1984

What a random night and I don't think alcohol fueled its peculiarity. The setting was a bar in alphabet city. They played good eighties music. Jason comments at one point that music was the best thing that came out of the eighties. Someone added leggings. So music and leggings were the best thing that came out of the eighties.
Ok, that was alcohol fueled.

Next, I met a guy who at one point was the second highest rated magic: the gathering player. Made his fortunes doing that and playing poker and had a book written about him called Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids. Here's the publisher's weekly summary of the book:

A fat, gross, know-it-all teen whom bullies urinated upon, Jon Finkel found his calling as a champion of the Dungeons-and-Dragons-with-a-deck-of-cards fantasy game known as Magic: the Gathering. His mental acuity honed by the complex card game, Finkel went on, with his cohort of Magic cronies, to conquer grown-up gambling as a blackjack card-counter, sports bettor and tournament-caliber Texas Hold-'em poker player. Journalist Kushner, author of Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, treats Finkel's saga as a journey toward self-knowledge and manhood, as he loses weight, starts scoring babes (with the help of arcane womanizing strategies gleaned from PickUpGuide.com) and develops the stoic grace under pressure that defines mature masculinity. It also symbolizes the liberation struggle of dorky "young brainiacs" who are "ridiculed, stomped and beaten" for their intellect and find solidarity and empowerment through fantasy gaming and online wagering. The author flogs his revenge of the nerds theme half to death, even after the nerd has metamorphosed into a sleek, wealthy professional gambler ("here he was, once again, being beaten down by the system for being too smart," Kushner rails after Finkel has a run-in with tribal casino officials), and his celebration of gambling's socially sterile, zero-sum path to personal growth tastes a little rancid. Still, his tour through the colorful subcultures of fantasy gaming and casino gambling makes for a lively, if somewhat pulpy, picaresque.

I don't think i saw the "stoic grace under pressure that defines mature masculinity." I saw a lot of sucking face in front of an ex-girlfriend. Anyway, that wasn't the most interesting part of the night.

Met a girl whose mom's family is indigineous to the island of taiwan. Supposedly, the original language of the island is set to die after this generation. I offered to learn it and save it but it might be worse to have future generations speak my patois. Still this topic deserves more research.

Other interesting observances include a really old couple and a parade of girls doing coke. Is there any other reason to go into a bathroom 6 at a time and come out constantly looking around and touching their nose? Candy makes you dandy.