- 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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IN THE MEANTIME . . .
It’ll be a short post this week. I had planned to write today about “DIRTY TRICKS behind the bar,” but I’m now weighing how much I should say, . . . and about whom. Back next week with that post. … Continue reading
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THE GREATEST BARTENDER LINE (And Kenny’s Easter Bread)
(This post is about two things that happened at Johnny D’s over Easter weekend.) MY FAVORITE LINE . . . If you read last week’s post, you know about my decade-long search for an elusive bartender’s comment. I’m pleased to … Continue reading
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A WEEK OFF (and a request for help)
Sorry, but there’ll be no regular post this week. It’s late Thursday night, and I’ve got nothing ready. I blame it on working on taxes, training a new bartender, . . . and falling behind on just about everything else … Continue reading
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REVEALING ENCOUNTERS with famous athletes
First, let me tell you what this post will not be about. This won’t be a “bartender for the stars” kind of thing — how I made their drinks and became their best friend. I’ve met lots of celebrities and … Continue reading
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FUN BARTENDER/SERVER VIDEOS
It was late Saturday night when bartender Jeremy Newcomer used his IPhone to show a short comic video to our barback Craig “Chombo” McKoene. I’d seen the video before on one of the sites listed on my blogroll, and that … Continue reading
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