Welcome to... The Saloon

[Project Willow]

I knew you'd have a better!

That right foot does look a little bent.

The rains have come again and there have been gorgeous cloudy skies this week. Here's some Seatown jazz

[mentalgongfu2]

Just a nice cold glass of water at this point. I'll still leave a decent tip. No more alcohol or political debate for me tonight. I used up all my energy casting pearls before swine.

[mentalgongfu2]

So, funny story about last night. Around the time I popped in here, I heard a noise in the hallway. Went to check it out - nothing visible. Walked down the stairs, saw a cell phone, with the battery and cover strewn about as if someone had thrown it. Put it together and determined it belonged to the bartender at Murf's, a sorta buddy of mine. It was at his bar where I imbibed earlier and determined to leave when drunkeness began turning him and others into complete dickheads (yeah, he's the kind of guy who lets out his asshole side after a certain number of drinks).

This morning, was flipping through a book of Zen sayings. Stopped to mediate on this for some as-then unknown reason:

The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window

Exited my apartment to head to work once the coffee had done it's trick. Noticed that my bike was missing from the hallway. Mentioned it at work - coworkers happened to have the police scanner on and heard a report earlier of a yellow Huffy, found with the front tire stuck into a storm drain. Went to the PD - yep, it was my bike. Signed the property return form, recovered the stolen item. Gave them dude's cell phone as found property. Not pursuing charges.

It's going to be an interesting weekend.

[Peregrine]

Whatever Justdrew is having, it's on me. Oh, and, Barracuda... You mean bastard of a mod, & Jeff "Iron-Fist" Wells, your guys' tab is on me, too. Although, I was thoroughly enjoying the beatings cuda was getting in the blog, but probably not as much as him!

[barracuda]

I must admit to having evilly enjoyed myself quite a bit over there, Pere, though I don't think that's what the various tormented tweren'ts had hoped for when they began their bathroom wall soliloquies. I'm still kinda basking in the glow. But after a while, the thinly veiled anti-semitism does get a bit wearying. Maybe we need a less moderated, more anonymous space where the disgruntled grundlers can spray-paint their poor grammar and fuzzy thinking for me to dissect on a regular basis. Keep everybody happy.

Judging from some of the high postcount usernames conspicuously absent from participation in the comments section thread, it's really not hard to imagine that most of those remarks came from old friends sharing a Dirty Sanchez as an ersatz disguise. They should probably just stick to the comfort and safety of their usual manginas.

[Perelandra]

Well, mgf2 certainly called it!

It's another fabulous warm day here. I'd like something fruity with a bit of fizz.

[Project Willow]

I fully intended to reply to mentalgongfu and then the site went down. I would have said something like, so, not only does he serve bad beer, he gets pissed, and steals your bike? I'm tempted to get into dueling bartender tales but some of my most entertaining are x-rated. One I love in particular and it is he who inspired this thread, but the others are currently vying with drummers for best in the category: most eccentric with odd negative twists.*

*Note: all teasing is meant good naturedly, mostly, though some may be a passive aggressive response to the general treatment of artists and women in society.

Lady P., besides Jdrew, who can have whatever he wants, those other two gentleman know darn well they never have a tab in my house, real or virtual, and especially virtual since this isn't my house.

Perelandra, it was indeed beautiful here up until today. Too bad I spent the entirety coding an upgrade of an old website.

What a bad week and it's only Wednesday. Because I can't stand rejection, I wasn't cut out to be a man, an artist, nor unemployed, but I am 2 of the 3. So I'll raise a virtual glass to ward off the blow of rejection today, tomorrow and all the days hence as it will surely arrive like a boundary violating relative.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I wasn't cut out to be a man, an artist, nor unemployed, but I am 2 of the 3.

Pah! I got the trifecta, the unholy Trinity, so quit your moaning. Mind you, I'm not much of an artist, nor much of a man. And with this new Coalition government in place, and their Thatcherite cutbacks on benefits and social security coming through, I can't even be sure of my own unemployment.

The way they're wording it, I'll be getting re-classified as "criminally inactive" or something, by ATos, a delightful American private healthcare company who have insinuated themselves (and their £850 million publically funded pay-off) into the National Health Service. Thanks for that, ye Yanks, and your Southern compatriots. It's totally your fault, all of ye.

