PubNight #1 (4/26/06) - 7pm at PJ Ryans

Hi, everyone!
(yes, I've moved back to Boston, and yes, I've got something up my sleeve...)

For over ten years, a group calling itself PubNight has roamed the bars of New York City. The format works like this: each week, the "triumverate" that plans the event selects a bar somewhere in or near Manhattan, then sends out an e-mail with that weeek's location. The details are also posted to the pubnight.com website. People drink, we take some notes on who showed up and what transpired, rinse (bars are dirty, or so says Baltimore's Greg), repeat.

Next week, we expand the PN family to Boston, and we'd love to have you join us. P. J. Ryan's in Teele Square, Somerville seems like a cozy place to start, as it's a friendly neighborhood bar, and many of us live in or near that very neighborhood. It also happens to be the first bar I visited after I moved back home to Boston, so it already has a special place in my whiskey-soaked heart.

• Where: PJ Ryan's
• Address: 1239 Holland St, Somerville, MA 02143
• Time: 7p.m.
• URL: http://pjryans.tripod.com/
• Food?: Yes; tasty-looking bar menu, served until 9 p.m.

Boston PubNight will continue every Wednesday night after this, in and around Greater Boston.

Last night, the 500th PubNight was observed in New York. These are the stats that New York's Mike B. sent out to mark the event:

• 889 people have been to at least one PN. 113 have been to 10 or more, 72 have been to 20 or more, 38 have been to 50 or more, 22 have been to 100 or more, 7 have been to 200 or more, 4 have been to over 300, and the very top spot goes to PN West-expat Kris Pennella with 370 nights of debauchery.
• PubNight has been to approximately six hundred million bars. (There is a high standard deviation here because no one has counted in a while. The real number is somewhat closer to 294.) We have been to four boroughs (we'll get to you, Bronx!) and Jersey City.
• We've had four spinoffs: three successful (PN West, PN Portland, and PN Baltimore--they can fight it out as to which one is "Maude," which is "The Jeffersons," and which is "Archie Bunker's Place") and one abortive (PN St. Louis; it can be "Gloria"). And do I sense "Good Times" in the offing?

Yup, he's talking about us. Ladies and gentlemen, we in Boston are those Good Times. Let's raise a glass next Wednesday and let the Good Times continue to roll!

-- Joan and the future Boston PN Triumvirate

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