December 31, 2003
Attendance:
Notes:
Subject: Empty bottles
FPs,
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
-- Henny Youngman
I will be trying to avoid that dropping ball in New York on New Year's Eve, and I suspect that most other FPs will be up to something they feel is more grandiose than the usual Wednesday night at the pub. But, as always, there is a standing invitation, so if anyone wants to start early, or needs a place to ring in the new year, or a place to avoid heavier traffic, drop in after 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 31, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom. I'm sure Titch will welcome you and have some festivities. Be sure to look for other FPs if you go, and identify yourself to anyone who looks lost. Otherwise, the next Fighting Pacifist meeting will be the first of 2004.
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
L.J.
December 24, 2003
Attendance: Patty S., L.J.
Notes: I often dream of trains.
Subject: (Letting it) Hang out
FPs,
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
-- Heraclitus
And it is better to show ignorance to friends than to family, so spend Christmas Eve at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom, starting at 8:30 p.m.
L.J.
December 17, 2003
Attendance: Patrick; Jen A.; Rebecca; Dagny; Richard; L.J.
Notes:
Subject: Bouquets 'n' shit
FPs,
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
-- Fran Lebowitz
Also fine, elegant, full-bodied beers and whiskeys, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 17, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom. Deep hue and initial cheese flavour, with passion fruit tones and clouds of metallic cherry. Long on the palette, sinuses, and lower intestines, short on the gonads.
L.J.
December 10, 2003
Attendance: Patty S., Beth B., Joe, Elise, Dagny, L.J.
Notes: The monkey, the robot and the gigolo; back from Rome in a day; not like those Flems; those French kind of musicals; coughing is bad for the wine; Jim Thorpe; Cherokee syllabary, Cherokee pride; anecdotes of the literary and famous; Mexican porn comics; "fauxhemian."
Subject: Nunc est bibendum
FPs,
Now is the time for drinking [nunc est bibendum], now is the time to make the earth shake with dancing.
-- Horace, trans. by Kate Hughes
Well, have a drink, anyway, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 10, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
December 3, 2003
Attendance: Patty S., Nigel F., Winton D., Beth B., Lisa T., Ryan T., L.J.
Notes: Incest really breaks the ice at parties; Welsh nicotine metabolizing, Eskimo Trotskyists, Dutch language snobs, Indo-Chinese food, the South African district of Paris, or something like that, I don't remember too well, I was smoking and drinking my way out of colitis and Parkinson's disease.
Subject: Beastliness
FPs,
I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.
-- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), letter to his godson
The next sot meeting is at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 3, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
November 26, 2003
Attendance: Anna S., Matt H., Dagny, Jen A., L.J.
Notes: Nobody said anything about infantile sexuality, why would they?
Subject: The liquid bounty
FPs,
The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure Of drinking at somebody else’s expense.
-- Henry Sambrooke Leigh, “Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly,” Carols of Cockayne (1869)
For those souls that don't need stuffing, or will at least still be in town, there is 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 26, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
November 19, 2003
Attendance: Jen A., Dagny, L.J.
Notes: Morals, morale, morass, more asses, more ass-licking.
Subject: The one-man drinking group and quote-book
FPs,
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
-- François Rabelais
Huzza! to the Fighting Pacifists for achieving the first Five-Year Plan! If you weren't there Saturday night, you missed the biggest conflagration of wimpy-drinking gossipy snackers yet to fall upon Dylan's. Finally we turned up in force. There were FPs old and new, from all ends of the dilettante spectrum, and they showed that the group is still strong in spirit, if not concentrated geographically.
But, yes, now it's right back to business as usual at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 19, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom. Five years under our belts is no reason to get complacent. We knocked 'em down on Saturday, and we may have slept long, today, but we've got to get right back in there and fight, fight, fight! -- like Pacifists!
L.J.
November 15, 2003
Attendance: Anna S., Matt H., Dagny, Hugh D., Mati M., Jen A., Stephen B., Petrina, John L., Scout, Beth G., Beth B., Patrick W., Dean, Patty S., Kim, Adrienne P., Winton D., Rebecca, Nigel F., Jane R., L.J. . . . [if you know the names of those left off this list, please report]
Notes: Special Plenary Session of the Central Committee: FIGHTING PACIFISTS CELEBRATE 5 YEARS. Anniversary Party at Dylan's.
