While there may be an epic ton of things to do this Friday, you're crazy if you miss The State Department (who killed it with their BLUR cover on NYE), Loose Lips, the Vita Ruins and our favorite ladies the BROADS DJing at the Black Cat this Friday.
So because we love you, we've got a pair of tickets to giveaway -- all you have to do is tell us which politician, dead or alive, you'd choose to knock back a liter of Jameson with. (Winners will be notified Thursday afternoon by email so use a real one!)
I'll go first:
THAT BABE, EUGENE DEBS!
Not only was he a bad ass and campaigned for Presidential office while in jail, but he's the inspiration behind the MAY DAY RIOTS! My violent Irish side would be happy to battle shot-for-shot with this legend.
YOUR TURN!!
Previously in Giveaway:
- 5/23: Movie Ticket Promo: Snow White And The Huntsman
- 5/23: "Win Before You Can Buy" Ticket Giveaway: Jane's Addiction @ Lyric Opera House
- 5/22: Ticket Giveaway: Bachelorette @ Studio Theatre
- 5/21: Ticket Giveaway: Yann Tiersen @ 930 Club
- 5/18: TICKET GIVEAWAY: BYT PRESENTS: ZOU BISOU BISOU @ MAISON FRANCAISE
- 5/17: Ticket Giveaway: The Adicts @ RNR Hotel
- 5/17: "Win Before You Can Buy" Giveaway: Hot Chip + Sleigh Bells + James Murphy @ Merriweather
- 5/17: "Win Before You Cam Buy" Giveaway: Metric @ Strathmore
- 5/16: Movie Ticket Giveaway: For Greater Glory
- 5/16: Ticket Giveaway/Get Pumped for Reggie Watts @ 9:30 Club
God loves a cheerful giver.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT ~
Teddy Roosevelt would have the best stories (San Juan Hill! Creating the Nat'l Parks system! Well-meaning-but-actually-racist views on society!), and probably a few good whiskey-drinkin' shanties. Also, he could probably explain wtf is going on with the world's bird population, since he was an insomniac obsessive who wrote multiple ornithology books w/ detailed sketches of birds. Sure, we'd end up in a screaming match over eugenics, and he'd kill me in a knife fight, but the fuck do I care? I JUST GOT MURDERED BY THE FUCKING BULL MOOSE. Sign me up.
167167 @chilldust: Copycat.
I'd just want to drink all day in Rahm Emanuel's office. Why? http://rahmfacts.com/
"WHEN DONORS OFFER RAHM EMANUEL $5,000 CHECKS, HE HANGS THE FUCK UP ON THEM"
167171 @ock19: Hm... I was first. Sorryboutcha
167174 @chilldust: That was a joke. One that didn't work well in text form.
Marrion Barry. Enough said.
Gary Johnson, former NM Governor and libertarian 2012 president candidate and supporter of drug legalization. I dunno, there's something endearing about altering consciousness with a man advocating for the freedom to alter consciousness.
Official bad ass.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51619241983&v=wall
"Coming from someone who truly hates today's political climate..."
Before I saw Chilldust's (hey, btw) answer I was going to say Eleanor Roosevelt, (hello, super hero and a table slapping sense of humor) but since there's already been some amount of overlap on the page, a close second would be Jon Stewart. After watching his address regarding the Tuscon shooting, I wouldn't mind just nursing that bottle of Jamie in front of a fire place until his cathartic treatments of the strange going-ons of the unsocial landscape in which we find ourselves reinstated the place and honor of the American dream of progress and hope, and I gently fall asleep to those sweet, purple-mountain-majestic, amber grain-waved words.
He'd also be playing with my hair.
Churchill. No question.
Definitely Andrew Jackson - you don't get a nickname like "old hickory" without being a badass. Hell, he tried to beat an attempted assassin with his cane and one time had a party in the White House where a 1400 pound wheel of cheese was eaten in under two hours to celebrate Washington's birthday.
I choose John Prescott, who at the time of holding the title of Deputy Prime Minister of the great nation of the United Kingdom quite rightly punched a dude in the face for throwing an egg at him.
I would like to congratulate him on this ballsy move, and hope i could be just as violent in the same situation.
obvi, Ted Kennedy, think o fhe stories you could get!
Rebecca Latimer Felton - first female in the US Senate. I bet that old lady could down them with the best of us.
While he may wonder why we're drinking a competitor's product, I'd love to throw back drinks with Michael Collins....ohhh would we get wicked PISSED!!!!!!!
You must be kidding me...there is really only one answer here: JIMMY MCMILLAN!!!!
The Rent STILL Too. Damn. High.
http://www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/
(gimme them tickets prrrrrrease)
Genghis Khan! He was sorta a politician. Plus, after a bottle of Jameson you know he'd want to go pillage and rape. Ultimate bro.
Ted Kennedy: http://sonsoftherepublic.blogspot.com/2005/08/kennedy-dodd-waitress-sandwich.html
But we might need more than one bottle.
Ulysses S. Grant. If you thought the teapot dome scandal was bad, just wait until I introduce him to Haliburton. Plus it would be funny to hear him talk Northern smack talk about the civil war or as he would call it "The War of Southern Passive Aggression".
Bob Packwood FTW. Diary excerpt:
Grabbed Tracy Gorman behind the Xerox machine today and she got a little pissed. What’s the big deal? I was smiling while I did it. She made this big stink about it and it took me about two hours and a couple of thousand dollars to calm her down. I have one question — if she didn’t want me to feather her nest, why did she come into the Xerox room? Sure, she used that old excuse that she had to make copies of the Brady Bill, but if you believe that, I have a room full of radical feminists you can boff. She knew I was copying stuff in there. I had my jacket off and my sleeves rolled up, revealing the well-defined musculature of my sinewy arms which are always bulging with desire. I know what she wanted. This didn’t require a lot of thought.
Winner has been notified!