ENGL 668k: Digital Studies (Spring 2004)

Important academic stuff: Drinking

So, having fully weighed all relevant factors (the fact that it's Bad Poetry Night at College Perk, the fact that Matt lives in Silver Spring, seating, ease of access, availability of alcohol and pool) we have decided that probably the best thing is to be lazy and predictable and go to Town Hall next week. It's a fun environment if you like dives, there's some self-determination as far as the soundscape (translation: good jukebox), and unlike Cornerstone or the Fe it's relatively free of undergraduates. Seating won't be any more of a problem than at other places... there are three booths that are regularly empty, and most of the time in a bar people end up standing to chat anyway. Most importantly, perhaps, it's really just a hop skip and jump up Rte. 1. I've been to Mayorga, and I like it fine, but it's not the easiest place to give directions to from College Park.

By contrast, here are the directions to Town Hall: Go out to Rte. 1. Turn left. After you pass Paint Branch Parkway (the road that essentially marks the edge of campus), you'll see the fire station on the right. Town Hall is just past that on the right, with an analog clockface on the sign (across Rte. 1 from the Jerry's, if you need additional triangulation coordinates). Correction: The clockface is not on the Town Hall sign. It's on the sign for Campus Village Shopping Center, just PAST Town Hall. My bad. It doesn't look like a bar, it looks like a liquor store. This is camouflage. Do not be fooled. Go in under the sign that says "lounge."

We will want to carpool, as parking is limited. We can work that out next week.

Also, if anyone has a smoke allergy, please post to say so, and we can reconsider.