What you missed last night at the DAILY HEIGHTS Real-Life Happy Hour:
This is Douglas. This photo shows that Douglas is not good with the money. According to a Chinese woman I used to work with, people who have spaces between their fingers are not good with the money. What does this have to do with the happy hour? Not much, but I had to post it, because it’s the only photo I took last night.
What else did you miss last night? … In a stroke of coincidence, One of the Joses and one of the Joshes, taking a smoke break in front of Soda Bar, got panhandled by Jose gave him 30 cents.
Tamara the Friendly Bartender totally confirmed the existence of the mail-stealing Prospect Heights Identity Thief (see the DAILY HEIGHTS message boards for all the sordid detail).
11238 Showed up to collect her $25 bounty for allegedly catching the alleged Prospect Heights Gaffler in the middle of an alleged con job. She brought the actual phone she used to capture the actual phonecam picture. She elected to take her $25 payout in raffle tickets. Sucka!! … No, actually the gambit paid off, because she and Mr. 11238 walked away with a Round of Drinks for 3 at Brooklyn Comedy Company at Ripple Bar. Congrats!
I asked 11238 to do an informal head count. In all, we had about 40-50 people in our little corner, or probably about 10% of the site’s regular visitors. Not bad! And great big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the raffle: The event grossed Two Hundred and Twenty-Four Dollars, or about enough to buy one-third of a square foot in a Newswalk condo! (All that money is going to support another special event in May. More details later.)
Speaking of raffle prizes: LauraB, you won the embroidered “ProHo Ho” T-Shirt from RedLipstick Boutique! Get in touch with DH to claim it. Quig picked up the companion piece: a “ProHo” Male Edition duck-hunter camouflage T-Shirt with a “ProHo” logo (death-metal motif) embroidered above the breast pocket area.
What else? So much more.
Josh Reynolds totally blew off the happy hour, but despite that, managed to win the Grand Prize: Dinner for 4 at the Islands on Washington Ave. I really could have used Josh’s emcee skills. After all this buildup to the Grand Prize Giveaway, about three people clapped, very slowly, as if to break the uncomfortable silence. I think it helps to have the actual winner in the room.
Alina and Dave walked away with the $25 Soda Bar gift certificate. In a happy coincidence, piscatarian vegetarian Chris Hrones (Rones?) (friend of Carnivore) won the DVD of Post Punk Kitchen, the vegan cooking show produced right here in the PH. “Emo” Emily won the giant Spanish chocolate bar from Delicacies, and last but not least, Captain Marvelous, you no-show, you won the Soda Bar T-Shirt! Stop by and pick it up.
What else? I found out that nearly everyone living in Prospect Heights is somehow involved in publishing, design, entertainment, communications or immigration law.
I can’t think of anything else right now. Help me out in the comments below.
UPDATE: Who won the Elamenotees? Sorry. Forgot to mention that ISA, in absentia, won an Elamenotees T-Shirt. The other shirt was won by none other than the administrator of this website. (FIXED! FIXED!)
