Welcome to the CBB Lounge!
Posted by Daren Jaques on February 21, 2008
by Daren Jaques
So I wanted to take a moment to say how totally rad this little internet community is. In my mind, our conversations occur in a sweet scotch and cognac lounge, with high backed leather chairs and deep mahogany millwork. Our frequent commenters have brought a dimension that I didn’t expect to evolve in this little internet “bar.”
There is occasional drama - you never know when BGunzy and I will have a little tif, only to make up again later on a bedrock conservative issue. There is romance; there are literally thousands of unique hits on this site without a comment - Clearly from women enamored with my debonair wit and magnetic internet style. Sorry, ladies, I am currently taken by wife #3… but keep checking back. 
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Ahem, returning to the subject… We have Rick’s comic and random non-sequiturs, and EW’s erudition. He keeps us in line, and make us think twice about checking our facts.
We also have a resident scientist, and my fellow feminist, Jaime to give a reasoned progressive approach.
Doug is kind of like a B-List celebrity who sometimes comes and hangs with us, which makes us all feel cool; though we are secretly jealous of his success.
IrishWalsh. Sometimes, we pour out a Guinness in remembrance of our fun old pal IrishWalsh who used to chill with us but recently got married or has some new girlfriend who takes up all his time now. Think ‘Frank the Tank’ from Old School.
Lastly, there is Dorf. Good ‘ole Dorf is the regular who has the choicest barseat in the joint, and the guy you know makes your post official when he comments on it. I’m never exactly sure what I’m gonna get with a Dorf comment. It might be funny, sarcastic, or insightful… and sometimes it’s all three.
So this is my thanks to the readers and commenters who are value added. Thanks for reading and making this blog better; if I left you out, set me straight in the comment section, and the next round is on me. Prost!
February 21, 2008 at 8:27 am
Wow! I don’t know what to say. Ron Paul for president?
February 21, 2008 at 9:22 am
Heh, well lets make this post official then.
February 21, 2008 at 1:33 pm
What’ll you have, Daren? Next round’s on me.
I’ll take a straight martini with Bombay Gin, please.
February 21, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I’d like a Bowmore, Islay scotch… served neat. Thanks.
February 21, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I should point out that I didn’t include Jeremie because he is a co-author… I was trying to complement the commenters. I didn’t think I needed to say that but, I’ve been asked a couple of times now why I didn’t mention him.
February 21, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Ha, that’s funny. With as much as I’ve been blogging lately I might as well be a commenter…
In the end this is really Dorf’s blog and I am just honored to be a part of it.
February 21, 2008 at 10:07 pm
And Daren, maybe CBB Lounge should become a regular post where we open up the discussion to the readers. Open topic. Maybe every couple of weeks on a certain day.
February 22, 2008 at 9:28 am
Heh, whatever.. I lack the ability to really come up with original topics and thoughts like you both can. I can comment on things people say, but not so good at writing origial stuff. Anybody can HAVE a blog, but not everybody CAN blog… know what I mean.. You both can blog, which is why I like coming here.
February 22, 2008 at 1:35 pm
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
The truth is I hang out less at this bar because I bought one of my own (Mickey’s Irish Pub-Waukee). Any and all time I have is usually spent keeping employees working, drunks from breaking things, and employees from hurting the drunks.
Jeremie and I yesterday ascertained that my old blog The Mind of Irish Walsh ( irishwalsh.blogspot.com ) has become brain dead. I haven’t posted regularly there in a LONG LONG time. The code got messed up on it, and I just never cared to even fix it.
I do like this lovely lounge though, I do indeed. Though I see it more as a small town Iowa bar and grill then a cigar lounge. A haze of smoke in the air, old codgers in bib overalls talking corn yields, rain, and politics in short “to the point” sentences. At least 5 calenders hanging around the walls from various local seed companies and insurance salesman. Beers is 2 dollars, the carpet shag, the chairs uncomfortable. If you strain you can hear the farm report on AM radio coming from the kitchen. No music. And as usual, then the door opens with a ding from the hanging cow bell on the handle, everyone stops to see who it is.
Yeah…that’s how I see CBB. That place city folk and big time blog goers wouldn’t dream of hanging out at, but where they still make the best greasy burger in the county at a fair price and the conversation is just as meaty.
Sliante!
February 22, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Is your bar smoke free? What do you think of the ban smoking bill?
February 23, 2008 at 5:29 am
My bar will only be smoke free when the Taxation without representation tank pulls up outside and demands that the good consumers within extinguish their smokes, without letting them vote on the matter.
Don’t even get me started on smoking bans. I wrote a long long dissertation on it on my blog long before I bought a bar, and I might even find you a link in the morning to said post. However for now, it’s 4:30 AM and I just now got home from a slammin Friday night and am to tired to be bothered to get rilled up about smoking bans, stripped freedoms, or even Capitalism getting kicked in the jimmy.
February 23, 2008 at 7:37 pm
What gets me about these Dept. of Public Health ads their running on WHO 1040 is that the waiter/waitress admits first thing that they make good money bartending/waiting. Then they complain about the smoke. Dude, that’s called an occupational hazard. I like farming and can make big bucks (someday, hopefully, maybe?), but the weather, running big machinery, and pissed off livestock are hazards of the occupation. Maybe I should get the government to outlaw them for me, too?
If you don’t like the smoke, either quit or go to a non-smoking place. Oh, but it’s too tough to find one, and I really like the place I work at. Hmmm, wonder if the owner of the establishment has anything to say about whether it should be non-smoking or not? No, because in Big Lug’s Socialist Paradise, the workers have all the say, and the capitalist pigs who keep the glorious worker down need to be put in place through extra regulations and burdens!
BTW, I don’t smoke, either.
February 24, 2008 at 4:06 am
What’s next? Banning fire from foundries because people are burning themselves?
The whole issue has been driven by money from the very start. The state wants to act like they give a shit about your health by banning smoking in public places. But will they ban smoking? No, to much tax revenue. Ban it in casinos? Nope, to much tax revenue.
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