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FISH CLUB!!

.Details of our last: 
FISH CLUB ADVENTURES here.

DRINK CLUB is a weekly social gathering of drinkers from around the world. Every week a different bar.
No membership fee, just the joy of getting soused. Click on the email address to join the email list and be notified
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NOW we've got a guestbook. Add your comments! See what others have to say. It's right here!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS !

Don't forget: if you lose the details on your way, you can always get recorded information from
THE DRINK CLUB LINE at 1-212-674-7018 (#1). (Put the number in your cell phone!)

Also, LOOK AROUND IF YOU DON'T SEE US! Sometimes restaurants have back rooms that are
hard to spot. AND ASK, we'll usually tell a server that we're DRINK CLUB if anyone asks! In any case,

you'll see the drink club sign on one or another table. (That's the sign at the top of this page.)

Drink club is in no way affiliated with the ibec Language Institute. It is an open organization. Anyone not

horrible can attend. That means no one currently affiliated with SONY, CompUSA or the

Morgan Post Office facility is allowed.


Oh yeah, someone asked about THE RULES. So I've started a list. 

1. Tell everyone you know about DRINK CLUB.

2. Tell everyone you know about DRINK CLUB

3. Never eat before DRINK CLUB.

4. If it's your first night, you HAVE TO drink. (But not alcohol, if, for some weird reason, 
   you don't drink it.)

5. You can (and should) bring friends and strangers to DRINK CLUB.

6. PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE! Don't forget to leave money for tax and tip!! This is NEW YORK.
   We tip 20% or AT LEAST twice the tax. Servers live from their tips. Giving 10% or less is 
   STEALING! I don't like the system any more than you do, but that's the system.

7. On the DRINK CLUB closest to your birthday, you have one drink free.

8. Bring the DRINK CLUB PHONE NUMBER (212-674-7018 PRESS choice 1) with you!!  
   If you can't find us, call for last minute changes!

9. Make sure you check EVERYWHERE. We're not always easy to find. We may be in a back room-- or outside!

10. ASK FOR DRINK CLUB if you can't find us. We'll usually tell the bartender or Maitre d' or some drunk lying 
    on the floor near the entrance.

11. Try to come EARLY-- or at least on time. That way we can score a table, and the on-time folks won't feel so lonely

   IF NO ONE SHOWS BY 10:30, MYKEL LEAVES!!! 

12. FEMALES are encouraged to join us. We don't bite. This is NOT a boy's club!

More later...

Last TWO Drink Clubs News: 

Last week:

    It's either feast or famine. So I guess after the feast of the brithday party last week, it should be a quiet one this week. It's a good thing too, because every table but ours was taken! Mykel, Elena and Taddy. Enough for me. A quiet evening with good company, and great grilled mushrooms. Ahhhh, I needed that.

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MYKEL'S 60TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!

   

AOOOGAH! What a great way to turn old. Marilyn as hostess, Lola as cake (and that's not all) popper. All my friends. My sister. What else could you want? With a reading by the drinkers' Poet Laureate, Charles Bukkake, what reason is there to go to 70?  Wow! Not much can top this except... hmmm, this is a PG-rated website! 

All I got was a snippet of the pop:

 Check it out here:

 


You can see the individual party pictures here:

Mykel's 60th

But wait, there's more:
DRINK CLUB pix

YOU CAN LOOK AT PICTURES
FROM LOTS OF PREVIOUS  DRINK CLUBS HERE

Patriot 10-26-07

THIS WAS OUR PREVIOUS DRINK
CLUB AT THE PATRIOT. YOU CAN
GET AN IDEA OF THE PLACE FROM THIS!


New Year 2008

WE RING IN 2008 THE RIGHT WAY! BOY DO I LOVE BOOZE!

2 Peruvians, 2 Dominicans, 2 Mexicans, 1 Japanese guy and 1 Gringo!! Yowsah!
Patriot Ai + Kenny 2009


These are Kenny and Ai's Birthday Party pix!
Arctica

Pix from the massive Drink Club at
Arctica... Click on the picture for
others!
MORE Drink club pix
Even MORE pix from old and new Drink Clubs, if you're not in one, you'll be in another. LAST WEEK'S PIX ARE
HERE!
 
Bookmarks
This was a special drink club, organized by Ai!
FatCat209
Mykel's Birthday Drink Club!
Now, even MORE PIX!

