Trytophan Festival by Elvis.

When you think of Thanksgiving, does it tingle your heart with going to grandmas’ house and sitting at a crowded table fighting over turkey and cranberries? Not me, I think of partying Elvis Style so I hooked up with the Atlanta visionary and photographer extraordinaire Timothy Dolph and had the hottest and rockiness pre-Thanksgiving blowout to ever hit the metro area.

The event was held at Mulligans in Decatur and owner Chandler Goff opened the doors wide for the 300+ partiers who kept the place packed both inside and out. Tim had the sexiest retro and rockabilly models show up and pose on the hot rods and badass hogs brought in by The Road Kings, Re-Animators, and other local gear head enthusiast while being shot by the south’s very best photographers (like Elvis, woot!!!).

Mulligans, known for it’s “creative” food menu, hosted a “Hamdog” eating contest. Local Atlantan Nick inhaled the monstrosity in 3 ½ minutes with Joe Hunt hot on his track. For his mad skillz, Nick won an free oil change from Decatur Automotive, free dinner at the Spaghetti Factory and a free Pizza from Lil 5 Pizza. For those folks less incline to watch people eat, an art show and gallery display of retro and noir styled photographs and artwork was shown from Tim Dolph, Tyson MCadoo and in his first showing ever, shameless self promoter Elvis.

The highlight of the night was the “Worlds Largest Gravy Boat” which was 40 feet of rain-gutter filled to the rim with brown margarita and the crowd swooped in with straws in hand to suck that mother dry. During which, the TrypGirls, Fern, Kerriana, and Jessica, served bite pieces of deep fried turkey aka "tryptophan on a stick". Afterward, a sexy ink model search took place with Ruby and her back piece “Cassy” winning crowd approval and her taking home gift certificates from Bikram Yoga of Decatur. Lauren (soon to be a Hot Ink girl) with her “Betty Rebel” arm piece won the Special Judges vote winning a gift certificate from Lucky Devil and a free photo-session with Tim Dolph.

As you know, a good party has to have tunes, Tim brought in some big guns by having The HeartAttacks, The Swear, Nekkid (who played rockabilly just for me),, and blowing the doors off was Gargantua. As the evening wound down, DJ ClayMASHUN from Athens played sultry sounds of lounge, retro and tikki music. Hopefully, TryptoPhan Fest will be the new Thanksgiving tradition – with no sleepy after-effect.

For more info go to www.trypfest.com.