bars
October 1, 2009
- Having played for maybe the third time In twenty years, my wife can only Giggle, flailing as she fails to snap and spin The human paddles, trouncing me like Beatrice, Her heroine in The Postman, that scene Where Mario crawls in search of the ball And she engulfs it with her open mouth. We’ve left the highway for better than rest Stop sandwiches and all through our chatter In the tavern ...
- Continue Reading » 2 Comments
May 20, 2009
- THE HOTTEST SPOT IN TOWN July '73, Times Square, New York...There's a recession on, but you can't tell by me. I've got a bar job-- twenty-seven bucks a night and all the goldfish I can eat. It's at the Hotel Diplomat, an SRO on 43rd. St. and Sixth Ave. We call it "the Roach Motel" because once you check in you don't check out. Half the tenants are seniors, shuffling around the mahogany ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
May 8, 2009
- This is just a little thank you to all the people out there in Red Room who sent me wishes after my operation. As you can see from the photograph I am alive and well and living in The Mary's house in Boleybeg. Sorry about appearing with the lampshade apparatus around my neck but the man in the animal hospital told me that I would have to wear it for fourteen days. It is made in Denmark so it ...
- Continue Reading » 8 Comments
April 3, 2009
- ACT ONEHe was small, a Japanese Napoleon. His pal had a bald patch like a monk. The Japanese was on the voice treadmill, the monk was silent, listening, like a vow. Expensive scotch was ordered, Napoleon asked to see the bottle. I left it there. And forgot about it. They went to the jukebox and loaded it up with heavy metal, music not to listen to at 1.30am. I yelled last call. And remembered ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
December 16, 2008
- New York City, Christmas Eve, 1973...Global warming hadn't become an A-list cause. Ozone layer sounded like something you inhaled at a party. In Washington, the hottest present was a bootleg White House tape of President Nixon drunkenly ranting about the Watergate investigation to Attorney General John Mitchell. It was played at office parties all over town. On Dec. 16, with the help of an ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
August 11, 2008
- There were artist bars (the Cedar,) writer's bars (the Lion's Head,) newspaper hangouts (Bleecks or Costellos,) gay "clubs" (The Pink Poodle,) brawling butch bars (The Grapevine,) where lesbians bloodied each other with broken glasses and key rings. The big hotels had commercial bars (Maude's, The Jockey Club) where the traveling salesmen left nickel tips at the bottom of a water ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
March 31, 2008
- Passing through time underneath a wet blanket of drinks has taken no toll on Lippman. In fact, Lippman is proof that a large amount of consistent pickling is a preservative. His organs are as robust as the churchlady's corset as she sits playing hymns to the congregation. This man is in no jam, no sticky fingered doctor has had much success telling him - Cut out the drink, Lippman. Six Jack ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
March 27, 2008
- How many of you out there watch nature programs? Well if you have, you've seen the chicks in the nest being fed by the adults, greedily gobbling the food. Last night, I was that adult . I was feeding the chicks booze. That was their hunger. More powerful than the need for bread. And did they fly! Into each other, with hugs and kisses, soaring across the bar in flights of fancy, dropping feathers, ...
- Continue Reading » 2 Comments
March 17, 2008
- It's St. Pat's Day, the snakes are out of Ireland. Here's a link to a story I published several years ago, about Ireland's famous oil.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/19/CM3939.DTL
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
February 12, 2008
- I did the math. I have poured over 150,000 pints of beer in my lifetime. Buddhists will understand this. The moment the flow opens, the shift in the glass, the crowning head, and the deliverance consumed, where nirvana is reached, and finally gone. No other occupation in history has had such a profound effect on mankind than the bartender. One receives. Christians will understand this. Jesus is ...
- Continue Reading » 4 Comments
