December 26, 2001
Attendance: Patty S., Dagny, Tod B., Robert A., L.J.
Notes: The few, the proud . . . ; teen-age grossness; token Tolkien; the inside story of the Castro chairs; documentary love; gleaning; short track; input/output.
Subject: Toast for the holidays
FPs,
The Lord gives us our relatives,
Thank God we can choose our friends.
Take a break from the holidays at 8 p.m., Wednesday, December 26, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Auld lang syne, L.J.
December 19, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Tod B., Kathleen, Neo, Patty S., Margaret S., Linda J., Nigel F., Tom E., John L., L.J.
Notes: Respec; slightly less than exorbitant real estate; U.S.: nursery of scoundrels; whoreology; Windows XP installation for butt; Linda Johnson goes to Hollywood, or the thin line between OCD and art, or between OCD and love, or, well, there's a network of thin lines between those things; what ever happened to raccoon coats, bula bula.
Subject: (No notice due to seasonal blinkeredness.)
December 12, 2001
Attendance: Neo, Tod B., Hugh D., John L., Dagny, L.J.
Notes: A support group for men who hate the "men's movement"; men's issues, i.e. the testicle problem (women just don't know the feeling); thoughts of other people we know and that we are reluctant to divulge, but are all too enthusiastic to once we do; tales of revenge and fire; why they throw Molotov cocktails the way they do.
Subject: Let's
FPs,
Let's go down t'the pub, drink beer, smoke fags, talk shyte.
-- The Mekons, intro to their rendition of "You Wear It Well" on the "Hen's Teeth" compilation
At 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 12, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
December 5, 2001
Attendance: Linda J., Tod B., Neo, Sharon T., John L., Hugh D., Dagny, Minna, Mona, Rebecca, Catherine, David, Ivy, L.J.
Notes: Christmas rifts, united by E-Bay; Hugh's guest artists, give or take a lapse in memory; theses on relationship of languages by the partially learned, Korean with Finno-Ugric or Altaic; learn to fight; "I make more money than you niggah -- cracker" and other famous indignant tirades; "fuck for me and that is all."
Subject: The Tao of drink
FPs,
Whatever the truth, in my own mind it is hard to separate Chinese poetry from the smell of alcohol. It would be useless to enumerate all the good poets who used wine, as a Buddhist uses meditation, to forget the world. Juan Chi (210-263) went on a sixty-day drunk to evade his own marriage. Hsieh Ling-yun, though a devout Buddhist, used to sit drunk and semi-naked in public. T’ao Yuan-ming, known also as T’ao Ch’ien, spurned immortality recipes and substituted wine, though much of the drunkenness in his poems may be only poetic. Wang Chi (590?-644), another Taoist, found T’ao Ch’ien’s attitudes congenial. Drink, he said, is no elixir of life; but how could he bear to stay sober alone in a drunken world?
-- Ben-Ami Scharfstein, in The Mind of China
How can you? Join us at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 5, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Kanpei,
L.J.
November 28, 2001
Attendance: Tod B., Neo, Dagny, Hugh D., David R., L.J.
Notes: Rain; the office or neighborhood crazy; the family as love and excuse; S.F. bust; free-market trauma; bonehead injuries; giddy up Cowboys.
Subject: American spirits
FPs,
If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
-- Abraham Lincoln
So who's brilliant and warm-blooded? Let's see at 8 p.m., Wednesday, November 28, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
November 21, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Sarah R., Tim F., Tod B., Mimi H., Linda J., Kristen, L.J.
Notes: The smlcrm of life; the old chocolate bar on the undershorts trick, for sports prima donnas and airport security; buddha and booda; rats and raccoons; falconry; pissants and other formic tidbits; the orgasm of drugs; Roman marriage law; drinking group becomes "LOG" group; "Ab Fab".
Subject: Thanksgiving toast
FPs,
To Thanksgiving
Thanks for the freedom to rape the land.
Thanks for the freedom for every rich man.
Thanks for the freedom to say what we please.
Thanks for stupidity, deception and sleaze.
Thanks for the freedom to be what we want.
Thanks for the freedom to beat those who aren't.
Thanks for the freedom to wave the flag.
Thanks for the flavor of every wag.
Amen.
Join in thanks, Fighting Pacifist style, at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 21, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
November 14, 2001
Attendance: Linda "Fluffy" J., John L., Neo, Sharon T., Dagny, L.J.
Notes: Somebody combined their book group and drinking group; hashers take back room; everything you wanted to know, but you can't think of a question; treatments, cures, drugs, poisons, and other inducements; fell running, orienteering, and other British passtimes; the worst thing your parents thought you did whether you did it or not; incorporation.
Subject: The world elsewhere
FPs,
I have this life on the stage, but it's like the line in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, "There is a world elsewhere." I love that life elsewhere. Going to a pub, sitting and drinking a Guinness, and talking about rubbish.
