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Dennis Jansen

June 3rd, 2010

Dollar beverage night, hilarity

Tyler and I met at Wilde Roast yesterday after work. Tyler and I must be chatty-cathys because I look down at my watch and it’s somehow two hours later and I am 20 minutes late for picking up Roby at the Mall of Americawoops.

I excuse myself, zip across town to the Mall, and beg Roby to forgive me for being on Miami time. Roby forgives me after a few bribes and we drive back to the city for $1 beverage night at Lush Bar.

Wednesday nights start at Lush because it has a video bar and the place is slow enough to have a conversation without screaming. So Roby and I stood and gossiped, watched Toni Braxton’s new botox video, and I had the pleasure of introducing Roby to Brett, one of my favorite people.

Roby and I then skipped over to the Townhouse bar in St. Paul.

Townhouse is a lesbian/drag bar right across from a Wal-Mart that also hosts a $1 beverage night on Wednesdays. I love going to the Townhouse on Wednesdays because the people watching surpasses Wal-Mart. Behold:

Dick Enrico

Roby wore plaid, and with so many lesbians in the crowd, of course he had a twin!

Brian Roby

And, like every week, there was a tragic hot mess that we need to discuss, but the pictures are after the jump because she is NOT WORK APPROPRIATE. Let’s see… Continue reading “Dollar beverage night, hilarity” »

June 3rd, 2010

Portraits from the over-cologned mosh pit

There was some sort of gay softball event at the Minneapolis Eagle. The Eagle was so packed that moving around felt like diving in an over-cologned mosh pit, so Zach, Matt and I stayed in the video bar where it was safe.

Roby was also at the Eagle that night playing paparazzi. Here are some of his shots:

Minneapolis Eagle
Minneapolis Eagle
Minneapolis Eagle

The rest are over at facebook.

The video bar was all show tunes and musical theater that night. There’s nothing funnier than a bar full of men screaming along to Dolly Parton’s 9-to-5 and repeating all the words to the epic Mama Mia/Mommy Dearest mashup.

Oh hilarity.