Birthday Boy - Friday was my birthday, so I felt pretty special. We were headed to Nowhere Bar to celebrate. It's probably only about a 10 minute walk from Tesoro Los Cabos... but there's a lot happening in between. The strip club promoters could see that I was glowing and really gave me their "A" game. I resisted those propositions. There are about four strip clubs in one plaza and one or two other ones nearby... I think people would let me know if one was worth visiting. Once we got to Nowhere Bar, The Cabo Spring Break staff gave me a turtle whistle necklace as a birthday gift. People were very impressed. After getting sufficiently intoxicated and spending way too much buying shots "in da club", it was taco time. One of the best "legit" taco places in Cabo San Lucas is Los Paises. It's a cement slab covered with plastic furniture, but decor is not the reason to visit. The tacos there are fucking incredible and it's a great thing to put into your stomach before you sleep for four hours. Seriously though, find Los Paises if you visit Cabo.
Your Vegas @ Cabo Wabo - I can't stop pushing Your Vegas because they are awesome. They're a rock band from Leeds that was featured in Rock the Rabbit 2006. They came to Cabo with us last year (lucky them) and they came again this year (lucky us). Since last March, they've signed with Universal and toured with The Bravery. Last week, they did a set at Sammy Haggar's Cabo Wabo and proved that they are indeed "proper rockers". I was able to get a pretty good video of their last song "Troubled Times" from the catwalk at Cabo Wabo. I pissed in Sammy Hagar's private bathroom and it made me feel pretty good about myself.
Musical Chairs @ Billygan's - If I ever have a daughter, I never want her going to Billygan's. At Billygan's, Spring Breakers partake in a number of "beach games" and the result is anything but good, clean fun. After we had been at the beach for an hour or so, they started announcing a game of musical chairs. I saw a handful of girls go to sign up immediately. They still needed more people so the MC continued to call for girls to play the game. I saw a woman (probably in her 40s) that was trying to get her (teen) daughter to participate. Soon after, she was up on the platform and the game was about to start. With a bucket of beers on the line, the players were serious about the game. The "daughter" won the game and I was ecstatic. I approached her mom to try and make sure that the daughter would sign up for our Miss Playboy Mobile competition. That's when I heard the MC calling for girls to trade him their bikini tops for beers. The chairs were gone from the platform and the hose at Billygan's was in full effect. It would have turned into a raunchy wet t-shirt contest if it weren't for the unfortunate placement of the giant "U" on the Playboy U shirts the girls were wearing. Not all of the girls traded their tops for beers and I think only one girl flashed, but it was still entertaining... so entertaining that I don't have any pictures/videos. Sorry.
Tesoro Pool Deck - We were at the Tesoro Los Cabos hotel pool deck on Sunday and Tuesday. Sunday was supposed to be the day where we recruited girls for Miss Playboy Mobile on Tuesday. We had guys on stilts and guys with bouncy shoes hopping around... but that wasn't really effective for recruiting girls. It was a pretty cool scene on Sunday but we had to rely on Billygan's as our main recruitment effort. When Tuesday rolled around, I started to sweat. The event was supposed to start at 1PM and nobody was there. Come 2PM, there were not many college students at the pool. That's when we decided to take matters into our own hands. Charlie hit the beach in search of college kids (specifically hot girls) to hang out for Miss Playboy Mobile. Rocky and I went to the marina, but there wasn't much to be found there. Most girls were with their families (we think a cruise ship had just docked and released a few hundred tourists). We reached the end of the marina and there were no pretty girls to be found. The one fruitful result of the mission was seeing the most aggressive mullet of all time. A rotund 40-something mexican guy had a perfectly cubed crew cut on the top. Complementing the top was a sun-inned or orange dyed back part... this guy was a stickler for grooming, so it was slicked/brushed and there was no shag. This guy did not fuck around. I tried to take a cell phone picture of Rocky with this guy in the background, but he wouldn't stay in one place.
Shortly thereafter, Rocky and I turned around and headed back to Tesoro with our fingers crossed that the other crew had been successful. There still weren't that many people at the pool when we got back a little after 3. I got one girl who we'd talked to earlier in the week to sign up (she eventually won). There was a group of cute girls from TCU and I was trying my hardest to get them to participate. I knew that getting these 6 girls in the Miss Playboy Mobile competition would mean we were no longer fucked. The problem was that they only cared about their booze cruise that day (they wanted to leave in 15 minutes). I offered to pay for the booze cruise and they started to come around. They made me confirm it for them about five times, give them my card, and give them my cell phone number... but they were in. Complete failure had been avoided. It wasn't long before Charlie rolled in with Amanda Hanshaw & Jennifer Hurt with a group of kids. We convinced a handful of girls from that group to participate and we were set. There was a round of Playboy trivia where Nappi (winning girl who signed up first) got every question right. The other girls would wait until she put up an answer and just copy it... bitches. The talent portion was probably the most entertaining. The TCU girls wanted to go as a group. Apparently, all but one of them were cheerleaders. The "stage" was the hot tub covered with plywood to make a platform. Throughout the competition, it had gotten pretty wet. As the TCU girls set up on the platform, you could tell they were going to try something ill-advised. They set up in a horseshoe and threw Mindy or Melanie (one of the two twins) into the air. As she came down, somebody slipped or just fucked up and they BARELY caught her. Disappointed with their first attempt, they set up again. At this point, everybody by the pool was thinking "NO!" but couldn't help but watch. They threw the girl up in the air again and executed perfectly. I breathed a sigh of relief since we wouldn't have to take any Texas girls to the hospital that day.
Hackman @ Squid Roe - One of the funniest parts of the Cabo trip happened after I got back. On one of the first nights, we went to Squid Roe when it was pretty late. From our table/booth, I saw a random guy dancing on a table. We had actually seen him at our hotel wearing a Sonics jersey. I thought his dancing was hilarious, so I took two videos with my digital camera. After I had been back for about a week, I edited them with the OfficialChrisDuncan tag and some text on the second video. I put them on YouTube and hoped that people would think they were awesome. After a day or two, I noticed that I'd gotten email notification of a new comment on my blog. It was odd to me because the comment was on a much older post. I checked it out and it was somebody claiming to be the dancing guy in my video. I figured that one of the handful of people I'd sent the link or somebody that was in Cabo with me was playing a practical joke. At like 4AM, I got another comment but this time on one of the YouTube videos. It was somebody claiming to be the dancer again.
Comment on the YouTube video
Been back from Cabo for a week.....'bout time someone put me on Utube! :)Comment on my Spring Break post:
Hack "Hypnotic Dancer" Squid Roe '08
Hey Chris!One thing I don't understand is how you can visit a site called YouTube.com, find a video of yourself, then call the site "UTube" in your comments. Eventually, I checked my MySpace account a couple days later (I don't check it very often). I noticed that I had a bunch of new friend requests -- mostly spam. I clicked on the one random guy that had friended me since I figured it was a real person. 43 years old, from Oregon... and then OH SHIT, IT WAS THE GUY. The greatest part was that he had actually embedded the videos of him dancing on his MySpace profile. So Rob Hackman is now my new friend and he's enjoying the hell out of being an "internet celebrity".
It's Rob....U know the "Ridiculous drunk man dancing on top of a table".
That was just at a proper level....you should see me drunk!
Anyway....I knew if I waited I'd show up on Utube.
Had an awesome 10 days in Cabo.Stayed at Tesoro,Partied with the PB girls,Dos Equios girls....just never stopped!!
Rob H.
