Category Archives: bars

Buchanan Dam, TX

So we had this grand idea. It required someplace remote and near water. Buchanan Dam, TX was adjacent to a large lake we thought would be great for this photo project.
We first went to Fuzzy’s Corner. Douchecock racists at the bar mumbled something I couldn’t hear, but Zoo did.
Moved on to dinner at Danny’s Country [...]

New Orleans – Night 1

It was a second visit for both of us to Pat O’Briens in New Orleans …

Humidity fogged Matt’s lens … Voodoo fountain – fire and water.

Pat O’Brien’s is famous for its Hurricane … a fruity concoction of rum, passion fruit, grenadine, lemon and lime … You’ll never catch me outside of NOLA with one of [...]

Burn’s Alley, Charleston, SC

You know those vacations that you plan with your friends for weeks … every strip-club restaurant, every cougar haunt museum, every last detail … you’re doing it wrong. Seriously, just stop planning so much.

Well, I do say, Dr. Suess + William Shakespeare FTW.

When this is the sign for the bar you’re walking in, you’ve [...]

Vegas usually annoys the piss out of me …

… seriously. It’s full of cheeseball douchebag wanna-be brainless fashion victims. It annoys me so much that normally I go windmill tilting and try to annoy it right back, but that has generally ended badly — like, my-friend-covered-in-a-third-party’s-blood badly — so I thought, okay, this time I’m going to play nice …
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Atoms Rearranged at Rontoms in Portland

We switched streams to another bar, called Rontoms, where Phaux immediately engaged with Matt Brown and discovered Matt’s passion for music as ACTUAL indie music label owner. 

While Phaux was having a conversation of actual substance, I was pointing at this girl’s cleavage.

Not sure what this is all about.  I think I thought her nose was [...]

The universe exploded at the Doug Fir in Portland, OR

If you read wikipedia as much as I do, you’ll know that the tallest tree ever to exist was not a Giant Sequoia, but rather a Douglas-Fir.   After dinner, Phaux pointed us towards this arboronymous bar, in the Jupiter Hotel, which is also a semi-legendary music venue.  

Shortly after arriving, three blondes from Seattle [...]

Day 6: When You Least Expect It …

It looked like it was going to be a quiet night for us, with most of Banff trying to deal with their St. Patty’s Day hangovers. We headed to the Rose and Crown for a pint and some billiards …
The we met Little and Big John, a Scot and an Englishman, respectively, who both [...]

Day 5: Banff Nightlife … Penetration Achieved

When I lived in Banff in 2000, I came to love this place like almost no other place on earth. I remember crying when I left that spring for the last time. Part of it was the girl (Yes, Kaylee, you), part of it was the house (Gus, Guy, Christie, Eric, Krissy, Jane, [...]

Day 0 – in and down

After a long flight from Newark (flawless), I landed, picked up my rental car without speaking to a human (way cool) and drove up into the city, where Zoo was already partying for hours (dick). Alas, the 5 was blocked, so I had to take my first “side road” and ended up driving up the west side [...]

Day 0: Bar Roundup

Before Phauxtog arrived, I ended up walking around Downtown and Belltown and checked out a few bars …
The Tap Room: 160 beers on tap, heavily skewed towards North America. This is not a place to go to pick up women, but an okay place to catch a game. Had some popcorn shrimp, [...]