An Off the Rack Evening Inspires Indelible Images

Off the rack is uncomplicated. Off the rack the bunny who is so perfect, that she appears as though she could awaken in the morning and with no visible effort, appear as perfect as you always witness… Off the rack is the friend, who simply with a glance can finish your sentence… Off the rack is the venue, where the conversation is ever-present, the drama is nonexistent, and the familiarity is forever.

For the second consecutive evening, Lodge Bar was crushed. Given St. Patrick’s Day’s mixed attendance, the fact that Cinco de Mayo doesn’t register as an obvious holiday, and Tuesday is the middle of the workweek, I had minimal expectations for the evening. Lodge Bar obliterated those expectations. They made me question why I ever had those expectations?

There wasn’t a half-block line, as there was on Saturday… However, the upper and lower bar areas were satiated, the walkways were impassable, and other venues would have taken the patio crowd and called their evening acceptable. As I watched the menagerie of drink slingers and supporters sprint past me, I could only surmise the obvious… Lodge Bar owned this evening…

Owning Lodge Bar was a panorama of petite perfections, whose appearance and fashion savvy were spectacular… My evening may have started with amazement for the exceptional attendance… However, within twenty minutes, my attention refocused on the attack of five-foot bunnies…

From the beautiful brunette, whose choice of apparel, a Lebron James jersey, captured my attention to the pair of angelic bunnies in form fitting white to the five-bunny clutch who encircled the last table before the dance floor… The compilation was incredible… I’ve seen clutches of bunnies (you know that) and I’ve seen scrumptious short bunnies (you know that), but the assemblage of diminutive platinum perfection was uniquely appreciated…

Speaking of appreciated perfection, Lodge Bar must consider appearance when they are hiring… I don’t know if they do and I’m certain such a consideration would violate several laws… However, you view anyone of their employees from promoter to bartender to server and you can articulate one inescapable conclusion… There must be a minimum level of aesthetic professionalism to work there…

If one wanted to argue with that, I could respond with several examples. And Lodge Bar Promotions Superstar Kattie Minx would be exhibit A. I must have spoken with a half dozen employees who were relaxing on their night off… However, none was as engaging as Kattie… She is insightful, intelligent, and after five minutes, it is obvious why her and Jen Bunny are the promotions combination in this city…

Kattie Minx is also gorgeous… Most women, even bunnies, wouldn’t rate minimal attention in a simple brown and white stripe top and jeans… Minx rates and retains your attention… I said this to her and I will restate for the benefit of those reading… If half of the teenagers in this city were as gorgeous as her, this would be a much better zip code…

While Kattie is exemplary, the exquisite morsel who once again owned the conversation through both her appearance and personality, was the intoxicating tart herself, Alexa… You would assume one would run out of adjectives and then you realize with every glance, Leonardo da Vinci never ran out of brushstrokes and Frank Sinatra never ran out of notes… Alexa simply acts more precocious… She simply appears more scrumptious… Just when you assume you have run out of words, she invites more…

And on this night, she was encouraging more… Dressed in black and yellow with spectacular jeans and an adorable juicy couture hoodie, Alexa was stellar… What impresses the most is the effortlessness of her appearance… The outfit I described is not designer… It is one that a thousand bunnies in this city own… Yet, Alexa elevates the outfit from simple clothes to wearable art…

Meanwhile, her actions elevate her from simply another perfect face to a core of attention… Whether its dancing on the stage or in the walkways, holding a half dozen conversations at once, or her shriek when another employee (in a friendly manner) smacks her ass… Alexa doesn’t crave attention… She makes attention crave her…

When my (and likely others) attention was not on Alexa, our focus was the Bling Crosby’s, who as Mission 19 did Saturday, reveled in and stoked the crowd’s energy… With performers, it’s never about simply singing… It’s about attaining and utilizing the crowd’s adoration… The Bling Crosby’s made the crowd, both those who inhabited the dance floor and those who simply watched, their virtual relatives…

Their personalities do not impair their cause… I’m standing on stage with DJ Michael and the Bling Crosby’s lead singer walks toward me and hands me a shot… Drink this, he says… Now, I’m never one to reject free alcohol and it’s not as though no one has ever offered me a shot… Still, the fact that they will randomly award a shot speaks to their ordinary greatness as musicians…

Since I mentioned DJ Michael, he was once again superb… The commonality that I am discovering with mixers in this city and DJ Michael is not an exception, is that the crowd motivates them… Proceeding and succeeding the Bling Crosby’s, DJ Michael once again utilized that motivation and stoked the crowd’s intensity…

As the evening concluded, a dozen patrons arrayed the stage… Amidst “Don’t Stop Believing,” Alexa and another employer parodied Steve Perry and the others danced… The scene not only concluded a exemplary evening… It made me remember that while most of our life is a series of images, which pass us by like towns on the highway, sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens… And we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image, it is a moment that will live on forever…