The Snuggie pub crawl is coming

Geeky Swedes Ballard

This Friday get ready for a pub crawl with a twist: everyone must wear a Snuggie (or a Slanket or any other blanket with sleeves.)

One night Sheena Kalso went out in Fremont with her Snuggie on (pictured right) and the idea for the Snuggie Pub Crawl was born. Right now she’s estimating about 75 will be there, but with the attention it’s been getting, there could be many more Snuggie-wearing drinkers on Friday. The event has been mentioned on Seattle Metropolitan’s website, Q13, KOMO TV and KING TV. Folks are meeting at the Ballard Loft at 7 p.m. The first 50 “Snuggie Crawlers” who bring 3 or more cans of food for Northwest Harvest will get a free drink. You can RSVP here. (Thanks Katie for the email!)

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54 thoughts to “The Snuggie pub crawl is coming”

  7. i am with you lazy. donating food and having fun… why all the wet blankets??err snuggies.

    if i didn't have plans, and if i HAD a suggie, i would join for sure. .

  9. Jeez people. Can you be any more uptight?

    Some people want to be goofy, have some fun, socialize and even get food donated in the process.

    Get on prozac, get your anger out in a kickboxing class, or get some new batteries ;) but CHILL OUT.

    Hope the pub crawlers have fun. i'd rather be sitting next to you at a pub than the bitter people that sometimes post on here. (can't you just hear their snarls?)

  11. I guess some have to find yet another reason to drink? After all, even Homer Simpson says it's the cause and cure to all problems. Maybe we can get together and form a new mayonaise club next! Maybe some of us have the same peanut butter in our cupboards? I feel a meeting coming up. Some peoples kids……….

  14. It sounds FUN-FUN-FUN!! I don't own a “Snuggie” but it sounds like I should! Why is this a Spring event?? Looks like warm Winter wear or do Snuggie's come in light weight material too?

  16. I recently saw snuggies on sale at Bartells. Just a hop, skip and a jump away from The Loft.

    It's people having fun. Good for them. Hasn't this past winter been craptastic enough?

  18. If it makes them happy, more power to them. I always thought bars should have more people dressed up in costumes. However, shouldn't this be more of a winter thing? Isn't the Jazz fest this weekend? It's not going to be so easy to bar hop with all the covers?

  19. I hope they get the numbers that they need to fend off the inevitable derision of the other bar patrons. 30 people dressed in snuggies = kind of freakishly awesome. 7 people dressed in snuggies = know where the exits are.

  22. Slight correction. One cover, for all the venues on the jazz walk. I can't speak to the rest.
    The badge will be easy to spot draped over a snuggie…welcome all ;-)

  23. Stupid, I hate when people think they are being funny and force feeding it on the rest of the world. You wanna have a blanket party invite them over for a bbq don't drag your stupidity out and make the population have to deal with it. And FYI it is against WA state liquor laws to give away free booze so what the loft is doing is illegal, and they should know better since the WSLCB has been raiding all over ballard ave lately.

  26. ok, technically you are correct. A bar cannot advertise, or sell alcohol for less than they paid for it. Comping is totally legal, provided that it is not advertised to the general public. I comp alcohol daily, with blessings from WSLCB, but I follow their rules, completely. (No over-served frat boys, underage service or 'happy hours')
    And, I can't tell you who I am ;-)

  29. OK, I don't do pub crawls these days, but this is hilarious. My image is sloppy drunk Telley-Tubbies sloshing highballs and hooting !

    Now, I sure hope that no-one notifies our Good Friends at Dept. of Homeland Security that an organized group of people will be systematically visiting certian locations while wearing large, loose-fitting overgarments that could conceal WMDs. Just sayin'

  31. Uh yeah go with that no such thing as a comp except on your birthday in WA state. Even if the food/service sucks ,you can comp the meal portion but not the drinks.

  32. ok, learn the rules, before ya spout ok?
    Still not true or accurate.
    I have to know, and abide by, their rules.
    (which change all the time)
    It was a mistake to put the loft on the hook about the food for booze thing.
    Hopefully, the WSLCB will consider the source of the info…I like the loft.

  33. Sounds like a lot of fun, actually. Any excuse for a Pub crawl. At 4 '10 a Snuggie would swallow me up, but I wish them well against the easily annoyed masses.

  35. how is drinking in a bar less or more fun than with a snuggie? why not just leave them at home? or, conversely, wear funny hats? it seems arbitrary.

  43. you win i no nothing I haven't been doing this for over 20 years and I didnt just pay over $2000.00 for a liquor license vs yor $35.00 for a server permit.

  45. Wow with your attitude I can certainly see why you were drawn to a career in the hospitality industry. I'd love to hang out at your place.

  46. Sven–

    Another nail in Ballard's coffin? Because of a snuggie pub crawl?

    Old Ballard needs more to talk about than “the good old days”.

    have you ever thought it's your grumpy “old school ways” that might be one of the nails in Ballard's coffin? Maybe there's a reason people like you are disappearing and things are changing. Thinning of the herd, if you will.

  47. I hope the Loft realizes that the WSLCB because of their need to justify their jobs while the gov is slashing budgets is looking for stuff like this. The have started enforcing arcane laws that they haven't enforced in years. That is why they have been ramping up enforcment in mine and other bar owners opinions. They shouldn't be advertising that they are violating the law. Now if the bartender happens to be paying for those drinks out of their pocket that is another story.

  48. lol…you think I have a server permit? lol thank you…really
    yeah, I'll jump ahead, the loft, or 'spokespeople' for the loft have really not done a good thing with the WSLCB rules, tho, they intended to do a good thing, IE: support the food bank.
    Again, I hope that the WSLCB looks beyond this issue, towards the 'greater good'.
    Psst…don't advertise free 'anything' that is taxed…

  50. I feel bad for the bartenders — They are going to have to put up with a bunch of drunken nerds that think they are sooooo hilarious <rolling their eyes>.

    The Snuggie was so 6 months ago — Get over it! It's NOT funny anymore.

  51. yeah i'm sure the bartenders are going to be pissed about all the extra green in their tip-jars too.

    hey everybody look! another kill-joy!

  53. Ease up folks. It's really just the same as the Red Hat ladies–people having fun picturing themselves as hip and witty when they manifestly are not. You enjoy your own delusions, let them enjoy theirs.

  54. Exactly Robert. I happen to think the idea is idiotic but then I think hanging in bars is also idiotic so I will do neither and it’s no skin off my nose.

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