Anyways, this place went a bit wrong for a while there, and I ran away and hid, due to cowardice. But I heard they're serving drink in here again? Is that true? I have only three or four real vodkas left now, and am now in need of virtual ones, particularly doubles.

[Peregrine]

I saw this spiced pumpkin ale just up the road from me. 'tis the season. I'm dying to try it. Anything like that in Ye Ole Saloon?

[Project Willow]

Hi Lady P.,
Yep, we got pumpkin ale, you bet, http://www.elysianbrewing.com/beer/darkomoon.html and soon, almost near to the US Thanksgiving, we'll have Jolly on tap as well. http://97bottles.com/breweries/us/wa/seattle/maritime-pacific-brewing-company/jolly-roger-christmas-ale/

Here's a toast to you, and regrets I missed my chance at posting my ode to balls in the recent sports related threads. It's a timing thing, and I missed it.
I do love balls of all kinds, and am told I can throw a decent breaking one.

xo,
PW

[Peregrine]

Here's to Ahab & his self-flagellation in Montag's thread. It's okay, we all bark at someone from time to time for no reason. Just the other day I bit someone's head off for praising Gordon Campbell as one of BC's best premiere. And for dissing poor & homeless people. But, that was deserved, the guy was a real dick... So, how 'bout a pint for Ahab & Montag, eh?

(btw, Willow, I still haven't tried that pumpkin ale, the place that had it on tap suddenly closed its doors! )

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Here's to Ahab & his self-flagellation in Montag's thread. It's okay, we all bark at someone from time to time for no reason. Just the other day I bit someone's head off for praising Gordon Campbell as one of BC's best premiere. And for dissing poor & homeless people. But, that was deserved, the guy was a real dick... So, how 'bout a pint for Ahab & Montag, eh?

Pint of vodka for me, please. Times is tough. I'm still hurting from all that flagellating as well.

just the other day I bit someone's head off...

Now, see, I have my failings, god knows, but I don't think I'd ever go that far. To actually bite someone's head off... it just seems a bit extreme to me. You could've surely just argued with the man, or insulted him? Escalating the situation to that extent just seems counterproductive to me. Did he live?

Ha! I was checking out that Gordon Campbell of yours, and he seemed like a pretty decent fellow, if a bit dull ... and then it appeared... Bilderberg Attendee, 2010. He even got the trip paid for with public money, though the meeting itself couldn't have been more private. I don't understand the HST controversy, though. That sounds like a pretty reasonable tax rate to me. Anyway, thanks for the pint (vodka remember).

[nathan28]

I'll have some high-gravity malt liquor with a side of some caffeine tablets, ground up into a fine powder, thanks, and fuck you, FDA, for banning a beverage on account of thinly-veiled moral panic.

I'll wager that Four Loko's two-buck price tag, its availability in blighted urban neighborhoods and its perceived boorishness has done little to help its case with political types, who surely favor a nicely aged Macallan.

Four Lokos are 12 percent alcohol and contain as much caffeine as a cup of coffee -- about 135 milligrams...

http://www.theroot.com/views/four-loko-hysteria-smack-classism

Let me get this straight--24 oz. of a high-gravity malt-liquor has as much caffeine as 24 oz. of... tea? And its alcohol content approximates that of two twelve-oz. high-gravity microbrews? You mean that the panic is over something commonly referred to as "punch?" "One of strong two of weak three of sour four of sweet?"

[justdrew]

the 4loko things is weird. I thought it was down to the taurine or some other odd ingredient that wasn't supposed to be there. Who makes the stuff and where does it come from?

As far as I can tell this started with that party in Washington state where a number of people who drank it wound up in hospital and thought they'd been slipped "roofies".

The oddest thing is this coincides with David Cross's new show, "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" which is about an American in England trying to market a toxic energy drink. Just seems odd that a real life version would spring up at the same time as it's airing.

[Project Willow]

I'm spending T-Day with a group of lovely creative folks I met somehow through the (IRL) Saloon, so I thought it appropriate to wish one and all here 'merkins a happy, calm, and in-relative-moderation healthy Thanksgiving!