What Lou Wants, Lou Gets
I can't tell you how many emails and calls we get every single day asking us to give someone a shout-out on Drink at Work. Our influence is so sweeping, our taste so noted, our reach so far-...reaching...that folks are practically beating down our door, begging for the slightest mention. Normally, we balk at this. I mean, we are a professional service organization. We can't just be throwing huzzahs around for everyone we've ever met.
However, we do make exceptions for the truly exceptional. This morning I received a text message from my brother Chris that consisted of one sentence: "Lou would like a shout-out on drinkatwork.com." And so it is...
Donald Watkins, a lawyer and chief strategist for Richard M. Scrushy, outside Lou's Pub and Package Store in Birmingham, Ala. Photo by Dana Mixer for The New York Times
If you are now or if you will soon find yourself — Pela, I'm looking in your direction — in the Birmingham, AL area, you will find no better watering hole than Lou's Pub, owned and operated by the delightfully saucy Lou Zaden. A package store AND a bar (how awesome is that?) Lou's Pub is the kind of place where you feel like a regular the moment you walk in. Lou will serve you a drink, find out your life story, knock you down to size and make you feel all warm and fuzzy within a matter of minutes.
I no longer visit Birmingham without a pilgrimage or two to Lou's, and neither should you (Pela).
Ok, so this post sort of serves a dual purpose. If you're in Birmingham on Monday, March 13, go see Pela at the High Note Lounge. You won't regret it. In fact, you'll want to send me presents for suggesting that you go. And here are a few other dates on Pela's mini-tour:
March 9- Cambridge, MA- TT The Bears
March 11- Charlottesville, VA- Starr Music Hall w/ Rainer Maria
March 12- Mt. Pleasant, SC- Village Tavern w/ Rainer Maria
March 13- Birmingham, AL- High Note Lounge w/ Rainer Maria
March 15- *SXSW* Austin, TX- Fox and Hound- w/ Flaming Lips, The Czars, Midlake and others
So what have we learned?
However, we do make exceptions for the truly exceptional. This morning I received a text message from my brother Chris that consisted of one sentence: "Lou would like a shout-out on drinkatwork.com." And so it is...
Donald Watkins, a lawyer and chief strategist for Richard M. Scrushy, outside Lou's Pub and Package Store in Birmingham, Ala. Photo by Dana Mixer for The New York Times
If you are now or if you will soon find yourself — Pela, I'm looking in your direction — in the Birmingham, AL area, you will find no better watering hole than Lou's Pub, owned and operated by the delightfully saucy Lou Zaden. A package store AND a bar (how awesome is that?) Lou's Pub is the kind of place where you feel like a regular the moment you walk in. Lou will serve you a drink, find out your life story, knock you down to size and make you feel all warm and fuzzy within a matter of minutes.
I no longer visit Birmingham without a pilgrimage or two to Lou's, and neither should you (Pela).
Ok, so this post sort of serves a dual purpose. If you're in Birmingham on Monday, March 13, go see Pela at the High Note Lounge. You won't regret it. In fact, you'll want to send me presents for suggesting that you go. And here are a few other dates on Pela's mini-tour:
March 9- Cambridge, MA- TT The Bears
March 11- Charlottesville, VA- Starr Music Hall w/ Rainer Maria
March 12- Mt. Pleasant, SC- Village Tavern w/ Rainer Maria
March 13- Birmingham, AL- High Note Lounge w/ Rainer Maria
March 15- *SXSW* Austin, TX- Fox and Hound- w/ Flaming Lips, The Czars, Midlake and others
So what have we learned?
- Lou's Pub is one of the best bars in the country.
- I'll always pimp for the purveyor of a fine drinking establishment, provided they have wittily insulted me on several occasions.
- Pela, as yellojkt is fond of saying, RAWKS!
- And the new Drink at Work.com comedy show, Drink at Work Presents..., is going to knock you on your ass. You hearin' me, suckas?!
posted by Carol at 10:57 AM
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8 Comments:
Okay, but why Donald Watkins?
That's the only good photo of the pub I could track down at the time. Meh...
Lou said you get a free hat.
No! I want to drink free for life!
I've never seen him give away a single drink. I was shocked by the hat offer.
Lou's is in the Lakeview District, which is one of the finer districts here in Birmingham. The Meat Packing District should take note.
One other thought - is the Fox and Hound that damn bar that the crack-headed Real World Austin crack heads went to every damn night of the damn weeknight?!?!? That have have been the Fuzzy Rooster, but those RW kids suck ice.
Crix, donde es High Note Lounge?
What people should know about Lou's Pub is he is a notorious ASS HOLE.....
He pads the tabs and convinces drunk people to spend more money than they should.
He is a complete farce (forget a fag of the night as well) and when you walk into his place, buyer beware!
I have observed him countless times "working over drunk people" to buy more rounds for their friends then padding the tab even more.
If you have a business account, it is almost automatic that he will stick it to you.
Lou Zaden is a piece of shit!
And yes, he likes to kiss Donald Watkin's ASS.....that's what he is best at doing.
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