I’m a fraud. There really is no other word for it. Maybe humbug. I think that’s the word the Wizard of oz used to describe himself when he was found out by Dorothy and her crew. Feel free to use whichever word you like better. I should offer refunds to anyone who bought my last… Continue reading fraud
Last Call!
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!
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
new fiction
You wouldn’t think the worst part of shooting someone point blank in the eye would be the fact that you couldn’t hear the sound of the bullet passing through the eye, but then again, you’ve probably never done it, and done it for reasons so passionless that you have no qualm about killing someone just… Continue reading new fiction
How long is intermission?
I like the movie “Bull Durham” a lot. I was going to say that at the beginning of the second paragraph, and I probably still will, but I feel if I didn’t say it also at the beginning of the first paragraph, you might not make it to the second paragraph, especially if you are… Continue reading How long is intermission?
The Status Update of the Union
I know it’s been a while since I’ve written, and it might seem odd that I would return with an inherently political post, but I assure you this is much less about which color tie people are wearing and more about the process that happens once a year around this time. I assure what is… Continue reading The Status Update of the Union
the questions we always ask
These events always seem to need to be quantified. A number has to ascribed to them to help make the understanding of just what in the hell happened easier. At one point today I saw that it was the second worse event in US history, and the worst in CT history. My guess is they… Continue reading the questions we always ask
stars and thoughts
I went six plus weeks without visiting my own website. I can’t go six days without visiting a bar, but I can pass up on what I profess to be important to me for over six weeks and seemingly be okay with it. I have lots of reasons why I haven’t been here, all of… Continue reading stars and thoughts
It was the year that was
It was exactly a year ago today that my life changed in a pretty big way. I know that for a fact, not because I’ve suddenly become good at remembering dates, but because I can look over to where Stacie hung that big fake check I got and the date on it is “October 18,… Continue reading It was the year that was
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