Even MORE Drink Club Pix

NEXT WEEK  

welcoming a Couch-surfer from INDIA!

Yes! Help us welcome SAMIR, a couch-surfer from India. It's his
first time here in New York... and his first Drink Club. We can say
HI! with a typical New York ZAKENAYO! 

Thursday, February 11th at 9:27 PM (early)

WINDFALL 
23 W 39th St 
(between Fifth  & Madison Ave.) 

Nearest Subway:
4,5,6 to GRAND CENTRAL, 
7 to Fifth Avenue

Here's a map:

You can get YELP reviews of this place,  along with a bunch of other information
about the bar by clicking my picture.

Click here for the Citysearch bar review   REVIEW

Our own DRINK CLUB REVIEWS will tell you about the previous bars we've
gone to.
 


And don't forget EAT CLUB... a new restaurant every month. NEXT month
will be the letter K.... for KASHMIR!
Check out THE EAT CLUB HOMEPAGE for the latest updates


I thought it might be fun to see some guest pages. I'll try to update them every once-in-awhile, so 
check back often. Because this is a family page, I can't show you THE NAPKIN, but you can find it 
on the DRINK CLUB PICTURE PAGE.

Pages from DRINK CLUB sign-in guest book


GIVE MYKEL ALL YOUR MONEY DEPARTMENT

I bet you can't even count all the reasons you should give me your money. I can't either!! Here are a few of them, though. First you can actually buy something. Take the CD of 20 years from my band ARTLESS. Find out about it here

Then, there are he books. Recently published and busting away in AMAZON. One book is called Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothing. You can read about it here.

 
The other book is a compilation of my writings over the last 20 years. It's
called I, A Me-ist or The Portable Board, It's really nasty. You'll love it!
That one you can also get from AMAZON, or you can order it from its
own webpage here.

What? Nothing interests you? How about just giving me money FOR NOTHING!!! It's The American Way. Just click on the BUY NOW button below and you'll send me $5 for all the work I do for you. (Remember Drink Club and Eat Club membership is FREE!!! You do this because you WANT to. YOU DON'T HAVE TO!)

AND REMEMBER:

Booze is good for your heart article

 

QUOTES

"Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job." -- Raymond Carver

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." -- Winston Churchill

"I drink to make other people interesting." --George Jean Nathan

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I give up reading.: -- Henny Youngman

 "If today you have wine, get drunk today." ---Wu Che-en

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. --Drew Carey

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.   --W.C. Fields

"There is an unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest and in every way best races of all times." --George Saintsbury
 
"I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach."    --W.C. Fields

"I only drink to make other people seem interesting." G. J. Nathan


"A woman drove me to drink, and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." --W.C. Fields

I don't drink; I don't like it -- it makes me feel good. - Oscar Levant

Raise a Glass to Beer -- Beer Isn't All It's "Cracked Down" to Be

RAISE A GLASS TO BEER

Beer drinkers tend to get the short end of the stick. While wine connoisseurs are thought of as chic and sophisticated, beer drinkers are routinely portrayed as slothful, pot-bellied creatures planted in front of TVs. In one memorable news exposé several summers ago, beer drinkers on working-class Rockaway Beach in New York City were arrested (no open containers please), while the mayor sat comfortably ensconced among wine sippers at a philharmonic orchestra concert in Central Park.

But now there's good news for beer drinkers -- it turns out that by and large alcohol is alcohol, and socioeconomic stereotypes aside, the health benefits of beer are not all that different from the benefits of wine. Of course the key word here is moderation -- most experts advise no more than two alcoholic beverages a day for men and no more than one for women. So what's so good about beer?

HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH

An increasing body of serious research backs up beer's benefits...

