The Hot Club

THE HOT CLUB
WHERE HEARTS ARE ON FIRE

BUT IT’S NEVER TOO HOT
FOR THE DEVIL MAY CARE

575 South Water Street

Providence, RI


Newsflash for Patriot fans and lovers of good ribs – Mike Solomon is providing a free buffet at halftime of the Patriots games at his Wes’ Rib House, 38 Dike St. in Providence. You have to get there before the kickoff in order to partake of the succulent and scrumptious spread.



The Wizard was talking about listening to the Black Crowes. I mentioned that Kate Hudson was married to one of them. Naw naw, said the Wiz. Yeah Yeah, Chris Robinson I recalled. Naw naw the Wizard persisted. Fortunately Katie was tending bar and confirmed what I was saying. Funny. The Wizard believed Kate but not me. Kate to the rescue.



We were talking about remakes not being as good as the originals. I mentioned that I was disappointed in Rob Zombie’s Halloween, and now his Halloween II is getting bad reviews. To me that was surprising given how good Zombie’s House of a Thousand Corpses and Devils’ Rejects were. One exception was Marcus Nispel’s remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Jennifer Beal and R. Lee Ermey. Kate saw the recent re-do of Last House On The Left and said it wasn’t as good as the original. I told her that David Hess, who played the lead bad guy in the original Last House, also sang the title song.



Easy Ed told me to check out barstoolsports.com. “By the common man, for the common man.”



The Cisco Kid was in town and visited the HC. Fran the Yank Man stopped by too and I told the Cisco Kid about our drink bet on whether the Sox will catch the Yankees for 1st. I told Cisco that most of the time most human beings would buy you a drink back after you bought ’em one. Cisco said “Well, alleged human beings.”



Cisco saw me keeping notes by talking into my digital recorder. “Speak into your magic box. Speak into your magic soul catcher”, Cisco said.



Is red the new color? Last Friday, there were 5 women in front of us all with red hair.



Mike Module has the Pawtucket city record for the pole vault (12’6”) which he got while at Tolman High School. Mike pointed out that it’s only because they no longer have the event anymore. There are no more pits. They couldn’t deal with the liability issue.



Stevie Saucepan said that those people who eat too much chicken in this life are going to Peckatory. That’s where you go in the after life to get pecked by the chickens for eating too much chicken. The chickens will rule – the roost.

The Hot Club

THE HOT CLUB
WHERE HEARTS ARE ON FIRE

BUT IT’S NEVER TOO HOT
FOR THE DEVIL MAY CARE

575 South Water Street

Providence, RI






















THE HOT CLUB

Chuck D. taught us a new word - pedonkadonk. It means a big ass. Only thing is that I couldn’t find it in my Webster’s Dictionary. So I Googled it and got the Urban Dictionary which has the word as badonkadonk and defines it as an expression for an extremely curvaceous female behind. It also says that it was popularized by Tracy Morgan on Comedy Central.



El Segundo means ‘the second’ per Alexander the Great. Mr. D. lived in California some years back and said that there was a strike at a waste treatment plant in El Segundo. Mr. D. said he thought those picketing should have signs that said ‘They treat us like shit.’Alex noticed the parallel with it being the second or going #2.



Contraire bet on the Patriots pre-season games two weeks in a row and lost. I told him he’d bet on 2 flies going up a wall. Said Contraire, “You gotta have some action.”



Bags didn’t wait long after registering to vote. He already wrote a Letter to the Editor complaining about his taxes being raised in North Providence.



Foot Joy saw me and said “You didn’t misquote me once this week.” FJ said that because he wasn’t in Sportzine last week.



Hot rumor – An undisclosed source told me that Foot Joy was singing Karaoke last Monday night at the Hot Club. The song of Foot Joy’s choice? My spy says it was… Bobby Darin’s Mack the Knife. A knife for those bunions?



The Wise Man said that some people think David Ortiz should go back on the juice. Jokin’ Joe agreed and said “You want Big Papi or Big Popup?”



Alexander the Grate’s nickname for Mike Module is Sherlock Ohms.



We met a friend of Citizen Caroline’s named Alba who went to school with her. Alba said she likes policemen. Why? She likes ‘the gun’.



Overheard at the Hot Club: Tall woman and short man. The man would have to go “up on her”.

The Hot Club

THE HOT CLUB
WHERE HEARTS ARE ON FIRE

BUT IT’S NEVER TOO HOT
FOR THE DEVIL MAY CARE

575 South Water Street

Providence, RI




















THE HOT CLUB

Bags was lamenting about his taxes being raised in North Providence by 17%. Someone told him he should vote out his senator. Someone else pointed out that Bags is not a registered voter, so a certain local representative from Cranston told Bags: “Well, you don’t count.” So Bags went out and registered. Now he can complain.



I couldn’t imagine anyone would bet on a pre-season NFL game, but Contraire went with the 7-point favorite Pats vs. the Bengals. As I was relating this, Contraire heard me and said, “There’s a cockroach born every second.” I said to him, “You would know.”



A guy tried to let his girlfriend use the men’s room, but Broc pointed out that she couldn’t do that.



Contraire proclaimed that the Sportzine has been shut down ‘because of lies’. He called me ‘a weekly Hot Club patron’ so “You’re weak.”



Hooks has quit smoking. “I can’t afford it.”, he said. Not for health reasons. I told him he can’t afford it because of his health. No, he can‘t afford it.



Baseball – something new happens all the time. On the HC TV, Toronto’s Brett Cecil threw the ball into the dugout without time being called. Jason Bay, the BoSox runner, advanced two bases.



Mike Solomon said that when Rocco Baldelli was on rehab in Pawtucket that he bought $800 worth of Wes’ Ribs for the team buffet. Apparently it’s almost a PawSox tradition for rehabbing major league players to get food from Wes’ Rib House. Several other players including John Smoltz did it this year.



Ian, who worked the Hot Club grill for 5 years, returned for a visit. Ian is working the night shift at Julian’s, which is now serving dinners according to Ian. Ah, the Hot Club as the Hotel California – You can check out any time but you can never leave. There was also a Sue Murphy sighting on the deck.



Chuck D said that a guy was so drunk he was slurring his pauses.



Alexander the Grate noted that Paul Anka not only wrote My Way for Frank Sinatra but also the theme song to the Tonight Show.



Pucky said that the new 195 or I-Way bridge is the ‘Je ne sais quoi’ of the Hot Club.