Tara Reid Sighting?
Where’s Quidnunc when you need her? Uncle Grambo’s looking for the scoop on what Tara Reid and Sergei Federov were up to last night in A2 after a charity hockey game at Yost. “Like, did her and Sergei show up at Scorekeeper’s demanding Jagerbombs and Ritz crackers? Was Chris Cheli-Blows spotted drinking a Victory Ale alone in a dark corner of Trashley’s? Did everyone go back to Sam Valenti IV’s batch pad and blow rails?” We don’t even get half of these allusions. Now, if they’d gone to the third floor of the Dursterstadt Center and run some Mathemati-best, Solaris stizz, we might have a better point of reference.
stizz!
posted by rob on December 3rd, 2004 at 12:09 pmDespite my plea, I haven’t heard jack shiznit. I thought that people actually PARTIED in Ann Arbor on Thursday nights? Apparently not. What gives? Yodel atcha, AAIO.
posted by Uncle Grambo on December 3rd, 2004 at 1:15 pmCome on, Grambo, you can’t really expect much when your list of contacts for hot nightlife gossip includes an engineering grad student.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on December 3rd, 2004 at 1:46 pmkid rock was at conner oneills last night…which explains the line outside the bar waiting to get in..
this blog is one of the good things about ann arbor..
posted by bones on December 3rd, 2004 at 2:10 pmHiya All,
Ok, I stay silent… usually. But this is for the Neighborhood Associations (few posts ago):
I graduated from Mich last year and in my time in Ann Arbor I saw the relationship between the students and residents of Ann Arbor go from pretty good to terrible. It sucks. And I’m sick of hearing about all the Michigan students who have bundles of money. Let’s keep in mind that 70% of students are in-state and lots of us have trouble making ends meet. You complain about Co-Ops? That was the only way I could live in Ann Arbor at all, without having to commute. I worked through college and paid 80% myself. I needed my car for my delivery job at Jimmy Johns.
posted by Mike on December 3rd, 2004 at 2:47 pmYou want to talk about who has the money in Ann Arbor — last time I took a jog in the neigborhoods just east of town I noticed that a 1700 square food abode costs around $450,000. My house back home is worth $120,000.
I’d like to tell all the residents of Ann Arbor to leave if they don’t like the University. Most of them work at firms in Farmington anyhow. If they want quiet-residential, move to Bloomfield — it’s cheaper.
Face it, the University of Michigan is Ann Arbor. Is it a great place to raise kids? Probably not. Deal with it, leave the students alone, and tear down that godamn Whole Foods (I’m a vegetarian, but I’m not that elitist).
I was at Arbor Brewing last night and saw no celebri-dursts there. Maybe they went someplace “cool” like Oz or Necto or one of those other places I would have to be drugged and kidnapped to be spotted at. Bozzles on your respective robvs, yo!
posted by Dave on December 3rd, 2004 at 3:48 pmIf you want scoop, I gots it. Conor O’Neils and Ricks revealed. Kick it!
posted by Uncle Grambo on December 3rd, 2004 at 3:52 pmDear Unk: When one’s hip urban patois, combined with a breakdown in subject-verb agreement, produces a jumble of exclamation-marked incomprehensibility in the chaos of which your point is utterly lost, you have to wonder if English might serve your communicative purposes better.
posted by Laura on December 3rd, 2004 at 7:02 pmdamn, uncle grambo beat me to it. The were at Connors and Ricks, and they had reserved large parts of both places and you needed passes to get in. After the bar, they went to someones house and Kid Rock played on a keyboard and jammed out.
posted by Just a Voice on December 3rd, 2004 at 10:44 pmSeriously bummed that I missed it. Damn. Rock on, Unk.
posted by Laura on December 3rd, 2004 at 11:08 pmIf you want to see Eminem and Kid Rock, take the hour-long trip to their houses in Rochester and Romeo, respectively. You can visit Ritchie Lincoln-Mercury, the car dealership owned by “white trash” Kid Rock’s dad, and maybe catch a glimpse of Eminem at the local Starbucks!