-- Richard Harris, interviewed on "60 Minutes"
What more grandeur could you want? At 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 14, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
November 7, 2001
Attendance: Nigel F., Linda J., Tod B., Stephen B., Neo, Misan, Dagny, Patty S., Mimi H., L.J.
Notes: Ladies night, as girls equal or exceed boys and thus dominate the conversation with typical topics like baseball and city politics, while the prissy ol' boys pout and talk about garlic; medical stories of morphine-induced chattiness and witticism, plus the peculiar, torturous phenomenon of having to pee badly but not being able to; why is crack so cheap?, a special market report (latest installment of "America, Open for Business").
Subject: Ghost of future past
FPs,
Johnny Keane came over from the Cardinals as Yogi’s replacement [becoming the new Yankee manager]. We were used to Casey and Ralph, who didn’t even have a curfew, and Yogi, who didn’t really enforce one. Now, all of a sudden, here’s this guy coming in like a drill sergeant, with a curfew and everything. Keane was determined to change things. There would be no more drinking, no more late nights for the Yankees. Under him we took a nose dive, going from first place in 1964 to sixth place in 1965.
-- Mickey Mantle, from The Mick
Guess the Yankees had better start drinking again. Come toast the end of baseball season, three merciful months without it, at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 7, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
October 31, 2001
Attendance: None.
Notes: Meeting not held as Fighting Pacifists are scared of Halloween.
Subject: Too scared to drink
FPs,
This Wednesday is Halloween, and as there are other parties to go to and Dylan's is having their own Halloween party, many have expressed interest in NOT having the regular meeting. If, however, you are a poor lonely soul wandering this afterlife without a resting place and you would like to have a place to haunt, please send me an e-mail to let me know, and I'll be there to meet you there, regular place, regular time. Otherwise, I'll be doing my invisible man routine.
L.J.
October 24, 2001
Attendance: John L., Neo, Beth G., Tod B., Patrick, Adrienne P., Dean, Dagny, Kristen, L.J.
Notes: Lies, damn lies and whopping incredible excuses; lies, damn lies and the Florida vote; lies, damn lies and stirrin' up Muslims; Bunny Rabbit was cool, by consensus.
Subject:
FPs,
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
-- Samuel Johnson
So at least come and give yourself good company, at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
October 17, 2001
Attendance: Linda J., Tod B., Bill, Dagny, Sharon T., Dean, Adrienne P., Hugh D., Bill, Eugene, L.J.
Notes: Shift lives; bring your friend Bill night; why New Zealand is called New Zealand; famous Dutch cuisine; some jokes we did remember; resemblances of the Fighting Pacifists; nitpicking with Hugh; keeping up with computers.
Subject: Measure for measure, reprise
FPs,
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
-- Blaise Pascal
Drink just right at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 17, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
October 10, 2001
Attendance: Robert A., Neo, Patty S., Karen S., Dagny, David R., Boris, John L., Ben, Hugh D., L.J.
Notes: Attack on Fighting Pacifists! Hijacked coaster crashes into Neo and glass of beer; why did they do it, why do they hate us; FPs quick to condemn cowardly act; make no mistake, vengeance will be swift, total, infinite and enduring; FPs strike back, bombard attacker with embarrassment; Neo was wearing FP T-shirt, the symbol of our might, power and ipseity was directly attacked; call for all FPs to wear FP T-shirts, logos, colors, likenesses, accessories, flags, blindfolds as show of unity, support, belongingness and indiscrimination; attacker makes meager gesture of contrition, says "Goodbye" to some FPs, but no apology to victim -- justice's thirst not quenched; FPs honor their interwoven connectedness together unity type thing by recounting all the coincidences of their acquaintance. Fighting Pacifists will prevail! Fighting Pacifists forever! Gezundheit Fighting Pacifists!
Subject: The spirits that move
FPs
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Contribute to art at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 10, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
October 3, 2001
Attendance: Tod B., Linda J., Dagny, John L., Hugh D., Kristen, Robert A., Patrick, L.J.
Notes: Forgetting names; speaking before large audiences; the U.S., Europe's banished religious fanatics; colors of the world; hips and nips slideshow.
Subject: Measure for measure
FPs,
I have written much less than people who write, but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
-- Guy Debord
Join the spectacle at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 3, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
September 26, 2001
Attendance: Tod B., Scout, John L., Beth G., Brian, Peppe, Monica P., Tom E., Robert A., Dagny, Hugh D., Moby, Peggy Sue, Karina, L.J.
Notes: Rescue theme toys, a good sector for investment; The Onion strikes again; America fears attack by Anthrax, the rock group; oh, those college days, dislocating shoulders and running balls out; Fighting Pacifists astir with suspicions they themselves may be a cult, report rumors from and mysterious reputation with non-members; Hugh asks, "What is the definition of a cult"?
