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Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

We're having a party,

Guess who's invited? You.

Come celebrate the all the fun and frivolity that is Dating in the Digital Age: Love, Like, and - our favorite - Lust. Join your hosts - Tantek, Carla, & Aubrey - for a Valentine's Day party you won't soon forget...come for the movies. Or the food. Or the drinks. Or even just to start up a rousing game of spin the bottle...it *IS* Valentine's Day after all.

We know there's a lot going on that night, so swing by before your romantic dinner a deux. Or come by after stalking your ex on MySpace. We don't care, just swing by. Seven minutes in Heaven won't be the same without ya.

Party naming thoughts

• Valentine's Commons (i.e. compliment attribution, food share-alike, non-commercial, degenerate works allowed)
• Valentine's Day 2.0 - You generate the content.

For more ideas see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentines_Day

Details

Tags: valentinescommons, valentinescommons07, valentinescommons2007

Location: Port Zero

Time: 7:30pm - 7am

Who

Add yourself if you are interested in attending and especially organizing! Note your projected ETA (earlier than 7:30pm is ok, it just means you volunteer to help organize and setup :) and if you think you might want to crash.

• Aubrey (organizer, 7pm, stumbling home a few blocks)
• Carla (organizer, 5:30pm, crashing)
• Tantek (organizer, 5:30pm, crashing)
• ... (organizer or participant or sponsor. ETA time. crashing? Y/N/M)
• Daniel (8ish, potentially crashing or stumbling to my co-worker's apartment)
• Eran
• Leah
• Nomi
• Sean
• Marjorie
• Sarah
• Buzz
• Hyland
• Raines Cohen + 1 (8ish)
• James

Maybe

• Jesse F. +1
• Todd E.
• Chris M.
• Emily H.
• Cameron
• Matthew L
• Matthew R
• Irina
• Silona
• Eddie
• Amy
• Keely
• Lane/Courtney
• Ted
• cee dub
• Jonathan G
• Charles

Dress

• costume suggestions? thoughts? red/white/black
• minimum requirements? (at least a toga, or equivalent coverage)
• ...

Bouncing

The privilege of controlling the virtual red velvet rope. Sign up for a shift:

• 7:30pm-9pm - Aubrey
• 9pm-10:30pm -
• 10:30pm-midnight -
• midnight - admission closed.

Activities

Dinner/Menu Ideas

Potluck! Consider bringing red or white (or even pink) food for ironic effect. Pick something from below (or suggest something too)

• Tantek: Brown rice sushi from Whole Foods
• Raines: Bread
• Carla: roasted red pepper hummus, couscous w/sun-dried tomatoes, feta & olives, pita, falafel, tzatziki, cashew chili, quesadillas
• Dessert: heart shaped cakes, N()mi is bringing cupcakes
• James: chocolate cake
• ...

Beverages

• Carla is bringing 2 bottles club soda, 2 bottles ginger ale, tonic water, run, vodka, gin, bourbon, triple sec, lemons, limes, frozen fruit, ice & maraschino cherries
• Aubrey is bringing tequila, margarita mix, a few bottles of wine and her hot hot self.
• Daniel will bring wine: two red & one white wine...Paso Robles

Dinner Discussion

Proposed topics:

• Geek 2 Geek (g2g) Social Interactions
• Dating Etiquette
• Dating Dilemmas
• Is dating an obsolete/inefficient protocol? What improved / more efficient alternatives could replace / are replacing it?
• How to interact with a multitasker (getting a slice of their continuous partial attention)
• How to be a polite multitasker (optimal interrupt prioritization and time allocation)
• When multitaskers need to put away their devices and socialize
• How to introduce oneself to new people in a non-threatening way (for you or them)
  • How to introduce oneself (e.g. in a public profile description) in such a way as to filter in more compatible people and filter out more incompatible people
• Blogging/Twittering/public discourse about your love life
• ...

Games

• Should we play games?
• Like Scrabble, or other magical things from Tantek's plethora of games?
• Charades, with Valentine's or romantic themes (heh! i think Tantek *hates* charades)
• Spin the Bottle - We'll bring the bottle. You bring your smooching. Pucker up, peeps.

Movie Suggestions

Post game-playing, I suggest we watch a movie, perhaps something valentine's day themed, or not.

People enter movie suggestions here :)

• Singles
• The Matrix (i know! but there's some love that happens...) (Oh but that's probably the worst scene in the movie, so forced)
• William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (with realtime critical commentary of character flaws etc.)
• Dead Again (love comes back in the second go-round)
• Shortbus (Dani recommended this for the party, not sure if it is available for rental yet)
• Annie Hall (it's playing at Red Vic - for those who aren't going, we can have it on)
• Meet Joe Black (Does that count as a "love" movie?)
• Say Anything...

Music Suggestions

Everyone bring a mix to share of your favorite love/not love songs (I know PiL will be on mine...)

• Load up your ipods with some awesome rock ballads.

Other

Sleepover? Some amount of crashing facilities will be available.

Decorations, we must have decorations. Crepe paper twirled around?

FAQ

• ...

Photos

• See Flickr photos tagged valentinescommons2007

Consequences

Like blog posts etc.

• Another Day, Another Site: Wanna go with me?

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