The Beatdown

Just then, my man Brett announced that he was buying a round for everyone in the house who'd braved the deep freeze. Beautiful. At that, Biggie snapped out of his stupor long enough to belly up to the bar and say "I'll take one on the ass clown," motioning toward Michaels. The bartender laughed and handed the Big fella round number twelve. I had to pull the plug on the dude a few minutes later; on the road home, I got hit with some boogie shrapnel -- make that Biggie shrapnel -- of my own.

Looks like Brett got the last laugh.

Upbeats and beatdowns:On Thursday, December 4, Fortywatt, 3rd Straightloss and Planetary Nebula hit the Lion's Lair, while D.O.R.K., Dropskots, Anyone But Steve and No Fair Fights get punk in drublic at the Climax Lounge. Then on Friday, the Tarmints, the Otter Poppsand the Swanks are at the 15th Street Tavern. Finally, over at the Larimer Lounge that same night, Mike Park (the man behind seminal punk label Asian Man Records) stops by in support of his new album, For the Love of Music.