If you like it, you shoulda put a stache on it

WHAT: Cafe 641's 4th annual bicycle pub crawl to kick off the 2011 New Orleans Saints season.

WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, August 20, 2011

• Buddy D. gravesite memorial: 12:00 p.m.

• Start: 1 p.m. at Mid-City Bulldog (depart 1:45 p.m. sharp)

• Stops: Mid-City Yacht Club, Finn McCool's, ?mystery bar?, Superdome.

• End: Saints vs. Texans pre-season game viewing at 7 p.m. (bar location to be determined)

The Right Occasion

Other appropriate handlebar occasions include, but are not limited to:

• dinner & drinks in Bistro 649
• romantic bicycle rides down Banks St.
• graveside memorial services
  

(via Michael Homan who, sadly, drinks Heineken Light)

Pick up the phone and call somebody!

From Jeffrey, we learn that Joe Horn did indeed use his 2006 smoked and pulled groin jerkey as the base for a post-football business venture:

Joe Horn's Bayou 87 Barbeque Sauce!

Say Joe. You looking for a sauce boss?

Yes, indeed.

Follicles Delight

Stache Dashers, 2010

It's that time of year again. Ready thy bikes. Ready thy livers. Ready thy upper lips.

Mustaches shall be consecrated on ...

Saturday, August 20!

Details to be released soon, but we start at Mid City Bulldog sometime after noon, pub crawl to the Dome (Mid City Yacht Club, Finn McCool's, etc.) to apply ceremonial staches and then end up somewhere else near Dome or Mid City (Handsome Willy's? Finn's? Bayou Beer Garden?) to watch Saints @ Texans pre-season game for 7 p.m.

Mining for Gold

No menus until we finish what the Bears started, but tonight's pre-season tussle with the 49ers does allow us to look a few years back to a Sunday afternoon when Saint Dulymus was invoked. Solid gold indeed.

A Meditation on 11

To be honest, I never thought last season's 11 wins seemed so impressive until I viewed, in succession ...

• the Thanksgiving Day Jenkins Jank
• HOFer-to be Jimmy Graham's catch at the Ravens
• Will Smith tea-bagging sack of Ben Roethlesberger
• MNF at Atlanta and Pierre Thomas

Pre-season is for Pretenders

It's worth saying twice: pre-season is for pretenders, on account of contenders already be flashing mid-season form.

Plaza dwellers might make an extra trip to the video-splayed toilet environs at tonight's Sacredome Extreme Makeover party, but up in the Terrace Towers, we'll be kicking back with Dirty Denim's Jim Beam flask, incognito style. No stache til da Bears. But that don't mean we ain't already in mid-season form ...

Enter the following in the "Bistro 649 Bout to Blow Up" evidence pool:

Exhibit A:

Ms. Shootz to Kill & Adult Industry Chef & family
(a summer pre-K project that reps. the almighty Stache)

Exhibit B
Droopy Dog

(see that Stomper in the background? 641 alumnus & all kinds of proud that The Entity and Shorty Chef were still standing after the 610 Stomper Ball Crawl back in June)

Exhibit C
Imaginative Hat Stache
(The Entity takes the Most Imaginative Stache category at Pete's Annual Mustache Party by wearing a 20s style flapper Hat Stache. Boom.)