INTO.

BOSTON.

To be fair to Suu here, and to give you non-New Englanders a heads up, you're better off untying the Gordion knot than finding parking in Boston anywhere close to some place where something is happening. The messed up part is that most Bostonians have better sense than to try and find parking in Boston, so where do all these cars come from?

That said, I would love to see a bunch of Providence spags in Boston for a Frost Heaves show.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I'm amused that you guys act like places in NE are actually far from each other 

I second the Fred.

I'm in Boston, so I can just go. And I will. Since I told LMNO in person about 6 hours ago that I would. Dimo, I'm willing to cover your commuter rail to and from as long as you pay for the "to" bit. Hell, I have a commuter rail ticket to Providence in my wallet that I didn't use because Eve gave me a lift back to Boston from The Meetup TM.


Where you sleep, however, I absolve myself from.

Last train out of South Station is at 11:50 I believe. So if it's after that, he has to wait until 2am to take the Peter Pan, and by that time, the MBTA stops running because they SUCK.

Fortunately, you CAN walk from North Station to South Station in about 15 minutes.

If I recall, from today's conversation, the Frost Heaves go on second, allowing for that walk.

[Richter]

OK, for logistical fairness, what time is this going down?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

OK, for logistical fairness, what time is this going down?

LMNO will have to speak to that, but in my experience, that slot usually starts around 9, 9:30.

[Suu]

I'm amused that you guys act like places in NE are actually far from each other 

It's not a matter of distance. It's a matter of dealing with Boston. You Midwesterners with your "sparce" population wouldn't know what it's like to DRIVE INTO THE FUCKING CIRCLE OF HELL.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm amused that you guys act like places in NE are actually far from each other 

It's not a matter of distance. It's a matter of dealing with Boston. You Midwesterners with your "sparce" population wouldn't know what it's like to DRIVE INTO THE FUCKING CIRCLE OF HELL.

I know how you feel.

Just 2 months ago, traffic on I-10 came to a standstill for almost a minute.

[Suu]

I'm amused that you guys act like places in NE are actually far from each other 

It's not a matter of distance. It's a matter of dealing with Boston. You Midwesterners with your "sparce" population wouldn't know what it's like to DRIVE INTO THE FUCKING CIRCLE OF HELL.

I know how you feel.

Just 2 months ago, traffic on I-10 came to a standstill for almost a minute.

When traffic is at a standstill for 3 hours. Give me a call.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm amused that you guys act like places in NE are actually far from each other 

It's not a matter of distance. It's a matter of dealing with Boston. You Midwesterners with your "sparce" population wouldn't know what it's like to DRIVE INTO THE FUCKING CIRCLE OF HELL.

I know how you feel.

Just 2 months ago, traffic on I-10 came to a standstill for almost a minute.

When traffic is at a standstill for 3 hours. Give me a call.

Legend has it that may have happened once.

But not in this city.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I'm amused that you guys act like places in NE are actually far from each other 

It's not a matter of distance. It's a matter of dealing with Boston. You Midwesterners with your "sparce" population wouldn't know what it's like to DRIVE INTO THE FUCKING CIRCLE OF HELL.

I know how you feel.

Just 2 months ago, traffic on I-10 came to a standstill for almost a minute.

When traffic is at a standstill for 3 hours. Give me a call.

Happens A LOT in winter. But, you know, with multiplication thrown on top. And that's just to go about 2 miles.

93 is always a nightmare regardless, and sometimes you have to take that to get to 95.

That said, you Southerners still should show up.

[Eve]

t's not a matter of distance. It's a matter of dealing with Boston. You Midwesterners with your "sparce" population wouldn't know what it's like to DRIVE INTO THE FUCKING CIRCLE OF HELL.

I've had a solid routine of sneaking off the Pike in Newton and coasting into Boston via Comm Ave/Brighton for two years. It's going to be unfortunate ()when I move to the Fenway area and have to deal with driving IN Boston.

[PopeTom]

To be fair to Suu here, and to give you non-New Englanders a heads up, you're better off untying the Gordion knot than finding parking in Boston anywhere close to some place where something is happening. The messed up part is that most Bostonians have better sense than to try and find parking in Boston, so where do all these cars come from?

Actually if you live in the Boston area long enough you eventually learn the mystic driving patterns for different areas that summon the parking gods. 
Seriously that's why the lack of a grid lay out in the city.  The road system is for magical invocation.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

To be fair to Suu here, and to give you non-New Englanders a heads up, you're better off untying the Gordion knot than finding parking in Boston anywhere close to some place where something is happening. The messed up part is that most Bostonians have better sense than to try and find parking in Boston, so where do all these cars come from?

Actually if you live in the Boston area long enough you eventually learn the mystic driving patterns for different areas that summon the parking gods. 
Seriously that's why the lack of a grid lay out in the city.  The road system is for magical invocation.

I mostly rely on the MBTA, so my findings are based off of the whole "just as slow, less expensive" observation.

[LMNO]

Ok, seriously.  95N to 93N, South Station off ramp, Atlantic ave.  Use the Aquarium parking garage.  You're now a five minute walk from the club.




Is that so hard?  Sheesh.

[Suu]

t's not a matter of distance. It's a matter of dealing with Boston. You Midwesterners with your "sparce" population wouldn't know what it's like to DRIVE INTO THE FUCKING CIRCLE OF HELL.

I've had a solid routine of sneaking off the Pike in Newton and coasting into Boston via Comm Ave/Brighton for two years. It's going to be unfortunate ()when I move to the Fenway area and have to deal with driving IN Boston.

My condolences.

[Suu]

So, in order to make this show, we would have to leave South County by no later than 5. It will take us an hour to get back to Providence, because it just does. So, as long as we shower/change/eat/shit whatever the fuck we have to do and are out the door by 7, we can get to Boston by 8, which allows us the approximate hour to find parking on a Saturday night.

This can be done. It may require folding space and me videoing Richter losing his shit at the wheel, but it CAN be done.