Girls Gone Wild

It's Friday, and we're coming to the end of "Update Every Weekday" week. I lived up to my promise!

Last night was Thursday, of course, and the first Thursday at Samy's in a while. It was extremely crowded, but luckily there was no line. However, Samy's did have a new addition to its ever increasing ambience: a fog machine. I am not particularly a fan of the fog machine, though its distinctive scent (a combo of maple syrup and . . .fog) brings back fond memories of being in Godspell in high school (apparently musicals about Jesus necessitate fog, though I can't vouch for Jesus Christ Superstar) and Batman: The Ride at Great America. As "atmospheric" as the fog was, I don't think it had the desired effect, as people tended to leave the dance floor whenever it was activated. Also on the dance floor was a man whose moves reminded me of the "dancing, spinning, allegedly intoxicated man" who made the police blotter a couple years back. He spun around as though there was a mini-tornado (perhaps the same one that wrecked N Sync's stage at the Route 66 Speedway in 2000, thus preventing Wendy and I from getting to meet Justin, J.C., Joey, Lance and Chris as planned) encircling him. Later on Tornado Toby relocated his moves to the bar, where he managed to break someone else's beer bottle in his dancing frenzy and was quickly overtaken by the bouncers. There seemed to be a large number of newsboy hats out last night, perhaps the resurgence of this fashion trend was in honor of Britney Spears' short-lived marriage. All Time Twirler was there as usual, along with Bouncer on a Box (hands on hips was the preferred pose of the evening), but JLH was nowhere to be found. The t-shirt award of the evening went to a guy wearing a shirt that said, "Free to a Good Home." No word on if he got adopted.

The most amusing event of the evening occurred when a drunken man who strongly resembled Super Mario approached us. The man claimed to be from a production company that was making "Girls Gone Wild: Joliet," and was trying to woo female bargoers into starring in the video. He claimed that if we went out front and gave someone our names and signed some papers, he had a production crew outside waiting to film us, and we'd get free t-shirts. As we quickly declined (I love free t-shirts, but not THAT much), Super Mario approached our friends Brian and Mike. Starting off the conversation with an ever-encouraging, "You guys are men, right?" he tried to convince them to do something that involved a "14 hour party." I don't know what was involved in this event, or if Super Mario was also trying to convince the guys to lift up their shirts on camera, but Brian and Mike also said no and the man walked away. Super Mario did not stop there, and continued on to Lucas, another guy we know who was sitting not too far away. Megan and I approached to listen in, but couldn't hear too much. After Super Mario moved on, we asked Lucas what Mario had said to him. Again, it involved some sort of "14 hour party." No word on if Princess Toadstool was part of this event.

Well that's all I got here for now, enjoy the weekend!