MetaFilter posts tagged with party

The Rent is Too Damn High

tumbleweedjack — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:31:24 -0800

The Rent is Too Damn High. (warning, audio)

Every party should be a windows 7 party

Artw — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:13:01 -0800

Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party (Previously)

Norazo VS DJ Ozma

needled — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:56:55 -0800

In this corner, Norazo from Korea, singing about Superman, risking one's life, and that wonderful fish the mackerel (sung in an actual fish market). And in the other, DJ Ozma from Japan, singing about Spiderman, drinking, and Age Age Every Night (videos may be NSFW). Head to head: Norazo's Happy Song covered by DJ Ozma Happy Song Norazo's 날찍어 ("Choose Me") covered by DJ Ozma Macchibo. Bonus: Norazo 내 도망간 여자 친구를 소개합니다 "Introducing my girl friend who ran away", parodying the Nobody music video from Wonder Girls.

Don't tread on ME

sredefer — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:53:13 -0800

Costumed patriots channel forefathers: coming to a civic center near you! Need a little pump up music?

Tiga - Probably not a tiger.

debord — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:11:01 -0800

Canadian DJ bloke Tiga has a new album called Ciao. He's made a spoof documentary to promote it. It's really funny, even if you don't know about dance music - A bit like Nathan Barley by the ever wonderful Chris Morris. Part 1 Part 2

Offensive Tea Party Signs

5imian — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:59:33 -0800

Offensive Tea Party signs

Dear Neighbour, you are not invited to my party

Ljubljana — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:30:10 -0800

Last week when I checked my mailbox, I found that my new neighbour had left me a note stating that he was having a party and to let him know if the noise was too loud. The problem I have with the note is not that he was having a party and didn't invite me, it was that he selected a vibrant background of balloons, effectively stating that his party was going to be vibrant and possibly have balloons and that I couldn't come. (See also: David Thorne's seven-legged spider, previously on Metafilter)

The Chicago Tea Party

Maxor — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:38:45 -0800

It's time for a new tea party, and this time derivatives securities are getting the soak. CNBC's Rick Santelli, reporting from the Chicago trading floor, wants to know if you're willing to pay for your neighbour's mortgage. He suggests a national referendum to let Americans vote on the $275 billion dollar foreclosure prevention plan. The markets have already cast their vote.

Steele becomes RNC Chair

billysumday — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:15:51 -0800

Michael Steele, former Lt. Governor of Maryland and one of only a handful of semi-prominent African-American leaders in the Republican Party, has just been elected RNC Chair. He beat out Katon Dawson, Chair of the South Carolina GOP, who had recently resigned his membership from an all-white country club, by a vote of 91-77. Some argue that the RNC Chair race was all about race. Other candidates who withdrew their names from contention were Chip Saltsman, infamous for putting the song "Barack the Magic Negro" on a holiday mix CD, and Ken Blackwell, another prominent African-American Republican who tipped the scales by throwing his support to Steele.

Hello friends and lovers -- Food Party

cog_nate — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:21:32 -0800

"Food Party is a (would-be) TV cooking show with a spicy saigon kitchen-witch as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary advisors, and a cavalcade of hip-hop/sports world celebrities as surprise dinner guests. Shot on location in a technicolor cardboard kitchen, each episode will instruct you on how to prepare wild gourmet multi-course meals with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen already, such as pretzel rods, cheese puffs, eggs, sugar, secret ingredients, and pizza. After all, you never know who might show up for dinner." All three episode and bonus Xmas special are in the initial link. There are a few other videos on Thu Tran's (eye-searingly color clashing) Youtube channel. She also runs the Food Party blog, where she and a few others write about various comestibles; some scrumptious, some not so much. And here's her non-food-related art site. (Also: corn monster!)

How much more clear can this guy make it that he does NOT want to smell your finger?

beaucoupkevin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:45:02 -0800

Sorry I Missed Your Party. Pictures of other people's parties from Flickr, with commentary. (Some images NSFW.) (Via.)

The Emergency Party Button

milestogo — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:29:38 -0800

Emergency Party Button via

No External DJ Required!!!

pithy comment — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:50:35 -0800

The International Dance Party is a complete plug 'n' play party in a box (video). "The machine comes as a large, non-suspicious looking flightcase. Internally, it is equipped with cutting edge radar sensing technology, an ear blasting state of the art 600W sound system, tons of psychedelic light and laser effects, and even a professional grade fog machine." [via, via]

Risky Business

gman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:32:57 -0800

There’s a new Corey in town and he’s getting rich because of a party he threw in which 500 kids, the police dog squad and helicopters showed up. The “journalist's” voice, intonation and overall attitude is more grating than Corey. His parents are pleading for him to come home, fans have started sites dedicated to him, and DJ Loc-a-Doc? has already remixed the interviews. Show your support or have him add you so you can get his next invite.

