We like to party in Rincon, don’t you? This weekend we hosted a great reggae/dub show on Saturday night at Rock Bottom at Casa Verde. It was off the hook. As a matter of fact, it was so off the hook, we can’t even show video of the event. All I’m going to say is there were girls, guys, DonQ Rum, Medalla and loud music. Luckily for our packed house, we had multiple bars set up for everyones drinking pleasure and our restaurant was open late!
The next day, we hosted a daytime event in the volleyball court of our Casa Verde compound where the Predator Dub Assassins played again. For this live show, we set up our grill to provide everyone with burgers (veggie, chicken, beef), hot dogs and pinchos and let everyone bring their most comfortable beach chair along with their biggest cooler packed with as much beer and ice as they cared to carry in.
We have some video of the day concert taken by one of the dads at the show just before the crowd filled in. It’s not professionally shot or edited. HEY, don’t get picky or I won’t let you watch it. Anyway, by the time the sun went down this place was off the hook.
Once again, Casa Verde was the place to be.
I don’t know if you know this about us, but we are up and comers. We used to be a small time operation, and the big kids used to pick on us. Well, all that’s changed now. We have an insanely delicious menu (get the burger) that is affordable and open late AND we have some of the cheapest hotel rooms in Rincon. Errr, I mean…cheapest guest house rooms? This begs the question; What is the difference between a guest house and a hotel?
Honestly, I have no idea. I promise, when you show up to check in, your room will be clean, you’ll have clean towels and linens and you will be ready to enjoy a relaxing (or not if you party and surf the entire trip) Rincon vacation.
Here is what WikiPedia calls a hotel room:
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning or climate control.
Here is what Wikipedia defines a Guest House (that’s us):
A guest house (also guesthouse) is a kind of lodging. In some parts of the world a guest house is similar to a hostel, bed and breakfast, or inn whereas in other parts of the world (such as for example the Caribbean), guest houses are a type of inexpensive hotel-like lodging.
Well, there you have it folks. If you are looking for a hotel room in the Caribbean (specifically Rincon Puerto Rico), look not further. You have found The Casa Verde Guest House! The best place to stay in Rincon Puerto Rico.
Hanes T-Shirt
Here you are, moping around the house because you left Rincon without a t-shirt! We understand, how is anyone going to believe that you came to Rincon Puerto Rico for a vacation if you didn’t bring home a t-shirt! No problem.
Casa Verde is selling (for a limited time) Hanes white t-shirts that were sold in Puerto Rico (K-Mart). So technically, this is a t-shirt from Puerto Rico! You’re stoked!
Now, since I am your friend, I’ll tell you that you could get this t-shirt much cheaper in your home town and your friendly local super store, we’re just testing out our new e-commerce solution for our blog.
The Rock Bottom Pub Quiz is developing a loyal following, but some people are still afraid to put-up and/or shut-up. Here’s a sample round of questions from a few weeks ago just to show you pub quiz ain’t rocket surgery. Come on out on Thursday night to exercise a few brain cells and kill many, many more.
1 – Fred Flintstone’s wife’s name was Wilma. What was George Jetson’s wife’s name?
2 – In the movie Back to the Future, how many jiggawatts are needed to make the Delorean go back to the future?
3 – How many sides does a hexagon have?
4 – On the Price is Right, what is the name of the final one-on-one competition to determine the show’s winner?
5 – People from Ohio usually refer to Coca Cola or Sprite by what other name?
6 – What is the name of the process by which plants turn sunlight into food?
7 – What president is on a $50 bill?
8 – What is the name of Miley Cirus’s Disney stage persona?
9 – The band Simon and Garfunkel was made up of Paul Simon and, what was Garfunkel’s first name?
10 – What company sponsors the annual national hot dog eating Championship?
Don’t appreciate. HATE! HATE! HATE!
If you like Valentine’s Day, you’re either whipped by your significant other and/or Hallmark. If you think Valentine’s Day sucks (like we do), don’t just ignore it, do the reverse of love to it. Yeah! Hate it. Take that Valentine’s Day! Come to the H8Rs’ Ball Saturday February 13th without a stupid date and get drunk with us.
Yes, I know Valentine’s Day is on the 14th, but forget that ish. I like to throw the first punch.
