Big Sexy from WSOC and Cubby from 96.1 The Beat at Coyote Joe’s right before they started Sumo wrestling.
FOX News Edge’s Morgan Fogarty and Brotha Fred doing their rendition of 50 Cent’s P.I.M.P at Media Night at The Gin Mill.
Jon Beason beat me ... at Rock, Paper, Scissors.
As in the Quail Hollow ... Wachovia ... whatever you want to call it, Championship.
Before this weekend, the only golf tournament I had been to before was the Panther’s golf tournament where I had to “drive a celebrity” around in a golf cart. Well this “celebrity” insisted I had a beer with him, which kind of made me wonder about the laws of drinking and driving golf carts.
But that doesn’t really count, nor does it compare to the Quail Hollow Championship where I got a crash course in golf, on the course.
Seeing as how I host a show about motorsports, my friends made an analogy of golfers to NASCAR drivers so that I would understand. They decided that Boo Weekly was the Carl Edwards, Camilo Villegas the Kyle Busch, Phil Mickelson the Dale Jr. and Tiger Woods the Jimmie Johnson. I meanwhile just rooted for Brendon de Jonge because he went to Virginia Tech and was representing Charlotte.
I also learned that when the golf referees throw their hands up that it means to shut up.
Whenever a player makes an eagle, I think the crowd should be like Nelly and drop down and get their eagle on. And I have also come to the conclusion that men should be women’s caddies and carry our purses.
Meanwhile, another one of my friends was being the “Honorary Observer” for Ross Fisher – she even got a hat that said “Honorary Observer.” And as we walked over the river and through the woods around the course we observed the Hendrick’s family home, Coach Fox’s new monstrosity of a house and a home that looked like it was transplanted from Savannah with a sign reading: “Player’s Shelter.” We also saw some “grounds groupies” and what looked like the cast of The Real Housewives of Charlotte.
Cameras and cell phones are outlawed at golf tournaments so I had to wean myself off my crackberry and am thus unable to provide you with a pic, but I was able to capture the tournament oriented block party that was relocated this year from Phillip’s Place to Piedmont Town Center.
I walked it out last night at the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk at Wintrhop Lake in Fort Mill ... you know, home of the National Disc Golf Championship.
Dianne Gallagher of CN2 in South Carolina was there doing the exact same thing I did at Laugh MS just two days prior ... talking about our siblings who suffer from the incurable diseases.
She also released butterflies to represent the sobering statistics of how many people suffer from Kidney Disease in our area alone. After the butterflies actually came out of the box and then proceeded to hit Dianne in the face … there were a lot of them.
Laugh MS at the Lake Norman Comedy Zone sold out, which raised thousand for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Charlotte's Walk MS coming up May 16. When I profusely thanked everyone for their donations in the form of tickets, I said in this economy they were probably expecting a strip tease with their ticket. But it's non-profits such as the MS Society and Kidney Foundation who are really feeling the effects of our shitty economy.
My favorite kind of party is a philanthropy party — the kind of nightlife that helps lives. Anytime there’s an event that benefits a cause ... might I suggest you go to it, whether the charity personally affects you or not. It's kinda like a tax write-off for partying.
Who was seen on the scene ...
* Tee Party: Peyton Manning teeing off with Tiger Woods at the Quail Hollow Championship Wednesday morning.
* Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin and a lot of racer chasers at the Rusty Rudder on Tuesday night.
* Trent Tomilson serenading lunchers at McCoy Smokehouse on Wednesday afternoon.
* Kellie Pickler was at Whisky River last time she was here and probably will be again when she comes back to open up for Taylor Swift.
* Notorious actor Jamal "Gravy" Woolard was at SUITE Wednesday night, and he loved it when they called him Big Poppa.
And as for the Tupac pictures... it's a profile shot and I would imagine Tupac would have aged a little bit, if he's been alive this whole time and all.
\
Another Charlottean seen on the country scene ... my friend Sue whom I met in NYC while working at MAXIM. Sue was the leading lady in the Little Texas video “My Love”
And ten years and two kids later, she's still that hot ...
Little Texas is actually coming to the Old Town Ampitheater in Rock Hill on May 8.
As in the Eric Church concert at Coyote Joe's.
The Deal
I am at risk of becoming a Coyote Joe regular; that was my third time there in a month. I was boot scooting and boogying the week before to Jason Aldean and to Lee Brice a few weeks prior to that. Like Church’s song people were drinking a little drink and smoking a little smoke … outside (cause Coyote Joes has gone smoke free … now we don't have to worry about spontaneously combusting due to the combination of smoke and hairspray).
