- ABOUT THIS BLOG
- Everyone has done it – you’re in a bar, looking for a scrap of paper to write a woman's name and phone number on, or just want to make a note to yourself so you don’t forget something. You grab a cocktail napkin.
- (In the TV series The West Wing, a political consultant decides that Jed Bartlet – played by Martin Sheen – should run for President. He takes a cocktail napkin and writes down the slogan, “Bartlet for America.”)
- I work in bars. Over the years, I’ve accumulated enough of my own cocktail-napkin notes to fill six liquor bottle boxes.
- Here are the people and stories that wound up in those notes -- real-life characters like Jackie Rabbit and Maude the Broad, the narcotics cops Paul and Sonny, mafia guys, some shameless tramps and one suicidal young man. You'll meet an old-time boxer who wants to take me into the gym to teach me his trade, and a woman who thinks God is on the stool next to her, urging her to have one more whiskey and ginger. It's life behind the taps.
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
“Are you OK?” Colleen asks. “I’m fine,” I tell her, phone at my ear. “Maybe I’m just coming down with a cold.” It’s Wednesday afternoon and I’m already five days late with this week’s post. I have the time off … Continue reading
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COUPLES (Behaving badly)
I wish they would leave it at home. But, of course, they don’t . . . They hit the bars, the clubs, the nightspots — for most customers, each night out is a short vacation. Everyone’s looking to relax and … Continue reading
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A LETTER FROM JOEY
“You can’t post something like that,” Colleen said, “It just sounds too weird.” I generally listen to Colleen. She’s my best friend and one of the brightest people I know (graduated with a 3.8 from Suffolk University.) As we talked … Continue reading
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