If you plan to attend tonight’s Peabody rooftop party and you want to get the most bang out of your drinking dollars, your best bet is NOT to drink at the Peabody itself. Five bucks for a 16-ounce bottle of Bud Light? Hell no.
Here’s what I’d recommend instead. Get downtown about 6. That’s when the party starts, but don’t go there yet. Instead, go across the street to Big Foot Lodge and drink a couple of 34 oz. Big Foot Beers. You can get a Coors Light or Bud Select for $4, or a Blue Moon for a dollar more.
Drink as many of those as you can put down in an hour and a half, then head to the rooftop (you want to be sure to get there by 8, so the ladies in your group can get in for free). By now you should be sufficiently buzzed to make it through the rest of the party.
Here’s a bonus fashion recommendation for tonight’s party too: Dr. Zarr, a disco cover band, is playing. Now, of course, disco was big in the late 1970s. Around the same time, TUBE TOPS were the thing in the world of fashion. So, ladies, why not put on a tube top and be prepared to party in style! Don’t worry about going to some trendy boutique and spending $100 on a tube top; the $12 ones at Target work just as well.
It’s cold outside (52 according to my WeatherBug); wondering if they’re going to move the party indoors. If I hear that they will, it will reduce my probability of going from 100% to 60% (it would drop to zero if it was anyone other than Dr. Zarr). We’ll see.
Another post to come in the lunch hour, so check back.