Subject: Think drink
FPs,
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
-- Francois Rabelais
Join us at the think tank at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 26, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
September 19, 2001
Attendance: Neo, Robert A., Linda J., Dagny, Tod B., L.J.
Notes: Abusive dad analogy; ISO MWC; "Idiot Joy Showland"; mere Germans.
Subject: Alcohol blood content
FPs,
If wine makes you think of annoying rich people talking about "tanins" and "noses," you really can't go wrong with vodka, the Great Equalizer. If you want blood, who are you to doubt the words of Bon Scott? Rest assured: you've got it.
-- John Danielle
Improve your circulation at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 19, Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
September 12, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Linda J., Neo, Tod B., Hugh D., Sasha, Matt H., Tim F., Robert A., Sara R., Kristen, L.J.
Notes: The biggest buildings can fall down; anti-Baobob sentiment foments; cool kids in Porto dress like Hugh; English breakfasts and Moroccan dinners; the marvelous adhesive Rice Crispy and chocolate gay Olympian scout treat fortified with aluminum (the flaming man).
Subject: The gastronomy of morals
FPs
There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
-- Bertrand Russell.
Balance your diet at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 12, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
September 5, 2001
Attendance: Neo, Elizabeth B., Dagny, Patty S., John L., David R., Kristen, L.J.
Notes: Please research whiskey; cat tribulations; time and no money; "League of Gentleman" in-jokes (see previous week's notes); Monty Python; "Bedazzled"; Raquel Welch; "The Pink Panther Strikes Again"; in memory of Pauline Kael; sports; pot; forfeiture and seisure.
Subject: The belle jar
FPs,
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
-- Dorothy Parker
Persist at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 5, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
August 29, 2001
Attendance: Linda J., Neo, Tod B., Dagny, John L., L.J.
Notes: The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out; Velvet Underground v. The Pogues; Johnny Cash's dirty secrets; Dagny solicits for the League of Gentlemen (come 'round to her place, it's a local shop); logical fallacy fallacy (all syllogisms are not false, therefore this syllogism is not false).
Subject: Early bums get the word
FPs,
I've got a new oven that cooks food in 12 seconds Now I'm eating so quick I've got hours to drink.
-- Dom Leone*
Announcing the all-new improved super ultra brighter faster acting high technology Fighting Pacifist drinking group starting time. That's right, for all of you hard working drinking group lovers out there who just can't stay up on Wednesday nights, the Fighting Pacifists have declared a bold new attempt to come earlier. And that's why we're rolling out this new starting time of -- are you ready for this? -- 8:00 p.m.! It's amazing, it's marvelous, it's terrific! Yes, friends, the early bird gets the worm, and as a special one of a kind promotional offer for anyone who shows up at 8 p.m. for this next group -- free worms! Pick the worm of your choice: tapeworm, ringworm, earthworm, you name it. But you have to show up at 8 p.m., Wednesday, August 29, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom. BE THERE!
L.J.
* Thanks to Neo.
August 22, 2001
Attendance: Neo, Linda J., Tod B., Hugh D., John L., L.J.
Notes: Special plenary session of the Fighting Pacifists Planning Committee, Linda J., Impetus: motion for drinking group to meet earlier, partly in the interest of reducing the recent gender disparity (on the theory that this would have such an effect; motion to get cuter guys in the group not explicitly rejected); "Gilligan's Island" and the taste for coconuts, thesis that "Mysterious Island" was an influence via Ray Harryhausen's giant crab better than giant crabs in hokey monster movie with Russell Johnson (i.e., the Professor) (plus remarks of Linda's mother resembling Mrs. Howell); homologous to earlier proposition of Scooby Doo derivative of Jetsons dog, Astro, via remark of bumper sticker, "What would Scooby do?"; "Bewitched" style of supernatural v. "The Sixth Sense"; what is a guffaw (don't make a gaff); Stefan, one of the good guys, the rest of the story (sad, but is it true); "The Casket Outlet," a Poe-like tale of coincidence befallen; all those annoying expressions, if you will; there's no confusing the period at the end of this sentence in the UK, Mr.
Subject: Inverse proportion
FPs,
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
-- Oscar Wilde
Don't just be talked about, do the talking, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
LJ
August 15, 2001
Attendance: Neo, Hugh D., Stephen B., Nigel F., John L., David R., L.J.
Notes: A wedding party; putting away: the funerary paradox; the post- overtime, little sleep, painting daze; an Uptown move; "Ghost World"; Korean anarchists in Shanghai; the Broken Arrow legacy; Oklahoma City, the cutting edge of fast food; Korean Independence day, mansei!; commiserating: interment camps and life in College Station.
