Do I have any malicious New York City readers? Because I need someone to go reek some havok at a bowling alley at 1am on Valentine’s night.
You see, some dumbasses in NYC are throwing a rave at a bowling alley that night, and they have been spamming me (and god knows how many thousands of other totally uninterested people who don’t live in New York) for days, sending me dozens of messages about their goddamned “Kosmic Bowl.. V-DAY..
NYC …$5.00 Party!!!!!!!!!!!”
Seriously: The messages just keep coming and coming and coming, each one from a different address, each one reminding me that, “This will be a nice nite out for you & will last as long as you want it to. Please respect the venue & each other. We won’t ask again. There will be two sound systems…PUMPIN’!!!, video games, a snack bar with every food, candy, pretzels, ice cream…mad phun stuff!”
Can this form of promoting an event actually be effective? Maybe spam works for penis enlargement, where for every 2 million emails you send out, there’s one desperate little man sitting in a basement feeling bad enough about himself to click on your link. But this is a party they’re promoting…if i was in New York, and if I like hardcore, and if I thought “mad phun” sounded like my cup of tea, I most CERTAINLY would have been dissuaded by all these emails.
Let’s go into this hypothetical world, shall we? The one where I’m a New York City resident who loves gabber, bowling, and mad phun. Let’s see how I would respond to the situation.
First email: “Yo! ‘Kosmic Bowl!’ That looks like mad phun!”
Second email: “Oh right! That thing. I’m totally going.”
Third email: “Pretzels!”
Seventh email: “Jeez, their computer must be fucked up.”
Tenth email: “This is whack!”
Fifteenth email: “Dude, this is so not PLUR.”Twentieth email: “Uncle Tony? I have a little job for you in the city…”
So, are there any fiesty New Yorkers out there up for a little challenge? I’m thinking along the lines of someone who will bring a boombox to the bowling alley and crank Beethoven, or perhaps an aggressive in-your-face queen who wants to cover the headlining DJ, Johnny Hardkore! (yes, he has the k and the exclamation point like that), with orange lipstick kiss marks. Wait — that would be too much “phun” for Mr. Hardcore!. He doesn’t deserve the adoration.
I’m open for suggestions.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Dave
February 13th, 2003 at 6:39 am
My personal favorite line is the, “video games, a snack bar with every food, candy, pretzels, ice cream…” because, you know, those aren’t things that you’d EVER find in a bowling alley!
Seriously, when you said “ice cream,” I almost bought a ticket to NYC to see if it was legit.
tlc
February 13th, 2003 at 6:44 am
Where is it?
Ariel
February 13th, 2003 at 7:32 am
Terra, looks like it’s kind of out in butt-fuck-nowhere. Then again, where-else would it be?
By car: From Brooklyn, Bronx, NYC, Queens, Long Island, Staten Island: Get to Belt Pkwy to exit 4. Make right @ first traffic light. Goto 15th avenue & make left. Take all way to 60th street then make right to 16th ave. Venue is on right.
tlc
February 13th, 2003 at 8:22 am
Good luck with that.
Douglas
February 13th, 2003 at 10:05 am
Funny. I’ve recently been looking for a decent bowling alley in Brooklyn. This sounds like your spam is from Maple Lanes in lovely Dyker Heights. Looks like Mark Lanes in Bay Ridge is my only decent option.