Category Nightlife
The Musings of a Smoker
By: Raul Parra Email: rp@99sportsproblems.com Twitter: ParraPalliative I’m sitting here waiting for the last hour to wind down on my smoked wings. I can smell the sweet hickory in the air. Like a sacrifice, it burns so it can feed the gods and in doing so it creates milky white apparitions in the sky. I’m […]
Shits Real on Beale
By: Raul Parra Email: rp@99sportsproblems.com Twitter: ParraPalliative The Joints B.B. King’s Blues Club – This was the first place I stopped in on my little Southern Adventure. When I first walked in, like many places on Beale Street, there was a band already in the throes of a Blues Orgasm. A smile stretched across my […]
What’s this bullshit about the lottery?
In a dingy 7-Eleven in Schiller Park, a guy wearing a Harley-Davidson T-shirt was talking up late night customers who were still trying to buy a lottery ticket for the big draw in the evening on March 30. He didn’t look like the regular type of biker. He wasn’t dirty or had a beard or […]
Despite All This Cage… I’m Still Just a Drunk Douche
By: Raul Parra Email: rp@99sportsproblems.com Twitter: ParraPalliative Before you read a single word of this article you must watch the video first. Absolutely no exceptions. Now that you have been injected with Mr. Cage’s madness let me explain to you what this is all about. I hate drinking games. I despise them in fact. Just […]
Beer Me
By: Raul Parra Email: rp@99sportsproblems.com Twitter: ParraPalliative You stand up and head over to the dart board. You see her. Purple top, tight jeans and stupid Zooey Deschanel glasses. Immediately you begin to ask your self why chicks think guys want to bang Rivers Coumo from Weezer? Back down to the jeans… you get over […]
Why We Love NBA Jam Part 1: A New Kind of Game
I’ve spent a lot of time writing about baseball games these last couple of months. It’s only natural. Baseball is my favorite sport after all. I don’t feel like I’m doing anyone a disservice by writing solely about baseball, but a little variety now and then can’t hurt. Basketball is not my game. I tried […]
The Home Bar Part Two: Tame the Beast!
By: Raul Parra Email: rp@99sportsproblems.com Twitter: ParraPalliative The Lifeblood You are it. You are the thing that stands between a great night and a bad night. You are the gatekeeper and in those bottles behind you are all the keys to all the kingdoms. “How do you keep from being a shitty bartender?” you ask. […]
Drinking on a budget briefing
It doesn’t take a lot to get driven to drinking in this culture. All it takes really is taking a cold and hard look at the world in which we live in and listening to the news about the economy, the gas prices, corruption in federal and local state politics, joblessness, the foreclosures and the […]
The Home Bar Part One: Tame the Beast!
By: Raul Parra Email: rp@99sportsproblems.com Twitter: ParraPalliative We have all dreamed of opening a bar. You usually get the bug right after the credits to Cocktail roll at 2 in the morning and you were too wasted to get up and grab the remote. Now you may not have the scratch to go out and buy a […]
The guys make it official…How to deal with that hangover…What am I doing in Berwyn?
It was almost fitting and poetic that the morning would start this way. My eyes bulged out of my skull, and in between the pounding headache and a head full of questions that have yet to have answers, I heard the faint sounds of morning sports talk radio emanating from a strange room nearby. It […]
Chicago, A Drinking Town With A Sports Problem 