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Happy Birthday Bear!
Recently my friends and I have been commenting about a change in Waco, like something cool is brewing, like something unWaco this way comes. (Maybe it’s intuition, maybe it’s too much beer and wine)
A big factor behind this feeling is watching our contemporaries and others take on new business ventures. And with each restaurant, each marketing firm, I find myself pulling for them. In my book, their success = Waco’s success.
That’s why I’m thrilled to see that the Dancing Bear Pub is celebrating it’s first birthday. That place seems to have become my second home, but can you really blame me? After an adrenaline-packed day of Waco education coverage (don’t laugh), where else can I go and sit on a patio with a glass of wine, a cigarette in one hand and a highlighter in the other, reading a lawsuit while trying to learn the difference between a temporary restraining order and a temporary injunction. Funny thing about the Bear? There’s often a law student within spitting distance who’d be happy to help me with that.
There’s always someone I know there and if there isn’t, that’s okay, because the bartenders know me. I’m glad for the Bear’s success and hope its contagious, for the sake of other cool new Waco ventures.
So Bear lovers, make sure and wish Paxton and the whole gang a happy birthday this week. I think he told me they’re officially celebrating Tuesday. I’ll be there somewhere, destressing with Pinot Grigio.
Comments
By KDF
August 25, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
My life’s beliefs are Christianity, family, and smoking. It is good to see you light up and do not frown upon it. I call it personal choice.
Happy Birthday, Dancing Bear. May our Good Lord bless all of you, and all of your patrons!!! <><
By Waco Woot
August 25, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
Happy Birthday Dancing Bear!!! I was there as a bartender on the very first night the Dancing Bear Pub opened, and I have been there nearly every night since that fateful first. It is a great place with great people in the heart of a great city.
By mark
August 25, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
I’m so glad it’s Monday. I had the day off, got to spend it with my mom, she’s back from Houston, Wendy is back at work gracing us schmucks with her musings, and well, this is just me, but I don’t smoke crack on the day of the Lord! So helloooo crack pipe Monday!!! See KDF, I’m an ex-sailor with standards too! Oh, almost forgot, uck red. I guess I could get out the phone book, but where exactly is the Dancing Bear at and do any Baylor assistant coaches frequent, though that last part may not be in their ad? And do not ask me to diagram that semi-sentence, that’s El Diablos wifes job.
By KDF
August 25, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this
Like a Marine, I consider my self a former sailor. lol. Good to hear you were a swabbie, Mark. I knew there was some uncommon sense in your blogs.
Keeping in grace, Happy birthday again, Dancing Bear!!! <><
By Fred
August 25, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this
Hey Wendy? How did you like our East Waco mosquitos? Or rather; how did the mosquitos like you? That was a cute blouse you wore to GL Wiley but it was not mosquito-proof. Ouch!
By Benchmark?
August 25, 2008 10:43 PM | Link to this
Creepiest thing Fred’s ever said? What do we think? Yea? Verily? Comments like that make me picture him as a cross between Wesley Willis and the Burger King.
By KDF
August 25, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this
Uh, I kinda agree, Benchmark?. Just didn’t know how to word it.
You okay, Fred? <><
By CDT
August 26, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
Happy Birthday, DB. And thanks to Wendy for pulling for cool new Waco ventures
By Anti-smoking
August 26, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Wendy!! You smoke? And I thought you were educated! Do yourself a favor and quit.
By Waco Woot
August 26, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
Anti-Smoking, I don’t think smoking has much to do with being educated. I, for one, am very well educated and smoked for years. Addiction is a much more likely culprit for continuing to smoke than an individuals level of education.
By Anit-Smoking
August 26, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
But statistics show the higher the level of education, the less likely a person is to be a smoker. Look around, and you will see it is true. Do yourself, your family and the world a favor and quit. Its not that hard to do. I know, because I did. ‘There is nothing as pure as a converted whore’.
By KDF
August 26, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
Anti-Smoking. Nothing more annoying than a converted smoker with a big mouth. I won’t say all of it, but you are speaking just like converted wh*^&. You obviously have some issues to deal with yourself. God loves all of us, smokers or not.
Next issue, please. <><
By knights of SWBP
August 26, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
KDF, someone pushed your button, apparently! Also, “Anit-Smoking” [sic], I’m not sure I agree with your quote, there.
Hey… any more debates we can pointlessly spark up here on an anonymous comment section? Hmm… abortion… gay marriage… paper vs plastic… I know: which Bond is your favorite?
Also, yay Dancing Bear!
By wendy
August 26, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
Let me clear the smoke-filled air. I’m a pick ‘em up, put ‘em down smoker. I mostly only smoke with friends, in fact I blame my recent smoking on my lovely new friend and soulmate, Caitlin :) And I think the education/smoking thing is a crock of poo. We puffed away last night while telling existentialist jokes. But yes, I will at some point put the nasty things down again. I always do.
By KDF
August 26, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
Yes, knights, I agree. I preferred Sean Connery. Oops, he smoked too. Forgive me. <><
By mark
August 26, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this
Yes Wendy, I’m the same way with the glass pipe. I pick it up and then I put it down. Until Monday!!
By Fred
August 26, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this
Here’s a word to all you foul smokers out there…….smoking makes you STINK and the world around you STINK. Smoking makes pretty women ugly and ugly women….uglier. All smokers should watch a fellow smoker die of lung cancer and get a “front row seat” of them coughing up blood to their last gasping breath. Wake up people….and use the pea-brain that God gave you and STOP SMOKING.
By KDF
August 26, 2008 9:19 PM | Link to this
Understood, Fred. Smoking makes Freds Fredly. Hmm.
Mark, better give up the glass pipe. You could become *Fredly. <><
By JenA
August 27, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
wendy, I’m assuming you’ve mastered the concept of temporary restraining order - having done so, you are hereby encouraged to apply it to one or more of your regular bloggers…