In Pictures: Last Night's Chicagoist Reader Meetup

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Nov 18, 2011 6:00PM

Associate Editor Samantha Abernethy laughing at my suggestion we misspell our names on the name tags. [Chuck Sudo/Chicagoist]

Readers Lisa (left) and Laura pose and beg for nicknames. [Chuck Sudo/Chicagoist]

The fine folks at Bridgeport Pasty Co. try to keep warm as the folks inside get hip to the fact they were outside. [Chuck Sudo/Chicagoist]

Reader Yoshi poses with writers Alex Hough and Kim Bellware. [Chuck Sudo/Chicagoist]

More lollygagging. [Chuck Sudo/Chicagoist]

On behalf of the staff, I want to thank everyone who came out to our reader meetup at the Owl last night. I truly hope a fun time was had by everyone involved. We even got to see a rare appearance by BlueFairlane. (Trust me: he's a stand-up guy.)

Congratulations to readers Justin S. and Michael V. for each winning a remastered Pink Floyd catalog! (And to the guy who looked like he was going to whip my ass after Justin won the raffle, sorry.)

Big ups to Bridgeport Pasty Co. for bringing their electric space age bubble cart loaded with pies. I think Claudio the Tamale Man saw his future when he swung by last night. And we can't end this without name-checking Do312 and The Owl for hosting and helping to facilitate this. It was a blast.

We don't do these events as often as we'd like and we're going to try to do them more. We already have another one in the works, so stay tuned.