I beat Billy Idol in pool

I am sitting here using some anonymous neighbor's WiFi while waiting for a technician from Verizon to come check the DSL. Since Saturday afternoon we've been without our regular service and it's gotten old real fast. I do see that the blog here is in desparate need of an update, so I'm going with a quick visit I made to Two by Four a few weeks ago. It was around 11pm on a Saturday night and I was killing some time before I was to go to National Underground to watch a couple of my old neighbors play a live set as part of their new trio called The Pleasure Model. Long story short, the trip to Two by Four was was an impulse decision, likely because my bank is right across the street and I had gone to get some cash. There was nothing too memorable about the inside of Two by Four, with the exception of the guy I played (above), who had an uncanny resemblance to Billy Idol. He even had a bit of the lip curl thing going on. He had requested a bunch of Iron Maiden on the jukebox and it was amusing to watch him rock out as he was playing his friend. It was easy to see he was a bit of a wreckless shooter, hitting the ball too hard, not calling caroms, going for low-percentage banks, etc. Once it was my turn to play him he didn't slow down one bit, especially not when "Run to the Hills" started kicking in. At one point he made an incredible masse shot that I would never have tried. Slowly but surely I wore him down by shooting and ducking, never leaving him a shot on his one solid at the other end of the table. At the very end of it all I made an extremely thin cut on the 8 ball. His friend came over to compliment me on the shot and I said "Thanks, are you next?" He said "Nah, we gotta go put coins in the parking meter outside." A few minutes later I went outside to see what was taking them so long, and of course they were nowhere to be seen.