Here in Austin, there's a bar called "The Flying Saucer." (It doesn't have a UFO theme at all, just a zillion plates on the wall, which doesn't make a lot of sense, except for, you know, "saucer," I guess, so.) But anyway. It's kind of a local chain, so that's a minus. And it's a little sports bar-y, so that's a minus. And it's in the "hip new" apartments called "the Triangle," and populated with young UT students no doubt whining to Mom and Dad that they don't want to live in the dorms, so that's pretty much the clientele. Definitely a minus.
In fact, there's not a lot of pluses going for it. Except for: it's more north than downtown and the university, and thus much closer to my house . And: it has two hundred kinds of beer.
They have a thing, where you can sign up for the "UFO Club." You basically pay them for a T-shirt and a swipe card that will keep track of every beer you drink. And when you drink one of every kind of beer they have, you get a plate with your name on it on the wall. So far, there are no plates on the wall, since the place just opened.
Well, it seems that since my girlfriend already signed up (she's prone to getting excited [some might saw swept up] in these kind of things quickly), and it is closer to my part of town than any other moderately acceptable bar, I think this might be the kind of thing I will do. For science, you understand. For Documenting. For journalism. See?
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