Cheap Beer Thursdays, Inc.

Here’s the plan, as concocted over a round of PBR at “Welcome to the Johnsons”:

1. Incorporate cbnyc.org as a Not-For-Profit Corporation with the charitable purpose of getting poor people drunk. (it actually looks funnier TYPED)
2. Receive donations into a checking account in which the corpus is kept
3. Pay out at least 5% of the corpus per annum (probably per week) in furtherance of the charitable purpose of getting poor people drunk
4. Write off our PBR and liquor as a business expense

Of course, “poor people” has a very elastic meaning. It could mean Randessa, who have repeatedly made applications in pauperis to avoid their drinking responsibilities. It could mean your humble author if I forget to stop at the ATM to reload on yuppie food stamps. It all depends on a certain point-of-view.

I’m envisioneering Cheap Beer Thursdays, Inc. as a Delaware corporation authorized to do business in the State of New York. Its principal place of business would be 110 Chambers Street, New York, New York – better known as “The Patriot.” Under Delaware law (I think), we are required to have one annual meeting in the State of Delaware. Rehoboth Road Trip, y’all. That’s all I have to say.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think that it would be wicked awesome to have an old-timey Cheap Beer Thursdays, Inc. ledger book. Imagine the page for Accounts Payable.

4 June 2006 -$100.00 Cash / Memo: Fer Drinkin’

11 June 2006 -$120.00 Cash / Memo: Fer Drinkin’

18 June 2006 -$100.00 Cash / Memo: Fer Drinkin’

21 June 2006 -$100.00 Cash / Memo: Fer Drinkin’

Now imagine an entire ledger filled with those entries again and again and again.

Keep in mind, New York State law requires regular meetings of the Board of Directors. I think that Cheap Beer Thursdays and WeNo and any other beer binge satisfies that requirement. Plus, theoretically, our drinking becomes an administrative cost and is tax-deductible.