August 13, 2005

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  The Kevin & Bean show
  from the Los Angeles radio station KROQ 106.7 did one of their "party
  machines" to say farewell to their sports commentator "Money," who is
  leaving to work for the Los Angeles Lakers. It isn't often this
  happens, but they decided to have this event in Orange County,
  California.  More specifically, Hooters
  of Anaheim! I happen to work three miles away from there, so I was most
  definitely going to go since it's open to the public. The party's from
  5:30am - 10:00am, and since I work graves; I'm off at 6am. Perfect.
  I'll just be staying up a little later after work thas all. 

  I got there by about 6:05am, and there was already a short line outside
  since Hooters was already filled to capacity at that point. I was only
  the tenth person away from the door in about a line of twenty people,
  and we just had to wait for people to leave to get in. Not a big deal,
  unlike me just getting off work, I'm sure there are many people in
  there who need to leave for work. After about fifteen minutes of
  waiting, I still wasn't able to get in, but looking over my shoulders,
  the line of twenty people is now a line of over a hundred people!

  By 6:25am, I was able to get in, found a table to sit at, and ordered
  myself a $1.67 beer; which is the special for the morning (you know
  106.7 = $1.67). Later on, I would order a couple more glasses of beers
  (not just the special), and a plate of onion rings. I also chose quite
  the table to sit at as well, since apparently the hooters waitresses
  passes by it almost everytime.  Not only that, but since it's so
  crowded, they always happen to accidentally brush up against me, even
  when I try and move out of the way for them. *blush* Speaking of which,
  I noticed that besides the female KROQ staff and the hooters' girls,
  the audience was unsurprisingly primarily male, with maybe 10 percent female
  (some were hot though). Not only that, but Asians were definitely
  underrepresented in the crowd. But then, this IS a KROQ crowd afterall.

  So the party pretty much consisted of us drinking, eating, playing
  games for prizes, taking pictures, while the crew do their live
  broadcast from a corner of the room. It was soo noisy in the room
  though, that it was kinda hard to hear the broadcast.  You had to
  go to the restroom if you wanted to hear the broadcast clearer. So
  apparently, the first hundred people that came for the party received a
  limited edition t-shirt for the event, and the rest were going to be
  given out as prizes.  I myself got a t-shirt for drinking a glass
  of pickle juice! Luckily, I like pickles, so it wasn't bad at all and I
  chugged down the whole glass non-stop.

  I stayed until about 8am, when I decided that I've done all the
  drinking & eating that I wanted to do. I realized that I'll be
  missing several more contests and other things since there's still two
  hours more to the party, but I'd had my fun and thought that I'd at
  least open up a spot for some person standing in line outside (it was
  like more than 200 people outside when I left).

  So Money, good luck in your new job!

  p.s. I didn't bring my digital camera to the party, but I did use my
  camera phone. Despite the lack in quality due to the poorly lighted
  room, here are some pics anyways....

  The Kevin & Bean cast.
  Back picture of the t-shirt I earned.
  Me and Christy, Miss Double D-ecember.
  The Hooters waitress for my table.

  more pics linked from here

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