Random Thursday fun
It seems appropriate to start this blog with a little happy hour story. Last Thursday was my buddy Dave's last day in the lab. After work we went out to a little Haitian bar called TapTap in South Beach. The drink of the day was Mojitos, because they are 2 for $6 during happy hour. Ridiculously cheap for SoBe. From Tap Tap the single members of the groups headed over the the Playright for Irish Car Bombs. Dave was convinced of the need for Car Bombs. Playwright is one of the few genuine Irish Pubs to be found in the Miami area. They have Irish staff and show live feeds of Premiership soccer early in the morning. We ended up playing pool there for a good 3 hours. At that point everyone took off. I wasn't set to drive yet so I went with my friend Anil up to Skybar at the Shoreclub to hang out with the Brown people until I was sober enough to drive home. We crashed the back VIP area to meet up with our friends who had been there for a while. The buzz was that Jamie Fox, recent Oscar winner, was in the back chilling. I'm terrible at celebrity spotting so I couldn't figure out where he was until he was pointed out to me. He's a big dude! He was somewhat less than incognito though, he was the only guy wearing mirrored sunglasses and a floppy sun hat while playing pool at 1:30 in the morning. As I was still not quite sober at this point I decided to put quarters on the pool table for next. In short order the game finished as Jamie called out "Who put quarters?"
"That would be me." I replied.
"Rack em up."
He introduced himself as Jamie, we shook hands and got the game under way.
I beat him good.
A few lessons from that evening. Jamie Fox is strong, be careful shaking his hand. Don't drive if you're not sober, you might miss playing pool with a celebrity(good advice no matter what the situation). Random stuff like this happens a lot in Miami.
Until next time, enjoy the Mojitos.
posted by Brad @ 2:57 AM
8 Comments:
I give this blog about 3 weeks. B-rad will start off strong with about 2 postings next week... possibly one the following... and then it will peter out to exist in cyberspace as a mere shell of what could have been.
Prove me wrong, Coyle.
i have more faith... but still, go ahead, prove craig wrong.
party on brad!
Oh, Brad is a talker. It'll rapidly escalate until he is doing blogging pieces about blogging pieces that interrupted so he could do other blogs.
BTW, I remember when Val Kilmer and I played Connect Four.
Jason->Brad->Jamie Fox
Nice I'm now only one pool game of seperation from Jamie Fox. Are you going to add him to Friendster?
b-rad, excellent story - for the record, I think Cerg is wrong too, but he so often is. ;) also for the record, you spelled 'foxx' wrong. :)
Brad, did you really beat him at pool or did you make that part up? Sweet blog, i'm putting it on my favorites!
Although my advice is that you need to upload some pictures so that we can see the beautiful babies you meet in the bars.
brad --- where's the next update?! prove craig wrong!!!!
great advice. but next time you meet a celebrity, kick him in the shin. then you can say "i kicked jamie fox in the shin." what's the worse that can happen, you get to go on the late night tv talkshow cirquit.
love it man, keep it coming.
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