Megan West(erby)

lizlet:

sazerazzle:

The Silver Spoon on Sunday nights has been one of our go-to bars for the past year or so. There’s not much fancy about it - the restaurant is an old diner, and the bar has video poker and a dart board, and a good jukebox, and consistently great bartenders. But it’s a place where you can go, and cheerfully talk with the people you most need to regroup with in a quiet space. You can drink cheap wine, and drinkable martinis, and have a beer on tap and chat with the bartender who knows a lot about music and will deal with four credit cards on a slow night or a busy one. Sometimes having a drink with friends is about the atmosphere you create, not the ingredients in the glass, but the collection of moments and time and generosity you can give to each other. And having a place where you can be a little loud, a little garish, a little vulnerable is often worth any trade of fancy mixers and studied mixing.
As much as I talk about cocktails, I really would have no interest in them if it weren’t for the pathways of connection - the moments to share with people I love, and the time I can offer them when they’ve offered so much to me.

Annie speaks wisdom. The Silver Spoon is also a place where you can wear a hoodie and a Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt without anyone raising an eyebrow. Not that that’s me in this photo or anything.

If Liz is identifiable by the Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt I’m identifiable by the wrist tattoo. I don’t have much to add that doesn’t boil down to what’s already been said — where you drink is less important than with whom, hello truism — but reading this reminded me of how lucky I am to have found excellent people to drink with. Found them and kept them. ♥
Which is also to say — who’s drinking with me tomorrow?

sazerazzle:

The Silver Spoon on Sunday nights has been one of our go-to bars for the past year or so. There’s not much fancy about it - the restaurant is an old diner, and the bar has video poker and a dart board, and a good jukebox, and consistently great bartenders. But it’s a place where you can go, and cheerfully talk with the people you most need to regroup with in a quiet space. You can drink cheap wine, and drinkable martinis, and have a beer on tap and chat with the bartender who knows a lot about music and will deal with four credit cards on a slow night or a busy one. Sometimes having a drink with friends is about the atmosphere you create, not the ingredients in the glass, but the collection of moments and time and generosity you can give to each other. And having a place where you can be a little loud, a little garish, a little vulnerable is often worth any trade of fancy mixers and studied mixing.

As much as I talk about cocktails, I really would have no interest in them if it weren’t for the pathways of connection - the moments to share with people I love, and the time I can offer them when they’ve offered so much to me.

Annie speaks wisdom. The Silver Spoon is also a place where you can wear a hoodie and a Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt without anyone raising an eyebrow. Not that that’s me in this photo or anything.

If Liz is identifiable by the Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt I’m identifiable by the wrist tattoo. I don’t have much to add that doesn’t boil down to what’s already been said — where you drink is less important than with whom, hello truism — but reading this reminded me of how lucky I am to have found excellent people to drink with. Found them and kept them. ♥

Which is also to say — who’s drinking with me tomorrow?

11 November 2010 ·