Here’s how it works, you brainiac you. Pub Quiz is a trivia game we are going to be playing on Thursdays at Rock Bottom at 7:30pm (real time, not island time). It’s five rounds of trivia including (but not limited to) general trivia, sports trivia, history trivia, name that tune, name the movie the quote comes from, etc. All that useless knowledge can win you some beer and some loot, but you gotta pay to play.
I can guess how good you think you are, but how good are you, really? Put up or shut up Thursday nights at Rock Bottom.
Hey guys, thanks for coming back to Casa Verde! You all put the “rock” in Rock Bottom for a few days. I know I told you I’d get a group photo and put it up on this here blog, but I never got to take one. So here’s the deal: I Googled “johnson,” and I Googled “wales” and posted the first picture that came up for each one. If you ever send me a group photo, I’ll get you on here. Until then it’s Jack Johnson and a map of Wales.
Hey guys at Surfing magazine, if you’re out there and you can hear me, thanks for the shout-out in this month’s You Look Like You Could Use a Vacation edition (Feb 2010).
Surfing mag mentioned us as a rad place to stay in Rincon, and we aren’t arguing with ‘em.
“Casa Verde leaves you wondering: Is it a guesthouse with a club, or a club with a guesthouse?” Sometimes even we don’t know, but either way, it’s a damn good time.
The new Rock Bottom/Casa Verde t-shirts are in, and all the cool kids are buying them. If you ain’t got one, get one.
But let’s clear something up right now. The staff shirts say “I work here.” They also have a super rad message printed on the inside, “Go (do a four letter word to) yourself,” so you can flip up the shirt and share this message of goodwill with others. Before you ask, no, you can’t buy a staff shirt. Do you work here? No? So no-staff-shirt-for-you! You can buy the civilian RBCV t-shirt. That shirt doesn’t say, “I work here” because you don’t. It also doesn’t have the flip up “Go (four-letter-word) youself,” but you still can. And you should buy one anyway because it’ll look better on you than your staff-T envy.
A former decathlete recently traded his ten track and field events for one – drinking at Rock Bottom. He was good at it too, but as we all know, drinking can be exhausting. What better place to get some rest than right at the bar after you literally drink yourself under the table.
What bothers me is this… he got more attention from the chicks (there were others off-camera) while he was passed out than I did all night. And I was the bartender. Dammit. If anyone needs me, I’ll be up at the bar pretending to be passed out, collecting free lap dances.
Mmm Mmmmm!!! Tastes like broccoli.
There aren’t any tofu-pigs in Rincon, so we roasted a real one instead to celebrate vegetarianism. It’s the thought that counts, right?
This little piggy went right to our bellies. We want this baby’s ribs back because they were dee-lish.
Senor Swine here was actually the main course in our celebration of Discovery Day, a Puerto Rican holiday that celebrates Chrissy Columbus’s landing on the island back in 1942 after WWI. Little known fact: The crest on Columbus’s flag that he planted that day depicted a bikini-clad beer commercial model riding on a horse, riding on a sailboat that ran aground on a pig farm. Hence, the drunken riding of horses and eating of lechon on Discovery Day. Thus concludes today’s free history lesson.
Not quite Bigfoot, but definitely afoot nonetheless. In a time of crop circles, UFOs, Loch Ness Monster(s), tooth fairies, and chupacabras – strange days are here indeed.
I felt safe here at Casa Verde… until a few days ago. I was walking in the gutter outside Casa Verde, trying to find my mind, when I stumbled across this!!!
I’ve never seen or heard of such phenomena, but this is clearly a penis puddle! I don’t know if it’s good luck or bad, a blessing or a curse. It gets bigger when it rains, but if it rains too much it disappears completely. In the words of the late Kurt Vonnegut, “So it goes.”
Anyway, I’m going to go ahead and claim that we are home of the only, and soon to be world famous, penis puddle in the world – certainly the only in Puerto Rico, so make your reservations now. We’re about to be booked years and years in advance, so get on it.
Yeah, that’s right, we got some good ink in National Geographic Adventure magazine. No diggity! We didn’t make the cover this time around, but soon enough…
In fact, the cover pictured isn’t the issue we are in (which is December 2009 – January 2010, by the way), but it’s the first one I found searching Google Images. Wait, maybe we are on that cover. I vaguely remember a trip to Africa and that guy in the red dress… and the photographer telling all of us to stand behind a big rock. Hmmmm… I guess we shouldn’t have had that tranqu-dart fight on the plane, and then another one at the hotel, and the one in the Jeep…
Anyway, thanks Nat Geo!
