After a meeting on Fleet Street in London, a group of us go to have dinner, as a guest of our sponsor, at the Wig and Pen Club, before seeing Skullflower.
A stone's throw from the Old Bailey, the Wig and Pen Club is housed in a building that was built in 1625, one of the few in the area to survived the Great Fire of 1666. The walls are covered with about a century's worth of caricatures of noted jurists and journalists, newspaper clippings of articles describing great deeds of various club members, their Times obituaries, and memorial dinner menus. A letter from the newly-reelected President Nixon proclaims his gratitude to the members of the club for their support, and foretells great achievements in his second administration.
We enter the bar to await our table. One of our hosts asks me what I'd like to drink.
"I'll have what he's having," I said, pointing to our sponsor, Genesis P. Orridge. I figure this is the best way to ensure a properly English libation to start off an evening of English dining.
After a few moments, I'm handed a bottle of beer. "Have you ever had one of these before?"
It's a Rolling Rock.
-Steve Albini
Posted by duver001 at October 31, 2004 07:57 PM