By JASON HARPER
Guess how many dogs the winner of Mercy Seat's Hot Dog Eating Contest this past First Friday ate? 40? No way. 20? Not even close. 13? Nope. Seven. And he was a big guy, too, according to reports. Maybe the hot dogs were really big, too, like, the size of huskies. Who can say? I missed the competitive eating, but I caught the rest of the action in the alley behind Mercy Seat Tattoo, pretty much a Midtown music-scene enclave amid the Crossroads galleries. There was art at Mercy Seat, too, an opening for Eric Easton. And outside, free beer and free music from Elkhart and the Belles.
Shaun Hamontree of American Catastrophe enjoys a free Flying Monkey.
Elkhart is a new band, featuring dudes who work at and/or own the Riot Room. That's Tim Gutschenreitter on the left and Dutch Humphrey on the lead vox. (Joke I just made up: What do you get when you cross Elkhart with a cabaret-singing fish? Elkhartuna!)
Transit mural.
Chris Tolle of the Belles (left) and Ryan Mattes, enjoy the fallout.
By the way, an 8-year-old kid was carding people. If the kid let you past, a grizzled biker dude would drew a penis on your hand. So, like many tattoo parlors, the Mercy Seat Alley is scary at first, but once you're inside, you're golden.
Night fell on the Belles.
For the sake of symmetry, here's a shot of Shaun Hamontree quaffing his drink later in the night during AmCat's show at Davey's.
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