The #3 Bus Pub Crawl Is Underway!

If you're reading this on Saturday, August 6, and you're in Austin, then get yourself over to Burnet Road or some other location along Capital Metro's #3 bus route, because I'm celebrating my birthday with a renewal of the Number 3 Bus Pub Crawl!

Sorry for giving no advance warning on the blog — while I'd love for many of my regular readers to join me, I can't have everybody along, because that would turn this thing into an even worse clusterfuck than it will already be.

But if you're lucky enough to have nothing to do today and you can catch up with us, please do. Check my Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/ILoveBeerBlog for updates on where we are and where we're heading next. We'll start at the beginning of the route at North by Northwest's Brewer's Brunch at 10am and after we fill our bellies with breakfast and beer, we'll head south, literally and probably figuratively as well.

And if you have no idea what the Number 3 Bus Pub Crawl is, read about the first here (my 40th birthday) and the second one here (my 41st). I turn 43 today.

No prayer and fasting! Today is for debauchery and gluttony!

(Note: That Cap Metro illustration is there just for decoration. This event is in no way sanctioned or sponsored by Capital Metro.)

No.3 Pub Crawl on Facebook!

This is hilarious: I had heard that other people were inspired by my creation, the No.3 Bus Pub Crawl, and had taken it upon themselves to duplicate my feat. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, read here and here. To see the video with sound, click here.)

But now my baby has really grown up — it has its own Facebook page! (If you're not registered with Facebook, that link probably won't work.) I have no idea who created it. And I suspect it's no one I know, because none of the 125 "friends" of the page are people I know.

Sigh. I guess every parent has to face the fact that eventually, your child grows up and gets a life of her own. I'm glad other people are inspired by my madness. Get on the bus and drink!

(Photo by Ed Kuhn.)

The 2nd Annual No.3 Bus Pub Crawl

Finally, by overwhelming popular demand, my recounting of the Second Annual No.3 Bus Pub Crawl is available. Read it here in The Austin Chronicle. (But if you live in Austin, I highly recommend you read it in Thursday's paper version of the Chronicle instead, so that you can see the fantastic layout by our art director.)

Also in tomorrow's issue: My round-up of where to find cask-conditioned ales in Austin.

(Picture of me reading the bus schedule by Jack Anderson; do not reproduce without his permission.)