Subject: Cake
November 12, 2003
Attendance: Hugh D., Dagny, Jessie, David, Kim, Jen A., L.J.
Notes: Graphic art for sale in jewel case with free CD; Mexican porn, bobonos, hyenas and hippies in heat: the etiology of sexual revulsion in humans; but lemurs are totally cool; and Matt Gonzalez is dreamy (if he'd just push back his hair).
Subject:
FPs,
It’s true love because
If he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them
and the next morning I couldn’t get out of bed,
He wouldn’t tell me he told me.
-- Judith Viorst
Come celebrate the Fighting Pacifists' 5th Anniversary, 9 p.m. Saturday, November 15, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
BYON = bring your own nuts (and, no, that's not a macho taunt, it means the food), as a special snack will be provided for the occasion.
There will still be a regular meeting at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 12, because, hey, we're just that kind of drinking group.
Cheers,
L.J.
November 5, 2003
Attendance: Anna S., David C., Cesar R., Ruxandra G., Melissa P., Dagny, Garrick, L.J.
Notes: Out: aggressive panhandling; in: political gigolo ("rent me"); Anna swells the ranks with more politically disaffected; FSU; Saskatchewan, the Canadian Oklahoma; proofreaders, the Bartleby connection; mini Mini Cooper live tabletop show.
Subject: Anniversary and that regular old thing it's supposed to represent
FPs,
And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, "The old is good."
-- The Bible, Luke 5:39.
Come celebrate the Fighting Pacifists' 5th Anniversary, 9 p.m. Saturday, November 15, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
For those of you who can't be bothered to come to the regular meeting, like Wednesday, just think: that's one token meeting for every 5 years!
Cheers,
L.J.
October 29, 2003
Attendance: Jen A., Dagny, Zoe K., L.J.
Notes: Pen curls, I mean, pin curls; Jen and tonic, I mean, gin and tonic; Italian job: guys, lines, hats, shoes, coffee shops; the economy of psychology: how we price ourselves in or out of the market.
Subject: Drink or loathing: What'll it be?
FPs
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
-- Jimmy Breslin
So you better come get a drink, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 29, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom
L.J.
October 22, 2003
Attendance: Tod B., Dagny, L.J.
Notes: David Lynch is waiting for your order; algebra comes back to haunt you; everyone is associated through Titch.
Subject: [none due to stress]
October 15, 2003
Attendance: Tod B., Dagny, Rebecca, Richard B., Patty S., L.J.
Notes: The Scarlet Knights Alumni Association; Rome: still bustling after all these years; the Pope is like some sort of icon; Mission longevity; milestone: Tod uses "awesome" in movie comment; Dylan's turns into "White Room."
Subject: Excuses
FPs,
Besides, you start drinking whiskey gambling, it gives you an excuse for losing. That’s something you don’t need, an excuse for losing.
-- Sydney Carroll, Robert Rossen, "The Hustler" (said by George C. Scott as Bert Gordon to Paul Newman as "Fast" Eddie Felson)
Don't gamble, just drink, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 15, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
P.S. The Fighting Pacifists' 5th anniversary party will be Saturday, November 15, at Dylan's.
Also at Dylan's Sunday, November 9th, Titch is hosting a celebration of Dylan Thomas, the 50th anniversary of his death, featuring readings and performances of his work by, among others, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. If you'd like to participate, Titch is calling for more contributors, especially to present less well known pieces. You can let me know if you're interested, and I'll put you in contact with Titch, or you can see Titch at Dylan's.
October 8, 2003
Attendance: Liisa T., Beth B., Dagny, Ivan, Sharin, Jen A., L.J.
Notes: The Miss Manners group; horse porn v. Itchy and Scratchy; buckets of hot donkey spunk; who was in sync in the 70s.
Subject: [none due to other exploits]
October 1, 2003
Attendance: Anna S., Matt H., Jen A., L.J.
Notes: Elective baseball affinities; capitalism, the internal combustion engine that runs on failure; crippling self-consciousness v. rabid assertion.
