Emergency Drink & Walk Notification System

Ladies and Gents,

The real problem with chilly weather is, of course, that the spider comes in(side) from the field and is pissed. I don't know about you but I prefer my spiders to be comfortable, not pissed. A spider sipping a margarita is a good spider. A spider hanging upside down, in a ratty web above your bed is a spider who needs to reckoned with. And the biggest mistake that people make, when it comes to Spiderly Reckoning, is that they waffle on the need for it. And then, what? Where is the spider? Where did he go? And try to get any sleep after that -- you've got a goddamn pissed off spider aloose in your bedroom. Aloose in your bedroom! Yeah, like you're even gonna turn out the lights after something like that. Pffff.

So, kill that spider or give it some perkocets and join me, Rod Smith, and Star Emeritus Mel (Melissa) Nichols for another edition of Drink & Walk. (Our co-host, Special Ambassador Steph Monte will be on assignment in Europe during this time). We will meet at Angles at 6:00 p.m. this Thursday.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to increasingly Draconian tactics at the Black Cat, we are no longer holding any Drink & Walk activities there. If you'd like to walk with us this week, please join us at Angles before 8:00, and then walk with us wherever we may be going. Last week, we went to the bar at El Paraiso and then downstairs at St. Ex. If you'd like a call, we are now offering Drink & Walk cellular phone service to those who may want to join us late. Send me your phone number and I will call you.

We will, in time, discover a permanent second site. You will be given directions via the Emergency Drink & Walk Notification System of that locale.

Directions:

We will arrive at Angles around 6:00 p.m., where there is a sparse crowd at that hour, a dollar off all drinks, including a wide selection of beers and fancy drinks, a jukebox that features Joy Division and Louis Jordan and just about everything in-between, before, and after, and empty pool tables, if you want to shoot pool. Angles can be found precisely where Belmont runs into 18th Street, in Adams Morgan, a couple blocks north from the intersection of 18th and U, a couple blocks south from the intersection of 18th and Columbia, next to a Jumbo ("there's a fly on my") Slice, up a short staircase. Look for the sign "Angles" above the window or door. We will be in the front room.


We will stay at Angles until about 7:45, at which point, we will walk over to the 14th St. Corridor. Probably, this week, to St. Ex.

Dan Gutstein