[Update: The DUYS tour page is up.  Click here for all the information you need and to order t-shirts.]

This is your official reminder: The 9th Annual Flood-Mulgrew Quasi-Celebrity "Drink Until You Shit!" Drinking Tour will take place in North Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday, July 14, 2007.  Here comes fucking awesomeness.   

We will meet at 6:30pm at Casey’s on 3rd & New York.  We will be at Casey’s until no later than 8pm, at which point we will continue on the bar crawl through North Wildwood (exact itinerary still to be determined). 

I don’t expect any of y’all to attend, but if you’re in the area, it’s a guaranteed good time – if for no other reason you’ll wear a t-shirt that says "Drink Until You Shit!" on the back.  As I write this, Site Guy Brendan is creating a webpage dedicated to the tour, which will contain information on the tour and will give you the opportunity to buy a shirt (sizes small to XXL).  A few things about t-shirt buying:

- If you are going on the tour, you are strongly advised to buy your shirt ahead of time and as soon as possible.  If you’re from my neighborhood in Philly, we will be posting times that shirts can be purchased (for $15) at Mick-Daniels bar at 2nd & Snyder.  That information will be available in a few days (when the shirts come in).

- If you are going on the tour and not from my neighborhood, you are still strongly encouraged to buy your t-shirt before the tour.  When Site Guy Brendan creates the new page, it will have a paypal link for you to submit payment and provide shipping info (I guess shipping will be about $2 a shirt).  If I don’t know you and you’re coming on the tour, totally cool, but all I ask is that you don’t weird me out.  I embarrass very easily.  Thank you for your understanding.

- If you’re not going on the tour and just want a t-shirt, that’s fine too.  But the moral is, the sooner the better, because these bad boys are so fucking gorgeous they will certainly sell out (pics will be available on the new page).  And David and I are WAY too lazy to get more.   

To stress, we cannot guarantee t-shirt availability on the night of the tour as we have in years past.  Get your t-shirts as soon as I post pick-up/order info, which I will do in the next few days.    

Again, I don’t expect you guys to come from far and wide just for a drinking tour (but really, if you’re going to travel for any drinking tour, this is the one), but you can find info about accommodations in North Wildwood here.  Remember, the pub crawl is in North Wildwood, not Wildwood.  There’s a big difference. 

Personally, I can’t fucking wait.  Last year, my main complaint was that we didn’t have an itinerary, but we will be distributing one to each tour participant the day/night of the tour and will also have an Original Member manning a bullhorn to let everyone know when it’s time to move and where we’re moving.  Problem solved.  The 7th Annual tour featured about 60 participants and the 8th had about 130.  This year, we’re hoping for at least 200.  Giddy up.   

Every year, we have a Captain of the tour, based on who exhibited the worst behavior on the previous year’s tour.  Last year, our Captain was our dear friend Bucky, who, true to the spirit of the tour, actually shit himself in the course of the night on the 7th Annual tour.  This year’s Captain will be Chucky (Eclipse).  Eclipse, unlike Bucky, did not shit himself, but instead sat on a lawn near the bar at the end of the night and puked so violently that he looked like a giant, red-headed drunken sprinkler.  [Though exempted, I made a run at the captaincy by making out with a childhood friend (in front of my mom) and then walking home alone and crawling into bed with my buddy Kyle, who was crashing at my place.  Whoops.]  Chucky’s official duties as captain are merely ceremonial – there will be a presentation of a t-shirt with a "C" on it at the start of the tour - and all tour participants are encouraged to buy Chucky (as well as myself and David as tour founders) drinks all night.   

So that’s it for now.  If you can join us, we’d love to see you on July 14 in North Wildwood, NJ.  If not, you can expect many stories and many pictures shortly thereafter.  Hopefully someone poops himself again.  Because that was totally fucking awesome.

"The Drink Until You Shit Tour - An American Tradition Unlike Any Other"