- 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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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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THANKSGIVING BREAK
I’m taking a break from the blog this week, after working an extra shift at the club last night — Sarah Borges played; it was a great show. I’m on the bar again tonight (Thanksgiving), and working through the weekend. … Continue reading
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TWO SHORT VIDEOS
Friday will be our new day for updates, but here in the second week of that schedule, I’ve already fallen behind. I’ve got nothing ready, and there’s only an hour left before work. So, for this week’s post I’m putting … Continue reading
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HALLOWEEN MADNESS (Again) . . .
Booty Vortex has become a Halloween tradition at Johnny D’s. It’s a rocking time with some of Boston’s best musicians working it on stage. It’s a night of disco/funk, dancing to the old tunes like “Disco Inferno” and “Lady … Continue reading
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