BOSTON, MA — College-age kids and twentysomethings imbibing at Patrick O’Hanhrahan’s Public House were put on notice Friday night by a severely intoxicated Leigh Alexander, who reminded her fellow patrons that she IS gaming journalism.
Maureen Delaney, 22, said she was at the bar with three friends when one of them mentioned receiving a copy of the Kama Sutra as a gift from her boyfriend. Alexander — who had been nodding off a few seats away — sat straight up, then almost fell from her bar stool as she shrieked at Delaney and her friends: “That was MY publication!” Alexander screamed. “I was the fucking editor of Gamasutra!”
Unsure of how to respond — or even what Alexander was talking about — Delaney and her friends said they avoided making eye contact and tried to ignore the outburst, hoping she’d fall asleep again after another shot. But Alexander was enraged.
“That piece of shit site is NOTHING without me,” Alexander said, according to witnesses. “I have a hundred thousand Twitter followers!”
At the urging of Delaney’s friend, 20-year-old Jill Thomas, the bartender tried cutting Alexander off and was picking up the phone to call a cab for the inebriated journalist when Alexander slammed a fist on the bar.
“I won’t have it!” Alexander screamed, according to witnesses. “Do you know who the fuck I am? Do you? Do you who who THE FUCK I am?”
“I AM game journalism!”
Met with blank stares, Alexander whirled around so her back was to the bar and cupped her hands so the rest of the patrons could hear her over the music: “I’m Leigh fucking Alexander! I AM game journalism!”
Most of the bar’s patrons didn’t seem to notice, witnesses said, and a handful of others gave confused shrugs and turned back to their conversations.
“That pissed her the fuck off,” Thomas said.
Bar staff eventually resorted to having the bouncer, 36-year-old DeMarcus “Night Train” Houston, forceably remove Alexander from the bar, witnesses said. The 285-pound bouncer grimaced as he lifted the drunken Alexander onto his shoulder, then carried her out.
“Stop it! Stop it, you fucking hood rat!” Alexander screamed at Houston, sources said. “Do you know who the fuck I am? I’m Leigh fucking Alexander, you piece of shit hood trash!”
“Bitch is heavier than she look,” Houston said before unceremoniously dumping the legendary journalist onto the sidewalk outside.
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