Outing #33
Pub/Bar: Razzy's
Outcome: 1st place by default, $25 gift certificate. No other teams showed up (see my plea below.) Since we only needed to invest ten minutes of our time to receive our cash prize, our compensation rate tonight worked out to approximately $100 per hour per person. Much better than our usual minimum wage. I'm pretty sure Nancy only gave us a prize because she knew, like moths drawn to a flame, we'd be back in the near future and spending more than the gift certificate's value. Indeed, plans are afoot to return to Razzy's on Friday for hot wings and karoake. I like that the gift certificate has an expiration date 12 months in the future though. As if it would take anyone that long to come back.
Trivia Jockey: Mike. I would like to clarify that my previous posting regarding Mike's musical taste and his choice to play "Piss Up A Rope" was intended to be a shout out to Mike's musical acumen, not a criticism thereof.
Crowd: Although the place pretty much cleared out by 10 PM, when we arrived there were a lot of people there. The front room was basically pretty well filled up. Unfortunately, the other bar patrons were more interested in hitting on girls than in playing trivia.
Food/Drink: Of course we stayed at Razzy's even though there was no trivia. Skating with the Stars was on TV. How could we resist? The apple pie vodka and chocolate cherry vodka were both in excellent form tonight. Nancy truly is the sorceress of alcohol, although how she manages to also make these fabulous beverages completely incapable of causing even the slightest hangover is beyond me. Also, Kelly was mixing some excellent Grey Goose cosmopolitans. On Friday a group of us will be sampling the hot wings with some degree of earnestness and I will report back on that. One member of our party had the Jalapeno poppers and pronounced them delicious.
Ambience: I believe I have spoken on this point many a time before.
Notable Events: OK, folks, listen up 'cause I'm about to land some knowledge on you: Razzy's is awesome. Why you are not forwarding this blog entry to all your Slummervillian friends RIGHT NOW and encouraging them not to miss trivia night on Wednesdays at 8:30 is beyond me. Even if you *lose*, with draught beer at only $2 you won't have invested much in the evening. Perhaps you do not know where Razzy's is located: it is on Somerville Ave, in the vicinity of Central St/Massive Video and the Gol!!!!!! Supermercado. Perhaps you have passed by Razzy's but think the bars on the windows and wall to wall neon signs make it look sketchy: make no mistake, this is the source of its charm. If you like the Sligo, you will like Razzy's. Perhaps you have passed Razzy's but don't realize it - indeed, the tiny 'Razzy's' is dwarfed by the glowing Bud Light promotional sign on which it is printed. Perhaps one Wednesday evening you intended to enter Razzy's but were distracted by intense existential contemplation over the source and meaning of the name: we have all been there, my friend. Shake it off. Perhaps you think that I am only going on and on about Razzy's because I am somehow financially invested in the business or related to one of the proprietresses: I wish this were the case, because it would help make me look like less of a dork for being so obsessed with this seemingly hole-in-the-wall neighborhood bar.
There. I've said my piece. Now get your ass down to Razzy's next Wednesday.
Outcome: 1st place by default, $25 gift certificate. No other teams showed up (see my plea below.) Since we only needed to invest ten minutes of our time to receive our cash prize, our compensation rate tonight worked out to approximately $100 per hour per person. Much better than our usual minimum wage. I'm pretty sure Nancy only gave us a prize because she knew, like moths drawn to a flame, we'd be back in the near future and spending more than the gift certificate's value. Indeed, plans are afoot to return to Razzy's on Friday for hot wings and karoake. I like that the gift certificate has an expiration date 12 months in the future though. As if it would take anyone that long to come back.
Trivia Jockey: Mike. I would like to clarify that my previous posting regarding Mike's musical taste and his choice to play "Piss Up A Rope" was intended to be a shout out to Mike's musical acumen, not a criticism thereof.
Crowd: Although the place pretty much cleared out by 10 PM, when we arrived there were a lot of people there. The front room was basically pretty well filled up. Unfortunately, the other bar patrons were more interested in hitting on girls than in playing trivia.
Food/Drink: Of course we stayed at Razzy's even though there was no trivia. Skating with the Stars was on TV. How could we resist? The apple pie vodka and chocolate cherry vodka were both in excellent form tonight. Nancy truly is the sorceress of alcohol, although how she manages to also make these fabulous beverages completely incapable of causing even the slightest hangover is beyond me. Also, Kelly was mixing some excellent Grey Goose cosmopolitans. On Friday a group of us will be sampling the hot wings with some degree of earnestness and I will report back on that. One member of our party had the Jalapeno poppers and pronounced them delicious.
Ambience: I believe I have spoken on this point many a time before.
Notable Events: OK, folks, listen up 'cause I'm about to land some knowledge on you: Razzy's is awesome. Why you are not forwarding this blog entry to all your Slummervillian friends RIGHT NOW and encouraging them not to miss trivia night on Wednesdays at 8:30 is beyond me. Even if you *lose*, with draught beer at only $2 you won't have invested much in the evening. Perhaps you do not know where Razzy's is located: it is on Somerville Ave, in the vicinity of Central St/Massive Video and the Gol!!!!!! Supermercado. Perhaps you have passed by Razzy's but think the bars on the windows and wall to wall neon signs make it look sketchy: make no mistake, this is the source of its charm. If you like the Sligo, you will like Razzy's. Perhaps you have passed Razzy's but don't realize it - indeed, the tiny 'Razzy's' is dwarfed by the glowing Bud Light promotional sign on which it is printed. Perhaps one Wednesday evening you intended to enter Razzy's but were distracted by intense existential contemplation over the source and meaning of the name: we have all been there, my friend. Shake it off. Perhaps you think that I am only going on and on about Razzy's because I am somehow financially invested in the business or related to one of the proprietresses: I wish this were the case, because it would help make me look like less of a dork for being so obsessed with this seemingly hole-in-the-wall neighborhood bar.
There. I've said my piece. Now get your ass down to Razzy's next Wednesday.
posted by Jenn at 3:35 PM
1 Comments:
Not to be a jerk, nor that it is your place to do so, but why don't you out a posting on Craigslist about the Awesomeness known as Trivia at Razzy's
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