To Pee or Not to Pee... There is No Question
Saturday played host to many things: Halloween, Phillies game, last show at the Spectrum, and even a Making Time/R5 Productions Halloween party sponsored, in part, by Philebrity.
What a great idea! A Halloween party! How do you figure out what you need to throw "what is easily the biggest, most awesome, totally killer in like five different ways, and truly satisfying Halloween party in the city"?
Bands? Check.
DJ for late-night DJ Set? Check.
Venue? Check.
Booze? Check.
On-line promotion? Check.
Convenient Bathrooms? Fuck it. We have somewhere to piss—screw the patrons who paid $25 to get in.
That seems to be the thought process followed by the brain trust in charge of this party.
Now, we weren't at this party, but an anonymous tipster alerted Phillyist to the fact that there were:
not real restrooms anywhere. The line for the loo was45 minutes +; when people complained, they were openly mocked (i don't care if you piss on yourself, you already paid us, and if you leave to pee, you can't come back) - there were people pissing on the floor INSIDE the venue - men and women. [entire letter sic]
Apparently, this was not an issue for Joey Sweeney, editor and co-founder of Philebrity (one of the party's sponsors), as he posted on his blog (partially quoted above):
Go ahead, ask me how it feels to be a part of what is easily the biggest, most awesome, totally killer in like five different ways, and truly satisfying Halloween party in the city. You really wanna know? I am so scared and excited that when I think about it, I instantly have to pee. Or at least it feels like I do. And so it shall go with the Making Time with Simian Mobile Disco and Jason Hackenwerth's The Titan & The Fireflies and World Series/Halloween Party at 2424 Studios. It's literally right across the hall from our office! And, as it happens, just a few steps away from the bathroom, which is great news, if you are me. [Emphasis is original]
So, if you are Joey Sweeney, which we're glad you're not because that means you'd be a colossal douche-monkey, you don't give a fuck about people coughing up $25 to stand in someone else's piss on the venue's floor—because you don't have to.
You stay classy, Joey.
Filed in News and tagged Floor Urine, Halloween, Joey Sweeney, Making Time, Philebrity
There were 13 bathrooms/port-a-potties (more than Transit or like minded clubs). The problem - the open bar (people drinking like there was no tomorrow)and a lot more people coming than expected.
It was a diy warehouse event (really it was DIY - as we we had to do everything - from bringing in electric, sound, ice, bathrooms, etc). While I sympathize and apologize to the folks who did wait in line (extremely brutal) I also think that if you got there on-time when the party started (8pm) there was no waits, better drink selection and much more enjoyable etc.
The later you showed up - the longer the waits were to get in, get a drink and pee. When everyone shows up at the same time - there is only so much we can do. Not sure what folks wanted us to do at that point? Maybe build bathrooms from scratch ?
Thank goodness some of these people weren't around for the warehouse parties and shows in the 90s. Or maybe they were and just couldn't twitter about having to wait in a line
Sure, it was a "DIY party" - no one is disputing that.
The problem was that the party was "DIY"'d poorly. No one expects perfection with a warehouse space. Promotoers who throw big parties, however, should expect patrons to "come all at once" (isn't that the point of an event - to have lots of people attend? I wasn't aware that events were now meant to be attended in shifts). The promoters should have also known the attendees would "drink like there is no tomorrow" (it was an open bar, after all).
Your explanation also doesn't explain why the people working the party were such douchebags. Or, like underestimating the number of working toilets needed, is it somehow more "real" and like the mythically awesome "warehouse parties and shows in the 90's" to treat people like shit, and then do nothing while people urinate inside the venue? How "edgy" and "cool".
Poor form - and the DIY/warehouse excuse just doesn't cut it.
So I got there around 9, which I don't think is late at all to arrive at a party. And I drank reasonably considering the length of the "bar" lines..and I'm sorry I dont care what time you got there, you probably had to pee.
And I'm sorry for whoever ran the event but it was either pee on myself, or pee in the mailroom.
I also stood in line for 45 minutes to pee.
and the portapotties were disgusting.
I know that there are real bathrooms in that place, they should have been open.
They could have spent time the next day cleaning something that supposed to be bleached rather than the hallways and mailrooms of the space.
I had fun, but that bathroom sich was NUTS!