PCOC October-November Report

This report is late in coming as PCOC's official scribe was busy savoring the final days of his government employment and, after that glorious time had passed, was inundated with something called "work" in his new job. Despite these difficulties and the length of time since the last report, be sure that PCOC has remained the beacon of hope (and pizza and beer) in the workaday lives of its members.

Since the last report much has happened in the PCOC world. The Club went on a bit of a hiatus when the Chicago White Sox charged through the playoffs and won the World Championship. While the break caused concern among some PCOC members, this concern was surely outweighed by the boozy, "F the Cubs, we're the champs" delight of several PCOC faithful.

After this break, PCOC picked right back up where it left off by making pizza history when we conducted the First Annual Flying PCOC to the pizza capital of southeastern Wisconsin: the rancidly beautiful city of Milwaukee.

While PCOC's original plans of scarfing copious amounts of excellent thin crust pie and quaffing a ridiculous number of beers at Zaffiro's was thwarted by a bizarre "No reservations unless you have less than 10" policy, PCOC's emergency backup plan of killing some pie at Angelo's, the well-known Marquette University pizza joint and underage drinking establishment, was an incredible success.

While the pizza and beer and after-bars revelry was as insane as we all expected, PCOC had one big surprise in store for it in Mil-town. Charter member Tom "Creepy D" Dine shocked the world by proposing marriage to fellow charter member Jen McNelley in a revolving bar atop one of Milwaukee's finest hotels. According to PCOC sources, after what surely was none too brief of a hesitation, Jen said yes, marking PCOC's first meeting engagement. While many readers out there will note that PCOC has recently celebrated two other engagements, this was the first where the sweet deal actually went down at a meeting. Amazing the power of love (and pizza).

All joking aside, a sincere congratulations to Tom and Jen from PCOC. May there be a deep dish of happiness in your future.

Before moving on, a quick note regarding the after hours Milwaukee scene is necessary. Although many of PCOC's members spent four (or five, or six) glorious and disgusting years in Milwaukee at Marquette, it stood reason that the city, the school, and the PCOC members up for the trip had all changed somewhat since we had all been residents of the fine city.

I am happy to report that, while the MU campus and Milwaukee has managed to clean up a bit, it sure doesn't seem like the PCOC membership has followed suit.

Although most reports from the late hours of the evening and early hours of the morning are somewhat garbled, all evidence (including some photographic evidence that may or may not have been destroyed) indicates that many PCOC members still have an insatiable appetite for Busch Lite, whether it be out of a funnel, a plastic cup about to be flipped over, or really any other type of beer delivery device. The impressive performance of the PCOC crew at MU after-bars serves as further evidence that a bi-weekly repast of pizza and beer is enough to keep the body in training for prime performance in even the most challenging beer-drinking marathons.

That is all for now. Stay tuned for upcoming reports on PCOC's Annual Thanksgiving Celebration, the highly anticipated PCOC "Crock-Off," and reviews and reports from PCOC's visits to Vito & Nick's, Uno's, John's Pizzeria, and Papa Milano's.