Wednesday Pub Night #100 - 8:00 at North Star Pub

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Good morning,

100 PubNights !!! Who would have thought we'd make it this far? More than two years, more than 95 bars, more than 275 people, and our share of hook-ups, break-ups, engagements, marriages, new jobs, new drinks, new babies, and new friends. I wanted to thank all of you for showing up once in a while, for bringing your friends, for sharing your stories, and for leaving enough money at the end of the night.

After spending way too much time trying to find a place for tonight, I think I found the right spot. It's in a part of town we haven't been to and it's a traditional English Pub, with British Ales and Bitters and 75 single-malts (uh-oh, cancel that Thursday morning meeting now). As they quote on their web site,

"No two of England's pubs are the same. One may be refined, its neighbor rough around the edges; one noisy, the other quiet; one cozy and romantic, the next brightly lit and full of pensioners, carpenters, salesmen, and dogs. Whether empty or full, peaceful or frantic, a pub and its customers combine to produce, at its best, the greatest of English inventions."

From The English Pub
by Andy Whipple and Rob Anderson, 1985

Whether you've been a regular (http://www.cat.nyu.edu/piltch/pubnight/stats.html) or a once-in-a-whiler, join us tonight for a celebration of the past two years. Check out the pubnight web page to spark your memories and bring stories of pubnights past.

By the way (where are we going tonight? I'll get there. Skip down below if you're impatient. This is just text. It will be here when you get back), last week was April 1. April Fools. Remember? But thanks for the well wishes anyway. Laura and I are getting married, but the Elvis Chapel of Love just didn't seem like the right place.

Tonights festivities will begin at 8:00pm at the North Star Pub near South Street Seaport. They do serve food, but they don't have a lot of tables (only 30 seats in the whole place), so eat before you go.

Just in case the place is packed...if you get there after 9pm and no one looks familiar, ask the bartender where we went.

See you tonight,

- stuart