Nov 30
It’s hard to invent a new drink. Bartenders have been bored into becoming mad chemists for years. These days, the standard thing to do is to mix some fancy crap with some vodka and call it a “blank-tini.” But that shouldn’t stop one from trying. The other night, bored like many a bartender before, I …
Oct 15
An old email sent to my job from a female customer. It’s about me and was forwarded to me by my boss. I have taken the liberty of changing her name. Hello, I have been to your restaurant several times and absolutely love it. The food and service is wonderful and I always leave full …
Aug 20
A picture of me last winter, maybe the winter before. I’m not sure. Taken by ShoMerde.
May 03
“A bartender must be a good listener. He must be able to listen to five different conversations at one time and blend them all into one so that you have 10 happy people at the same time. Never discuss religion or politics. Memory! You must remember their drinks. And sometimes you must remember to forget …
Apr 26
pic nicked from here “Mac, you ever been in love?” “No, I’ve been a bartender all my life.” –Wyatt Earp, “My Darling Clementine”
Apr 19
“I have no particular love for the idealised ‘worker’ as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.” -George Orwell
Apr 13
daryl banks and his iphone. Those are my hands. I know them like the back of my hands.
Apr 12
pic nicked from here “Be in my joint in two hours, we’re forming a fuckin’ government.” –Al Swearengen
Apr 05
pic nicked from here “The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, …
