The fact that you can enjoy cocktails in the semi-darkness is one of the things I find so alluring about drinking. Everyone looks good in candlelight. So it makes sense that two of Scottsdale's best places for cocktails are turning off the lights Saturday night as part of Earth Hour 2009.
I'm not saying everyone down here is a liar. I'm just saying that sometimes, truth can be as elastic as the ties on a sting bikini. Here's a look at a few of the most common.
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At times, it seems like Dos Equis is the official sponsor of spring break. And just as I was reflecting on this thought, we drove past a convenience/liquor store hosting a Dos Equis rally of sorts. Four stripper-hot women with long hair and sunglasses at night gyrated, bounced and twirled on the sidewalk in front of Kino's Tienda de Autoservicio...
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Despite warnings from their universities, students from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University have descended upon Rocky Point en masse as of Friday morning.
The uniformity of hotness down here is astounding given the statistic that something like nine out of 10 Americans weigh more than 300 pounds, or something like that. But, really, it's as though a 24 Hour Fitness disgorged its most elite clients in the Malecon neighborhood, inspiring a rare mix of awe, lust and envy in bystanders, who are often every bit as fit.
I saw girls doing these things tonight. Because they were drunk. Blind, fall-down, puke-in-the-street, cry-in-public drunk. Then I saw their barely more-sober friends scream at them and try to drag them away from the man with the video camera. (There's ALWAYS a video camera.)
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Watching the kids from Douglas, Ariz., made me want to invite them to my next party, of course, but mostly it made me think I'm going to the wrong clubs back at home.
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These are exactly the type of men who love strip clubs, stripper shoes, stripper body glitter, whatever, anything that hints at the myth of wanton, available women. Then someone mentions a wife.
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You can almost hear Rocky Point exhale. The spring break crowds that have been so hotly anticipated all week seem to have arrived today, and so many of the bars, clubs and restaurants that seemed to bereft of life are now teeming with teens.
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While down here, I've noticed a few things that no one in their right mind would think of attempting at the resort pools back in the Valley.
