Last Monday I headed out with Sharon to meet up with Victoria and her gaggle of fine ladies at The Ace Hotel to check out Sissy Bingo with Linda Gerard “Fabulous”. Linda Fabulous is the singing hostess (pictured above) who you might have run into while eating at Kings Highway. She’s what The Ace deems to be a Palm Springs personality and can be both campy and a tad long winded.
Sometimes when you’re in competitive Bingo mode and are desperate to win a game that requires basically no skill, you just want that next Bingo number called and not drawn out into a rambling monologue, another song or the same joke repeated over and over and over and over (it’s not malignant its B-9!).
I had my fav things to sip/munch on while at Kings Highway, some fish tacos and a roadrunner cocktail – which consists of blackberry mulled Makers Mark and some ginger soda I believe? Whatever it is, its fucking delicious.
After hours of play, making up more than a quarter of the guests at Bingo and getting strategically competitive — we still lost hard core. LOOK AT THAT PILE OF LOSING CARDS – and still not one of us ladies went home with a Bingo. Total modernist conspiracy, it’s the only logical explanation.
Well, Sissy Bingo happens every Monday at 7pm in the Kings Highway restaurant. You might just win a tote bag, or a six pack of ginger beer if you get really really lucky.
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Bingo is the shizz. Never been to the kings highway but could make a trip.
Gah, why am I not playing Sissy Bingo with you and Victoria and Sharon?!
I LOVE BINGO.
Shoulda had a B8.
bingo is awesome. losing at bingo is not.
Anna, you pretty much need to move to the west coast. You should see how nice it is outside right now…
EVERY MONDAY?!
I need to do this and soon.
I gotta be honest, I chuckled when i read the B-9 joke…
I use to play bingo all the time. Room full of old ladies and cigarettes.
Linda Fabulous is quite fabulous….. but I can’t imagine her moderating an evening of Bingo. She’s moody!
Losing at bingo is a massive downer and I don’t know why…. maybe because it’s totally luck-based? No one wants to feel unlucky. Better luck next time!!!
@Preston, I chuckled, too.
I’ve never played Bingo, but it looks like the sort of awesome time my competitive personality would get insane over. Bingo also reminds me of growing up attending Catholic schools. If anyone else here did, too, your parents probably had to volunteer at the weekly Bingo night in the church hall. HOLY CRAP did every parent dread the week it was their turn, which was maybe once a year. All those seniors in the 70s smoked like prairie fires, and you couldn’t see from one end of the hall to the other from the smoke. You came home smelling like an ashtray, and the only thing you won was shortness of breath.
I am totally sympathetic with the longwinded host issue, but if you are feeling competitive you really need to stick to the Knights of Columbus.
Two-timer. Like most of my relationships, I fell in love with you over bean dip. I though KH was “our place”.
It will always be our special place. I did not have the bean dip out if respect.
I’m living for Linda’s glasses.
I love Bingo!!
Thanks for the cocktail tip – I am all over that next time I’m out there!
I recently checked out the Ace for the first time. We had drinks in that dark little bar behind King’s Highway. Can’t remember the name of it, but what a great place.
I love bingo! Looks like you had fun even tho you didn’t win anything.
BINGO! I love it. As do all the other commenters above, but I just couldn’t help adding my voice to the clamour.
Poppy xox
BINGO! I love it. As do the other commenters, but I had to add my voice to the clamour.
Poppy xox
argh! it’s been too long since i’ve had fish tacos at the king’s highway! and bingo… i long for a monday and tuesday off so i can get my ass kicked at ace bingo.
One of the major events in my hometown was Spaghetti Bingo, when every family would gather at the community center and bring a dish to share, and everyone would play bingo, with some excellent prizes! One time I didn’t win any game all evening, but I won the very, very last game, with the biggest prize: a whole $25! I was 13, so it seemed like a whole ton of money to me.
Ah, bingo memories…
That woman can’t be real.
That bingo lady is brilliant! She looks like all the Golden Girls came together and made a lovebaby with a complimetary jumper.
Love her!
B-9? Hilarious! Please share more of these little gems.
Fifty was always FITY in reference to 50 Cent. Ummm, there was always OOOOOOOOO69. Something about 39 being her birthday…
I don’t know, that was the best one.
She is real. Real as a heart attack. I wish I would have won.
Awesome! Love your blog!! Crushing on it hard core!
Wish we had a cool bingo place here in Dallas. If it exists, I’m not cool enough to know about it. Best time I ever had was pool bingo in St. Lucia where there was a large German population at the place we were staying. To here a Caribbean accent call out 55, 5 and 50, 50 and 5 and then say it in German?!
fünfzig und fünf
fünf und fünfzig
Awesome – and we won 3 of the 4 bottles of cheap champagne. The 4th went to a 10 year old kid – the actually gave it to him. Good times.
looks like a good night even with the massive pile of loosing cards
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