Subject: More drinking politics
FP,
If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.
-- Speaker of the California Assembly Jesse Unruh
But you can still come to drinking group, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 15, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
August 8, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Dean, Mark D., Pat E., Tod B., Hugh D., L.J.
Notes: Uncovering Oklahoma roots; mint drinks for connoisseurs; Roxy Music for uglies; "Ghost World," a feel-good movie for cranks; the movie shit just keeps on coming.
Subject: Drinking and Talking (A Poem)
FPs,
Open your mouth.
Pour it in.
Open your mouth.
Pour it out.
Pour it in.
Pour it out.
Open your mouth.
Shut your mouth.
Join us for life's cycle at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 8, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
August 1, 2001
Attendance: Neo, Dagny, John L., Tod B. Linda J., L.J.
Notes: Baseball records watch; Battle Pope; remembering everything, the pros and cons; I'm not a bad guy, I'm one of the good guys; The Birthday Party Fan Club.
Subject: Absolute knowledge and a good beer
FPs,
In 1799 his father died, and a small inheritance offered Hegel a brief period of independence. He wrote to Schelling, who was already on the way to fame, asking him to suggest a suitable town for a brief period of studious withdrawal, specifying, among other requirements, "a good beer."
-- Unidentified author of biographical note in Encyclopedia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World" edition (vol. 46) of Hegel's The Philosophy of Right and The Philosophy of History.
Let us raise dialectics and the glass, no longer so young Hegelians, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 1, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Gaudeamus igitur, (not so juvenes dum sumus)
L.J.
July 25, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Tod B., Neo, Kristen, L.J.
Notes: The Mark E. Smith connection; those embarrassing people at the top; movies 'n shit, an irrepressible combination.
Subject: The trouble with longevity
FPs,
If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
Here's to what life has to offer, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 25, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
July 18, 2001
Attendance: Neo, Dagny, Tod B., Hugh D., Linda J., Sally M., Nigel F., L.J.
Notes: Shameful self-promotion; I hate laughter; Stephen Spielberg, artificial intelligence; those weird nub things on laptops; the misplaced suggestion of tying cherry stems; "I thought you were going to kill yourself."
Subject: Big Beer and the Church
FPs,
This week in place of the usual aphorism, there is a special feature, a historical piece about the class struggle in drinking. Read it a your leisure and risk. There will be no test. You can find it here:
http://www.excitingland.com/fixion/parasite2.htm
Thank god for drinking, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 18, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Cheers,
L.J.
July 11, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Kristen, Hugh D., Phillip, Tod B., L.J.
Notes: Flashing red balls and electronic fortune cookies; reproductive strategies; relationships that begin and end with ecstasy; sluices for your juices.
Subject: Polemic
FPs,
I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
-- William Butler Yeats
Avoid domestic trouble at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 11, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
July 4, 2001
Attendance: L.J.
Notes: Too many patriots, not enough Fighting Pacifists.
Subject: This is a free country, so you need to buy a T-shirt
FPs,
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
-- Will Rogers
There are better things to do on the 4th of July than go to drinking group, but one of them is not being eaten alive by giant rats. So, please, don't choose the rats. Come drink to obscene freedom (but not the freedom to be obscene) at 8:30 p.m., July 4, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom. And if you do, you can also see
THE NEW FIGHTING PACIFIST T-SHIRT!
Fighting Pacifist T-shirts are here. Be the envy of your peer group. Now you can finally make people half-way believe there is real group of people that meets at a bar every week. This elegant new creation can be yours for the special cheapskate Fighting Pacifist price of $15, or you can be one of the big-heart Fighting Pacifists and pay $20 for a donation to Dylan's Las Colinas school project. You decide between ignominy and magnanimity. There's a new T-shirt page which you can get to from the regular drinking group page. Here's a direct link:
http://www.excitingland.com/fixion/fptshirts.htm
Red-glaringly,
L.J.
June 27, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Tod B., L.J.
Notes: How do you act when a guy breaks into your house and says he's looking for Jennifer, and other stories of surprising behavior; FP T-shirts: something to wear but no one to wear them.
Subject: Blindness and insight
FPs,
I called on Dr. Johnson one morning, when Mrs. Williams, the blind lady, was conversing with him. She was telling him where she had dined the day before. "There were several gentlemen there," said she, "and when some of them came to the tea-table, I found that there had been a good deal of hard drinking." She closed this observation with a common and trite moral reflection; which, indeed, is very ill-founded, and does great injustice to animals -- "I wonder what pleasure men can take in making beasts of themselves." "I wonder, Madam," replied the Doctor, "that you have not penetration to see the strong inducement to this excess; for he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
-- Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale; collected in "Johnsonian Miscellanies," edited by G.B. Hill Ballade of Soporific Absorption
Penetrate, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 27, Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas school project.