Subject: [none due to computer transition]
September 24, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Beth B., Liisa T., L.J.
Notes:
Subject: Statement of principle?
FPs,
The rules of drinking games are taken more seriously than the rules of war.
-- Chinese proverb
Considering how serious FPs are about drinking . . . Keep up the passive fight, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 24, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
September 17, 2003
Attendance: Tod B., Dagny, L.J.
Notes:
Subject: Drinking in zoology
FPs,
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals.
-- Pierre de Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro
Flock at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
September 10, 2003
Attendance: Tod B., Beth B., Liisa, Dagny, L.J.
Notes: We barely drink, we clean up the tables and the whole thing is just an excuse to lure girls; we're also based out of our minds; I was eating some dirt and ear wax and then I gagged on sardines; DNA testing is all the rage; those who are adopted and those who wish they were.
Subject: Drinking companion
FPs,
If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It’s a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you’re alone or with friends, it’s a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? . . . I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth . . .
Finally, dear readers, allow me to end these ramblings on tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries, with some advice: Don’t drink and don’t smoke. It’s bad for your health.
-- Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh
Except for when you do, on at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 10, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
September 3, 2003
Attendance: Sharon T., Tod B., Dagny, L.J.
Notes: Schoolbooks for scandal; vomit Jelly Bellies were originally Parmesan pizza.
Subject: Five years
Dear FPs,
Allow me to hijack the regular drinking group notice to shamelessly plug a special occasion:
The 5th Anniversary of the Fighting Pacifists and their illustrious relationship with the establishment of Dylan's Pub.
This year is the 5th that folks have more or less been meeting at Dylan's under the banner of the Fighting Pacifists, or, more informally and even less aptly, by the epithet drinking group. For these five years of dainty sipping, we've decided to have one night of gushing. Although the exact date is not known, or committed to memory at any rate, it was in November of 1998 that the brave Fighting Pacifist pioneers first settled in Dylan's. So November is when we shall celebrate. The tentative date is
November 15.
That is a Saturday night, for all you exports to Oakland and weeknight slugs. We're trying to avoid the Thanksgiving evacuation, and because we're also working with Titch to set the date and get some special musical guests (let's just say for now some folks with some FP & Dylan's ties), we need an idea of how many would be able to attend.
Please respond to this e-mail to let me know if you can attend on Saturday, November 15. If you cannot attend that day, let me know if either November 1 or November 8 is better for you.
Meanwhile, carry on as usual at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sep. 3, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
Dismissed.
L.J.
August 27, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Mark D., Pat E., Sharon T., L.J.
Notes: Okeesnatowt; phantom foreskin; shaggy dog show; head back to "The Office."
Subject: [none due to bowels]
August 20, 2003
Attendance: Ann S., Matt H., Dagny, William, Mimi H., Lynn G, L.J.
Notes: Giants beat Braves again; computers can make your coffee; Decomposition 101 at the U. of Tennessee.
Subject:
FPs,
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."
-- Proverbs 23:31-35
Join us at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 20, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom, where at least the wine isn't that old.
L.J.
August 13, 2003
Attendance: Ann S., Matt H., John L., L.J.
Notes: Highway: robbery, turnabout, labor; even the bartender is talking accidents.
Subject: Un-singular merit
FPs,
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.
-- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
At least they can't hold us to just drinking a great deal. Expand your esteem at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 13, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
August 6, 2003
Attendance: Jen A., Patty S., Margaret, L.J.
Notes: The potato chip diet; hot dog in purse; the terrible sound of idling trucks ("citizens in my street are also partial to this" ["an odor resembling hot dogs permeated the whole bedroom"]); the games people play; hair on fire.
Subject: Church with beer
FPs,
We have to recognize that the gin palace, like many other evils, although poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.
-- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
Social comfort with one-drink minimum, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 6, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
July 30, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Mimi H., Sharon T., Patty S., Winton, L.J.
Notes: Notes on the notes; who needs a shrink when you can have a great haircut; how did we get onto poo again; death is such a nuisance for others.
Subject: [none due to social expansion]
July 23, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Tod B., Patty S., L.J.
Notes: Jacked, towed and frisked: car owners for the plucking by crook and by the book; demand more from those who sublet; white-gloved snacking.
