You can also see, slightly obscured by a protective covering of ice, a keg.

Which led, inevitably, to this...

...with the fairly reasonable conclusion of this.
USA! USA! USA!
[Faces obscured to protect people in positions of public responsibility.]
of Chicago, Illinois


There was a preliminary plan to get ourselves ejected from this bar following the band, so we decided to start throwing down the gauntlet mid-set with some dives off the piano at stage left.
Good view of the costumes. Helps when one of the band members is a costume designer for films.
Kicking out the jams.
Our effort to get kicked out continues! Now we have added crowd-surfing. Pint glasses are also being smashed all over the place.
I mean, fuck, when Santa get involved, you know that shit was real.
The beach. Feel the sandy embrace.
Eventually, the sun retreats behind the clouds, and the crew retreats to the warmth of the grill.
Post-grillage, we head back to the beach and build a big-ass fire. On the most recent beer run, LC, BT, and T2G picked up what may have been the most fearsome twosome of beers ever consumed: Jackhammer beer and (I shit you not) Beer 30. Conspicuous consumption lead to the singing of "Bohemian Rhapsody."
The after effects of Jackhammer and Beer 30 are less than pleasant.
Little Detroit poses for a group shot before heading back to Chicago.