The Good: All three shows were good, but Eric Church was great. He sang that he loves a good loud honky tonk that rocks on Friday night. Well, he was the one rocking the honky tonk — along with opener Jonathan Singleton
The Bad: People took off their boots off during Eric Church’s song about cowboy boots and proceeded to wave them in the air (like they just didn’t care) which made the place reek of feet. Is that like the country’s version of the Petey Pablo song: North Carolina, come on and raise up, take your boots off, waving 'em round your head, spin it like a helicopter… YEE HAW!
The Verdict: Eric Church reps the Carolinas well … he even named his latest album Carolina. That, and either this dude is a bed-wetter, or he drank a little too much that night:
Upcoming shows at Coyote Joe's ...
April 30: John Michael Carroll's album release party
May 9: Jake Owen
May 21: Zac Brown Band
I get a weekly text from BAR Charlotte advertising their specials and reminding me that it is, in my opinion, still the skankiest bar in town.
Some of the texts that have bombarded my inbox boasted about ...
“Midget Wrestling”
“BARkini Contest”
“Shamrock with your cock out”
“Playboy party and wet t-shirt contest”
“Joe’s Birthday party” ... who is this Joe you speak of?
And a “BAR Charlotte job fair” ... I’m sorry but the economy isn’t that bad
And then each mass text is tagged with: “no cover with text” But little do they know, you couldn’t pay me to go to BAR Charlotte ... unless, of course, Mini Britney is there.
The BAR scene is different from the bar scene considering every night is college night. The one time I set foot in that place, I wanted to run up to the 18-year-old riding the bull in a bikini and give her a hug, teach her the difference between negative and positive attention, and then proceed to Lysol the bull ... there may be S.T.Ds living on that thing.
So to 882-02, whoever you are, I am begging you — take me off your text list and stick to sending mass messages on facebook like the other 813 unread messages in my inbox from promoters.
Laugh MS at Lake Norman Comedy Zone on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Charlotte's Walk MS.
The event will feature co-headliners Frankie Paul and David L from Brotha Fred's AM Mayhem.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and show starts at 8.
Not only will the show make you "LOL," but it raises money to help fight the progressive, incurable disease known as Multiple Sclerosis ... the disease my sister is fighting.
To give you some insight into Multiple Sclerosis and my family's battle with the disease, I have enclosed an article I wrote for the National MS Society newsletter...
Four drinks per round. Eight rounds. Do the math. That’s 8 x 4 ... wait for it ... there it is ... 32 cocktails I had to sample while judging Three Olive Vodka’s Bar Wars 2009 to benefit AIDS Walk Charlotte. Myself, along with Sarah Aarthun from The Observer, Joey Hewell from Uptown Magazine, Steve Caldwell from ELEVATE Magazine, Breezekat from the Ace & TJ show and Roxy Moorecox from Petra’s Piano Bar were doing our part to save the world , one sip at a time.
Bar Wars is a Bars Against AIDS Respond event that raises thousands of dollars for AIDS Walk Charlotte which is coming up May 2. The bars throughout Charlotte round up their troops and throw their bartenders into battle to help fight against AIDS. The drink competition consisted of four categories: martini, shot, Red Bull beverage and Three Olives cocktail. The panel of judges rated each cocktail on a scale of yuck to yum. As a judge, I can go ahead and give you at least one verdict ... I got kinda drunk.
At one point there were this many drinks in front of me — and yes, that’s a peep floating in my drink. It’s a "Duck in the Pond" made by Lenny at Loft 1523. Let’s just say that was one of the cocktails entered into the contest I wanted to take more than one straw suck of.
Mobile update:
I went to Polished Nail Bar's new location in Myers Park (next to the Manor Theater) and found that Salute Wine Bar closed and is now a Thai restaurant: Salute Wine Store & Bar.
Random Brittney Revelation:
As I was sitting at the light up from Salute, the intersection of Queens & Queens and Providence & Providence, I couldn't help but wonder why Charlotte does that to people ... even my GPS said WTF?
... at Wachovia Plaza that is, because next Thursday the merger takes effect and the EpiCentre takes over After Five.
Let us pay our respects …
A picture of it looks like a page from a Where's Waldo?book. Find the guy in the crowd that looks like he might have been a back-up dancer for MC Hammer back in the '90s.
Although it is sad ... don’t grieve too much because I come baring gifts.
I got more V.I.P passes for the Pavilion at EpiCentre After Five to give away. The first five people to become members of my blog group win a free membership to the Penthouse at the EpiCentre.
Mobile
