Thursday, February 2, 2006

A LONG STRANGE ODYSSEY....

Boy does my head hurt.

Last night was the much-talked about 1st Anniversary Blog Party. As you know by now, I've been chronicled the activities of the bar for the past year. I thought it would be a nice touch to invite the loyal readers of the blog to the bar for a celebratory toast. I wasn't exactly sure who would actually show up, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprise to see the likes of AFRIKA BAMBATTA, AMERICAN PSYCHO, SILENT BOB, MR. TANQUERAY, ANGEL, CRIMSON CAMEL-TOE, DIRTY SANCHEZ, LITTLE BRITAIN, MR. PLUMBER, MEAN GENE, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, and DALE EARNHARDT,III among others.


The evening started, strangely enough, with an interesting looking young lady, doing a belly dance(emphasis on belly) in the middle of the floor. She was doing some kind of dip-set swirl all over the floor and it was enough to make AFRIKA BAMBATTA speechless. And I thought I'd never see that happen. She was very outging and had no problems with going up to people and asking them to buy her shots. If she was an indication of what was going to come later in the night, then it was going to be a long, strange night indeed.

As the evening went on, the blog readers were having a good time, placing faces with names, joking around and drinking up a storm. Yours truly also had a good time, sharing many toasts with the gang. MR. TANQUERAY got me again by sneaking me a shot of Campari, which is probably the worst thing any human being should ever have to drink (Justice would be served later in the evening, as you will see). I got a chance to meet some new people who heard about the celebration through reading the blog and stopped by to pay their respects, which was kinda cool.

The rest of the evening became a bit of a blur; What I can tell you is that throughout the course of the night, I somehow ended up leaving the bar with a group consisting of MR. TANQUERAY, MR. PLUMBER, AMERICAN PSYCHO, H.B.E., ANGEL, SILENT BOB and CRIMSON CAMEL-TOE. We ended up at TRIO Ristorante on East 33rd Street for a cocktail. I think it's safe to say that we freaked out the crowd of diners in the establishment. We were rather loud and obnoxious (not purposely, mind you), topped only by the impromptu marriage proposal by CRIMSON to ANGEL. The diners really enjoyed that... Oy!

From there, I vaguely remember us stopping at a bodega while I took a whizz in their nice and clean (sarcastically stated, by the way) restroom. From there, we ended up at AMERICAN PSYCHO's apartment. It was actually a pretty cool looking apt, complete with an awesome outside deck. When we arrived, his roommate was sitting in the living room, watching TV. No doubt spooked by our loud presence, she eventually retreated to her bedroom. As we joked around in the kitchen area, enjoying the "champagne of beers", the boyfriend of the roommate came out and spoke to the host, which was a sign to us that we should probably leave before AMERICAN PSYCHO got evicted.

So the strange odyssey continued and we somehow ended up back at the bar. At the bar the CUSACK BOYS were there, waiting for us, as well as THE DON. There were plenty of other people hanging out as well and it seems that the bar was busy the whole time, which is a good thing. From there, the night becomes real fuzzy to me. Folks were beginning to get into hook-up mode and it was pretty funny to watch. Other people began to disperse into the night. I myself ended up calling it a night when the combination of Gentleman's Drinks, Blue Moon, Stella and some weird concoction I was forced to drink at TRIO did me in.

My head STILL hurts...

Oh and remember what I said about justice being served to my friend MR. TANQUERAY? Well, I received a text message from him at about 1:30am saying that he passed out on the Metro-North train and slept through his stop, ending up in North White Plains. Heh heh heh....

Here are some photos from the night's activities:
















MORE PHOTOS TO COME....

Tonight we are hosting a special RANGERS vs ISLANDERS viewing party, sponsored by COORS LIGHT! $3 COORS LIGHT and MOLSON CANADIAN from 7pm-8:30pm! Stop by for some great hockey action and COORS LIGHT giveaways!

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