so i just turned 30 years old, right? and i got a digital camera for my b-day from my dad cause, you know, all along i'm thinking how cool it will be to litter the website with stupid pictures and more fun stuff.
so check it out. this is me and my brother steve. we took this picture of ourselves at a new bar / restaurant next to Regal Cinemas on Elmwood avenue called Buffalo Wild Wings. we were looking for something to do last Saturday night so we could do some brotherly bonding and stuff. my brother steve is the best guy in the world and we both have the same stupid sense of humor.
actually, when i was in high school we used to be in a fictional band and wrote and recorded all these songs on 2 boomboxes. we called ourselves vic & vinnie maverik, and basically it was an excuse for me to write ridiculous goofy songs with lots of swear words and adult content and get my 12 year old brother to sing all of these ridiculous lyrics. then we'd play the tapes for our mom and horrify her. (not really. she laughed as much as we did). some of our outstanding tracks include "your grandma is one hot momma," "the boner polka," "i jumped off a cliff," "a boy today a man tomorrow," "the road to shit music," and the all-time classic "poop", which will ring a few bells in just a minute.
yeah, so anyway, Wild Wings kind of looks like a combination bar and mall inside, with big screen TVs and monitors everywhere you turn and lots of crazy bright lights everywhere. they serve mediocre food and charge you a lot of money for it too! you can get 6 chicken fingers for $7. each finger's about 2 inches long and they serve all six on top a big piece of lettuce (!) on a crappy plastic tray. you don't even get free fries dammit!
but we gotta give them credit for one good thing they've got going - TV TRIVIA!
(note: that's my thumb on the left hand side of pic. a recurring theme for these photos i'm afraid to say.)
basically when you walk in the door they give you this little console so you can play a trivia game against the other people in the bar. the questions appear on the mounted TVs all over the bar and there are usually 15 questions per game. you type in your answer when each question comes on screen and the quicker you respond the more points you get.
after each question they show which answer everybody picked, how many points they got (or lost) and the current standings.
if you're a super big loser and you come to play all the time and you win a lot then i think at some point in time they give you a free chicken finger or something. i dunno.
well anyway, when you start you choose a 6-letter screen name. totally anonymous!
(note: steve drank a fuzzy navel and i had a corona.)
when we came in the door they were already in the middle of a game so there wasn't much chance we'd be able to get enough points to win, but we thought we'd jump in.
i think the name we picked for the first game was MrsMan. which is sort of funny, but not too outrageous. we did pretty well and got all revved up for the second game since we'd be starting right at the beginning.
somewhere during the second game we decided we were hungry so we got some greasy potato wedges (pretty good actually). these were later followed by some actual chicken wings.
okay, so for the second game we decided we needed a little bit more COLORFUL team name. so i tried a few words that almost sounded like expletives but weren't. but the computer DENIED ME! it said my choices were inappropriate. so now of course we were more determined than ever to succeed at subversion.
i typed in yet another name and showed it to steve. we started killing ourselves laughing. our team name? BIGPOO! i guess you had to be there, but it was really funny.
so pretty much every time they posted the scores, good old BIGPOO would be on screen for everyone to see! in fact as soon as the game started we heard this guy behind us yell out, "BIGPOO?!!" what a great moment.
let me tell you a few little things about myself, which i think my brother would feel the same about: (1) i strongly dislike conformity. it's bad for the human spirit. (2) i feel it's wise to maintain a healthy skepticism / disrespect for convention and authority. it keeps you from being a sheep or following blindly and getting yourself killed. (3) i get bored easily. much of this boredom comes when life and people are too predictable, which ties back into the conformity thing. i like to shake it up and have fun WITHOUT HURTING ANYONE. (4) i like it when everything goes crazy and i don't know what's going on. mild chaos can be lots of FUN. (5) life should be fun. we'll be dead before we know it.
yeah so anyway, steve and i immediately noticed that all of the other team names were completely weak and boring. DRUNK? WEEZIE? TBOMBS? oh please. you call those good names? those are crap! so we knew we had to prove that not only were we better at trivia but that BIGPOO had better be recognized y'all!
it was a hard fought contest. general trivia on all sorts of topics. as you can see BIGPOO was a contender, but we just couldn't catch MARMIK. that tricky bastard.
trivia is hard work so we had more drinks. well, actually just me. corona is really good. have you ever tried it?
there is a long break between each game while they show advertisements on the screen. it gave us time to regroup and have a team meeting to talk about our mistakes. we knew that there was a good chance we would soon be too exhausted, full, or drunk to compete at the level we're capable, so we had to make sure that we took game 3!
fortunately, this game was a specific topic: MUSIC! steve is an all-pro when it comes to music knowledge and trivia so i knew we were going to rock it.
and of course we did. BIGPOO cleaned everybody's clock at rock trivia. in fact, we were so quick with our answers that we kept getting acknowledgments on screen: "Fast Fingers BIGPOO!" " Nice Reflexes BIGPOO!" as you can imagine, this only helped to elevate our feelings of joy and strengthen team morale as we neared the finish line.
and then it was over!
"A STANDING OVATION FOR BIGPOO!"
VICTORY!
our enemies TBOMB, MARMIK, WEEZIE, and DRUNK, vanquished and shamed! they are WEAK! we are STRONG!
this calls for more overpriced chicken products!
