Annual Chocolate Martini Experiment (events » sports / rec) Saturday, February 7, 2009 - 7:00 PM 314 RSVPs Here are the directions, I just posted it to my blog as well.

The directions and a bit of an update at the end, yahoo only takes you to the gate so do read further than this::

Sunshine Biscuits, 851 81st Ave #301, Oakland, CA, 94621

Or if you want to use a yahoo link copy all the lines and paste:
maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat...C%252094621

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On 81st From San Leandro Blvd Take the second gated entrance on your left

The gate will be opened... pull in. If not we have a temp code #1234
On the other side of the gate is a large front parking lot
Drive through the building archway, yes through the building it is an old factory after all.
Drive toward barbed wire fence
Now you are in the larger back parking lot and plenty of room for RV.
Park your RV or car anywhere that is safe and doesn’t block the road going further back to the right.

Now to get into the building, there is about 20 parking spots in a small back lot by the door.
Veer right after the ramp leading to the underground parking - around the back of the Sunshine Biscuits building. Walk or small cars drive back here for parking but if there are cars parked near the ramp that area in the back small lot fills up fast.

You'll see parking – park anywhere that is available just don’t park in any area that blocks traffic

The final entrance to the building is the back door all the way to the back of the building next to a closed gate. The guy who lives beyond the gate is a Vietnam Vet who watches the back parking lot with his security cams and has been know to protect it with his flamethrower. He will know you are coming and be ok with it.

Go up the stairs to floor 3. All the way to the top. Walk down hallway and make the first right walk towards the elevator and make another right to #301.
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Updates and info:
This is a burner filled party and I always get the questions “What do I wear and what kind of food should I bring?” I came up with this idea on the principle of burner art/costume/pot luck parties are a dime a dozen and will happen the next weekend like they happened the weekend before. This is a Chocolate Martini Experiment. I do bring some vodka and mixers and provide the recipe. Your goal is to alter the recipe as you see fit to wow people on a kick ass Chocolate Martini. No other rules than that. Just like the early years at BRC where the back of the ticket had in big bold font: “The Only Rules are there Are No Rules” So dress or don’t dress, bring food if that is your thing as sometimes too much vodka and sweet mixers gets to be too much, bring any other kind of booze you wish as sometimes too much vodka and sweet mixers gets to be too much, and just come to have fun. There will be a fire pit on the roof, bring a bundle of wood. Bring a sleeping back and fluff as the floor is cement factory style floors.

There is a Pro Domme in the building, there are a famous group of piercing/suspension people living in the building and next door is a Harley biker with a pool table who shares the roof and recently asked if his girl friend could lay out on the roof naked and sun herself.

And speaking of the famous piercing/suspension crew. It looks like the folks from CORE are having their bimonthly party that night also. They are right directly below us, there is a $5 cover charge and may take up a lot of spacing in the parking lot. That might sound competitive but it isn't. It is a fun party, I was there at the last party past 3am and managed to bump into a couple Spikes crew. It tends to be goth industrial in music, attire and atmosphere. But if you are up for something like that I recommend going downstairs for something a little different. Also their customers tend not to arrive until 10pm, where I traditionally tend to be completely plastered during a typical experiment, so if you arrive late find a parking spot for fuck sake. I have never seen the back lot (main lot) fill up but the walk to the door way in gets longer. And if you have an RV I would recommend parking further back anyway.

For those not able to go up stairs PM me for the access code to the basement parking, that lot is very limited to tenant but there is some unused spaces and a freight elevator that leads to the 3rd floor and opens right next to #301.

Bring your friends even if I didn't invite them directly oh and note that the Coliseum Bart Station is a 15 to 20 minute walk, While in the raised part of the BART station look toward the Oakland hills and south a bit and you should see the Sunshine sign. Walk down San Leandro Blvd toward it to 81st or call me to arrange a ride or hail a cab for the less than 0.5mile drive. According to Yahoo maps this is exactly 0.5 miles on this route. My number is (925) 455-2433: