On Boozeday Tuesdays
Chris Becker and I started Boozeday Tuesdays in our halcyon days of youth, the Summer of '03. A bunch of us had just graduated from college, but something told us that the so-called real world wasn't something we wanted to race into.

Monday nights became "Sangria Mondays". Then came "Boozeday Tuesdays", followed by "Wild Wing Wednesdays", "Thursdays at the Berg" and on Friday, I'm in love.

Now, many years later, my life has somehow returned to a similar rhythm, with late night, double-tonic filled bonanzas... only now, the drinks cost nothing. There's the launch party for the issue of this new magazine, or some brouhaha on top of the Hilton, or McCormick and Schmick's wanting to hand out free appetizers with their free booze. (What's this shrimp thing? Whatever, I'll eat it.)

This past week, Boozeday Tuesday was spent at Antone's, where a local band, The Gourds, played to a raucous crowd. I'm told that when Napster was forced to shut down, it was The Gourds' version of "Gin and Juice" that was the number one illegally downloaded song on the internet.

I think I am getting old or something, though. Boozeday Tuesday was not followed by a wild Wednesday. Instead, my friend V called it "Wretched Wednesday", as waking up and going to work was not something on the agenda in the halcyon days of youth.