Bob's Birthday at Streets of London

1804 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 498-1388

We celebrated NakedBob's 40th year on this planet with lots fish, chips, beer and of course, handmade puppet gifts! This was #3 of 6 birthday celebrations.

The food was good, as normal, but the fish was a little overcooked. The jukebox didn't suck and we had lots of beer. There were cupcakes, oil paintings and a nice list of the ABC, done Thursday Drunk style. Most of which are not PG enough to list here.

B is for Blepheroni, Bleephole, Butter pants, Bed island
E is for Excemellente, Emergency Room
G is for Goanna, Guitar Hero, Gin
J is for Jar Baby, Jarla
S is for Sea Ranch, Stoopid Guns, Sleeveless
W is for Winner Winner

And so it goes! We should be them into fancy laminated flashcards for all those Thursday Drunk kids that are being born. What a great baby shower gift.

Malabar - In a whispered voice

2960 Del Paso Rd
Sacramento, CA 95834
(916) 574-9074

Breaking News!!! Dr. Becky and the honorable Doctor Smooth (Thursday Drunks expats living in San Luis Obispo), had a baby girl today! That's right, they scheduled their c-section on a Thursday, cause that's how they roll. Baby Natalie is officially the newest in the Drunk family. Her older brother Jack "Fire Pig" was also a Thursday baby. The Doctors are really representing with this whole child bearing thing. Cheers!! Oh and the campaign to get them back to this area is doing very well.

We were a smaller crowd. Down a NakedBob and Mr. Chem. Reservations were not made so RobotGoBen and I showed up about 15 minutes early to get a drink and sort out the table. The hostess was dumber than bricks. I don't usually like to bag on the staff in our posts, but my god it took 5 minutes to sort out table for 10, 7 pm. How many ways can I make that clearer. Best was when she looked at my, GoBen and the random lady he was talking to and asked, is your whole party here? No.

Then we moved to the bar, and our waitress there rocked! Martini and beers in less than 5 minutes. As everyone showed up, she rocked out more drinks. Even gave us the benefit of the doubt on the happy hour prices. That's when you over tip obscenely.

Dinner was good. They seriously have a giant menu with everything from meat loaf to Mexican to seared ahi, pizzas and everything in between.

Overall it was good, but the bar waitress was the highlight. Go to have drinks, app specials at the bar and you will be alright.

Chicago Fire - The birth of Nairby!

614 Sutter St # A
Folsom, CA 95630
(916) 353-0140

We find ourselves in Folsom for super yummy pizza and table full of original drunks to celebrated the birth of our beloved Nairby! We ridicule him constantly, have never called him by his real name and still can't figure out why he hangs out with us.

We indulged in thin crust traditional, deep dish pepperoni, assorted salads, wine and beer. There were lots of recycled birthday cards (some of the classics are so written over that you can't even distinguish who it is from...those are the best!)

Sluggy once again showed us all up with a custom made puppet that embodies the look of being right - in a puppet. Awesome! Oh, and no one could hear Sluggy. Actually conversation:

"Do you have a kids menu?" - Sluggy
"A Mr. Pibb?" - Waitress

That went well.

We ordered a Pizookie (pizza cookie), that includes warm, fresh baked cookie, vanilla ice cream and whipped cream on top. Holy crap. Then we sang Nairb his own song. Set to the classic Barry Manilow, Oh Mandy.

Oh Nairby. You came and you brought me a turkey.
And I sent you away.
Oh Nairby. You're a dirty slut, dirty slut money.
And you're crappy and lame. Oh Nairby!

Yup. That's right. If we love you enough, we will write a song in your honor. It will suck and it will be offensive. Really, it's a win, win.

Journal Tidbits:
"We wrote him a song, what have you done?" - TheJenny to Shooter
"I Pammed the the weather vane!" - Shooter
Gavin 1, Squeaky Eagle 0

(BTW, I guess I should tell you that we had an annoying weather vane in the shape of an eagle that was squeaky. Shooter proceeded to grab a can of Pam, scale a fence and roof, Pam the shit out of it... and it stopped squeaking. That's just rad.)

Parkers Hot Dogs, Almond Tree & Birth of Caddie

Parker's Hot Dogs
1605 Douglas Blvd # A
Roseville, CA 95661
(916) 786-2202

The Almond Tree
214 Harding Blvd
Roseville, CA 95678
(916) 782-5052

This was a good Thursday! We started off at Parker's Hot Dogs which is an institution in Roseville. We kind of took over the place with orders of corn dogs, western dogs, Chicago dogs, polish dogs , seasoned fries, cheese dogs and so much more!

They have a "Fry Company" that is basically a counter top deep fryer. Kind of like you could just have one in your house! And a clock that counts down to Easter, which is random.

Almost all of the original drunks were there, plus one BootDad. We love it when the parents come out with us!

The girls at Parker's were pretty nice and tolerant of our large group taking over. They even let us use their forks and eat Caddie's birthday cake there. The cake was Kahlua and apricot from Ettore's - freaky good. And of course since we didn't have candles, we put plastic clowns on it.

Caddie got a load of recycled cards and gift card presents, but once again, Sluggy out shined us all with the custom made Caddie replica puppet. It's awesome and has angry eyebrows.

Then off to the Almond Tree, a little divey, a little karaoke and a whole lot of character you just gotta love. Drinks are cheap, strong and simple!

Journal Tidbits: (we were extra quotable this week)
"Blow out the clowns!" - Everyone
"Are these trick clowns?" - Caddie
"Clowns are naturally tricky." - Scribby
"You can't finish a keg when people are drinking daiquiris!" - Shooter
"Momma J is usually sober..." - Scribby
"My Merle Haggard is a little rusty." - Shooter
"We are excellent at cramming people in." - Caddie
"I don't want to be in the hands of a redneck...I mean, come on?" - Mr. Chem
"Occasionally I totally feel like a whore." - Caddie

Cafe Morocco - The Birth of Jarla

1221 Alhambra Blvd # 107
Sacramento, CA 95816
(916) 731-4637

Jarla was born in a rickety barn, so the legend says. And for the celebration of her birth, she chose Cafe Morocco. We had a super full house! All the regulars, plus Slug, Crab & Lexie were back. Frankenstein and friends of Mr. Chem were there for a total of 14 drunks!

First off our waitress was kick-ass! Very friendly, sassy, and poured some full glasses of wine. Even offered the birthday girl a top-off on her wine. Nice! I swear if you are nice and fun, we will enjoy just about all of the rest, no matter what happens!

The garlic chicken, chicken sumac and tagine seemed to be the hot items for the night. All of them were good, along with one of my favorite soups in the Sacramento area. So good.

We were having such a nice (loud) time that we actually drove a couple away. We are sorry. We are just too fun for others some times.

Our waitress, Tina, even signed our journal... even though we scared people off we are in her top five nights at the Cafe Morocco. Nice!

Journal Tidbits:
Don't put it there...it'll hurt." - TheJenny

PS. Sluggy made a Jarla puppet (a la the muppets), in honor of her birthday. It was so cute!

PPS. Dear god drunks! Send me some damn pictures for this damn blog!!! How will people skim my writing with no photo payoff at the end?