June 20, 20001
Attendance: Matt H., Kim A., Dagny, John L., Tod B., Margaret S., B.Z., Hugh D., Patty S., Adrienne P., Dean, Neo, L.J.
Notes: Living on in spurned San Francisco; coffin Joe and Doc Fest success; some long lost faces show; the health risks of health activities; Brain-a-Roni.
Subject: On the drinking question
FPs,
In 1849, with nowhere else to run, the Marx entourage finally ended up in teeming Victorian London. And yet, as Wheen makes graphic, London would be no home away from home. "Never," Marx joked, with typical gallows humor, "has anyone written about money in general amidst such a total lack of money in particular." By all accounts, too, Marx's "encounters with the natives were almost always disastrous, especially if he had a few drinks inside him." "One night," Wheen notes,
he set off with Edgar Bauer and Wilhelm Liebknecht for a drunken jaunt up the Tottenham Court Road, intending to have at least one glass of beer in every pub between Oxford Street and Hampstead Road...by the time they reached the last port of call he was ready for a rumpus. A group of Oddfellows, enjoying a quiet dinner, found themselves accosted by this drunken trio and taunted about the feebleness of English culture. No country but Germany, Marx declared, could have produced such masters as Beethoven, Mozart, Handel and Haydn; snobbish, cant-ridden England was fit only for philistines. This was too much even for the mild-mannered Oddfellows. 'Damned foreigners!' one growled, while several others clenched their fists. Choosing the better part of valour, the German roisterers fled outside.
-- from Karl Marx: A Life, By Francis Wheen.
Have a drink and taunt the English at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 20, at Dylan's 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas school project. Most of you missed out on the barbecue last week, so you've only got altruistic reasons, now.
June 13, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Nigel F., Patrick, Tod B., Neo, L.J.
Notes: Press release party for Las Colinas school project and barbecue goodies; who likes the monotonously, homogeneously bad film trailers with that shit-straining voice, that tawdry plush groan, and why do they keep making them; the World Cup as daily structure; famous people you knew (and forgot) before they were famous the way you know now.
Subject: Fiat
FPs,
We need a new cosmology. New Gods. New Sacraments. Another drink.
-- Patti Smith
Here's to creation, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 13, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom. This Wednesday will also be a press release party for upcoming events Dylan's has organized for the Las Colinas school project. One of those events is a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, another is a soccer tournament with other San Francisco pubs. Things may be a little more crowded than usual, that is, if you come out to mix. So, come on. Let's get in there and show 'em what rubbin' elbows is.
L.J.
June 6, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Nigel F., Patty S., Sharon T., Karin S., Beth G., Tod B., Hugh D., John L., Linda J., L.J.
Notes: Some classic FPs come kicking around; footwear of the FPs; job woes of the FPs (more pricks than kicks).
Subject: Measure for measure
FPs,
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais
Just don't lend him money. Join us in the mouth of the giant at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 6, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas school project.
May 30, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Adrienne P., Dean, Hugh D., Tod B., Neo, John L., L.J.
Notes: Beating the San Francisco heat in a hot bar with liquor; back from Jamaica; an interesting movie about anthropophagy--er, anthropology; jokes kill conversation, except for the jokes; movies are shit; so many opinions, so little time; where there's mosquito net, there's mosquitoes.
Subject: Good book
FPs,
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
-- Proverbs 31:6-7
Say "amen" at 8:30, Wednesday, May 30, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Hugh's valiant Mekons T-shirt effort has raised more $1000 for the Las Colinas school project. All of you who helped or bought shirts thus contributed. Keep up the word.
May 23, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Tod B., Hugh D., Matt H., Kim A., Rico B., David R., Linda J.
Notes: Hugh back from U.K., with stories of The Handsome Family, among other things; special guest Fighting Pacifist (though he may not know it), Rico (otherwise of Mekons fame), drifts in; Man City will rise again; everyone does a good Christopher Walken, when you have him in mind and a few drinks in you besides; the FP lighter collection expands with recent Dagny acquisitions, such as the Statue of Liberty and a penis; remember the one about George Bush in hell and Monica Lewinsky.
Subject: Liquor, law and prejudice
FPs,
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
-- Hugo L. Black, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court. Dissenting opinion in 6-2 ruling that limited power of states to tax and restrict the liquor business, 1 Jun 64.
Take up this important matter at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 23, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom. Research material provided by the establishment.
L.J.
P.S. The Las Colinas school project.
May 16, 2001
Attendance: Tod B., L.J.
Notes: The plight of the U.S. Postal Service and proposals for its salvation; tattoos and cultural aggrandizement; the history of Asian cinema.
