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- 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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Category Archives: Life on a Cocktail Napkin
AUNTIE ROSIE
(This note is from Johnny D’s, a Boston area restaurant and nightclub owned by the DeLellis family.) Kenny Branco is a great guy. He’s been a regular at the club for twenty years. He’s a real estate agent who does … Continue reading
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THE DROWNING FROG
(This note is from a recent night when John Bonaccorso and I were closing Johnny D’s.) John Bonaccorso is a really, really good-looking guy. Sometimes I wish I could hate him. He always has a stunning girlfriend, usually blond, and beyond … Continue reading
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THE TIP
(This note is from an afternoon shift at The Lark Tavern.) There was a big guy sitting at the bar, a “rough-around-the-edges and loud” type, but he was my only customer so I didn’t expect trouble. He was just one of those guys who … Continue reading
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