My life is pretty tough. I go on tons of road trips for my job, eat delicious food, stay in beautiful hotels, and drink craft beer. Oh, and after all that, I have to come home and play billiards with pretty people.
Woe is me.
I actually had a pretty busy Friday night -> Saturday morning. I went out and saw Win Win at the independent film theatre – which was wonderful! I love Amy Ryan and Paul Giamotti! It took me a while to decide how I felt about the kid who played the lead – Alex Shaffer. He played a sixteen year-old incredibly well. He was flat and uncaring, and totally believable, but I couldn’t tell if that was because he actually IS a teenager, or if he’s a good actor. Then came the emotional scenes…
Yeah, he’s just a teenager. Major props to him though! Considering it was his first role, I was impressed!
After wandering out of the theatre, surrounded by dozens of elderly couples on double dates, I met my friend from retail-days at Ladyface. Victor and I both escaped the clutches of the congolomerate, and finally caught each other up on how much happier our lives are now.
I swear he’s happy here… and not at all annoyed by me taking crazy amounts of blurry pictures throughout the night for my blog.
Barron showed up a few minutes later and we got down to the important task of ordering beer. I tried Ladyface’s latest cask, “Love Child”, which is their La Blonde that’s been dry hopped. I love tasting their latest, but will always go for the Chesebro IPA if it’s on tap – which it FINALLY was again!
We hung out at Ladyface for a bit, then decided to explore other venues. Our next stop was a bar.
Oh, joy. Lots of underdressed women, dudes with side-turned hats and random vomit on the floor (seriously). Oh, joy.
Loud music, pounding bass, sticky tables. Whee. The TWO good things – they had pool tables…
And craft beer! I got a Firestone DBA (courtesy of Barron and Victor – grazi, boys!) and we played pool until they turned on the lights.
That was at 2am. I’m a wild child!
On the way home, I took creepy pictures of the moon with my headlights shining on the side of the road. I call it art. Don’t question me.
On Saturday morning, I made pancakes.
Sour Cream Pancakes a la Ina Garten specifically. And I fried them up in a stick or three of butter.
Cuz that’s what you do when you get home at 3am Saturday morning and only sleep for five hours.
The end.
I need those pancakes. Butter is incredible.
I even topped them with butter after frying them in butter. It was heavenly 🙂
Boys + beer it doesn’t get any better than that!
Amen! Well, sweet potato fries woulda been nice if they weren’t “out of season”…
i used to cook my pancakes in butter growing up – makes such a difference!!!
I’ve tried the healthy oils, but it’s just not worth it. Butter all the way!
Yes, I just wanted to concur that you do have the best job! Are you interested in a trade??
Absolutely! As long as your job doesn’t require knowledge of computers, logistics or math… Oh wait… 😛
Kinda bummed now.. went to LF yesterday and asked for the IPA thinking Cheseboro was the only one on the board and got Ladyface instead. Not complaining because ultimately I’m a very happy camper with a Tripel in my hand.
Hopefully I can give it a try next week (with my growlers in tow.. again). What craptastic bar was that, BTW? I need to avoid it in the future.