Subject:
FPs,
Julianne Balmain ([author of] "Office Kama Sutra") said her group almost changed the name from "writers group" to "drinking group" in the interest of accuracy.
-- Anne Marino, "Sharing the joys of good writing, cheap wine," article about writers' groups in The San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, July 20, 2003
That would make up for "snack group," at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 23, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
July 16, 2003
Attendance: Jen A., Dagny, Tod B., Patty S., Hugh D., L.J.
Notes: Getting hit on for Vespas; back from Chicago; gross-out Jelly Bellies and less than 50% peanuts; the industriously inept; to prevent cancer: like guys needed another reason.
Subject: Sin and drink
FPs,
Just because you sold your soul to the devil, that needn't make you a teetotaler.
-- Dan Totheroh and Stephen Vincent Benet, script for "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941), directed by William Dieterle (the character Daniel Webster offering Caleb Stone a drink before his "trial")
So have a drink, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 16, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
July 9, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, John L., Tod B., L.J.
Notes:
Subject: And other vices
FPs,
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. . . . To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
So come spend your money at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 9.
L.J.
July 2, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Tod B., Patty S., John L., Amy M., L.J.
Notes: Little savages, old lunatics; Philadelphia love; not havin' pimp dolls is racialist; far-flung FPs and friends; everything smells.
Subject: Invitation
FPs,
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
-- W.H. Auden
Consider yourself asked, at least for the drinking part at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 2, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
June 25, 2003
Attendance: Margaret, Winton, Patty S., Jane R., L.J.
Notes: Those San Francisco heat wavelets; American work place: the sugar racket; liquors and ice creams, and liquor ice creams (for hot weather); butty; stirring peanut butter and jelly together, and other abnormalities; the dream of forced marriage with former spelling bee rival and its meaning; live gaming chat featured.
Subject: Beer complex
FPs,
Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
Come help bulk up our beer, or at least enjoy snack group, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 25, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
June 18, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Maty, Hugh D., Winton, Patty S., L.J.
Notes:
Subject: The cask of hatred
FPs,
La Haine est un ivrogne au fond d'une taverne,
Qui sent toujours la soif naître de la liqueur
Et se multiplier comme l'hydre de Lerne.
Mais les buveurs heureux connaissent leur vainqueur,
Et la Haine est vouée à ce sort lamentable
De ne pouvoir jamais s'endormir sous la table.
[Hatred is a drunkard in front of a bar,
Who always feels a thirst being born of liquor
And multiplying like a hydra monster.
But the happy drinkers know well their conqueror,
Hatred is doomed to the fate much more lamentable,
Of not being able to sleep under the table.]
-- Charles Baudelaire, "Le Tonneau de la Haine" in Les Fleurs du mal [English translation by William A. Sigler]
Nourish your spleen, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 18, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
June 11, 2003
Attendance: Alex S., Tod B., Dagny, L.J.
Notes:
Subject: The zoology of drink
FPs,
Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal health goes round.
Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high,
Fill all the glasses there -- for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?
-- Abraham Crowley
Be natural at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 11, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
June 4, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Sharon T., L.J.
Notes: Looking for love? The answer is boating.
Subject: Something for nothing
FPs,
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. . . . Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Come sober up and learn at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 4, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
May 28, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Jen A., L.J.
Notes: Chicago now; traumatic self-consciousness; exaggerated sense of well-being<.br>
Subject: [none due to shoulder surgery]
May 21, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Jen A., Matt H., Patty S., Winton D., Kim A., Hugh D., Mati M., L.J.
Notes: The drinking group reloaded.
Subject: A drinking buddy is like -- well, drink
FPs,
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
-- Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 9:10
Forsake not at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 21, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
May 14, 2003
Attendance: Patty S., Tod B., Margaret, Patrick, L.J.
Notes:
Subject: [none due to underindulgence]
May 7, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Hugh D., Amy, Matt H., L.J.
Notes:
Subject: Helicons and such
FPs
Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it’s my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
-- François Rabelais
Pour out your contents at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 7, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
April 30, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Patty S., Margaret, Tom E., Tod B., Beth G. (and friends), Jen A., Hugh D., Nigel F., Stephen B., L.J.