  • Bone protection. According to a medical team at Tufts University in Boston, beer may help prevent bone-thinning osteoporosis. Dietary silicon in grain products such as beer appears to reduce bone loss and promote bone formation. Beer contains silicate, a highly absorbable form of silicon that works by facilitating the deposit of calcium and other minerals in bone tissue. Margo A. Denke, MD, clinical professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, cautions that excessive alcohol intake is a risk factor for bad bones, perhaps because calories from nutrient sources are replaced with calories from alcohol.
  • Lower risk for cardiovascular disease. Like wine, beer has well-documented heart-healthy benefits. Regular moderate drinking has a protective effect in both men and women against cardiovascular disease, confirms Meir J. Stampfer, MD, DrPH, chair of the department of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He told me that moderate alcohol consumption in any form has an equivalent benefit -- "Wine is not better than beer, red wine is not better than white and spirits in moderation are also associated with lower risk."
  • Better heart attack survival. A study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston noted that moderate drinkers (who consumed more than seven alcoholic beverages a week) had a 32% lower risk of dying from a heart attack than those who drank no alcohol. Light drinkers (less than seven drinks weekly) had a 21% lower risk. Like other alcohol, beer acts as a blood thinner to help prevent clogged arteries. Other research links moderate alcohol consumption with improved blood circulation in the brain and lower risk for stroke.
  • Improved cholesterol levels. In her research, Dr. Denke discovered that people who consumed one to three drinks daily had higher levels of HDL, the "good" cholesterol. She also found that regular moderate intake of alcohol resulted in lower blood insulin levels. In a related US Department of Agriculture (USDA) study, women who drank one alcoholic beverage daily lowered their LDL ("bad") cholesterol and levels of harmful blood lipids known as triglycerides.
  • Sharper brains. In the long-term Nurses' Health Study, Dr. Stampfer and his colleagues found that moderate consumption of alcohol seemed to preserve the mental abilities of older women. From 1995 to 1999, more than 9,000 women between ages 70 and 79 were interviewed regarding their alcohol use, and seven different tests of mental function were administered. Moderate drinkers scored better on five of seven tests, and on total overall scores.
  • Healthier kidneys. At Harvard Medical School, Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, assistant professor of medicine, and his colleagues examined data from 11,023 men enrolled in the long-term Physicians' Health Study. Over a period of 14 years, the participants reported their alcohol consumption and underwent regular physical exams and blood tests. Researchers found that men who consumed seven or more drinks a week experienced a 29% lower risk of developing kidney problems. (Read more about this study in Daily Health News, January 17, 2006.)
  • Antioxidant effect. Japanese scientists have found that antioxidants such as polyphenols in beer may offer protection against cancer-causing chemicals. This echoes earlier research conducted in Portugal, which suggested that antioxidants slow the proliferation of breast cancer cells. According to Dr. Denke, isoflavonoids in beer are phytoestrogens that mimic the activity of the natural human hormone estrogen. In laboratory experiments, isoflavonoids have also been shown to inhibit the growth of breast, prostate and colon cancers.
Drinking vs. shitting

Sources:

Raise a Glass to Beer

  • Margo A. Denke, MD, clinical professor of medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
  • Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.
  • Meir J. Stampfer, MD, Dr PH, chair, department of epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health... professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School... physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.

Blood Pressure and Painkillers

  • Charles H. Heineken's, MD, DrPH, professor of medicine and epidemiology and public health, University of Miami School of Medicine... professor of biomedical science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca baton, Florida.
New Research shows booze is a healthfood!
BEER PREVENTS CANCER

 
 

Oh yeah, my blog got an email from MUTANIN who included a fine link to a Drunkard's Dictionary. Expand your vocabulary as you expand your waistline and consciousness:

FYI (DUI) I found this video through a humor site.

And I found another great NY beer site that will serve as a guide to future DRINK CLUB locations. Check it out. I especially like their suggested contributions to future Internet censorship efforts. I'm usually opposed to censorship, but in this case...

And, it's about time that bars got some seal of approval. While we're waiting for the DRINK CLUB PLAQUE to be made, we'll have
to do with the GOOD BEER SEAL. Click it to connect to their site and see who's earned the seal:
The Good Beer Seal

If your vision is steady enough to read. Here's the book for you:

cover of FERMENTING REVOLUTION book
You can get information about the BEER REVOLUTION by clicking on the book cover.

New! Check out the GOOD BEER SEAL and see what they're offering during GOOD BEER MONTH!

In the humor department, I've just discovered DRINKING JOKES Check it out! Some of them are even funny!

Oh yeah, and since Drink Club is on Thursdays, that leaves 6 days (or 5 if you do Kyukanbi)  wondering what to do! Well, how 'bout drinking for free? This link was in the New York Times.

In the info department, I found www.herestobeer.com. Now you can find out the difference between
an IPA and a Pale Ale! Thought they were the same? Me too!

And Budget Travel Magazine has a DRINK BEER BETTER feature story. Good for hangovers too!

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