It’s March, which means it’s not February, which means FebClub is over. As promised, here are my thoughts on the second half of the month. After receiving some Class Board death threats feedback that my “Good, Bad, and Ugly” categorization was too negative, I’m switching things up to “Great, Pretty Good, and Nice Try!”
It should also be noted that my participation kind of flagged towards the end. I finished with 20 stamps, putting me shy of the much-coveted Class of ‘08 beer stein. So if there was a particularly great or awful event that I missed, let me know. Anyway, here it goes…
The Great: If Dave & Busters is the STD-riddled skank who makes the rounds in your neighborhood, then University Pinball is the unnoticed shy girl living next door who would be really popular if people took the time to get to know her. This is an old-school arcade. They’ve got air hockey, pool, three pinball machines, the Simpsons, Soul Calibur II, Tekken 5, Mortal Kombat 3, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Area 51, and plenty of other games. The machines take quarters, not credit cards. And best of all, Class Board actually threw their weight around for once and made the event a “Free Play” night. But I’ll definitely be back even if it means dropping $5 to beat the Mothership…
The Pretty Good: Dark Horse (their official site obnoxiously demands a flash plugin) is a pub, not a horse. But it is very dark. It’s definitely got an authentic English feel to it, and plenty of authentic English beers on tap too. But what I like best about Dark Horse is its four distinct rooms. In smaller one-room taverns, if you use a bad pickup line on a girl and she rejects you, you’re in for a claustrophobic, awkward night. Not at Dark Horse. On to the next room!
The “Nice Try!”: I guess the Sansom Street Pub Crawl (New Deck to La Terrasse to Bubble House) is a good idea in theory. But let’s break it down. We already had Quizzo at New Deck. La Terrasse has a weird vibe. And Bubble House is a POS ripoff spawned by the hellish minds of a few moneygrubbing business students. Every visit to Bubble House has been a negative experience for me. In the past, it was their lukewarm soups and their inedible tapioca pearls that did it for me. This time, it was an idiot assistant manager who argued with Class Board about whether or not his boss had agreed to offer $1 Yuengling pints that night. When I finally did get my beer, it was flat. Note to future Class Boards: three bad events do not one good event make.
Tags: Bubble House, Dark Horse, FebClub, kinda bummed I won't get a beer stein, La Terrasse, New Deck, University Pinball
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