Notes:
Subject: Beer ballot
FPs,
A statesman is an easy man,
He tells his lies by rote;
A journalist makes up his lies
And takes you by the throat;
So stay at home and drink your beer
And let the neighbors vote.
-- William Butler Yeats, "The Old Stone Cross"
Or let the neighbors stay at home, and come to Dylan's, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 30.
L.J.
April 23, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Tod B., Winton D., Patty S., John L., L.J.
Notes: Those film festival blues; books written or not written by Graham Greene; palm pilots: desire needs no excuse; router class; the group group; screeds; incision; Vegan shoes; Kurosawa gaga.
Subject: Cross-training
FPs,
The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.
-- Hermann Smith-Johannson, 103-year-old cross-country skier (in 1979)
Cross-country skiing group meets at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
April 16, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Patty S., Winton D., Jen A., Hugh D., L.J.
Notes: Fighting Pacifists valiantly yield back room to Longshoremen (well, if they'd asked us); the speed limit and the speeding limit; U.S. v. you (Hugh); defending our homeland by invading others: notion, rhetoric, language, ideology; the barely drinking group.
Subject: Druthers
FPs,
He had had much experience of physicians, and said, "the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not."
-- Mark Twain
If you'd druther stay home, then for your health you'd better step out for a drink at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
April 9, 2003
Attendance: Martina G., Dagny, Patty S., Tod B., Hugh D., Mati M., L.J.
Notes: Swarthy patrons and pasties; Tod sees flashing lights again; Hugh and Maty give up class excuse; learning to love fatalism, or listening too much to the Bushmill; cannabis customs compared: no tobacco mix, no hash in U.S.
Subject: [none, due to bug lag]
April 2, 2003 [information wanted]
Attendance:
Notes:
Subject:
March 26, 2003 [forthcoming]
Attendance: Tod B., Tom E., Adrienne P., Linda J., Bryan M., Dagny, Patti S., Jane, Beth G., John L., Winton D.
Notes: Is the mold the cause of all our maladies, or is it our mercury fillings; Catalonia a la Pau; if only Orwell were alive to see this; was WTC bombing a disgruntled architect's revenge.
Subject: And one for the road
FPs,
As your curator will be absent the next two weeks, here are two bits in advance.
If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
-- Caroline Nichols Churchill, Active Footsteps
Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can’t be much amiss, ‘tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
-- A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
Keep the backroom table warm, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesdays, March 26 and April 2.
Cheers,
L.J.
P.S. And check out Titch's restaurant at 20th & Harrison (if he gets it open). We'll be able to order food at Dylan's one of these days.
March 19, 2003
Attendance: Martina G., Jen A., Patty S., Winton D., Dagny, Tod B., Jane R., L.J.
Notes: U.S. jumps Iraq; trotz alledem: lost in L.A. -- no, really lost; Nordstrom shoppers against the war; those embarrassing rally speeches; the bad radio content for those 40 and 50-year-old types, you know the ones; towards better scathing; Americans biased against American press.
Subject: [none due to artificial intelligence gathering]
March 12, 2003
Attendance: Martina G., Patrick, Tod B., Sharon T., Patty S., Winton, Margaret, L.J.
Notes: Willkommen in Dylan's; scanning Wales; Titch's menu; SF Film Festival: narrowing scope; de Stijl martinis; merry American chat of murder; Korean thing: for soccer teams or pop star girlfriends; "Star Wars" babies; the sounds of San Francisco.
Subject: [none, due to German interference]
March 5, 2003
Attendance: Patty S., L.J.
Notes: Lit the town . . . well, part of one room, maybe . . . actually took off to Vice City.
Subject: A pint of prevention
FPs,
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
-- François Rabelais, Gargantua
Prevent thirst at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 5, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
February 26, 2003
Attendance: Tod B., Nigel F., Tom E., John L., Sharon T., Patty S., Dagny, Ken, Hugh D., Jen A., Beth G., Winton, Margaret, L.J.
Notes: CD sect infidels defile drinking temple; living on fumes, at the mercy of festivals; bushy eyebrows; Yugoslavia is now S&M; pubic anthropology group; foul language of the 1500s; the L.A. pilgrimage; the national car of lesbians; the shape of heads; sociopathos.
