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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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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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I was thinking of doing another movie-mock-up of Hillary as Rocky this week to match last weeks equally bone-headed move of lying about her trip to Bosnia, but to tell you the truth, I'm just a little too flabbergasted to do it. She does know Rocky lost and she also knows she's not the underdog, right?

::sigh::

Quizzo talk after the jump.

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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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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!

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.

Gerald Ford 1913-2006

January 3rd, 2008

Greetings and welcome to the first Quizzo blog of 2008. It feels electric (boogie woogie woogie) and since iiggle-a-mesa-cara, she's a pumpin' like a matic, she's movin' like electric; she sure got the boogie. Yeah. I googled the lyrics to the Electric Slide and that came up. Wow.

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A Mechanical New Years Eve

December 20th, 2007

This New Years you can celebrate in one of two ways. You can go to a bar that will charge an enormous cover, feed you well drinks and shrimp cocktails to make you forget you dropped $50 to get into a bar that is normally free, give you a glass of champagne at midnight and send you home to cry yourself to sleep, or, you can come to National Mechanics where there is no cover, our great everyday deals and all your friends. So ring in the New Year with us, your friends and no stupid cover. We'll be setting trends all night.