{"id":6643,"date":"2019-07-01T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000000224"},"modified":"2019-07-03T13:48:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:48:39","slug":"my-weekend-partying-with-the-long-beach-post-and-the-fonz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/my-weekend-partying-with-the-long-beach-post-and-the-fonz","title":{"rendered":"My Weekend: Partying with the Long Beach Post and The Fonz!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to keep most of my weekends pretty calm, usually reserving all of the chaos for when there\u2019s a fatal shooting or three-car crash during my shift (usually Sundays) as duty beckons me to the scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This past weekend, however, began and ended with another type of chaos: journalist parties!<\/span><\/p>\n

If you know journalists, then you know some of us are a crazy bunch who like to test limits and explore boundaries to provide accurate, detailed reporting on issues like… the consequences of consuming certain beverages (I\u2019m looking at you, Asia Morris).<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday night<\/h3>\n

Thursday night was one of those occasions. The Long Beach Post launched its new arts and culture section, the Hi-lo, with the coinciding art gallery, The Hi-lo Gallery, at our Downtown office. We invited 250 people to celebrate the launch, more than 300 showed up from the local arts community as well as a healthy dose of our fabulous readers and supporters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We had an art show, a zine-making space, a queer, liberated puppet giving unsolicited advice\u2014”just become a lesbian”\u2014an artist doing insta-portraits a DJ, a jazz violinist and a local grassroots theater group performing choreographed fights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, one of my favorite quotes of the night came from one of our own, Hi-lo editor Steve Lowery, who explained, kinda, what this evening was about: \u201cScrew Los Angeles and screw Orange County, this is the Hi-lo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If the event is any indication of what to expect from this section, then Long Beach is in for a treat. Hats off to the Hi-lo team for a helluva night, that went longer for some than others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About that, here\u2019s arts and culture reporter Asia Morris:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Asia Morris<\/b><\/h5>\n

I\u2019m going to ignore my dear friend and Quidditch enthusiast\u2019s comment about my drinking and shift your attention to the Post\u2019s expert beard grower and website builder Dennis Dean, whose great idea it was to bring out what became the bane of my pitiful existence the day after the Hi-lo launch party\u2014a bottle of Jeppson’s Malort liqueur.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know that Malort means \u201cwormwood\u201d in Swedish; the bitter herb that this foul tasting liqueur you can only buy in Illinois is made from? The Russian translation is \u201cChernobyl,\u201d as in the liquid that, after an evening of terrible, borderline dangerous decisions, including a terrible night\u2019s sleep, became the uncontainable explosion in my stomach whose fallout I was forced to deal with the following morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, okay, Malort may have been named after the fields of wormwood that grew in that area, not the radioactive meltdown in the back of everyone\u2019s minds (thanks HBO!), but this was just one of the 14 facts I read in a Thrillest article<\/a> during my feverish attempt to figure out how one swig of that substance had turned my innards into outters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Behold!<\/p>\n

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The aftermath of a #HiloLBP<\/a> party. Not sorry. https:\/\/t.co\/Ybu983rVqB<\/a><\/p>\n

— Asia Morris (@hugelandmass) June 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n