And Now, Joey Sweeney’s Unfinished Thoughts On Finding Himself Three Bar Stools Down From Kevin Bacon At The Standard Tap On Saturday
Fame is a prison; the good thing is, there’s a lot of hallways, so you can always keep moving.
1. OK, so first of all, Bacon seemed to be there for the same reason I was — to drink in peace. I think he was with his sister. And in that weird twilight between Saturday afternoon and Saturday evenings, the upstairs bar at the Tap is the perfect place for a lazy late afternoon drink. Unless, of course, it’s Beer Week, and the bar suddenly goes from having 8 people in it to about 125 in the space of a half-hour. Which is just what happened, and totally harshed both of our mellows, if I may be so presumptuous as to say Kevin Bacon and I were sharing a mellow. Kev was rocking what one could easily assume was wardrobe from his days as Ren McCormack — grey blazer, spiky hair, and so on. And while you may find the description of an actor going out wearing the clothes he wore in a role more than 25 years previous kind of sad, this was not the case at all: Dude looked GREAT.
2. Kevin ordered a white wine, as if in protest to Beer Week. And when he put his thick black chunky-frame glasses on to read something, I swear like three women within arm’s length swooned. As a lifelong wearer of glasses, I could not help but feel a kind of solidarity and vindication. For we are truly living in the age of the geek, and Kevin understands.
3. At some point during all of this, some asshole who was sitting right next to Bacon pulled out his iPhone and snapped a photo, without asking, like 6 inches from the man’s face. At that moment, Bacon pulled one of the most badass, fuck-you moves I’ve ever seen: Oh-so-casually turned his head to the side, and covered his profile with his hand as he put his elbow on the bar, as if to say, “You don’t own me, you prole fuck. No one does.”
4. On the other hand, I did tweet that he was there. But only after he left. Why? Because I believe in human dignity. You don’t own me, you prole fuck. No one does.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
just as creepy as a dan gross report
March 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I suppose I deserved that.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Maybe Bacon was on his way back from fake St. Patrick’s Day in Mayfair? Seriously, wtf was up with that? Non-natives just didn’t get all the wearing of the ick green all over the city Saturday. Can Sweeney explain it all for us on this ugly matter? You condemn Mardi Gras and let this slide?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Later he showed up at WXPN’s Beggars Ball where I twittered about my 1 degree of separation when I peed next to his brother Michael in the bathroom.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I can’t believe u didn’t text me. That is an outrage!
March 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
The NE Erin Express deserves about as much coverage as a show at Whiskey Tango.
http://www.upcomingevents.com/events/philadelphia/Multiple-Northeast-Philadelphia-Bars/2009-Erin-Express-in-Northeast-Philly-1461.asp
March 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Nice write-up. And the delayed tweet was respectful. Very cool.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
i stepped into the tap and immediately felt something was awry. then it hit me; the kelly green everywhere, sparkles, temporary shamrock tatoos on their faces, and the shreiking was coming from the damn erin express. i wondered angrily to myself how they wandered into what i consider a “safe house,” away from all that frat-ish nonsense. i left and went to dos segundos for a bite when i overheard someone talking about the kevin bacon siting to a yound blonde E.E. participant. ‘OMG is he still THERE?!’ Oh Oh my gawd! she repeated this and shrugged her shoulders in delight for about 10 minutes. i almost slapped a bitch.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
i think it honorable NOT to tweet the Tremor killing machine’s presence during a wilder than normal NoLibs saturday.
+2 for human dignity
March 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
In my 15th minute of waiting for a beer at the upstairs bar the Baconator walked past me as he left. An hour later in the bathroom I heard the guy in the stall next to me drunkenly yell into his cell phone, “Hollow Man… He was HERE!!”
Legendary Day in the life of Standard Tap.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Human dignity is fine and well, but how about Philly types observing civic dignity by not yokeling it up when someone famous drops into a local haunt for a drink?
March 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I don’t see that happening, Whimsy. “Civic dignity” and “Philly” in the same sentence? Yeah, no.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I’d settle for folks being good enough to locking their guns on “safety” before attending dance parties.
March 10th, 2009 at 2:54 am
and more after the jump
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillygossip/Lil_Kim_gives_shout-out_to_all_my_girls_at_the_Federal_Detention_Center.html