Hot Mustard
Our kickball team lost again on Friday. We haven’t won a game yet. And the regular season is now over. We went the entire season without winning a game. But we all had so much fun and everybody is finally starting to catch on. The team is starting to gel. It’s actually kind of fun being co-captain of the worst team in the league because every buys beer for you cause they feel sorry for you. We still have two weeks worth of playoffs so there is a slim chance we may win one of those games (very slim). In addition several people in the league had tossed around the idea of a dodgeball league for wintertime. I hope it ends up being a go. I really hope we can find an elementary or jr. high school gym that will let us use their facilities. I had a late night at Romes with the league after the game.
On Saturday I spent much of the morning lazing around. I took a long lunch at Wahoos and read my new book. Then I came home and spent a couple hours on the couch talking on the phone. After a short nap my brother called to see if I wanted to come over for drinks for Bran’s birthday. First, about six of us went out to Tommy’s Thai. While waiting for a table we went next door to the PS Lounge and great wood paneled, smoky, vinyl seated, dive bar that gives out free plastic roses to the ladies and free Alabama Slammers to everyone! We then had a wonderfully obnoxious dinner complete with spilt beer, hot mustard coming out of the nose, and a drunk combsy that couldn’t tell when you were making fun of him or if the entire restaurant could hear him. We then decided to skip the gallery opening and went straight over to our friends for the B-day party. After everyone had been at the party for a bit, it was decided we should go out to the bar. We all went to the Streets Of London Pub, a weird, lime-green, strip-mall bar that attracts the tatooed, vespa riding crowd with the cateye glasses (read Daves review of it here if you got the time). From here the usual happened: bargaining cigarettes for mardigras masks, singing Lynard Skynard and Journey into bottles of budwieser, being told by tiny women that if I wanted to play pool I’d have to fight her and then her running over to me to tell me they were joking when a fight in the bar actually did break out, hanging out with artists my brother knew that were in town for this gallery opening and other Saturday night stuff that seems to happen around this crowd. The evening end with me crashing into a crowded futon at my brothers house.
Sunday was a long day. Mostly because I was exhausted and had slept in my contacts. After sleeping late in late me and my brother and his girlfriend went over to my dads to watch the Denver Donkeys on the TV, shoot the shit, and eat buffalo wings. I fell asleep on the soft carpet (a luxury when you live with hardwood floors). Dad and his lady fixed us a great dinner and we then we went home. I was asleep before 10:00, again.
1 chevy Says:
what does crashing into a crowded futon involve? like did you jump on a ton of people or fall over their feet or what?
2 hubs Says:
it sounds more exciting that it was. by crashing, i meant falling asleep. by crowded, i meant two other people in the bed. when you’ve been single for eight months a bed with more than just you in it is crowded.
3 sf Says:
I want to play kickball! Looks like such fun! I’m looking for leagues here in PHX.
4 deb Says:
I’m obsessed with my pink shag rug; it’s my first one in an apartment after years and years of cold, mean floors. I’ve fallen asleep like a kindergartener at nap time many nights, in fact, I could kind of use some nap time right now.
Sigh.
5 chevy Says:
well you shouldve said crashed ON not IN and then it wouldve been clearer.
maybe your luck will change around the end of the month as far as bed emptiness? your horoscope said something about that.
6 btezra Says:
I saw someone get knocked out last week at a kickball game…ball smacked him when he was not looking, right in the forehead, he fell back, smacked the back of his head on the ground and was out cold for 5 minutes…needless to say he’s now on the injured reserve list…kickball, dangerous recreational sport…
7 lotus Says:
Mmmmm…buffalo wings….
8 sf Says:
btezra -
An appropriate warning, and one we should all take note of. Do you think helmets are in order - or maybe an age limit for the game? I was previously unaware of the extreme dangers of kickball, and I thank you for altering me to the potential dangers.
(but that is a funnyass story!)
9 hubs Says:
deb - i really really miss being able to lay on the floor and watch a movie.
chevy - it’s amazing how accurate those horoscopes can be sometimes.
btezra - there was a girl last week who caught the ball with her face. she ended up having a double gusher bloody nose. i fell on my back last week, you have to run backwards more than you would think and it’s hard. i’ve also tripped over a base bag and skinned myself up pretty good.
lotus - damn straight!
10 chad Says:
There’s no way I could play kickball…..no doubt would tear a muscle/ligament….pop a tendon! Dodge ball….now that sounds fun…you could pretty much just stand there….block/and throw!!
11 Appleshell Says:
Sleeping in contacts sucks. Taking out contacts with out ripping them while completely intoxicated it a near impossible task which I have mastered.
I don’t think I’ve played kickball since I was in Jr. High. That looks so much fun!
12 dave Says:
Graci, my friend.
13 Chris Says:
Hmmm…Maybe someone in Denver can tell me where I and a bunch of friends can sign up and play Kickball and Dodgeball. We are aching to play and having a hard time finding places and information.
14 Chris Says:
By the way, there will be dangers in any sport that is played…but I don’t see helmets coming anytime soon…haha. That is why when you play, you have to pay attention so you can save your arse.
15 Mike Says:
There are dodgeball and kickball leagues all over Denver. Check them out at http://www.denversands.com
16 hubs Says:
that’s all fine and good mike, but you have no fall kickball league.
17 WAAR Says:
We are looking to establish a kickball league in Phoenix.
Please visit our website if you are interestedin starting kickball in your area.
We need a bit of help knowing where to get it started.
TeamWAAR.com
info@teamwaar.com
18 Chris Says:
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19 Mike Says:
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