Smell That?

Beer And Other Purty Pitchers!

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:06:56 -0400

This Saturday, the good people at Unique New York are hosting The Panorama Challenge, an evening of New York-themed visual trivia to benefit the City Reliquary, a museum in Williamsburg dedicated to memorabilia and artifacts of everyday city life through history. It's really a cool place, and now that they have an actual space to display things, it's time for them to start ramping up their notices.

Our museum collection displays thoughtfully arranged artifacts of New York City’s rich history, which entice viewers to learn more about the five boroughs. Some of the highlights of the collection include architectural remnants of city buildings, Statue of Liberty memorabilia, a geological display of New York’s underground composition, and a 1939 World’s Fair exhibit...
A central part of our mission is to plan and host public events, which provide neighbors and visitors with a place to meet, exchange ideas, and celebrate the diversity of our community. Some of our annual events include Bicycle Fetish Day, Collector’s Night, and The September Tribute to Our City. We maintain a commitment to neighborhood beautification and restoration at and around the City Reliquary Museum as a way to provide a pleasant and safe place for people to gather, relax, disseminate information, and enjoy the camaraderie provided by a city of over eight million people.

It's $25 for tickets but that includes two free drinks (Brooklyn Brewery is also a sponsor), and hey, it's a Saturday Night. You were going to shell out that much for a good time anyway.

Details and ticket information at the Reliquary's website, or you can call them at 718-R U CIVIC.

Edit: [gracias, vidiot]

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9/20 DSO Recap: "I'm going to have to ask you to come in on Sunday, too..."

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:09:55 -0400

[mirrored here, as always.]

So proud of you bastards last night. After two rounds, no one had less than 10½ points, and I thought the questions were pretty hard, but then what do I know. And the only reason the guy playing solo won the whole night was that he was really into documentaries, which is why I'm kind of wary to hew too close to one topic for ten questions. Still, it was nice & raucous regardless. I can't stand a quiet room.

Lumbergh

1. On This Day - in which Chester Arthur became President, Lee Iacocca became the head of Chrysler, Orville Redenbacher drowned in his hot tub, Matthew & Gunnar Nelson tossed their long ironed-straight blond hair, and Bill Lumbergh turned fifty.

2. Audio round: Father's Day - Including Father Of Mine, Papa Legba, the Temptations' Papa Was A Rolling Stone, and to kinda pad it out, Feliz Navidad ("Dad?" Geddit? Geddit?), and This Is Pop by XTC.

3. Famous Howards - Including Howard Stern, Howard's End & Ron Howard (though not Elston Howard, Howard Beach or the great Emily Howard, who is a very pretty lady!)

4. Great Documentaries - Triumph of the Will, March of the Penguins, Roger & Me, The Aristocrats, The Kid Stays In The Picture, the Seven-Up series, and of course Spellbound.

Emily Howard

5. Name Threes - Three American writers living in France, three New York City mayors, three types of clams, and three actors who played FBI agents.

Nine teams this week (kind of quiet by our standards; if you haven't come recently, now's the time, before we get busy again with the change in weather and the prizes are still easier to get).

1st Place: The Dreaded "Rear Admiral" (USN, Ret.) (a solo act, who won dinner for two to Cremcaffe next door. Your move, ladies!)
2nd Place: The Schadenfreudes
3rd Place: Soco & Lime Diseased (I had a terrible experience with this drink, and even typing it today I get a memory-twinge of nausea, so, uh, thanks for that)

and then, in no particular order:

Dankberg, Dankberg & Dankberg (It's Not Rabinowitz)
We're Not Wrong! You Just Don't Understand!
The Little Way
The Super Jews
My Ex-Wife Got Our Brains In The Divorce Settlement

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9/13 DSO Recap

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:42:55 -0400

[mirrored here, as always.]

Well, that worked out pretty well.

We got last night’s game in before today’s monsoon, and it went pretty well. I set a new record for cussing up a blue streak in the questions, on the same night my father came down from Toronto to watch me do my thing. (I don’t believe he got the question about GG Allin, but I could be wrong.)

1. On This Day

I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts

2. Audio Round: I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts - Songs about Parts: It's My Party, Junco Partner, Particle Man, that sort of thing. In brainstorming versions of this round out, there was a Sam Cooke song in the mix, so even when that song didn't make the final ten, I decided to put a mess of his songs on the end of the disc, just because.

3. This was a guess-the-theme round, but the answers included GG Allin, Alcoholics Anonymous, LL Cool J, AA Milne, Bebe Neuwirth, and the top-level domain for Estonia. I threw out the question about BB King's nightclub, because I lost the ability to tell my East from my West. D'oh

4. Pluto & Other Planets: The two teams that chose this round as their daily double rocked the round like crazy.

5. Name Threes: intended as an occasional rapid-fire substitute for the True/False round, it seemed to go over pretty well. I gave three items, and you gave me the one thing they had in common (Examples: "Formidable Opponent, Better Know A District, The Threat Down" or "Jackie Robinson, Henry Hudson, the Korean War Veterans"). We'll test-drive this baby for a month or two and see how it works out.

Team names this week included:

1st Place: The Dusseldorf Overcompensators (Don't Mention The War!)
2nd Place: Frites and Geeks
3rd place: Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz & Rabinowitz: The Savage Jews Who Will Tear You Limb From Limb

Followed by, in no particular order:
Three's Company, formerly Take Two
Road Head On The BQE
We Impregnated Neil Toomey's Mom, formerly We Piss On Neil Toomey
Sherman Helmsley's Revenge
The Yael Gottlieb Fan Club (Be careful out there)
The Humpalots
The Unnecessaries
Snakes on Joey Buttafuoco, formerly Snakes on Valerie Plame
The A Levels
Snap & Crackle (Pop Died)

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