We’re more than half way there. Take that Bon Jovi – you perpetually half-way-there chump!
The new patio is almost ready already. So I guess it’s not even “new” yet. When, it’s done, then it’ll be new. We’ll let you know when that is. Maybe if we drank fewer Heineken mini-kegs on the jobs we’d be done by now.
Or, Paris Hilton’s twin has a Paris Hilton. Now I’m confused. But that’s what happens when girls this hot hang out around our bar all the time. You should’ve been here when these lovely ladies got topless. I would’ve posted the not-safe-for-work photos, but all you pervs who keep checking our blog in hopes of some muy caliente pechugas (don’t lose hope compadres!) would get fired from work, and this blog would lose the two hits it gets per month because you’d never spring for internet service from home, especially not without a job. Anyway, we were talking about hot chicks, right? Well, I’m gonna go try to find these two chicks online. You know, maybe they’ll come back to myspace, and I can twitter their yahoo until they google all over my facebook. Ughhhh, maybe I went too far just then?
I can never remember that!!!
One of our very own cooks, Jimmy (who we all know and love), recently won 2nd place in what is basically the Miss Universe of chowder competitions up in Montauk, NY. I say “won” because 1st place is actually for losers who give way too much of a f*ck about what other people think. We’re not into that sort of thing here, in case you didn’t notice. We’re going to try to get Jimmy to work his chowder magic at Rock Bottom. The only problem is I ain’t seen many clams in Rincon – at least not the bivalves I learned about in 9th grade biology.
Girls used to dis me. Now they write letters cuz they miss me.
Oh really Biggie? Let’s talk more about that pissy part because we just got us a fancy new urinal at Rock Bottom. I think it’s the same urinal they have on the space shuttle. It’s definitely the kind Doc Brown would have put in the Delorian – if the Delorian was a camper instead of a coupe. Peeing into this thing is like peeing into the future, which is kind of what you’re doing when you’re peeing (I’d have to ask Stephen Hawking for some clarification on that). Anyway, this thing doesn’t use any water! Not only is this a contribution to the environment but also to the confusion of guys taking a leak, both of which are part of our mission statement at Casa Verde. The plaque that came with it says it saves 40,000 gallons of water per year per urinal, on average. That’s 40,000 more gallons of water we can drink to make us pee more in the water-free unrinal, thus saving more and more water. What a lovely cycle! The plaque also says “hands-free,” which means you don’t have to touch it to flush it. It doesn’t mean you flat out shouldn’t be holding on to anything while you’re going. I want to add a sign in there just to mess with people. I’m think something like, “To flush, clap hands twice.” Or, “Voice Activated Flushing System: Yell ‘Ouch it stings! It burns!’ to flush.” Sad thing is somebody would definitely try it.
Now I can see you’re nuts!
The Puerto Rico Tourism inspector just came by a few days ago to check out our goodies, and she liked what see saw. So we get another fancy permit. Yippee skippy. What does this mean for you? It means Casa Verde Guest House is all gussied-up and ready for the prom. Now we need a sexy date to take us out, get us drunk, and sort out the bad decisions in the morning. That’s where you come in. The rooms are looking great. Our feng shui is all good, and the price is right, so let’s do this!
If Pee Wee Herman can have one, dammit, so can we – a word of the day.
Over a few Don Q and Cokes this morning, I mean, this afternoon (which one of the 12 steps were we on yesterday?), we were discussing intelligence and stupidity.
Of course, stupidity, much like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder i.e. “When I be holdin’ dis beer yew sher seem cute/smart.” The discussion panel decided that sometimes “smart” people do stupid things – like locking their keys in the car while it’s still running or running out of TP and having to use paper towels (oh come on, you’ve done it, and by the way Smartypants, where’s your degree from?). Other times “retarded” people do smart things – like Forrest Gump investing in Apple computers or the shrimping business. Hey, it’s better to be lucky than good. Anyway, today’s word of the day isn’t even a real word – yet. It’s a hybrid of the words smart and retarded. Without further ado, today’s word is…
resmarded – adj. slang. used to describe a person or act that is a strange blend of intelligence and stupidity. Example: Larry is so resmarded, he has a PhD in physics but he couldn’t open the door at the bank because he was pushing on it when the sign clearly said “pull.”
variant:
resmard – n. slang. a person who seems both smart and retarded. Example: Did you hear what Larry did at the bank? He’s such a resmard.
