1:55 Kyle is the first person at the bar. I fear these troubled economic days we live in will impact Chicago's st pats celebration. Thankfully my worries are not met.
2:30 One Great Lakes Irish Ale down...the bar is slowly filling up with spill from other locales, and the full trolleys from the parade are beginning to return to the neighborhood.
2:43 4 people, too drunk to stand, are denied entry into aliveOne. Everyone in the vicinity of the doorway has a good laugh.
3:04 Tim & Annie arrive!
3:10 Annie, to Tim, "I've never thought that you were NOT a jackass."
3:27 Ricky, fresh off a subdued brunch, arrives ready to wreck house.
3:38 ChaCha confirms the movie Kramer saw with a woman in a coma was "The Other Side Of Darkness"
4:13 Somehow Rick materializes a muffin and begins to eat it.
4:21 In reference to the 'bro' at the bar and his friends, one of us says, "those guys all look like rapists"
4:25 We place $1 bets on who will be next to arrive -- Selfy, Kari, Eickhoff or Joe. Knowing Joe will be arriving with the perpetually late Jamie, only Annie chooses Joe. Of course...
4:37 Annie wins $3
4:47 Costello & Crew show up. I think about ordering 4 waters for them, but decide only one of them really needs it.
5:26 quote Eickhoff, "Everytime my friend Matt took a shot his nipples would get hard." We're all afraid to ask.
5:35 Lewis Black has a bit about brain aneurysms happening when you overhear something that makes no sense, it rattles around in your head until you give up making heads or tails of it and your brain simply explodes. His example, "If it hadn't been for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." Not quite as good as his line, but we overhear the end of a drunk conversation concluding with, "..., Sarah Palin, and then you."
After aliveOne, we get 2 pizzas to go from Eduardo's, play Tetris at the apartment, hit up Baby Atlas for a bit (we'll be back here again, giving this bar the full treatment it deserves). Then it's off to Trader Todd's.
One of the original ideas of EBONY was to participate in whatever a specific bar is known for. In this case, as is also referenced in Rick's post below, Trader Todd's has karaoke. Because I can't seem to convince any of my musically inclined friends to start a Hives cover-band with me, I have to settle for the Karaoke version. Rick and I give that place a stomping they've never seen before.
Later, I perform my interpretation of Spingsteen's "Secret Garden", which no one but me seems to enjoy (as evidenced by the loud boos I receive for the duration of this song). Afterwards the DJ lectures the audience about being a bad crowd. Suckers!
Rick mentions this below, but there really is a video of our Hives show. Whenever our friends from Seattle send it to us we'll have it up here.
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the DJ: "if your out this late at this bar on St. Patrick's Day, you need to revaluate your life if you're going to boo someone on stage. that or find Jesus."
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