Thanks to all of you who have weighed in and given your thoughts about new format ideas for the Art Happy Hour. Thus far, your thoughts have been inspiring and helpful, and are likely to result in some major changes to the format of Art Happy Hour! 5–which will take place in late January or early February–that I think you’re really going to dig.

By way of reminder to the rest of you, the current AHH poll expires on December 31, at midnight–so you have until then to voice your opinions about what you think Art Happy Hour should be. In the meantime, here is, for your personal enjoyment, a video about–what else?–happy hour!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_TMUJIWwyI

Tired of elections? Voting? Empty campaign promises? Being call “my friend” over and over and over?

Well, your frustrations are soon at an end, my friend. That’s because the crucial polls mounted just to the right of here (>>>>)–which will determine the date for the next ART HAPPY HOUR!–are fast coming to a close.

With just over one week remaining (polls close midnight on Oct 17), now is your chance to vote for AHH!4, and to know the results of your vote.

So do it! Vote for AHH!4! You won’t be regretful.

See you at the polls (and at the next Art Happy Hour!). 

In lieu of the tragic events that occurred this past Saturday at Churchill Downs, the L’admin d’AHH! thought he’d share a little happy news about the ongoing Art Happy Hour!3 poll: We have a horse race on our hands!

As of this morning, 10 a.m. on May 6–with just two-and-a-half weeks remaining–the poll results show a neck-and-neck-and-neck battle between three AHH!3 venue contenders.

With 20 votes cast to date, Clubhouse Jaeger is just two lengths ahead, while Nick and Eddie and Lexington are dead even and coming strong along the outside. 331 Club, Buster’s, and Eli’s Bar are well back of the pack, but at this point it could be anyone’s race.

Tell your friends, relatives, studio-mates, and local art historians to get online and vote for their favorite horse in this race. Polls close at midnight on May 25.

Hey! There’s only two days left to vote for the first Art Happy Hour! venue. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell that artist in the studio down the hall whom you secretly can’t stand!

Vote vote vote vote vote—the polling widget is located in the far right column >>>>>>>.

Also, sign up for Art Happy Hour updates here. It’s completely free. There’s no obligation. You can cancel any time. Yadda yadda yadda.

Finally, as an added bonus, here’s a quote from Charles Baudelaire that’s completely apropros to the occasion:

You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . . ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: “It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish.”