Category Archives: Drinking

Beer is the Cure

January 17, 2010 – 12:24 pm

BEER TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE SYMPTOM Feet cold and wet CAUSE Glass Being held at incorrect angle. CORRECTIVE ACTION Rotate glass so that open end points toward ceiling SYMPTOM Feet warm and wet CAUSE Improper Bladder Contro CORRECTIVE ACTION Stand next to nearest dog, complain about lack of house training SYMPTOM Beer unusually pale and tasteless CAUSE […]

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Freedom for Beer-Drinking

October 18, 2009 – 4:28 pm

My friend Miguel Abreau is having an opening this evening on Orchard Street. A film by Pedro Costa and a single painting by Pieter Schoolwerth‏. No beer. No wine. The precinct captain has come down hard on the upstart galleries’ serving alcohol without a license. Last time I went to his gallery I was served […]

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Gun and Booze ala Cat Ballou

September 30, 2009 – 9:13 pm

Driving across country in the 70s was a rite of passage for hippie late-comers. Boston – Frisco could be driven in less than 50 hours, but a week on the backroads felt more like Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD. In 1974 my good friend Andy, a flaxen blonde coed from Harvard and I motored west in […]

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A Very Civil Court

September 7, 2009 – 7:50 pm

This spring was very rainy in June. Every day was without sun. I was living in a basement and taking the subway to work. I felt like a subterranean, so when the sun finally burst through the clouds I was ready to celebrate. The event was an opening at Miguel Abreau’s gallery on Orchard Street. […]

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12 Signs of Female Drunkeness

August 24, 2009 – 7:27 am

GOTHAM BOOKS has disappeared from NYC along with my favorite bars, restaurants, and hardware stores. They have been replaced by tee-shirt shops selling XXXX size to overweight tourists bussed from Scranton PA or fancy bars serving $10 Buds to Wall Street junior execs and their fat fiancees. At the Gotham the staff debated which den […]

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