PubNight #196 - Opium Den

Wednesday Pub Night #196 (5/3/00) - 8:00 pm at Opium Den

At a party on Saturday night, someone referred to friend living in a former crack house. Although crack houses are just so-80's (or was it so-early-90's?), and few if any of us have ever been to one (if you have, we'll want to hear stories), it serves as an introduction to this week's PubNight location: Opium Den. We were last there on 9/23/98 (PN #123.) Next week, we'll definitely go to a new place.

Date: Wed. May 3, 2000
Time: 8:00pm
Where: Opium Den
Address: 29 E. 3rd Street
Between: Bowery and Second Avenue.
URL: http://newyork.citysearch.com/E/V/NYCNY/0001/27/67/
Food: No food, so eat first (email/call petro or kris if you want to join us for dinner somewhere)
Backup: Beer Hall, 29 2nd Ave, btw 1st and 2nd

Since I have nothing wise and pithy to say - as if I ever do - I will mention the following useless items.

Another topic at the Saturday party was a favorite childhood show, "The Magic Garden". You probably haven't heard these wonderful words in a long time:
see ya, see ya,
hope you had a good good time
da dum
hope you have a good good mornin'
um-hmmm
hope we get to see you again
da dum

Since few, if any, of us are morning people, I would suggest that you substitute "martini" for "good mornin'" (keep one "good") and you will find it to be a good PubNight anthem. For more Magic Garden lyrics and sound clips, see: http://www.webspan.net/~chuckie/magicgarden/index.html

And, in a recent PubNight, the topic of Square Pegs came up, probably by me. "Square pegs, square pegs - square, square...pegs - always never quite right." Another appropriate PubNight anthem? For a Square Pegs fan page, see: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/5159/sqpgs.htm

Happy Birthday to Karen G-D (May 2), who is celebrating at JazzFest in New Orleans.

See you at Opium Den.

-- Petro, on behalf of Kris and Jay, as well, although they might want to distance themselves from the Square Pegs and Magic Garden references