Tuesday Top Tank, BFFs Edition
I write Tuesday Top Tank on Tuesdays cause that’s what I do, crab-person. As far as I can recall, from talking and listening to a lot of shit as a juvenile, “top-tanking” is the act of deucing in the tank of an enemy’s toilet, thus setting a trap as your doodoo will, theoretically, flush out instead of clean water.
I have never done this before, aside from metaphorically in virtual localities.
A Tuesday Top Tank is a blog post, every Tuesday, on Whacksonville.com, wherein Spezz Meckman writes about and links to other local blogs. Spezz is kind of a jerk, but really just wants to make people laugh (and sometimes weirdly sentimental).
His goal for Tuesday Top Tank is to take a critical and comical look at local online media, poking fun and giving props where appropriate, while driving trafiic.
It’s really a kinda fun(ish) hyperlocal shit-talk-episode made possible by the rich and fruitful local blogging community. There are myriad local blogs, no two alike, some relevant, some less so. Some offer “commentary,” some “photojournalism.” Some offer “poetry,” others “sports stuff.”
One day, maybe Spezz will top-tank you. You’ll know when he does, cuz your blogmachine will tell you that some dude just good-jobbed you or haw-hawed you. I hope it doesn’t upset you.
I’m tired and a little bit sad. I might have a slight lingering h1n1 or a seasonal allergies or syphilitic alcoholism. Join me next week for a more enthusiastic Tuesday Top Tank.
BTW, whattup with Best Friends Day? Has anyone ever visited this event? Does it occur everywhere or just in Richmond, VA? Does it have anything to do with the CSA? Drop a comment for an old man who just don’t get it.
T-G-4-Yuban,
Spezz
I heard of a bff day in philly but i believe richmond’s the o.g.
“Top Tank”, never heard of it referred to as that, I’ve always heard of it as a “Double Decker”.
BFD is like probably the most fun time ever. There must have been close to 50 bros and bro-ettes from Jax/St. A there this year. Started 8 years ago in RVA with a couple of friends getting together to party and has grown to epic proportions but still only in Cig City. This year went down like this:
Thursday night – bands at a bowling alley (Young Widows played (*swoon*))
Friday night – bands at Alley Katz
Saturday – rager at Hadad’s lake w/ bands (big nasty waterpark, Torche played)
Sunday – bike ramp over 40 sq ft of nachos at Bike Lot (Cannabis Corpse played)
All in all, super-fun party time!
Jack, is it true that people at Best Friends Day spend most of the weekend in bikinis/male swim shorts? It seems like a good opportunity to not have to worry about “looking good” or “how you smell.” Torche is awesome. Were the nachos edible or more like the pudding pit on Super Sloppy Double Dare, which seemed more “industrial grade” and less like real food?
-Carnie
Nah, the tiny shorts were pretty much only found at Hadad’s but yes, there was mad ripeness in the air especially after the crucial downpour that turned everything to mud. We didn’t stick around for the nacho jump cuz tWas sposed to be free but they was charging five bux so we just tore down the tarp to watch Cannabis Corpse then split. But there was a bro in a felt nug costume with lil red hairs and e’erything crowd surfing to hits such as “I Cum Bud” so that was radtastic.