OBC?

Last night Vaz and I when to the Flud Watch relaunch party at Gallery Bar. It's his old friend Doug's company and it turned out my friend Jill was one of the PR reps throwing the party...

back story: I met Jill about eight years ago. We used to go to all the same parties. First coincidentally... and then we all formed a crew. About 10-15 members maybe? OBC. Open Bar Crew. We had a place to go every night and drink for free. There was (and still is) always some kind of industry party to go to and drink for free every night in NYC, and we were the party people. How we got into all these events so deep is kind of a blur... but there we were.

little by little we all tapered off. I think we're all more dive-bar kind of people now anyway, and since I bartend again, I don't really want to be in a bar when I'm not working (not to mention the 2-year-old)

But last night - We went to this party, and it was an open vodka bar. A vodka I didn't want, so I bought my drink. I was at an open bar and I bought my drink. That's such a grown up thing to do. No No, I don't want your cheap free liquor. I'll purchase my own thank you.

What happened to OBC?

I'm going to say that some members are keeping it going (like Jill and Trudy) because they are now the ones throwing the open bar events instead of mooching. It's a more dignified crew now.