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MAN OF 1,000 BARS
Only 500 bars to go for Dan Freeman:
The Brooklynite set out Jan. 1 to visit 1,000 bars in a single year, a cocktail lounge quest that began with one scotch and soda in Mike’s Pelham Grill. Barely five months and 499 bars later, the Don Quixote of drink is halfway to completing his boozy impossible dream. Why 1,000 bars, you ask? Why not?
“There wasn’t any grand scheme,” explained Freeman, a tall draft beer in hand at bar No. 500, The Gate in Brooklyn. “I just wanted to see how many bars you could hit in a year, and 1,000 seemed reasonable.”
The retired computer consultant launched a simultaneous blog about his pursuit, converting Freeman into a semi-cult cyber star.
Freeman has maintained commendable semi-sobriety throughout this adventure. Well, almost. His wife comments:
“He’s been pretty responsible, with a few lapses we won’t talk about.”
Drink on, Dan!
Why couldn’t I be assigned this type of task?
Stealing Russian lakes, writing hoity toity Guardian letters to Clark County farmers, misdirecting minority voters to false voting polls, leading a cohort of scampy terriers on an attack in Italy, this is the stuff Karl Rove has been assigning me.
I want to visit 1000 bars in one year. At the end of which I become a full fledged member of the VRWC. That’s the road for me.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 05 29 at 07:27 AM • permalinkIf Ron comes to Sydney, I’ll shout him a beer my local watering hole, The Caringbah Inn ... it’s pretty ordinary, but a drink’s a drink.
Good night ...
Or as Ron writes on his bar-hopping blog: whu’ nummer’sish?</i>
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 29 at 12:35 PM • permalinkwronwight — Our Dark Master Rove has “expressed his concern” that you might possibily be making a veiled allusion to Mr. Bush’s youthful missteps with alcohol. Fortunately, someone reminded him in time of our vacancy in the <s>photo op</s> environmental sensitivity posting open in the glacier-recovery project down at McMurdo. You can draw your mop from Q…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 29 at 12:50 PM • permalink
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