Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Sad LFK Photo Of the Week / More Quantrill, With Beer and Breakfast / Super Nerd Nite: Robots and Wrestling at Bottleneck


Scenesters, perhaps you spent a hard Monday at work yesterday (unlikely), and then headed down to the Replay to slake your thirst with a PBR or ten, only to find this sign:



((photo via @AaronButell ).

You cried a little, didn't you?  So make sure to head north tonight, because it's presumably Tallboy Tuesday at Frank's.

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LFK's Quantrill mania continues through at least Sunday with various events.  Tonight brings Jonathan Earle to the Carnegie Building at 7:00 to talk about his new book, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri.  If you like your history with a beer in hand, note that Free State will be on hand for this event and hopefully serving their new Phoenix Rising beer which they concocted for the anniversary events.

Chip:  "The first sip tastes like murder, but the aftertaste is one of rebirth and renewal, at least until the next day's headache."

More details here via LPL.

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And wake up early on Wednesday because the Twitter re-enactment,  #QR1863 , kicks into high gear at 6:00 am and surely you want to watch it unfold in real-time, right?  It's been strangely realistic and ominous this week watching Quantrill and his raiders muster their forces on Twitter for the raid.  Click the link and give it a look.

Whether tweeting or watching, you'll certainly work up a powerful hunger for a bowl of 1863-style porridge (or even some coffee-crusted steak and eggs).  So stop by the Eldridge between 7:00 and 11:00 am for a historically accurate breakfast and hope that no drunk Missourians decide to burn the place down again as part of the 150th anniversary events.




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And if all of this history is too much for you, escape into fantasy at the Bottleneck on Wednesday evening with a "Robots and Wrestling" edition of Super Nerd Night featuring performances from the She Bangs and Not a Planet.  There's a FB event page here but it's sadly lacking in the usual awesome flyers.  With both "Nerd Nite" and "Science on Tap" taking a vacation in August, this is your best bet this month for combining nerdery and booze.

But will Free State's ass-kickingly potent new beer called Andre the Giant be on tap?  We doubt it.  But it would certainly be a good idea.

Will a robot-Quantrill pop up at this event?








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