Like “Ted”:https://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/003098.html, I sometimes worry about whether the blogging medium is being used to its full potential. Then I stumble across uses for the medium that reaffirm my faith in it. “1000 Bars”:http://thousandbars.blogspot.com/ is, as the name suggests, the story of one drinker’s quest to drink at 1000 different bars in 12 months. He is well on the way, with 189 in the first 41 days of the year. I’ll be following his progress, and the pithy summaries of the decor, crowd and ambience of various fine drinking establishments. When taken in large quantities the bar reports all start to sound the same, and they have a pleasing relaxing effect, which is a marked contrast to some political blogs I used to know.
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T.A. 02.11.05 at 6:31 pm
Pints, not points.
Brian Weatherson 02.11.05 at 7:04 pm
I don’t know how you can simultaneously claim to be the voice of reason and not see the value in a good old-fashioned quest. Not everything has purely instrumental value. Next I guess we’ll be asked what the point of winning a Superbowl, or a World Series, or another Superbowl, or another, is.
Morfydd 02.11.05 at 7:53 pm
Something like this has already been done by a couple of friends: http://www.570bars.com/
Anthony 02.12.05 at 12:03 am
Maybe unlike them in its pleasing relaxing effect, but most political blogs tend to sound the same after a while as well.
degustibus 02.12.05 at 2:16 am
Ya gotta use these barcrawlers creatively, eg, Inspires poetry
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light!
–Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rejoinder:
I burned my candle at both ends,
And now I have neither foes nor friends;
For all the lovely light begotten,
I’m paying now in feeling rotten.
–Sam Hoffenstein
Nabakov 02.12.05 at 12:37 pm
Your best friend for surviving great pub crawls and multiple bar flybys.
http://www.drunkard.com/
Nabakov 02.12.05 at 12:40 pm
Your designated friend for planning great pub crawls and multiple bar flybys.
http://www.drunkard.com/
t.crab 02.13.05 at 12:37 am
BARZINE @ barspot!
http://barspot.blogspot.com/
my pals’ site.
not as often, but not as much like employment
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