This year, Aqua will have holograms. Yes, holograms.
Aqua seemed to have everything you could want out of a Miami-style lounge:
A gym-side pool, a pool-side bar, a bar-side folding futon or two ... the list goes on. But that wasn't enough. It's never enough for Aqua.
If you thought Aqua couldn't get any weirder, new manager Ricardo Espinosa is here to remind us that oh yes, it can.
Espinosa, the chief operating officer for Camden View Inc., which is taking over Aqua, has big plans for the gym-by-day, lounge-by-night spot at the Merritt Athletic Club in Canton.
He wants to add holograms. Holograms! ...
Espinosa told Dining@Large blogger Laura Vozzella that he wants to project holographic images onto Aqua's pool and ceiling -- images of mermaids and other fanciful things. Whoa, man!
"Have mermaids come out of the pool -- something cool, something different, out of the ordinary," he said.
Unfortunately, Vozzella forgot to ask Espinosa the most important question: Who's liable if a sloshed meathead dives into the pool in an attempt to mate with one of the mermaids and accidentally drowns?
WHAT HAPPENS THEN, ESPINOSA?!?!?!
Hee hee.
(Baltimore Sun archive photo)
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "
Comments
You couldn't pay me to go there!!
Posted by: DaveS | April 30, 2010 1:22 PM
I'm totally gonna sneak in there one time and replace the holograms with voltron or a shirtless picture of yours truly (or both)
Posted by: Evan | April 30, 2010 1:25 PM
Who's liable if a sloshed meathead dives into the pool in an attempt to mate with one of the mermaids and accidentally drowns?
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That is what I call a win, as in, "Darwin".
Posted by: Dave F. | April 30, 2010 1:38 PM
Where is this bar?
Thanks!
Posted by: Sarah Bridges | April 30, 2010 1:44 PM
Virtually every summer at least one sloshed meathead dives into the 1 foot of water that surrounds Seacrets in OC and breaks their neck - in spite of countless "No Diving" signs. Sloshed meatheads will be sloshed meatheads.
Posted by: Dave the wave | April 30, 2010 2:08 PM
Beam me up, Scotty.
Posted by: mww | April 30, 2010 3:26 PM
Maybe they'll prjoect an alternative, better realty. Like, another bar.
Posted by: Mark Twain | May 1, 2010 7:20 AM
What that place needs is lasers, not holograms.
Posted by: Nick | May 4, 2010 3:33 PM
Lame....
Posted by: Calvin | May 5, 2010 11:34 AM
Lasers? Or laser tag?
Posted by: Sam Sessa | May 5, 2010 12:48 PM
How about underwater paintball?
Posted by: RayRay | May 5, 2010 12:55 PM
Or underwater hockey? I had a friend who used to play that in Kansas City.
Posted by: Sam Sessa | May 5, 2010 12:56 PM
How about underWEAR hockey? Might give the LFL a run for its money
Posted by: BC | May 5, 2010 3:12 PM