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Last night, Gothamist and Slice had our second pizza party at Fornino in Williamsburg. We want to thank those of you who attended and hope that everyone had as much fun as we did. Michael Ayoub and his staff served up a whopping 360 pies--18 different types, from the margherita classica to a decadent tartufo pie--over the course of the evening as well as some other tasty treats including fresh mozzarella and a black truffle amuse bouche.
Thanks to everyone at Fornino for helping us have such a great event.
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Tell your chicagoist staffers that its users demand a pizza party as well.
Okay, we get it... the slideshows are a cheap way to increase your page views. How about we all agree to click reload 100 times and you replace the slideshows with a dynamic page using technology from this century.
Why be a technology snob...
www.forgotten-ny.com
uses a 1999 paradigm, nothin' fancy. Pictures and text.
Instead of shitting in this thread about last night's pizza party why not take your complaint directly to the publisher? If you have a better solution to the slideshows put it forward. Otherwise please shut up. Besides, the slideshows don't add more page views (check the sitemeter link at the bottom of the page).
I nominate that photo as the "Gothamist Food Photo Most Likely to Induce Salivating and Hunger."
"If you have a better solution to the slideshows put it forward... Besides, the slideshows don't add more page views."
What, you want me to post code? There are only about a million sites that have managed to implement dynamic slideshows. You probably visit several every day. It's not exactly a novel or cutting-edge concept. Clicking another image in the slideshow reloads the page. It may not count as a sitemeter page view, but it does reload all of the ads (which is the point, from Gothamist's POV). And, depending on your browser, it may wipe the comment you have begun to draft.
Truffles weren't my cuppa, but there were some cute chicks there. I should have done the no crusts thing. This needed to be more interactive. Noone really spoke until the cheese demo.
"Tell your chicagoist staffers that its users demand a pizza party as well."
Only after they admit that those heavy, greasy "deep dish" casseroles they're always going on about are not real pizzas! Oh... and tell them to eat their salads and their hot dogs separately, like human beings do.
this was a great event -- food was awesome, being near the bar was even better. BUT, wish there'd been some kind of mc or opening remarks from the slice/gothamist hosts. we didn't think any demos were going to happen and gave up after stuffing ourselves silly, i cannot tell you how sad i am to read that the cheese demo happened after me and my friends left at about 9:15 or so.
also, there seemed to be a lot of bloggers and not many of us 'regular people'... and i felt bad for the two vegetarians next starving next to us.
"and tell them to eat their salads and their hot dogs separately, like human beings do."
New Yorkers put ketchup on their hotdogs. Quoth Mike Royko:
"No, I won't condemn anyone for putting ketchup on a hot dog. This is the land of the free. And if someone wants to put ketchup on a hot dog and actually eat the awful thing, that is their right.
It is also their right to put mayo or chocolate syrup or toenail clippings or cat hair on a hot dog.
Sure, it would be disgusting and perverted, and they would be shaming themselves and their loved ones. But under our system of government, it is their right to be barbarians."
@sraha: Adam from Slice here. You're absolutely right, and I apologize about the lack of MC/remarks at the beginning and throughout the event. I'd like to blame it on my shyness, but that doesn't cut it. ;) Next year, if we do another one, I'll make sure we have some sort of bullhorn/PA system to talk to folks and let them know about the demos and what's what. Also: I didn't realize vegetarians were suffering. I thought there were a number of non-meat pizzas coming out. Maybe next year we'll look at the feasibility of staggering pizzas so vegetarians don't starve.
@sraha: As for the high blogger turnout, sorry about that. I think it just stems from the fact that the Gothamist folks and I have made blogger friends through blogging and they ended up buying tickets. There's not much I can do about who can and can't buy tickets once I open up the sales window. I only hope us dorks didn't scare you away :(
I have NEVER put ketchup on a hot dog.
Politburo, no I don't want you to post code. What I want you to do is stop being whiny within the comments (they are noisy enough as it is). For the record, I agree the new slideshow is klutzy. Take your complaint, and solution if you have one, to Jake. I don't know the guy but I assume he knows that a good reader experience results in more and repeat readers. If you've got an idea that better suits the site's needs I'd also assume he would at least listen to you.