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It really is not easy partying as hard as I do.

Welcome to the Century Club

On another note, I guess March officially kicked off tonight.  My two roommates and myself attempted the "Century Club" tonight.  If you are unaware, the Century Club involves drinking 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes.  The basic game states doing a shot equaling 1.0 ounces, but being the drinkers we are, we abide by our shot glasses of 1.5 ounces per shot. 

I hate to call out friends, but Jeff only made it to 15 shots of beer (technically about 3 beers in 15 minutes).  Steve and I maintained and swallowed down 102-103 shots of beer in the 100 minute time frame.  I can say we were both greatly surprised with our finish, and now we both are proud members of the "Century Club."  I'm as sure as the moon that this post was tough to type, but two of us three roommates became members tonight.  Jeff is really pissed off, but I'm so drunk I guess I don't really care.

Here is to March, and to friends.  Without, it would be tough to go on.

Not really a weekend update

On Monday I celebrated my birthday,  marking another year closer to my premature expiration.  I didn't really go over the top on Friday or Saturday in honor of by birthday, I kept those more on the low pro with casual drinking and some fine dining.

On Monday night (June 20) I was sponsored at Lucky Baldwins in Old Towne Pasadena.  This is perhaps one of my favorite bars of all time, and there is really no other bar I would like to spend my birthday at in LA.  For dinner I went all out and had their homemade Chicken Curry Pasties (which are huge) as well as a half order of Fish & Chips.  Lucky's is known for their Fish & Chips, so who am I to argue, even on my birthday.  With the formalities of eating out of the way, drinking was of course the main concern.  Lucky's has over 63 permanent taps, and always has some sort of beer festival going on.  Monday was a great day for me to start the IPA Festival.  For this event there are 60 different IPA (India Pale Ale) on tap for pinting.  Obviously all 60 can't be done in one day (i guess depending on the individual), so the event carries on over a week.  The first pint is $5 and the glass is yours to keep and refill, for only $3 a pint.  Some of the IPA's are doubles, so they charge $4 per refill.  As it was my birthday I did the best I could with the IPA list, and knocked down a very hefty bunch of IPA's.  The best of the night is a toss up between Anderson Valley Hot Ottin' IPA and Oggi's Stuft Pizza Torrey Pines IPA (single). 

Needless to say I stumbled out of Lucky Baldwins to the warm Pasadena night with much thanks for those in attendance and a special thanks to Shannon for sponsoring most of the night, and always making sure there was something for me to drink (all that Framboise Lambic helped the buzz so much). 

This weekend I have a split birthday party with my friend Tamara as we share the spotlight with many more of our friends.  It'll probably be a bar where I have to drink Bud Light all night, but hey, that's where are the beautiful people go here in LA.  Or maybe I'm still recovering from Monday night.

Whoring on Sunset Strip

Normally when I'm out partying on Sunset I'm going to a rock show or hanging at The Standard or Bar Marmont, but last night I was a Sunset Strip whore.  My friend Justin was in town from NY and he wanted to party it up on the Strip, so that's what we did.  We started the night at The House of Blues Sunset, in the Foundation Room of course.  From there we went to Miyagi's to catch a few more drinks and see some more of LA's finest women.  Since we were having a great time and spending way too much time at each place we went (including too many drinks) we only hit 3 spots last night.  We ended our evening at Chi, the place that is co-owned by Justin Timberlake.  That being said, it is a very fun place, one of the few that I really enjoy on the Strip. 

The night would have been better if Dublin's was still open.  This was always a fun bar on Thursday night and had a great East Coast feel.  At Chi I was able to get a Yankee fan to bleed his true colors.  The short on this guy is that is the the chairman of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) diversity division, former FDNY guy, and Yankee season ticket holder.  He commutes to NY to go to as many games as possible.  I was able to get him to admit that when he was younger he was a Mets fan, even went to the World Series victory parade in 1986.  I wonder how many Yankee fans 'converted' simply due to the Yanks' winning.  Ah, but I digress. 

Justin chatted up this broad that was hanging with Heidi Fleiss earlier last night, and I'll leave you with Heidi's words of wisdom: "the grass is always greener, not true, cherish where you are right now, this may be better than you think..."

That's just more funny because Justin got propositioned by a fat black prostitute on the Strip last night, she wouldn't let go of his ass!

Where will it end?

Coffee price hike!

By the way, my roommate is currently having his identity stolen by some jerkoff scumbag.  He is at the point where he has to go to the DMV to get a new license and license number, as well as get in touch with Social Security and have his SS number changed.  What the fuck is that all about?

Long week even longer.  Great show on Saturday though.

Oh so long

Hope that drew you in for a titilating new post.  Nope, just been so long since I last posted.  On my way out the door right now.  Going out, pretty low key tonight.  This place called the Yardhouse.  It's a chain here in SoCal, and they have like over 200 beers on tap.  That's alot of beer but I'll try to have one of each tonight.

Keane is a pretty awesome band.  So glad I've got 4 tickets to night one of the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas this year.  Yeah Baby.