Promoting democracy in Utah one pint at a time.
Promoting democracy in Utah one pint at a time.
Embarrassing Utah
Obama as a monkey in a suit…
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We can expect at least four years of worse.
We’ve been calling the event we held last Friday a fundraiser and party because while the point was to raise funds to help grow Living Liberally, we also wanted it to be mostly about having fun. I think we accomplished both.
We planned and planned, and still had some organizational problems, but if we do it again we’ll try to learn from those mistakes. Overall though, I’d say the night was no less than awesome. We saw a lot of people we haven’t seen in a while and met a lot of new people.
Scott McCoy did a great job of emceeing the whole thing, with the help of Bill Frost. I read Bill Frost’s pieces in City Weekly each week and know how funny he is in writing, but I had forgotten just how funny he is in conversation too.
Syqnys wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, so to speak, but I think a lot of people liked the message of his hip-hop lyrics. I know Sen. McCoy enjoyed the song “Sexy Time”, which was pro-gay rights in a not so obvious way.
The “Bush in Six Words” contest went really well too, better than we thought it would. We had a lot of entries, and I think Representative Christine Johnson had a lot of fun judging the entries. We lost some of the entries, but the ones we found are at the bottom of this post.
I unfortunately missed the 3.2 improv because I got a stupid work call, but I did see them gathering some of the politicians and audience members together and then I heard strange noises coming from inside the warehouse. It sounded like a lot of fun. Oh, and the two improv performers were named Heather and Jeremiah. We didn’t plan that.
The theme of our event on June 6th is Bush in Six Words. We’ve given an example from the book “Not quite what I was planning - Six word memoirs by famous and obscure writers”, but we haven’t given you any examples of Bush in Six Words. Well, Drinking Liberally founder Justin Krebs blogged about our party on OpenLeft today, and a bunch of people chimed in with their own 6 word memoir about the Bush administration.
So here’s some examples from the comments:
Well, it’s official. Drinking Liberally now has a chapter in all 50 states, just in time for the 5th birthday festivities.
Five years is a big milestone, and Drinking Liberally (and Living Liberally) have gotten a fair amount of media attention for it.
Our very own chapter here in Salt Lake has even been mentioned in two national publications!
On Politico
And in the New York Times Sunday edition. I didn’t talk to the reporter, Courtney, but Heather did and said they had a wonderful conversation. Even though it was a brief mention in both, it’s still very cool. We hope that you’ll join us on June 6th at our party/fundraiser for a toast to our media mentions!
Here’s the text of the NY Times article:
On Thursday night in Hell’s Kitchen, an impassioned discussion of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s remarks about the Bobby Kennedy assassination as a reason for her staying in the presidential race took place in the backyard of Rudy’s Bar and Grill. Across the yard, Rachel Maddow, a host on Air America Radio, poured glasses of beer for a table of friends and debated Senator John McCain’s war record.
Among the regular patrons at the bar on Ninth Avenue were a few unsuspecting tourists. Dozens of people were squeezed together talking politics, drinking beer and eating free hot dogs. The conversation was cut short for an anniversary toast.
“To many more years, and many more chapters,” said Justin Krebs, 30. Mr. Krebs was one of the founders of the progressive social networking group called Drinking Liberally that has been meeting at Rudy’s every Thursday night for the past five years.
Join us on June 6th to see Lee Camp perform. http://leecamp.net
Politics can be boring and pretty unfunny. Drinking Liberally’s hot sister-wife, Laughing Liberally, is doing its best to fix that. For our Drinking Liberally party and fundraiser on June 6th, Laughing Liberally comedian Lee Camp will be flying out from New York to entertain us and make us laugh.
From The Huffington Post:
And here’s Lee telling Fox News they’re “a parade of propaganda, a festival of ignorance”:
WHEN: Friday, June 6th. Doors open at 7:00, entertainment at 8:00
WHERE: Brian’s Warehouse - 1130 South Richards Street (between Main & W. Temple, but enter from the West Temple side behind the Associated General Contractors building) MAP: http://tinyurl.com/62kp3c
WHAT:
• Laughing Liberally comedian from NYC!
• - Bill Frost from the City Weekly will present a special Bush in 6 words Ocho
- Josie Valdez, candidate for Lt Gov will participate in the improv
- Jean Hill, candidate for Attorney General will also participate in the improv.
- Rocky Anderson regrets he can’t attend, but he made sure to send us his 6 words!
• Improv performed by 3.2 Improv (www.3point2Improv.com) involving local politicos
• Bush In Six Words* contest
• Live Music
* Good beer, bloody Georges, and Hurricane Katrinas
Proceeds go to local DL expenses (website, flyers, community awareness…) and our national “parent” organization Living Liberally (http://www.LivingLiberally.org), an organization dedicated to providing easy entrance into progressive involvement, using social interaction to promote political action and facilitating collaboration among progressive organizations. See here and here.
* Legend has it, Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only 6 words. His response? “For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never worn.”
What if the same 6-word challenge were applied to the Bush Dynasty? What 6 words would you choose?
Musical entertainment will be provided by Syqnys:
Nationally, Drinking Liberally has been around for 5 years, and our national leaders are celebrating in NYC, just as we’ll be celebrating on June 6th. Since they hired a full time employee (Justin Krebs, co-founder of Drinking Librerally), Drinking Liberally and the parent organization Living Liberally has become a force with which to be reckoned. You can read regular posts on the influential blog Open Left; Living Liberally will be providing the fun and entertainment at the Netroots Nation convention (formerly called YearlyKos), which isthe convention for progressive activists; and we’re coming up on having chapters in all 50 states.
It’s this 50-state strategy of theirs that grabbed the attention of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. You might recall Gov. Dean had a 50-state strategy of his own. For Living Liberally’s birthday celebration, Howard Dean created a congratulations video, noting that Living Liberally now plays a national part in the progressive movement and that we’re part of a change that is taking over the Democratic party and our country. Check it out:
How exciting! I just got off the phone with reporters from both The New York Times and Politico. They have been interviewing the national organizers of Drinking Liberally and they referred them to us for some “local” flavor. 
In addition, we have Salt Lake Magazine interested in doing an article on our group for this fall’s edition.
Check back for article postings!
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