A Bitch Wing Blowout

Okay everyone I am sorry for my month long absence. I have been in a writing rut, in which I have written 4 entries but not finished any of them. Now finishing them now would be pointless, so I'll just write about my venture down to the land of the Longhorns to hang out with my BFF's, Tim, Sean, and Greg. Now on a 1 to 10 scale this weekend was a 16.5, but let me start with my one and only complaint about this trip.......... The shitty Dallas Ft Worth Airport. The Dallas Fort Worth Airport sucks because of one reason;the negligence of the designers of the airport in providing places to for Sean and I to drink as we waited for Greg's flight to get in. Sean surprisingly landed hours before me at around 2:30, and I met up with him at around 5:00 PM CST when my plane finally got in. On a side note my plane ride was one of the top 5 of my life, as I finally was seated next to an attractive woman, instead of my standard obese grandpa, mother with screaming child, or person who has to get up 5 times during the flight to go to the bathroom. So after the standard salutations Sean and I decided to just walk around the airport until our favorite clergyman landed right on time at 6:00 PM CST. The league was almost back together as 75% of the team was assembled.

Lindsey Taylor, Tim's Girlfriend, picked us up to the airport and drove us back to her apartment, and we met up with Tim there. He had to coach his middle school basketball team, and couldn't make it to the airport, but finally at around 7:00 or so we were all back together. So what is the first thing 4 buddies do when they get back together? Well that is quite obvious. And if you said have a big long group hung, go punch yourself in the face. Obviously what people of our caliber do is go grab a beer and some tacos. We went to this place right off the campus of TCU, and after we sat down finished our food in about 1.1 minutes, it was time to make the 3 hour drive to Austin, Texas.

After a few "Boston, Texas" old school references, some gratuitous teasing of Greg working for the Jewish War Veteran's Association, and our regular standard fare of teasing we arrived in Austin, and proceeded directly to my personal Mecca......6th Street.
6th Street is man Mecca. Now Dustin and I used to joke that this place in Westchester County which housed a Home Depot, A Costco, a Stew Leonard's Grocery Superstore, and an oversized parking garage, was the true man Mecca. Well if that is, this is not far behind.
Imagine this:

• A mile long street which consists of entirely of bars, each with a different theme and atmosphere, and most having live music.
• Balmy weather, and college level pricing on beers
• Cordial and very friendly Texans everywhere
• Gorgeous blond girls every way you look.

Yes I loved ever moment of this night. I couldn't name half the bars we hopped too, but after about 8 beers and back to back Jaeger Shots, this post collegiate drinker was feeling pretty good. So to cap the night we decided to purchase a slice of pizza from the local place on 6th, before driving back to a house owned by one of Tim's friends about 8 minutes away, in a different part of Austin. Now when I bit into this pizza I almost died. It tasted like cardboard, bad cheese and ketchup. I don't mean to be a pizza snob but it was horrific, and be assured drunk Matt and Sean made the entire pizzeria aware of our distaste for it. The rest of this evening took on a classic 2001-2005 form, as I passed out randomly on the living room floor for an hour, before going to bed, and Tim took pictures of his own ass with Sean's camera (and later mine)

Saturday January 14th

To be honest with you the first 8 hours of this day were very dull. We went to the 'Nova-Texas game, watched our guys shoot a worse percentage than you would see in a 1 on 1 match between Justin and Sean in hoops, and then proceeded to walk around the UT campus for about an hour. After Sean and I had dispersed all of our tasteless Texas Tower jokes, we decided to check out the alumni post game reception being held at a bar called Speakeasy.

Now after a loss, you would expect most Villanova fans to be depressed, and not too enthusiastic after the game. The good part about being a Villanovan is that the majority are basically just a bunch of drunk Italian and Irish Catholics. We entered the bar which had been rented out by Villanova Alumni, and entered Man Mecca part 2............

FREE, TOP SHELF OPEN BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For almost 2 1/2 straight hours Sean, Tim, Greg, Lindsey, and I all did our best college student and drank as much as possible. I alternated, between, Crown and Diet, Miller Lite, Captain and Diet, Shiner Bock, and more. I mingled amongst the 300 other Nova Fans in attendance and saw many familiar faces. I did things drunk Matty B does, the things I tend to be embarrassed about the next day. At around 5:30 or so, as the open bar ended, we left the city of Austin, and started our travels back to Ft Worth.

On our way back we ate at a BBQ place on the way that would blow away any place in the Northeast. Mind you that this was a fast foodish type of place, and my whole meal including a 32 ounce beer was 8 dollars. Yes after having at least 10 drinks, wise old Matthew decided to drink just a bit more.

We got back in Ft Worth around 10, and were able to catch the end of the Patriots game in Tim's apartment/convent, and horsed around there for a while. After about an hour we drove to Lindsey's apartment in the heart of Downtown Ft. Worth, Greg pulled his usual "I am too tired" cop out, and went to sleep around 11. Then the most shocking event since Tori tried to replace Kelly Kapowski on "Saved By The Bell" happened......Sean "Guiness Blood" Bennington did too!!!! Since 2001 this has happened about 3 times, and it is a major upset when it does. Since I am a drinking warrior, Tim and I decided to walk for a couple blocks, and we entered a very cool/ hipster drinking establishment called The Flying Saucer, and had two beers each. After shooting the shit for a while, we went back to Lindsey's apartment, and half of our trip was over.....

Part 2 coming tomorrow..........................................