The morning started out boring enough, waking up at 10a (my internal clock has decided that this is what time I need to get out of bed every day) and doing some WoW chores and laundry. Breakfast was leftover pizza, yum!
During the afternoon, I stopped down at Plaza de Cesar Chavez for Music in the Park. Here I was finally able to connect with the San Jose Downtown Association and pick up one of their Discover Downtown cards. My trip just got a little cheaper, thankfully. There were a few local eateries set up for food and booze and the opening group, Green River Ordinance, was actually quite good; I did not have an opportunity to listen to Tonic as I had a bus to catch to Sunnyvale.
I've never been to a comedy club before and wasn't quite sure what to expect. I'm glad that Rooster T. Feathers was my choice for a first. The headliner was Darren Carter and he was friggin' hilarious! Both the host and opener were also very amusing; the opener poked fun at Morg which more than made my night.
The show wrapped up at around 10p so I made my overly-tipsy-borderline-on-drunk way home, enjoyed another girl beer, and started listening to Darren's older CD after some of Wednesday's drama bleed-through started to ruin my night. I think I passed out around 1a. Today's plan: Farmer's Market, I volunteered to assist with Obon Festival preparations but have not heard back so the alternative is Happy Hour somewhere and then I plan to hit up ComedySportz for their midnight show (which actually starts at 11p, go figure).
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Rooster T. Feathers Comedy ClubBar
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I discovered these guys through the book Geek Silicon Valley which I picked up at The Tech on Tuesday. What makes a Comedy Club so geeky? Before it became Rooster T. Feathers, it was a bar called Andy Capps and Atari's first Pong machine was installed there. And no, according to the hostess, Rooster T. Feathers doesn't really mean anything.
Thursday is free entry for college students and Sunday is free entry for Military personnel, otherwise the cover is $12 on most nights except special events and Wednesdays, Open-Mic-Night, where the cover is $10.
The place is small but provides a great view of the comedians for everyone. I was the only party-of-one present there but as one of the earliest I had a great table near the front. All three comedians (host, opener, headliner) were hilarious and were good at interacting with the crowd. Some of the topics touched were Mormons, gangs, Lance Armstrong, and pregnancy, among others.
Food was your typical bar food and priced to match. $3.50 for a chili dog and $5.75 for nachos are kind of steep but they're both hard to screw up and tasted good and the price was balanced with their $3 watermelon margaritas on Thursdays. I also had a try of their Rooster Juice which was totally amazing. My best guess of the contents are: rum, vodka, tequila, cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, and Sprite. There's another alcohol in it, according to the menu, but I couldn't place it; the stuff barely tasted like alcohol, it was so well blended, but you could feel it for sure. A pretty good sized Collins glass of the stuff was $6.95 which is more than reasonable since they don't use Well liquors. I still liked the $3 watermelon margaritas best, haha.
If you're a student, be sure to go on Thursday. Even if you're not, go anyhow if you like cheap, delicious margaritas and hilarious comedians.
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