No hero here

I was at a Maker's Mark Ambassador function with John, our Cheap Eats, Bar Bites man about town a couple of nights ago. He digs the stuff, personally, I don't think I had tried it before. There were a lot of cigar smoking, yup yups walking around but the head of the whole kit and kaboodle, Bill Samuels Jr. was a pretty down to earth sort who seemed to be sneaking some swigs from his own product. He was a funny guy who signed my hand-dipped red waxed glass that they gave away at the function for free. Would have liked to have seen the Maker's Mark drinks for free along with some food but you can't win them all. Supposedly they had a 60-second buffet before we showed up, so being fashionably late didn't really do much for me that evening.

As for the Maker's Mark? It's bourbon, all I know is at the end of my "Old Fashioned" there was an orange seed I swallowed by accident that would have displayed the product in my belly to the ambassadors in a whole new light. But I'm a professional, I took control of the situation.

And after one $9 drink that John spotted for me and the group that was with us, I took off to the Guitar Hero Challenge at Peacock Room. Yeah, I was on a mission that night. I still suck at Guitar Hero, but what sucked even more was the sad turnout for the event. I've seen you people with this game, and it's a level of sad dedication I feel Sally Struthers should be doing infomercials about.

So where were you that night? There were maybe six or seven of us back there, and a case of PBR for the winner, but the competition never really took off. It was just people playing, there wasn't really enough people for a competition.

  But you can redeem yourself, not only is Peacock hosting this event every other Wednesday, but tonight there is a big Guitar Hero competition at The Lodge. The Family Values Guitar Hero Competition takes place from 10 p.m. - midnight tonight and whoever is named the victor gets a chance to hang out with Korn backstage on Sunday's Family Value Tour at the TD Waterhouse Centre and play Guitar Hero head to head against Jonathan Davis himself. Not a bad prize, now maybe some of your lazy asses will drop the video game, get off the couch and head out to the Lodge tonight to pick up the video game again.

Bags!

  Okay, so I might be stepping at bit on the Control Freak's toes here, but the subject of this today's blog was located at a bar so I'm going to absolve myself of any guilt for that reason.

From the makers of Golden Tee and Silver Strike Bowling comes.... BAGS!

Wait, Bags? Yes, Bags folks, like the red-headed stepchild of the Golden and Silver ones, this game is basically about throwing bean bags at a box with a hole in it. You get the bag in you win like a 1000 points or something.

Casey spotted this gem at Debbie's Bar last weekend and seriously thought this was one of their test models for when Target Toss Pro started making games, the cheap model you can get at a steal.

Turns out not so much, this is their newest game that came out last month. The idea is ridiculous, however, we still played it. Not a ton of skill needed, throwing the bag despite wind speed changes was about it and how I mastered that was really due to a lot of random guessing. Bags doesn't offer a lot of direction, but it was a way to kill a couple of bucks and save Casey and I from actually talking to each other, God forbid!

Will I play it again? Damn skippy. It was kind of fun and it doesn't take much to entertain this one as long as there is a beer in my hand.