Subject: AFTER-dinner drinking
FPs,
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner party, is the running short -- not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
-- Lewis Carroll
Good thing we don't have dinner, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 26, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
February 19, 2003
Attendance: Pat E., Mark D., Patty S., Dagny, Jane R., Quentin, L.J.
Notes: Dads are always greener on the other side of the fence; trade show queens; distinguished guests put straws up their noses; Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Sean Penn, or Tiger Beat for straight guys.
Subject: Exile dreams
FPs,
"You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés."
"It sounds like a swell life."
-- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Well, drink in a pub, anyway, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 19, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
February 12, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Jen A., L.J.
Notes: Pork puffs; Gavin Newsom burns old money; Ali G. comes to America; Chinese communist anthem for cigarette lighter duet; Monty Python groupies; Terry Gilliam is or is not a good director, to be decided by two falls out of three; Don Quixote; Jorge Luis Borges; "La Jetée"; Marion Morrison, draft dodger, transvestite, Vespa rider, will the real John Wayne please stand up; Bertolt Brecht, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Heiner Mueller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (lying together).
Subject: Drinking company
FPs,
Next would come the muskrats, then the mongeese, and then, in sly succession, the larger, more vivid animals. When one is experimenting with a new drink the fewer livestock there are around the better.
-- Robert Benchley
Keep it in the species, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 12, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
February 5, 2003
Attendance: Jen A., Sharon T., Dagny D., Zoe K., Winton, Patty S., L.J.
Notes: Elective obsessions and compulsions; limited perspective movie criticism; H&M; "Village of the Damned"; Nazi babies & widows; Nietzsche; love with teeth; skin disorders and Peter O'Toole good looks; CIA.
Subject: The question
FPs
Fill all the glasses there, for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?
-- Abraham Cowley, from Anacreon, ii. Drinking.
Why should you not at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 5, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom?
L.J.
January 29, 2003
Attendance: Jen A., Mimi H., Tod B.
Notes: Texas vibrators, fat cats (really, really fat cats), two-legged dogs and George Bush's big fat head.
Subject: Living
FPs,
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
-- Jean Kerr, from the play Poor Richard
Live and drink up, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 29, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
January 22, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Jane R., Ken, Jen A., Adrienne P., Patrick, Tom E., L.J.
Notes: Stream of consciousness dissertation; the SUV-conscious (and those who stream on them); dream of consciousness, consciousness of dream; Che Guevara; Joe Millionaire.
Subject: Pretty punks
FPs,
Come swish around my pretty punk
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.
-- William Butler Yeats, "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety"
Keep tabs at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 22, at Dylan's, 19th& Folsom.
L.J.
January 15, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Hugh D., Patrick, Jan D., Kristen D., William D., Mati M., Jen, Ed, Jane R., Patty S., Quentin, L.J.
Notes: Homeland credulity patrol; soft tissue blues; shoe shopping at home and abroad; birds in the freezer; less ruthless in business; U.S.A., society in AssVision.
Subject: Old drinking, reading friends by the fire
FPs,
Age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
-- Francis Bacon (quoting Alonso of Aragon)
Age well at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom; next time, 8:30 p.m., January 15.
L.J.
January 8, 2003
Attendance: Dagny, Hugh D., Mati M., Tod B., Winton, Patty S., L.J.
Notes: Tonight's topic, reproduction: the privilege of the choice; social accountability; pet eugenics; forced deformity (anything pure is pathological); cloning; the ancient bugaboo of replication; the new bugaboo of Raelians; population control and politics; cutting off the penis (and prosthetic utilities); craigslist v. other personals; Vulcan mating mysteries (how can you have sex if you can't lie).
Subject: Drink and run
FPs
It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.
-- Phaedrus
Let that be a lesson, at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 8, at Dylan's, 19th & Folsom.
L.J.
January 1, 2003
Attendance: ?
Notes:
Subject: 2003 is a big fat baby
FPs
Dylan's will be open January 1. So if you want, you can ring in the New Year the Fighting Pacifist way. The usual time is 8:30 p.m.
If you go, have one for me, as I'll be watching Oklahoma's second migration to California in the Rose Bowl.
Boomer Sooner,
L.J.
