Coming up on a 5 Year Anniversary

From Christopher X. Rivers (9/26/2002):


your comment about vodka and gin reminds of something. i had a funny
conversation with caroline in west virginia. We went to this bar to watch
the BC/Miami game and get some dinner. So, it was your typical bar. stuff
on the wall, tall tables in the bar area, long wooden bar etc. So we were
saddled up on the stools, drinking a Blue Ridge amber, and i said 'I think
I like drinking about as much as any non-alocholic person possibly can' and I
think I like being in a bar about as much as you can. I love being in a
bar." And then i was thinking about it on the drive home. Drinking is so
much fun. You are around friends. Everyones always laughing. You either
drinking beers and relaxing and having a good time. Or drinking liqour with
your boys and getting sh1tfaced and doing the dumbest possible things, that
will be so funny the next day. Or you're out in the sun barbecuing or
tailgaiting or just "stooping it up" and having a cold sud. Or getting your
pre-drink on and analyzing about where the night is going to take you. And
then in a separate sort of theme, how fun is it to be at a bar. I love the
look of a bar, with all the liquor bottles lined up etc. Love bellying up
to the bar, leaning on the bar and sipping suds, watching a game or shooting
the sh1t. And being in the bar pretty much makes me like whatever music is
on. They were playing country and stuff in this bar, but it was perfect for
the setting (west va, stuffed fox above the bar, etc), and I don't even
like country but it was sut. Or if you're at a city bar, and they playing some
dance stuff you don't normally like, but it gets you hyped up when you are
at the bar. and i hate cigarette smoke, but it never bothers me at bar?
why, i dunno, i guess because it supposed to be there. I dunno, i think i
started rambling here, but basically, drinking is the best thing ever, almost
better than HD (which is in its own separate category).