Showing posts with label let's get drunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label let's get drunk. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Perhaps Susan Cheever is just running with the wrong crowd


Susan Cheever writing in the Times:

The New York apartments and lofts which were once the scenes of old-fashioned drunken carnage — slurred speech, broken crockery, broken legs and arms, broken marriages and broken dreams — are now the scene of parties where both friendships and glassware survive intact. Everyone comes on time, behaves well, drinks a little wine, eats a few tiny canapés, and leaves on time. They all still drink, but no one gets drunk anymore. Neither do they smoke. What on earth has happened?


And!

In the old days, drunkenness was as much part of New York City society as evening clothes. This is the city where Zelda Fitzgerald jumped wildly in the fountain in front of the Plaza, the city of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” written by another fabulous alcoholic, Truman Capote. It’s the city of late nights with sloshed celebrities at the Stork Club. It’s the city that gave its name to Manhattans and Bronx Cocktails, the city of John O’Hara and Frank O’Hara, of drunken brilliance and brilliant drunks.

Friday, October 3, 2008

If the Dow does plunge again today, you have THIS to look forward to...


This e-mail is apparently making the rounds now from FiDi bar and restaurant Pound and Pence on Liberty Street:

If the Dow Jones Closes 100 Points Lower...

HALF PRICE DRINKS AT THE BAR ALL EVENING

Receive Instant Savings When You Show This Message to the Bartender on Your Phone or on a Printed Copy.

Valid Only On Beverage Purchases at the Bar.