Paul Constant up at The Stranger has a blog column called “Lunch Date,” where, a few times a week, he takes a new book with him to lunch, spends half an hour or so with it, then reports on both the book and the food (here’s one). With his gracious permission, I’m going to rip off that idea—the Mercury twist being that I’ll take books to happy hour, rather than lunch. So it’ll be a happy hour guide-meets-book club. Sounds good, right? I need a name for it, though—the only thing I can come up with is a fairly depressing Billy Joel reference. Any suggestions?
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Well Read
as in like well drinks? get it?
“The One-Eyed Reader” ? Ew, sorry, that sounds kind of pervy.
Drink Like A Lady?
or….
Cheap Reads?
or…
Cocktales?
GET IT? Ha! I’m here all comment.
What, is “Woman Sitting By Herself At A Bar Reading A Book” already taken?
Drinking Aloud
Book Fare
Book Fare
Drunk on Words.
The Ink Well
Bar Books
Paper and Ice
Cover Charge
…I’ll be here all night! Try the salmon!
Sociable Bookworm
rough draft reviews
books and bevs
open tabs & open books
prost to proust
cheers to chekhov
salud to salman
why don’t we get drunk and review
ten rounds with jose saramago
sippin on gin and seuss
40 oz to criticism
books (and bars) of the times
michiko kaku-tipsy
slow reader;
another pint, another page;
book ends;
drink-read-drink;
skimming hour
Fuzzy Novel?
two page minimum
gin & phonics
the blurry word hour
red nosed prose
a variation on one of logan’s: rough draught
Do you really think you’re going to be able to read during happy hour?
Duh,
“Books On Tap”
heavyj, now I want to start a book club for booze-hounds and call it Fuzzy Novel. So awesome!
“We Didn’t Start the Fire”!
No, wait. That’s no good.
… “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)”!
Hmm. Maybe I didn’t understand the question.
All Lit Up
The Literate Drunkard
Candle Lit
Reading Glasses
Book Buzzed
Think Tanked
From Jason Jones:
Moby Whiskey Dick
Sippin’ on Gin and Joyce
I must concur that Fuzzy Novel is the best one. If you don’t take it, Nora and I are going to team up and start our own Drunk Reading club!
Potent Quotables
Phil’erup K. Dick
Brewkowski
Blogtown is so awesome. Thanks everybody, I will put up a poll with the top few contenders a bit later today.
Nora & autumn – The whole book club at the bar sounds like a great idea, I know. Just sayin’ be ready for the train wreck cuz it will happen.
Ezra Pounders!
(courtesy of Jason Jones)
For some of the unused ones, we’ll just have to create new mixed drinks. Maybe with Alpha Bits in them.
Three Pages to the Wind
Nabokov Cocktails