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NYC Hearts Us

June 25th, 2008

We love when people come and eat and drink with us and we love it even more when they enjoy themselves. But if you've got a blog, enjoy our company and food and beer AND you want to write about us, we'll bro-hug like awkward friends. Cereally.

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If you think the title may be a littler hyperbolic or even a contain a little bit of hubris, click through and prepare to be BLOWN AWAY!!11!!

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She can't win based on the amount of votes allowed, her campaign is hemorrhaging funds and yet still she doesn't just stop. I'm seriously expecting her to, after Obama gets the nomination, come out of a closet (literally, not figuratively) all bloodied and limping for one last chance to get him, but Michelle Obama's going to see her first and shoot her over Barack's shoulder. Then the campaign will be over...Believe it or not, Quizzo content following.

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May Day can either be a celebration of International Workers’ Day or it can be a cross-quarter day in which we celebrate the beginning of summer. I personally like the idea of a Bacchanalian romp in the woods complete with animal sacrifice, orgies, wine and shanks of meat, so on this May Day, I say we forget about our jobs, retire to Fairmount Park and throw a good old fashioned orgy. Who’s with me!?!

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The Shape of Things to Come

April 24th, 2008

It's been a good couple of weeks for Philadelphia. The Flyers are doing great, the Phil's are on a roll, the Kimmel is out of debt, we're keeping The Gross Clinic in Philly, hell, we even voted OUT a guy under federal investigation. Now if I could just get a fucking win in Quizzo...

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While you were getting busy in your "Marriage Bed" at the compound or being bitter and shooting guns, we were having a blast with Quizzo. I mean, sure the pope gets to wear an awesome cap and gets carted around in a fancy bullet proof thing, but is seeing an ex-Nazi in a mu mu chit-chat at a stadium worth getting worked up over? My hungover blahg after the jump...

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Tonight, after the jump, Everyone..Gets..Laid!!!!
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It's from PCU, remember? I'm not going to like, lay you or anything.

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2001: A Quizzo Odyssey

March 20th, 2008

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)

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Not about Elliot Spitzer

March 13th, 2008

So Elliot Spitzer's got this $5000 hooker who he brings down from Albany to Washington to do hooker stuff. Then he gets busted and is forced to resign as Governor of New York. And through all of this, we only see the repentant Spitzer and his wife standing side by side, but no image of the trick. Well, Damn. All I have to say is: worth. every. penny.

P.S. I had her myspace link up, but within the time it took to do the excerpt and finish the blog, her account was deleted. Read More »

This morning my iGoogle reported that there was a small explosion in New York, the Israeli/Palestine conflict has reached a new boiling point, Colombia and Venezuela are at each other's throats, the Obama/Clinton race is devolving into a negative campaign that could weaken the Democratic party and I brushed it off because of how beautiful of a day it was. Now I hear Patrick Swayze has cancer?? My whole life is crashing around me like, as if I were in some sort of place where planes drop things that make stuff blow up. I mean, if we don't have our scruffy haired, dirty dancing, surprisingly acrobatic yet not gay, Johnny Castle to bring the nation together, I don't know what I'll do. I'm going to watch Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights and curl up with a half gallon of Breyer's Waffle Cone Overload.

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Top 50 Philadelphia Bars

March 5th, 2008

In our first year of existence, we've been voted the trendiest by Fox News, the best nightlife spot by Yelp and even had a shout out to our bathrooms by City Paper and now Philly Weekly voted us in the top 50 bars in the city. We only got to 41 but shit, we've only been open for a year. I don't know about you, but that calls for a drink or 6. Cheers!

Mongo Only Pawn...In Game of Life

February 14th, 2008

I am pretty sure Andy misremembered, but I didn't have a beer last night. I mean, ahem, ahaw, I just know that the product, subst..umm..beer, was not what I had. I drank water...and got shitfaced.

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There won't be any jokes in the excerpt this week.
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All the laughter I need.

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And it's Charles Ramsey!!! Wait...that's the Police Chief. Scratch that, Mayor Nutter actually chose Invincible. Seating is extremely limited though, so get in touch with Philebrity for tickets and we'll see you tomorrow night @ 7:30.

Something to Yelp about

January 29th, 2008

Adding to our list of ever-growing accolades, praise and other forms of exaltation and glorification; we won the Philly Yelper's Award for Best of Nightlife. Thanks to all the Yelpers for your reviews and business and you are more than welcomed back for another Yelp Happy Hour, just as long as we get great reviews. Haha, just kidding...but really...I'm not.