Subject: "The Flask of Amantillado" or "Message Found in a Bottle"
FPs,
Filled with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
through the chamber of my brain
Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies
come to life and fade away.
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
Drink not "Alone," at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 16, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas school project.
May 9, 2001
Attendance: Linda J., Tod B., Dagny, L.J.
Notes: A new theory that sleeping too little can make you tired; Iranian and Chinese movies; amusement parks and being upside down; Linda's pantheon of dream men, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Pope; the four rock songs O.K. by Linda's dad.
Subject: Accounting
FPs,
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
-- George Best
Throw your money at a good cause, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 9, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas school project. Hugh's Mekons T-shirt was a success, the proceeds for the school.
May 2, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Linda J., John L., Tod B., Adrienne P., Dean, Hugh D., Robert A., L.J.
Notes: Pricks and snatches: racial policy for baseball caps; pigeons, the untapped food source; the future of anthropology, and other oxymorons; brushes with Jerry Brown; sugar for hiccups; the vicunia and the St. Lucia parrot; vomit and testicles; Will Ferrell; "The Simpsons"; cricket scores.
Subject: The caliber of your drink
FPs,
I was bored last week and a thought occurred to me. Why is it that there is a government bureau which oversees alcohol, tobacco, and firearms? I was bored enough to call up the regional office of said bureau. I asked the man who answered the phone, "What wine goes best with an M-16?" He did his best to be helpful, however. "That depends. What are you smoking?"
-- Todd Prior; Libernet poster
Target practice at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 2, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas School Project.
April 25, 2001
Attendance: Hugh D., Dagny, Linda J., Tod B., John L., Sharon T., L.J.
Notes: Hugh has made plans for you; plaster casters; the contents of various nuts; early Chinese cinema: the Han dynasty; Ghengis Khan's home movies; the Fighting Pacifist subgenres: FP Trekkies, FP Fisters, FP Society of Women Engineers; wieners; Yips; shit movies, a retrospective; highlights of porn: dogs, horses, cows, pigs and letter openers.
Subject: The chill of consciousness
FPs,
It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say "Ah, the chill of consciousness returns."
-- Molly O'Neill
Awake at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 25, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas school project.
April 18, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Patty S., Karen S., Jen A., Hugh D., Tod B., Linda J., John L., L.J.
Notes: Joey Ramone's on endless vacation; guest appearance by Erika; food poisoning in London; days and plays in Dublin; Homey key chains; what's with the "dude," dude; "The State"; you can't employ unenjoyment; new T-shirt slogans: "Sexual Dullard," "Too Lazy to Fuck," "Fuck Sex."
Subject: Bye Bye Baby
FPs,
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
Give me some skin
Give me some gin
Give me some wine
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
Give me some skin
Give me some gin
I want some wine
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
I lost my mind
-- The Ramones
The next drinking group will be in memory of Joey Ramone. We'll try to get the Dylan folks to accomodate. Join us at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Death Of Me
We've got to stop this crazy carrying on
It's gonna be the death of you
Stop this crazy carrying on
It's gonna be the death of me
It's gonna be the end you see
It's gonna be the death of we
If we don't stop this crazy carrying on
It's gonna be the death of you
Stop this crazy carrying on
It's gonna be the death of me
It's gonna be the end you see
It's gonna be the death of me
And I feel like I'm gonna die
I don't feel so good inside
Why baby-why, why, why?
But I had a good time
You know I had a good night
We got to stop this crazy carrying on
It's gonna be the death of you
Stop this crazy carrying on
It's gonna be the death of me
It's gonna be the end you see
It's gonna be the death of me
L.J.
April 11, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Patty S., Hugh D., Peppe, Vittorio, Tod B., Adrienne, Dan, Robert A., L.J.
Notes: To employment and unemployment; Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Indian Scouts; special guest rant by Michael of Portsmouth, U.K.; fish; the cannibal lifestyle, SF Film Festival, anthropology and Kon Ichikawa -- the FP connections; Iranian film.
Subject: The Reformation
FPs,
Accordingly if the devil should say, "Do not drink," you should reply to him, "On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount." Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.
-- Martin Luther
Anoint thyself at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. Remember the Las Colinas School Project, and pass the word to others (see above).
April 4, 2000
Attendance: Dagny, Hugh D., Urs S., Julie & Richard K., Barbara & Mark, Rini K., Mimi H., Patty S., John L., L.J.
Notes: Drinking group grand central: from Switzerland, from Paris, to Sardinia; and Dylan's Gallic cultural exchange program: French visitors listen to Edith Piaf, dance the jig, Danielle plays spoons, and all culminates with Tom Jones; Sardinian tours by the absent guide; those ancient stone buildings in Sardinia that no one knows the use of, but that all have T-1 lines; text flow v. design control, the polemics; sacré bleu! Paris cheaper than San Francisco; San Francisco sucks.
