Is it just me, or is there some­thing odd about this poster out­side the new “Newkor” Karaoke res­taur­ant in Dix­on St?

Spicychicken!

That sing­er looks some­what … uncom­fort­able. Per­haps it’s some­thing to do with the item on the menu that’s described only as “WARNING! Extreeeem­ley! Hot and Spi­cychick­en” [very sic].

In oth­er news, the re-open­ing of Happy on Fri­day night was a happy occa­sion indeed. I was puzzled by some of the out­fits at first, but if I’d read my co-fly Kow­hai’s pre­vi­ous post I would have seen the “Dress up like some­thing that can fly!” instruc­tion. At least I was already in cos­tume.

The relo­cated stage sets up a dif­fer­ent dynam­ic, and the feel­ing was low-key, friendly bohemi­an rather than po-faced avant-garde or des­par­ate hip­ster. Speak­ing of Mighty Mighty, they were marred that night by a godaw­ful frat-boy band that made Blink 182 seem deep and intel­lec­tu­al. We still love us some Mighty, of course, but it’ll be inter­est­ing to see how the new Happy does in com­par­is­on.