Oh hey, NYC Pin Pod is back for another season! The latest is episode 602, “Not a Minimum Number of Beers,” in which the panel talks local competition results, the upcoming pinball calendar, venue updates, and our pinball bullet journals.
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25.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 015 years ago there was almost nothing. A few scattered around by Gavin. A Twister at Empty Bottle that I played the shit out of. Then the first Headquarters, in Lincoln Park. Had my 40th bday party there, 2013. They had a WOZ which was excitingly new.
22.02.2026 02:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0wut a kick in the sprinkles
18.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’d like to measure “how far away” is everything; guessing that playfields with stuff closer to the flippers are harder (FT, BK:SOR). Maybe simply a measurement of the open area above the flippers would work for this metric.
16.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mirror selfie of Erik wearing a navy Barcade hoodie with pink Japanese lettering, a black skirt, and knee-high black and white Converse boots with sparkly pink laces over pink-and-black striped knee-high socks
Selfie of Erik at Barcade FiDi with a rainbow-colored lightning bolt temporary tattoo on their forehead. Nice job on the mascara.
Oops my skirt fell off
Peekaboo butt 🤭
Valentine’s Gay pinball fit check before, during, and after
15.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This one is real pretty and I dig urbanism as a pinball theme
11.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
fake Newsweek cover, real text though. It's SCully, Mulder, and Skinner. The text says "Bisexuality, Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges"
Just remembered a photoshop I had a little fun with.
08.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 2200 🔁 511 💬 20 📌 10I teared up
05.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Registration is open for VGay on 2/14! #pinball
01.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gettin’ closer to that wizard mode!! (bad)
27.01.2026 19:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0tag yourself, I’m indéterminé
22.01.2026 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NOT IFPA sanctioned
21.01.2026 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colorful flyer reading, “BENEFITING THE ALI FORNEY CENTER AND TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER VALENTINES GAY Pinball Tourament February 14, 2026 1:00PM Barcade FiDi $10 Entry https://matchplay.live/vgay2026”
Registration opens February 1 at noon for our biggest queer pinball tournament yet (100!!), benefiting the Ali Forney Center and Transgender Law Center
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Just ordered a copy based on your review :)
13.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Booooo (nice one)
13.01.2026 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Welcome, kiddo (I’ve been here for a few months)
11.01.2026 15:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No I scored 311M
08.01.2026 22:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A far-off photo of Erik playing Attack from Mars
My friend Greg snapped a photo of me at @scrappleland.bsky.social last night while I was working on a selfie score on AfM #pinball
08.01.2026 22:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My ringtone
08.01.2026 03:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you’re chapped, THEY’RE chapped. Make out with your knuckles.
01.01.2026 04:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
new year’s eve brooklyn trans pinball meetup is this friday!!!
dm me for the deets and an invite to the discord for future events ✨
New York City Flipper Sport Association receiving the Left Orbit trophy: Peter, Parker, Adam, Erik, Filip, and Marta with medals, pint glasses, and the trophy
Butter Ballers receiving the Right Inlane trophy: Kris points at Erik, Courtney, and Sonny with medals, the trophy, and a gift certificate to Rullo’s
Three of the Pinball NYC trophies sit under an xmas tree waiting to be distributed
Erik wearing many Pinball NYC medals (to be brought to teammates who couldn’t make the party)
Good times at the Pinball NYC end of season party and awards ceremony with friends and teammates; both NYCFSA and Butter Ballers picked up our third consecutive trophies!
18.12.2025 15:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New post up on our website - Check it out with the link below! #pinballforall #pinball #projectpinball
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A button pinned to a hoodie, with the words “NO TRANS EXCLUSIONARY WPPRS” over the trans Pride flag
New profile pic: a button made by Alisa McLain from pinball women+ Ottawa that Polly-Jean showed us when we recorded NYC Pin Pod
NO TRANS EXCLUSIONARY WPPRS
Call for Boycott of IPFA Open Tournaments, by Polly-Jean Vernon, IFPA Ontario Women's Representative, Founder and TD of Belles and Chimes Toronto, and Founder and TD of Assigned Pinball At Birth Toronto
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NYC Pin Pod episode 514: Yellow Card #pinball
Our last episode of this season is a big one: Polly-Jean Vernon joins the panel to discuss her call to boycott IFPA events circumstantially
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Erik laying back on the playfield glass of Metallica, holding a trophy in the shape of a silver ball with a plaque that reads, “BUTTER BALLERS BUTTERMILK SEASON 27 RIGHT IN-LANE CHAMPIONS”
Butter Ballers captain Courtney asked me to transport our trophy to the Pinball NYC end of season party Monday, so I snagged it from its place of honor at Buttermilk Bar last night
12.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a toilet with the seat up, with two pairs of stickers attached to the underside that read, possibly, “BCF” and “NYC PIN POD.”
A few weeks ago we noticed a pair of stickers on the underside of the toilet seat in a bathroom at Buttermilk Bar. They appear to spell “BCF” which coincidentally are the pinball initials of my NYC Pin Pod co-host Benjamin. He said he would add some of our podcast stickers to the seat…
12.12.2025 18:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of an insta story showing a post-it note on an Attack from Mars backglass that reads, “League finals tonight @8pm! Come by you can: Heckle Rob Wong! Heckle Matt Grady! Do commentary!”
Screenshot of matchplay.events depicting the semi-final round of SSPL B finals
Screenshot of matchplay.events depicting the final round of SSPL B finals
South Slope Pinball League had its finals last night. I had missed a few weeks and didn’t qualify—but a couple people couldn’t make it and I got bumped up to the last slot in B. My incredible week of pinball rolled on and I finished in 3rd!
12.12.2025 16:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0