Word: pubbing
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...ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard Avedon EXHIBITIONS: Art that rocks! CINEMA: Back to a digital future BOOKS: A poet's pub crawl...
...couldn’t help but think of what a contender this spot might have been. I imagined puppies tripping over each other in the window of a pet store, the checked red-and-white tablecloths of a little Italian restaurant, the lacquered mahogany walls of a neighborhood pub. For a moment, I even harked back to the buff, headless mannequins in the window of the old Abercrombie, the plastic smiles of the salespeople who always looked like they just hopped off their surfboards. O cruel, harlot fate! Where was the humanity...
Unfortunately, this year Harvard’s bigwigs are running some blocking against its students’ efforts for a great, err, play. With The Game back in Boston—the pub capital of the country, natch—strict ID enforcement and bloated alcohol fees will hinder Crimson efforts to score on Eli tight ends. Alas, the most action we’ll be seeing that weekend is the homoerotic tackling on the field...
...that night, Philippe and I joined the pub crawl. This was my chance to ditch the “Harvard student” tag and join the international crowd in Berlin as a regular party dude. We joined the other would-be revellers (mostly American and Australian students) and toasted our bottle of complementary beer, exchanging introductions and soon moving on to overt flirtation. I was getting pretty, you know, excited for the night...
...however, the pub crawlers did not prove the hardcore partygoers they pretended to be. By the time we had reached the final destination, a famous Berlin nightclub, most of the group that started out were gone. Philippe and I called up two recently-met party-buddies, Swedish-speaking Finns Lala and Djingis (yes, these are their actual names). This was turning into something like our previous party nights in Berlin, where our inability to speak German prevented us from any fruitful socializing. I started dancing with abandon on the dance floor, resigning myself to the situation...