This Week for Happy Hour: Back to the Brewski

I know, I know.  It’s April 20, 4/20, National Weed Smoker’s Day.  But that commonplace commemoration is silly, and frankly, Rhino bar don’t sell no wacky tobacky.  Clinking glasses to herb is like singing the Canadian National Anthem at a baseball game, and I won’t have it.  Good day, sir.

So, this week all drinks are half price at Rhino happy hour, 5-9pm, to honor prodigious actor and super weirdo Crispin Hellion Glover, who turns 48 years old today.

Supercuts victim.

You probably remember Crispin best from his unforgettable performance as George McFly in Back to the Future.  Gotta love when he finally grows a pair and stands up to Biff, that big dumb galoot:

After he knocks Biff on his Tanner and lays the heat down on Loraine he gets a little cock-strong and goes around town ordering chocolate milks left and right like he's the Mayor or something.  Would have been funnier, I think, if he’d started drinking peach schnapps on the reg with ol’ Loraine in that sweet Buick, but hey, 1955 and all.  Either way, Georgie did the right thing and got the lady, while Biff got covered in doodie.

Anyway, it got me thinking about how that movie came out in 1985 and was about going back in time 30 years, and how in only 3 years 1985 will be 30 years ago.  Which didn’t seem all that long ago until I realized that this thing I’m writing on and this thing you’re reading on and the middleman that makes it possible hadn’t been invented yet.  And now, all of a sudden, Crispin seems kind of old.  His hair style aside.

Hell, he's 48, and BTF is 28.  So let's show some appreciation, and raise a glass to time traveling at Rhino tonight.  You’re downstairs, you do some shots, boom: it’s an hour later and you’re upstairs with a beer in your hand, talking to a stranger.  You down your beer, boom: you wake up the next morning in the big green chair on the lawn of the Duke Ellington School and for some reason you’re wearing two different shoes.

Well, that’s time travel, my friends, and it don’t require no DeLorean.  It’s for sale – half price, in fact.

See you at the White Marble!

Cheers!