Welcome to "Meet the Mayor," a segment in which we interview local Foursquare Mayors in their natural habitats.

Precinct
Meghan Chiampa

What have been your best and worst experiences here?
Let me think . . . I booked a Mardi Gras show, and I think that was both. The show was awesome, one of the first I sold out.

Public transportation is a dirty endeavour. Convenience and positive environmental impact aside, once that bell sounds and the subway doors slide shut, you and your fellow passengers are temporarily encased in a hurtling Petri dish of microbial nightmares. Not a very romantic situation, but the intrepid researchers at Craigslist have taken up the task of empirically analyzing just how romantic a subway ride can get.

The otherwise frighteningly weird idea of a Snuggie pub crawl -- in which grown adults pay to traipse from bar to bar to bar wearing fleece blankets with sleeves and getting sloshed with strangers -- somehow seems perfectly legitimate in Somerville's Union Square during one of the most wretchedly cold weekends of the year.