UPDATE: THIRD AMAZIN' TUESDAY IS SEPTEMBER 15, 7:00 PM, WITH GREG PRINCE, JON SPRINGER, JEFF PEARLMAN AND JOHN COPPINGER, TWO BOOTS TAVERN. CURRENT INFO HERE.
So you've given up on the season. That doesn't mean Tuesdays will be any less Amazin' when you take part in the next AMAZIN' TUESDAY.
One week from tomorrow night — August 25 at 7:00 PM while the Mets begin to pay the Marlins back for all the mishegas they caused us the last two Septembers — comes the second of three AMAZIN' TUESDAYS. If you were at the first one — or the legendary METSTOCK festival that inspired it — you'll definitely want to be a part of this. If you haven't made the scene before, then by all means, do a Bob Barker and…Come On Down!
To refresh your memory (no doubt besotted by losses and injuries since last month), Two Boots Tavern owner Phil Hartman invites all Mets fans to his place on the Lower East Side for a monthly gathering that features a unique lineup of “literary readings, game watching, consciousness raising, pizza eating, Rheingold drinking, cocktail shaking, Yankee baiting, memorabilia gawking and seven steps support as needed.”
Like we couldn't all use a drink right about now.
Your hosts for the evening: The two bloggers who bring you Faith and Fear in Flushing: Greg Prince (that's me) and Jason Fry (you know him, too). We'll be reading aloud, sharing trade secrets, showing off some rare Metsiana and happily greeting one and all. Joining us will be two of our distinguished blolleagues: Dana Brand, author of the newly released The Last Days of Shea and Caryn Rose, she who puts the “grr” in Metsgrrl. We're thrilled to share the stage with two such fine writers and we think you'll enjoy all they bring to the Two Boots table.
Pizza, alcohol, Phil's incredible sense of decor, the Mets game on a panoply of hi-def screens and a stream of stories from a quartet of Mets fans who remain Mets fans despite the continuation of 2009. Quite honestly, if you don't attend AMAZIN' TUESDAY, we're going to have to list you as questionable.
Another Amazin' Tuesday is slated for September 15, but don't tempt mathematical elimination. See you next week.
Two Boots Tavern is at 384 Grand St., between Norfolk and Suffolk. You can take the F to Delancey; the J, M or Z to Essex; or the B or D to Grand. Phone: 212/228-8685. For my fellow Long Islanders, Two Boots is plenty accessible via the F train, which you pick up a block from Penn Station on 34th; e-mail me if you have transportation concerns.
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