I’ve been thinking a lot about this story lately. It’s kind of odd that I wrote this one before I got more into the mixology end of bartending-creating new cocktails rather than just pouring drinks-but it’s always stuck with me and I wanted to share it. Almost empty even though it was just after… Continue reading Last Call!
Month: March 2013
Excuse me waiter. Could I have another of those Singapore Slings?
Twenty years ago today I first landed in Key West. Here’s the story: On March 12th and 13th of 1993, a blizzard shut down the entire East coast. Every major airport was closed, two hundred and seventy people died, and record snowfalls were recorded in almost every town, including a total of seventeen inches falling… Continue reading Excuse me waiter. Could I have another of those Singapore Slings?
I went down to the Ocean tonight
Once upon a time I was a tortured artist. (Well, as tortured as an artist can be while growing up in a relatively stable middle class family in Connecticut.) Like any good tortured artist who wants to maintain their tortured artist card I wrote a lot of poetry. From the looks of what I kept,… Continue reading I went down to the Ocean tonight
PopcornJackTerry 