Subject: Moderation, the latest installment
FPs
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
-- Rudyard Kipling
Don't work too much, come drink a little at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. -- Remember the Las Colinas School Project (see link above).March 28, 2001
Attendance: Patty S., Karen, Tom (alias Wladislaw, D'Artagnon, Thadeus, etc.), Kirsten, John L., Hugh D., Tom E., L.J.
Notes: Angry young men; John Wayne: the corn is greener; Neil Young and his comexpatriates; why blame porn when you can put it down?; Tokyokie; vicious dogs, mad cows and nuclear waste; jury duty; traffic racket; the grass is always greener on someone else's butt; smoking envy.
Subject: Long levity
FPs,
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
-- Clement Freud
Adjust your perception at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. -- Remember the Las Colinas School Project. Spread the word.
March 21, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Linda J., Tod B., Hugh D., John L., Mimi H., Patty S., Kurt, Tom E., L.J.
Notes: Erika appearance; Netflicks; t-shirt and sweatshirt proposal (but the Fighting Pacifists cannot compete with Paul Weller at the Royal Albert Hall); smelly shoe diagnostics; spellchecking -- the truth comes out; candy stand wars; biblical pistachio shells; Hugh's private tract library; he pisseth against a wall; Quisp pisseth (try to say it quickly); chalk v. powdered sugar -- which is more embarrassing.
Subject: Alcoholmanac
FPs,
A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine, except that on a day without sunshine you can still get drunk.
-- Lee Entrekin
Come rain or shine at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, to Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. -- Don't forget the Las Colinas School Project. [See link above.] Spread the word.
March 14, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, John L., Mimi H., Sarah R., L.J.
Notes: Moluscular synovial perineal septic sulfuric tannic blattarial muridal seminal angostural splanchnological epidural bursal polymeric dialectic.
Subject: Ginuflection
FPs,
Alcohol is nicissary f'r a man so that now an' thin he can have a good opinion iv himself, ondisturbed be th' facts.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, "Mr Dooley on Alcohol," Chicago Tribune, 26 April 1914
Feel good about yourself at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 14, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Remember the Las Colinas School Project. There's more than one way to help: you can spread the word. Information is here:
http://www.excitingland.com/fixion/colinasframe.htmCheers,
L.J.
March 7, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Patty S., Hugh D., Adrienne P., Dean, Michelle B., John L., L.J.
Notes: Leeches; Charlie the Tuna and Chicken of the Sea v. Carl's Jr., et al.; John Wayne on a Vespa; Disneyland and cultural obsolescence.
Subject: Drink for relief
FPs,
The horse and mule live thirty years
And never know of wine and beers.
The goat and sheep at twenty die
Without a taste of scotch or rye.
The cow drinks water by the ton
and at eighteen is mostly done.
The dog at fifteen cashes in
Without the aid of rum or gin.
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten.
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men
Survive three-score years and ten.
And some of us, though mighty few
Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.
--Charles Duffy
That's why we drink to health, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 7, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Also a call to all Fighting Pacifists to take special note of Dylan's Las Colinas School Project. Dylan's is raising funds for a school in a village in El Salvador. Take this link below to see Dylan's statement and for more information:
http://www.excitingland.com/fixion/colinasframe.htm
This page can be reached from the Fixion main page and from the drinking group notes page, that usual site of yours truly.
To health and care,
L.F.
February 28, 2001
Attendance: Peppe, Patty S., Tod B., Hugh D., Tom E., John L., Linda J., Monica P., L.J.
Notes: The day of earthquake in Seattle. Language and cultural exchange: bullshit, fuck this test, Tickle Me Elmo's tongue twisters, no kiss hello.
Subject: Natural liquology
FPs,
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness -- or so good as drink.
-- Lord Chesterton
Drink to that, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 28, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
New business:
At our next meeting, we will be electing the following officers: The Secretary of Clamor, The Secretary of Exception, The Secretary of Tergiversation, The Undersecretary of Overstatement, and the Sergeant in Arms. We will also elect an Empty Chair to preside over all official acts of the Fighting Pacifists. Our first official act will be a special session at which we will refuse to sign the Treaty of Ghent. Destroy and lay waste the Anglo-American pact!
L.J.
February 21, 2001
Attendance: Dagny, Hugh D., Peppe, Andrea, Tod B., John L., L.J.
Notes: The other Hugh D.; Peppe, official resident alien, and friend, who is impressed with university towns in U.S., as represented by Berkeley; random acts of punching in the face; John's back.
Subject: Political liquology
FPs,
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
-- Norman Brenner
Drink sociably at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 21, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
February 14, 2001
Attendance: Patty S., Dagny, L.J.
Notes: Pancakes and pumpkin seeds; everyone who didn't come got so talked about, and their mothers.
