First Annual Drinking Liberally West Asheville Haywood Road Pub Crawl!
Submitted by Gordon Smith on Sat, 08/12/2006 - 10:19am
What started as a trickling idea has become a spewing keg of excitement. The political lushes of Drinking Liberally are going out on the town, at least the west side of the town, to sample the culture and hospitality of Haywood Road's intoxicating establishments.
Next Saturday, August 19th, the DL drinking army will gather at Cowboy's Nightlife at 6pm (NOTE: Changed to 6pm from 4pm) to begin the epic journey. Drinkers can park their cars at the defunct Rentway across the street from Cowboy's with the knowledge that they'll be getting taxi service as part of the crawl.
Dress casually or conspicuously. Flaunt your liberal politics, or tuck your Dennis Kucinich tattoo under some Brooks Brothers slacks. Hoot, or holler.
The FADLWAHRPC will leave Cowboy's and head for Smokers and Players. Then we'll move on to the Westville Pub and Burgermeister's. Many have suggested the next stop be The Lucky Otter, but there's some contention as to whether this restaurant with booze really constitutes a bar. Pub crawlers will vote on it.
Whether we hit the Otter or not, we'll cross I-240 and go behind the darkened windows of the B&D bar across the street from BJ's. Then it's Mike's Side Pocket and on to the legendary Burger Bar at the corner of Craven and Haywood. There's a taxi stand just before the Burger Bar, so you can order your taxi there to pick you up whenever you'd like.
Our last stop will be the Grey Eagle Tavern and Music Hall where Town Mountain ($10 cover, but we may get there so late they won't charge us) will be whooping it up with the DL revelers.
Everyone's welcome. All Drinking Liberally folks are strongly encouraged to drink liberally and to feel the glow of accomplishment that comes with a street well crawled. If you've been lurking, waiting for just the right time to come to a Drinking Liberally gathering, this epic of intoxication may be for you.
If you have any questions, suggestions, projections, or dire warnings, please post them in the comments, or email us at asheville@drinkingliberally.org .
Screwy, have emailed to friends
in that area. They are the kids of our best friends (yes, drinking age, married). I hope that they will join you. They do love drinking liberally, but haven't been pulled into politics yet.
Thanks, momo
We also meet every Thursday night, 7-10pm, at the Asheville Brewing Company at 77 Coxe Avenue in downtown Asheville.
The Pub Crawl will be more about drinking than politics, methinks, but your friends are still more than welcome. The regular Thursday gatherings are chock-full of political opining.
Scrutiny Hooligans - http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us
this is gonna be fun!
:)
ScruHoo!
A friend of mine attended Thursday's Drinking Liberally
Her name was Dawn. She is disabled, has heart problems, so didn't drink alcohol, but said she enjoyed the company. She wrote an email to all her friends about it and included this link to a video from Syntax's website. It is halarious, I too have sent it to a bunch of family and friends. Has anyone else seen this video of White People Dancing?
we met dawn
didn't get too much of a chance to talk to her - being co-host means having to be a social butterfly a lot of the time - but she seemed really cool. we were glad to have met her!
ScruHoo!
I keep trying to get her to come over
and look in on bluenc and post. She is a cool person and i think could contribute a lot here.