Loganized

Desophistication is stuck at BOS-Logan Airport. Our nonstop flight to the other coast--why change planes in a Red State?--is three hours delayed, even though the weather is fine. We're also flying the most understaffed major airline ever, but we saved enough on the ticket to pay for this WiFi connection.

So as a public service, here's our review of Terminal C, Logan International Airport, Boston.

• Terminal C is designed so that most of the shops and restaurants are outside the Security Area, near ticketing & baggage check. The gate concourses have fairly modest amenites (as is the case in most of Logan). We're not sure whether this is a good or a bad thing.
  
• Our present location, "The Sam Adams Brew Pub" in Terminal C, is cheesy and the food is overpriced. In fact, they sell Legal Sea Foods' Clam Chower, but it's more expensive than at Legal's. But it's in a bread boule. (We had Mozzerella sticks, in a futile attempt to relive our high school years spent at Bennigan's.) Worse, it has bad acoustics and no music. The plasma TV screens don't save it.
• Sam drafts are $4.85. We have met far worse prices in airports.
  
• Perhaps we would have been better off at Legal's bar. The Fish & Chips are actually cheaper there (go figure). Perhaps we'll still get there -- did we mention that our departure was delayed *three hours*? But Legal's is, well, Legal's -- it looks like the Oak Room, which has its plusses and minuses, which directly correspond to one's expense account.
  
• Official Red Sox hats are $21.95 throughout the terminal. Must be the standard price.
  
• If you go to Terminal C, remember that the best airport shopping may be behind you. A few of the better souvenir stands are tucked behind the Delta baggage check-ins.
  
• Hudson News is still cool, but I didn't see the Brookstone till it was too late, which is a shame, because they have the best luggage tags and locks (that you can get in an airport). But I would've spent more than necessary there.
• The electronics store seems to have friendly and helpful salesmen, though I don't know if anyone but a pilot would by a PalmPilot in an airport. (The Demo model of the T5 had a program called 'airline log' on it. Or something to that effect.)
• The shops close at about 7pm.
  
• Philadelphia (PHL) Terminals B-C are far superior. Starting with the fact that the Independence Brew Pub is way cool. For that matter, even the overpriced PHL bars at least rock.
  

All in all, Logan Terminal C is satisfactory, maybe a B-, as long as you don't actually have to go to a gate or anything.

UPDATE: inside security: the bar inside the security area seems to have closed at, like 8:30 (as did Legal's, outside of security). We were disappointed. Had we known, we would have had another Sam Boston Lager. This happened to us once at Midway: airport bars close early. We hope the airline comps us a drink. Oh, to be a real lush like Wonkette!