Category Archives: Drinking

Made In The USA

September 11, 2024 – 1:58 am

Written Sep 11, 2012 It’s been eleven years since 9/11. Last night I erected my own Twin Towers. They cost $4. Made in the USA. Drank in NYC.

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Goodbye Subway Inn – 2014

July 14, 2024 – 6:16 am

On July 24, 2014 I had a last drink at the Subway Inn on East 60th Street. The property owners were evicting the 77-year-old Manhattan bar to erect a towering luxury condo. I first drank in the Subway back in 1977. It was a classic dive bar then and most recently my boss frowned upon […]

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Antlers – Kingsley Ami’s

June 13, 2024 – 5:33 pm

I woke up this morning with a hangover so bad, I thought I had grown antlers. – Kingsley Amis

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Man O Manischewitz 2012

March 28, 2024 – 4:03 am

In 2012 Fort Greene was a friendly neighborhood. People said hello to each other. I smiled greetings, glad to be here. It was a ‘we’ world, although I wished I was in Thailand with my family. Across the street an elderly Trinidadian woman collected beer cans and bottles for the deposit money. I gave Jinny […]

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In Vino Madidus

March 14, 2024 – 1:33 am

Staying with Latin. Sitting at home with a bottle of wine. Non veritas Not true. Solo madidus In vino madidus Soaked in wine. A paraphrase of Julius Caesar’s classic ‘veni, vedi, vinci’ or ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.’ Veni, vedi, madidus means I came I drank I fell over. We’ve all been Classical Latin […]

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