The Bus reaches the Cross-road.

orthogonality — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:32:33 -0800

They were polite to us. They were more than happy for us to come to the rallies and stand in lines for hours to cheer on the candidates.... But when they got elected, behind closed doors, they would laugh at us and speak with scorn and derision that we were, as one article I think once said "the easily led." So there's been almost this sort of, it's okay if you guys get a seat on the bus, but don't ever think about telling us where the bus is going to go.

Mike Huckabee asks, What's the Matter with ~~Kansas~~ Republican Zion? It's been said before by other evangelicals and people of faith, notably in the "Mayberry Machiavellis" letter. The Republican Establishment doesn't ♥ Huckabee. (Maybe Rich Lowry should recall what he wrote in 2004, when the evangelicals were more useful to his purposes.) But What if Huckabee Loses?

Republicans have won the votes of downscale evangelicals for years by arguing that Democrats condescend to them and sneer at them behind their backs. Well, how do you think they're going to respond if East-coast conservative elites start doing the same thing--but in full public view?

Will the evangelicals get to drive, or will wheels fall off the bus?

I know a guy named Marty; Marty likes to party.

jbickers — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:25:14 -0800

"Party party party, party makes me farty, I gotta take antacid so I can keep on party!" (Direct link to legal mp3) The sublime lyrical genius of Andrew WK, as heard in the Aqua Teen movie.

72 Hour Party People

chunking express — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:55:43 -0800

"This is the shit JFK was getting jacked in his ass during the Cuban missile crisis. I shouldn't even be calling this shit 'shit,' because it's disrespectful." Following 72 hours in the lives of some high-roller meth addicts.

Party at NASA!!!

loquacious — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:08:56 -0800

Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007 Bay Area Yuri's Night 2007 Yuri's Night Bay Area will be held at Moffett Field in the NASA Ames Research Center's massive SOFIA hangar, home to the world's largest aerial observatory. Our host for the evening is pioneering space traveler Anousheh Anasari, the first privately funded female to reach orbit. She is joined by Dr. Chris McKay, world renowned expert in astrobiology and terraformation with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames Research Center, as they welcome you to a dazzling array of interactive art installations and science demos, interwoven with musical and acrobatic performances by some of the world's finest entertainers. Complete write up. Partially via MeFi's own lannanh.

"Kur-heiny?" "Teip!!"

By The Grace of God — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:58:48 -0800

New York University's Tamiment Library, one of the world's foremost centers of learning on labour history and the Left, has been given the archives of the Communist Party USA. (alternate non-NYT link) The donation includes 20,000 books, journals and pamphlets and a million photographs from The Daily Worker’s archives. Highlights include the original, hand-written will of Joe Hill.

Cover your ass.

Meatbomb — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:35:33 -0800

Avoid office party lawsuits: buy insurance and distribute the rules in advance; don't let them drink; no flirting; bring a recording device; no religious stuff; don't dance with staff members.

Have a safe holiday.

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Artw — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:29:06 -0800

Raves not dead! The British subculture the government tried so hard to kill is alive and well in Cornwall and Essex.

Pirate party

jeffburdges — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:30:23 -0800

The Pirate Party ^ has become a significant voice in Swedish politics, partly due to the illegal raids on the Pirate Bay ^ and The Bureau of Piracy (Piratbyrån)^ (which spawned both). Other Swedish political parties are now adding copyright reforms to their platforms. The party's leader Rickard Falkvinge^ gave an intelligent compelling interview "today".
Note: Virtually all major content industries today are the result of large scale piracy or flagrant patent infringement, including the American publishing industry, Hollywood, radio, and the music industry. And the anti-piracy side has essentially no historical evidence supporting its position.

The Purple Party

frogan — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:29:38 -0800

The Purple Party
Why can’t we have a serious, innovative, truth-telling, pragmatic party without any of the baggage of the Democrats and Republicans?

Where to draw the line is mostly a matter of common sense. Public reminders to honor one’s parents and love one’s neighbor, and not to lie, steal, or commit adultery or murder? Fine. Genesis taught as science in public schools, and government cosmologists forced by their PR handlers to give a shout-out to creationism? No way. Kids who want to wear crucifixes or yarmulkes or head scarves to those same schools? Sure, why not? And so on.

are they matched to the access code and do you keep a record of what code is mailed to what person?

amberglow — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:36:31 -0800

So if you run the CD in your personal computer, by the end of it, the Minnesota GOP will not only know what you think on particular issues, but also who you are. --a cd being sent out to home by the Minnesota GOP is polling people who use the cd, sending their personal info, including name, address, and phone, among other info, back to party headquarters. No privacy policy or statement identifying what the cd does is visible anywhere: ...As far as I could tell, nothing tells you that the answers are about to be e-mailed or otherwise transmitted to the Minnesota GOP. So you finish, and then the phone rings. "Hello, Mr/Mrs. Voters, it's Joe and I notice you support gun control and the marriage amendment, would you like to donate some money to us?" That might startle the person who may have thought he/she was viewing the presentation in the privacy of the computer room. ...

Go shorty. It's your bat mitzvah.

ab'd al'Hazred — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:20:07 -0800

Concert of the century: 50 Cent, Tom Petty, Aerosmith and others rock a bat mitzvah.