Drink

Saturday night, I went to Blush- this upscale, cosmpolitan, ‘you’re too cool to be here’ bar on the riverfront…It’s connected to a new luxury hotel with lavish suites that have flat screen tv’s in bathrooms complete with shower sprayers that surround you, rain shower heads, that sort of thing.

Anyhow- I’m with a buddy…I came from a thing at work, so I was wearing a suit (I had removed the pink tie) and decided to unbutton the top two buttons- so, I’m basically wearing grayish dress pants, a white button up shirt and a black coat. I feel like an idiot in this place, even though it was near 2 AM, and there were maybe 15 people there. It wasn’t too loud (unlike the previous bar we went to- I couldn’t hear but maybe 5% of all the conversation that took place- which made me feel OUT of place in general.) No one’s fault, of course, but still- it wasn’t the most desireable situation.

So…this place has these big deep couches, very long, red (I think?), and they’re very long with lots of cushions (leather material, I believe.) Tables close by…outside this area are chairs facing each other for couples…weird girls dancing all slutty-like. Big flat screens up high- 2 are playing some weird static image with a moving background of I have no idea what the heck it was…1 was playing what looked to be a documentary on China (Weird, I know), the one behind the bar has ESPN…and there’s one in the corner that’s playing, get this- Life On a Stick.

I’m amazed…wondering how on earth this is playing.

Tonight, it hit me- HDNET. They must have started airing this.

And they have. HDNet has a great lineup of cancelled series. Half of their lineup is a who’s who of my favorite short-lived shows, including Queens Supreme, Hack, Odyssey 5, Robbery Homicide Division, Haunted, and a few others…

The point? Fancy bars don’t excite me…seeing episode of Life On a Stick in fancy bars does excite me. I guess that makes me boring. I’m okay with that…