Or better yet, if you REALLY want to see Eminem and Kid Rock- punch yourself in the face, because you suck.
posted by Ally McBeal, JD on December 4th, 2004 at 11:07 amKill yer idolz!
posted by Alex(andra) on December 4th, 2004 at 2:10 pmI think I speak for the collective townie youth when I say that eminem is pretty good, and kid rock sucks spectacularly.
posted by Ben on December 5th, 2004 at 3:54 amYeah Kid Rock and Tara Reid were at Connor O’neils. My girlfriend works there. Get this. These cheap bastards brought there own cases of beer and a bunch of pizza’s from cottage in. The food they did order they didn’t pay for and then had the balls not to tip anyone. My girlfriend dealt with dumb slutty girls trying to ride Kid Rocks nuts, equally dumb drunk guys, Kid Rock telling her she could toss his salad anyday when she brought a salad out to him to make $20 in tips because these fuck wads didn’t tip. They had enough money for the blow they were snorting up in the limo out back though. Oh and Tara looked like a fucking heroin addict.
posted by Fuck Bob on December 5th, 2004 at 4:22 am“ewwwwww.”
posted by OFW insurgent on December 5th, 2004 at 12:36 pm(response to the thought of tossing kid rock’s salad)
also, what exactly does Tara Reid do? I only read about her being in the company of other inexpicably famous folk at parties where she falls down or loses items of clothing, but how did she originally become “famous?”
posted by OFW insurgent on December 5th, 2004 at 12:38 pmThis story is a greater indication of Ann Arbor’s inexplicable inferiority/superiority complex than the ordinary complaints on this site about the n-hood associations and how we’re not Chicago and all that. Homeowner associations are about the same everywhere. But a university town with its own suburbs shouldn’t make a big deal because a third-rate wannabe rapper and a washed up actress show their faces inside our borders. I couldn’t believe Kid Rock got two pictures in the Ann Arbor News. Do they think we are some backwater locale barely on the map?
posted by Matt on December 5th, 2004 at 1:58 pmFuck Bob,
This is exactly why you turn down half-assed celebrities when they want to come to your bar.
A promoter called us to try and get our place for Billy Corrigan’s poetry reading. He couldn’t believe that we weren’t the least bit interested. He wound up at Borders.
All that these high maintenance people do is roll in and expect you to fall all over yourself to give them free drinks while all of their “fans”, who would never come to your bar in the first place, order water. Thanks, but no thanks. You will more often than not lose money, and bring in a bunch of creepy people that your poor staff has to deal with for the whole night.
I am hoping that Conor’s got a lump check for Thursday night’s “reserved” tables, and that they passed along the profits to the bar staff.
posted by todd leopold on December 5th, 2004 at 2:13 pmbest website ever.
posted by Anonymous on December 5th, 2004 at 3:24 pm“Dursterstadt Center and run some Mathemati-best, Solaris stizz”
posted by Anonymous on December 6th, 2004 at 11:10 amEECS + whatevs = BUZZ
ITEM — It’s funny you mention all this celebrity talk. I spotted Sherman “George Jefferson” Helmsley at Old Town on Thursday night. He was sitting alone in the last booth on the left-hand side, right when you walk in. He was chainsmoking Merit menthols and looked pretty drunk (Chivas Regal) by the time I walked in. I’m a big Sherman Helmsely fan, and so naturally I asked him if he was alone and if it would be ok if I joined him. I interpreted his silence as a “yes,” so I sat down and just kept plying him with free drinks until he started telling the most magical stories of what life was like backstage on The Jeffersons. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me and all the Annarbour paparazzi were a couple blocks away, fawning all over some down-on-his-luck rapper and his entourage of meth-heads and trailer trash, so there is no photographic evidence of this special encounter.
Seriously, I didn’t catch the AA News coverage of Kid Rock, but if it’s as bad as everyone suggests, then what further proof do we need that this is a one-horse rube town? Only a town full of huckleberries would bat an eye at the grand entry of some late 90s celebrity like Kid Rock…..
posted by Boris on December 6th, 2004 at 9:14 pmBut what was Sherm doing in Ann Arbor getting drunk by himself?
posted by Dave on December 7th, 2004 at 3:16 pmI attended the big hockey game, though not the post game fun at the pub. I was somewhat confused at the honorary puck-drop, before our “special guest” was announced. Who’s the tall woman who looks like she’s been rummaging through the Theater Department’s costume collection? It was Kid Rock, of course.
He did get the proper treatment at Yost, by which I mean he was pretty much ignored.
posted by Sam on December 7th, 2004 at 6:25 pm