So this weekend I endeavored to do something that I had never before attempted, to last an entire weekend without going to a bar. Due to the current economy and coming off the bender that was the holidays, we thought this would be a solid goal to set for a weekend. Well friends, we did a pretty good job of it.
Friday night five of us went to see Notorious. I will tell you the best thing about this movie was the people watching in the theater. There were a few funny scenes and I now completely understand why Lil' Kim is upset at being portrayed as a crazy hoe, but all told, that movie is crap. I won't even waste your time with the reasons, just know that this article by the NYT was generous: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/movies/16noto.html
Saturday was when things started to break down. Brady informed me that there is a bar on Ashland that has been votd best Soccer bar in the US for a number of years running and Arsenal was playing at 11:30. So, I obliged and joined him and two of his buddies for traditional english breakfast of Beer, Baked Beans, Eggs, Sausage, toast, and hashbrowns. Yes, Beer was first, it's the english.
Saturday night Brady, Melano, and I went to a place called the Publican on Fulton. Although being overwhelmed with pretention despite the place looking like a barn with communal wooden tabels and booths with doors on them (pretty funny to watch people figure those out), the place was worth the 1.5 hours of waiting at a standing table. I highly recommend going with some people and sharing a few dishes and a bottle of wine. I do not recommend asking the young, blonde waitress if you can get a Coors Light and a Philly Steak sandwich just to get her reaction. (Confused mess is the answer for those of you wondering what happened).
The Publican was also where new rules got added to "No Bar Weekend". We decided that as long as we weren't paying full price for drinks that it technically wasn't going to a bar, so we drank at Brady's and went to the Hangge Uppe (AKA "Hang Up" AKA "Cheers Chicago" for our group). But, we rescued the night by setting a time limit of 2am, which is approximately the time that things go from Zero to Blackout at that place. Brady's ability to go from the dude that the website http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ writes about to a backup dancer on tour never ceases to provide great people watching comedy. It's like watching a dad at a wedding and all of a sudden he turns into the breakdancing grandma in church from that one movie ("I feel the SPIRIT!!")
Tonight we hit up Carnivale for dinner. This place definitely gets three "Si!!"s out of five on the Los De scale. Great Apps, Seared Ahi Tuna, Rum Rubbed Pork, and you can hit up the lounge on Sundays for Apps, Wine Flights, and live music. If I wasn't in the middle of a Go Live that has managed to last 12 hours instead of two, we would have scouted it out more.
For those of you that get Monday off, congratulations. I Have a Dream of not working as well. Unfortunately, my company doesn't celebrate diversity or equal working rights so I am sure I'll have some more to write about.
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