Here are the pics from yesterday. You can tell that we’re getting progressively drunker as the week goes on.
One of the things I do at BBQ Fest is called “PervertCam.” Meaning, I stand outside our booth or on the rooftop, and clandestinely take pics of hot girls walking by. Here’s a pic I snapped of a tube top hottie about to go into our next door neighbor’s booth.
Team photo. Attn Steve: I had to resize it to 1600×1200 for blogging purposes, but I’ll send you the original photo, which is higher resolution.
Official dinner time was 7:30, but during the late afternoon – from 4:30 to about 7 – the cooks would occasionally bring out food, ranging from shoulder to exotic stuff like duck and lamb. The Nuh-Uh Girl HOVERED by the server table nearly the entire time to make sure she had first dibs on any food that came out. She even organized a game of quarters at the server table to make it look like she had a reason to be there. I lost count of how many people commented to me about her hovering, but it was at least ten.
About 5:00, the rain started. We covered everything, including our camel.
Team members used 2x4s to push water off the roof of our tent…
…and Joe unfortunately was standing in the wrong place.
One of the many, many, many meals the Nuh-Uh Girl had yesterday.
Looking into the booth of our next door neighbors, the Hogfathers. Apparently the Nuh-Uh Girl didn’t get enough to eat in our booth, so she went over there and ate too.
Tube top hottie with Terry
Mikey’s rain gear
Magyn dancing
Because of his hard work all these years, our inspirational leader/father figure has earned the right to pass out in our booth without being blogged. Frank, however, has not earned that privilege.
11 PM, food is still coming out, and look who is back hovering the server table.
Another tube top
I took so many photos that I went over Facebook’s limit of 200 per photo album, so I had to break them up into two albums: Part 1 and Part 2. If you haven’t been checking out the complete albums, I highly recommend you look at these. Many, many tube tops, and you can really see a timeline of the Nuh-Uh Girl’s hovering throughout the day.
Random thoughts, some related to BBQ Fest and some not:
– Thanks to Kao for hanging out post-BBQ Fest. Sorry I couldn’t hang longer – one beer at the Goose and one at the Saucer and I was about to pass out from exhaustion. I have not had more than 5 hours of sleep any night since BBQ Fest started. My feet feel like I’ve been walking on razor blades all week. Pain in my feet woke me up this morning. And yet I’m going to go down there today and walk around for 9 or 10 more hours.
– Based on a post-BBQ stop I made last night, I’m beginning to think Polish girls may have overtaken Romanian girls as the sexiest girls from Eastern Europe.
– I shot the Ques Brothers booth video walkthough yesterday, but YouTube is being a bitch when I try to upload it. It’ll appear here eventually.
– I also have video of Steve leading a poker run group as they do the hokey pokey. And video of Shane and Esther doing the hokey pokey. Those’ll eventually make it online too.
– There’s one video I shot and then decided not to post… it was taken Thursday night and it was a video of someone’s mom dancing. It will be shared with select people.
– Extremely excited about today. As I’ve mentioned, one of our sponsors is WordPress.com. Matt Mullenweg, the head WordPress guy, is likely to be in our booth. I’m really hoping I get to meet him.
– Attn Nice Magan from Kooky Canuck: Welcome to Foursquare! Suggestion: When you check in and you’re picking up a server shift on the floor, you might want to include that as a comment in your checkin. Yesterday I saw Magan check in at Kooky, and went up there all excited thinking she was bartending, but instead it was… someone else. It was like hearing that the Fire Sale might be Dos Equis Lager, and running up to the Saucer and finding out it’s actually Turbo Dog.
– We need a music advisor who is female and 29 or younger. I loved the music played in the booth yesterday, but seriously, we need to get more songs in the mix that were made after 1980. We need to appeal to a more diverse crowd with our music. And by “more diverse” I mean “hot, tube-top wearing crowd.”
– Why I love the Saucer: This week, one of the girls showed up for her 5:00 shift, but first she had to run over to Victoria’s Secret in Peabody Place mall. Reason why: She forgot to wear underwear to work.
Okay. Time to jump in the shower and get the day started. The judges come by our booth between 11 and 12, and since presentation is part of the judging, I tend to stay the hell out. Probably I’ll hit Kooky Canuck, then the Saucer, then head to the park.