Check Out The Druid City Drinking Club!

[Syrinx]

I just came across a couple of Tuscaloosa-centric websites by and for progressives. I haven't really checked them out in-depth yet, but so far they seem pretty cool.

Druid City Drinking Club

1. Make Tuscaloosa a more livable place.

2. Support a weekly meeting place for a diverse and unique community to grow.

3. Create a suitable happy hour climate for the post-college progressive crowd.

4. Disrupt common assumptions about the apathy of Tuscaloosa residents.

5. Provide information about other, non-happy hour related events of interest to the DCDC community.

6. Ferment Revolution.

I don't really belong to that many categories that compose their membership, but I aspire to. :D

professors, grad students, musicians, artists, writers, bike riders, socialists, record collectors, recyclers, Wikipedia users, leftists, filmwatchers and filmmakers, Manna shoppers, book readers, Apple users, ethnic food eaters, micro-brew drinkers, snobs, punk rockers, NPR listeners, hipsters and doofuses.

And there's an associated website that is a combination blog/vlog.

Well, That's Cool!

I have the vague feeling that this is all some elaborate hoax by the Republican UA greeks, but I don't really think so.

Maybe this is an effort to bring in an online stand-in for The Chukker.

Of course, there have been many legendary musicians who have entered The Chukker over the years. Jimi Hendrix and the Allman Brothers (performing under the name Allman Joys) have both graced the stage. The Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter supposedly shows Keith Richards playing pool there. And, as Hopper remembers, R.E.M. once brought an entire auditorium to the bar.

"The night they played Foster Auditorium, Michael Stipe said, "I don't know where y'all are going after the show, but we're going to The Chukker!' That night got pretty insane, having all of Foster Auditorium trying to squeeze in."

I saw part of that show at Foster, but was escorted out by security, for forcefully defending my girlfriend's honor. ;)

'Course I was underage at the time, and couldn't have gone to the Chukker, anyway. Yeah, right. :P

(That website is outdated. The Chukker is gone, and it ain't coming back. Progress!) :cry:

Well, it ain't the Chukker, but it's better than nothing.

:hippie:

[unsavedtrash]

1. great find!

Made me miss the Chukker- a lot.
I'll have to keep up with the site so I can find out what's going on around here.
Have you been down to see the Sistine Chukker? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxAxQYQbtU

[Syrinx]

2. I haven't seen the Sistine Chukker since the Chukker closed

I believe they have it at the Downtown Trading Company now, though. Thanks for the youtube link. I haven't looked at it yet, but look forward to doing so.

I only went to the Chukker a handful of times, but I loved it when I did, and it's a shame it's gone. It was really a one-of-a-kind place around these parts!

:hi:

[nealmhughes]

3. I didn't know one could only go to the Chukkar a handful of times:

for most it is flee in horror or become a semi-regular at worst!

I have seen so many shows there, studied so many nights on the patio and taken my dog for "dropbys" when out walking him and we grew "thirsty."

Egan's is a pale substitute, the cigar smoke is too thick for my taste and not enough drug dealing in the dark, not enough tricks being turned in the abandoned bathrooms behind the bar, not enough drag queens and Mercedes workers off the swing shift. . . no place like it in the world.

Two friends of mine and I were offered to buy it (just fixtures and name, still be rent due) for $15,000 in 03 or so. It might as well have been $15,000,000 to three grad students who earned $900 a month!

But Egan's is better than nothing in Ttown, and the alternative is crashing a barf fest on the Strip or going to 4th and 23rd or to the ultracrowded 22nd ST and 6th martini place or the ubercrowded Innishfree.

[Syrinx]

4. hah!

I haven't been to any bar in quite a bit. It's beginning to dawn on me that I'm actually getting old! Egads! I didn't think that would ever happen! Not to me! :shrug:

But I even admit missing the Booth a little. Even though they had the stinkiest bathroom in the universe. I liked the posters of Marilyn and W.C., I guess.

I haven't been to Egan's since I shared, out of curiosity, a couple of cigarettes (tobacco) that a grad English instructor had brought back from Russia.

You can meet a lot interesting folks at Egan's, though only a few a time. And it's quite fun to walk across the stage, 'twixt the bandmates, when you have to go pee. :D

[YDogg]

5. Tuscaloosa = Taco Casa.

:toast:

[Syrinx]

6. Taco Casa is fine by me

I haven't seen him in there in a long time, but it used to be great to drop by and find the owner in house. I don't remember his name at the moment, but whenever he was there, the tacos were extra-filled with taco goodness.

Besides, Sela Ward loves Taco Casa. I don't know much of anything about Sela Ward, except she's real pretty, was a 'Bama cheerleader, and dated Bob Baumhower in college. I ran her through Newsmeat, but the only thing that turned up was $625 donation to the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, whatever that is, back in '89. I think she's cool, unless she's a Republican, in which case I find her deplorable, and I vow to never eat at Taco Casa again.

:P

[AlabamaBrightBlueDot]

7. Owners last name is Wilkins...

Cant think of the first name.

[Syrinx]

8. yeah, that's it!

Thanks. I'm not sure, but I'm thinking his first name might be Rod. Does that sound right to you?

[AlabamaBrightBlueDot]

9. Yes it does..

[BamaLefty]

10. No to Taco Casa?

Blasphemous.