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May 07, 2006
On Harold, Derby, and New Orleans.
So I still have a job. Wooo! Or, um, a slightly less than enthusiastic wooo!, since they put my scheduled salary parity situation on el holdo for the forseeable future, yet I'm not supposed to complain since I still have a job I mean dang, you know?
So what does Louisville do when we're not thinking about being hung out to dry? Over Derby Week, the answer is: Get Drunk. I have had the beers at the brand-spanking new Third Street Dive (cute and happy owners Steve and Kenny, great BBC beers on tap, nice ambience), at the Red Lounge, at Air Devils Inn and Jenicca's (cute-ass downtown wine bar) at Brigid and Nate's party, and finally at Cafe Lou Lou (amidst many seersuckered doofuses and their attendant womens) and Beth's apartment.
All hail the Derby drunk! Today, at Brigid and Nate's party, I placed my first ad hoc bet on a horse, well, like, ever. I bet one dollar to win on AP Warrior. I bet you're thinking that we Kentuckians know a helluva lot about handicapping these here horse races. Why, we just totally depend on the mint in our celebratory juleps for our daily RDA of vitamin A! The truth is we don't know an exacta from a perfecta, or whatever, and those $1,000 juleps are just $75 silver cups full of Woodford and ice from the Arctic Circle (you believe that if you need to).
You know how it is. Of course I lost my Derby bet, but I thought I had a chance based on its name. AP Warrior sounded like the hardest-core journalist horsey, though he ended up at #18. In my perfect scenario, AP Warrior is checking his sources and filing a story with the Associated Press while the bugle dork blows the call to the post and our guy misses the scene because he's busy tearing off his geek glasses and revealing his sexy self to the long-suffering smart-mouthed ingenue.
Over Cafe Lou Lou's Derby night eats, I found out that a couple we know socially also loves to visit New Orleans, and I'm even more excited about heading back to the French Quarter this fall. My stylist just returned with tales of a healthy and vibrant Quarter, and though I know my tourist dollars won't exactly bring a town in crisis back from the brink, I do want to do what I can do, which means drinking lots of cocktails with the off-duty service kids at Molly's on Toulouse, and engaging in other vacationy shenangians.
What does this have to do with Harold Dieterle of Top Chef fame? Nothing, except that folks keep stopping in to say "hi" and I am ever more convinced that Harold will take the whole competition, no contest. I'd love to chat with Harold over a flight of good bourbons, but I'll settle for him not wearing a totally ugly sweater on the reunion show come this Wednesday. It's kinda humiliating to be so into a reality program, but I've decided to take it in stride. TEAM HAROLD!
Posted by eek at May 7, 2006 01:47 AM
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We just bought tickets for the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans--Oct 28-29.
First band to sign up: RHCP
We're NOLA virgins; don't have much frame of reference. We'll bring our enthusiasm and tourist dollars.
Posted by: Cil at May 7, 2006 07:27 AM
Hey Eek-
Headed to NOLA the weekend of 2-4 June...staying at the newly re-opened The Columns. Any suggestions you want to shoot my way would be very much appreciated!
Posted by: Kath at May 7, 2006 11:30 AM
Molly's on Toulouse is our favorite bar. Not to be confused with Molly's on Market. Aunt Tiki's on Decatur is pretty fun as well (decor: dungeon meets tiki bar - a half-finished redecoration job). The Clover Grill is open 24 hours and serves a great greasy midnight breakfast, or Froot Loops if you're so inclined. Eat at the Napoleon House, while you're at it, and if you're brave, have a Lucky Dog and think of Ignatius Reilly. Visit Sideshow, Harry Anderson's magic and curiosity shop. Have fun!
Posted by: eek at May 7, 2006 12:36 PM
yay...thanks for the fyi's!
Posted by: Kath at May 7, 2006 02:01 PM
heh.
Try a Lucky Dog.
My valve...
Posted by: Cil at May 7, 2006 02:33 PM
God, I miss Louisville around Derby time. I loved the Red Lounge.
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Posted by: Angie at May 13, 2006 06:25 PM