Subject: Drink to love, love to drink
Sweethearts,
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.
-- Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), "Whisky Galore," 1947.
And a special reminder/reprise for the occasion, in case you are shopping:
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
-- Ogden Nash
Celebrate your love, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 14, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Be mine,
L.J.
February 7, 2001
Attendance: Mark D., Dagny, Tom E., Linda J., Monica P., Peppe, Patty S., Tod B., Hugh D., L.J.
Notes: These San Francisco winters; the self-help guide to dealing with phone solicitors; Dagny's Persian pistachio connection comes through again; Titch moves the bus for Nash Bridges, who has the keys to the city -- Patty and Dagny are first passengers on the moving bus; salutations and bon voyage to Mark D., who visits our no longer so fair city and our humble drinking group therein, and is off back to Oklahoma, where they have proper concealed weapon laws, which allow one to deal with The Beatles, of whom the Rolling Stones could kick the ass and who aren't fit to lick the boots of the wretch who licks the ass of the Rolling Stones -- the bottom of the boot (but "The Beatles" would make a good name for a dog); Hugh informs us of the Peter Sellers version of "She Loves Me," à la Dr. Strangelove; ode to movie of the name, and to Terry Southern.
Subject: Wet your wit
Dear FPs,
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
-- Aristophanes
Follow suit at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 7, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
January 31, 2001
Attendance: Tim F., Patty S., Mimi H., John L., Dagny, Sara R., Erika, L.J.
Notes: Last night for Erika at the group: although not working, she drops in, has a few words while she drinks her France '77, then later, she joins us on the bus for a ripping disquisition on anal sex, blow jobs, dry humping, male v. female genital odor, and so forth, then takes a beat and says, "Is this what you guys talk about all the time?" And she's on her way out.
Subject: Farewell Erika
Dear FPs,
The next occurrence of our relatively observed custom is the last at which we will be attended by Erika, our favorite bartender. Erika is moving on, and there is a double opportunity to see her off. You can come at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 31, to Dylan's at 19th & Folsom, to say goodbye, farewell, show your appreciation, sadness, or plead with her not to go, and you can come Friday, February 2, to Dylan's, when Erika will be bartending till 10 p.m. and then leaving her bartending duties for the party in her honor.
The Fighting Pacifists have been given the most personable, generous treatment by Dylan's, in general, and the owner of the fine establishment, Titch. But this treatment has been particularly in the person of Erika, who not only braved scowling territorial beasties to make a spot for us at the watering hole, accommodated us in all sorts of extra ways with music and special gift drink arrangements, catered to all our drinking idiosyncrasies and endowed us with her own amazing concoctions, but became our friend. We'll get to see her again, now and then, but it's for that last reason we will most miss her even behind the bar.
Happy pursuits,
L.J.
January 24, 2001
Attendance: Michelle B., Tod B., Hugh D., Gabrielle, Patty S., Jen, Alana, L.J.
Notes: Tamales and pistachios; NY v. SF; Illinois & the Mississippi; lightning movie round; SF v. SD; career story swapping -- career swapping?; SF v. SC; SF, a nice place to visit; the drinking group for the sake of Hugh's social life; Alaska.
Subject: Sophistitude
Dahlings,
Drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it.
-- Unknown
Do join us at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 24, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Ever so truly,
L.J.
January 17, 2001
Attendance: Linda J., Tod B., Peppe, Hugh D., Tom E., John L., L.J.
Notes: Back trouble strikes Titch and John, and becomes main topic; John Huston's deceptive body of work; Mae West and the incredible films of the 30s; Tom's photos of Sardinia.
Subject: Nick liked to open bottles, too
Dear FPs,
The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.
-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition
Raise the glass, raze the man, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 17, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Ernestly (with bluster),
Lee Jerorme Life
January 10, 2001
Attendance: Patty S., Tom E., Michelle B., Stephen B., Dagny, Linda J., Monica P., Tod B., Nigel F., Margaret S., Dean, Adrienne P., B.Z., Poppy, L.J.
Notes:
Subject: Swill doctrine
Dear FPs,
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.
-- Jay Adams
Drink to that, if you really need something to drink to, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 10, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Amen,
L.J.
January 3, 2001
Attendance: Stephen B., Mimi H., Andrea R., John L., Dagny, Nigel F., Christie, Hugh D., Monica P., Tod B., Peppe, Michelle B., L.J.
Notes: Hair of the dog that bit me; bright spring is not happy panda; she's a real byüdie; me cago en la hostia; Vancouver Santa Con.
Subject: New Year's solution
Dear 21st century FPs,
To alcohol! The cause of -- and solution to -- all of life's problems!
-- Homer Simpson
The first drinking group of the new year (and century) is at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 3, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Solicitously
L.J.
