Manhunt, Madonna's website(s), porn, and myspace

On a recent Thursday night, I had discovered 3 open bars.  I’m sorry, I meant to say THREE OPEN BARS!!!

As soon as I could get out of work, I jumped on the train to the E.vil for the grand opening of a party at DTox.  Apparently, they’re starting a 2-4-1 happy hour that comes with free burgers and fries.  SOLD!  I unexpectedly ran into Menen, a very tall Indian guy whom I had met while volunteering for The Men Event’s booth at the Gay Expo (the people behind the open bar party at club H).  In fact, I think I see him in pictures of every Men Event event.  

At one point at the DTox party, we were talking about our professions, and he mentioned being a “professional volunteer.”

“What the hell does that mean.”

“It’s kinda complicated.”

“Ah.  Okay, I’m just gonna assume that you have a very good heart and very rich parents.”

As the drinks progressed, I convinced Menen to ditch the gym (who does squats after an open bar?!) and accompany me to the next open bar.  But before we left, we met Mama.  She was dressed in a long vintage dress, hat, and cocktail gloves!  You’d think someone with that type of self-presentation would be overbearing and annoying with the gays that weren't totally weirded out by the costumed lady who showed up by herself.  But she would walk by, give us a wink, and continue on her way to the dancefloor or wherever it was she happened to be heading.

Things we like about D-Tox's Thursday party:

Lady Bunny was the DJ!

Things we didn’t so much like about D-Tox:

Those are moth balls in the toilet.  Not. Cute.

Another party had started around 8, and I definitely wanted to get there before the not-so-large space got too crowded.  As soon as we were ready to move on, Urban Sprawl waltzes into the door.  Good timing, hun.  We make her gulp down her drink (as she wasn’t packing a flask of Jamison, anyway) and catch a train to Chelsea.

Universal Gear was having a store-wide sale: 15% off all non-sale items.  This brought their swimwear from approximately too-fucking-expensive to around $9-off-of-too-fucking-expensive (hello: it’s winter!).  But what they lacked in their price points, they made up for in free Bulldog gin.  I have to say (and not because one of their principle investors is a friend of a friend) that Bulldog definitely doesn’t have the harsh bite that other gins tend to have.  Then again, that gin and orange juice was probably my 5^th drink, so I may not have been the best judge. 

We get our first round of drinks, and whom do we see: Mama!  After giving us a warm welcome, she insists that we cram into the dressing rooms for a photo shoot. 

After all that liquid consumption, I had to use the bathroom again.  While waiting in line in the stock room, I noticed a print diatribe directed at the employees about the stock room's computer, which "should only be used for company business."  Manhunt, Madonna's website(s), porn, and myspace were mentioned (along with 20 other websites that were just as laughable).  No surprise there.

Soon thereafter, we went upstairs to take a look at the  underwear (and to get a better view of the crowd).  It was surprisingly un-crowded, but it turns out Marc Ecko was having a similar event across the street (and nobody told me!).  When we sauntered up for our third round at Universal Gear, the makeshift bartender told us they were out of gin.  NEXT!

The final open bar of the night was Jack at Aspen.  Of course we ran into the Long Island Gays.  Daredevil was showing off a new look for the party.  

(Props to Alex C. for finding the John Galliano photo.)

And I don’t know who this guy is, but I love the idea of a beefy guy in a Popeye t-shirt.

Okay, whom am I kidding, I love a beefy guy period. 

All the gays were up in arms because for some reason Aspen's open bar ended a half hour early.  In my case, this may not have been such a bad thing since I had already been drinking for 3 hours.  

Did I mention that when I woke up on Friday, I found that I had taken about 12 rapid-succession pictures of Morehead and that his mouth was open in all of them? Yeah.  

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