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Harassing Know-Nothings and Getting Trashed At The Patriot

» by Judas March 8th, 2008 at 3:52 am » Comments (0)

The two guys to the left were getting smashed with some drunk guy wearing this crazy-ass fake leather skeleton jacket. All the guy in the jacket kept saying was that he didn’t speak English. Didn’t stop him from pounding shots nor did it stop one of the guys from turning to me and complaining about “having to speak Spanish in this country.” What was weird was that the guy was probably in his mid-20s and, judging by the way he was dressed — stripey button-down shirt and khakis — seemingly doing okay for himself. Not the kind of guy you’d think would be aggravated about immigration. Yet he was.

As the Spanish-speaking guy passed out at the bar and had to be helped out after a solid 20 minutes or so of lying in his drool, the young Lou Dobbs clone continued his rant.



Dive in NYC mixing it up at Mason Dixon and Rififi

» by Whitesnake March 5th, 2008 at 12:04 pm » Comments (0)

Behold Mason Dixon
Sans Goldman Sachs employeeIt wasn’t this empty when i was there
Another fanciful night out in New York City brought me to the Lower East Side. I went to two bars that definitely don’t qualify as dives, but were fun all the same. It was one of those […]



What We Do Here and Why We Do It

» by Judas January 17th, 2008 at 5:40 am » Comments (0)

The web is crawling with websites that tell you where you should drink in New York City and we think that’s fine. Those sites are all nice and, truthfully, some of them are so informative that I can sometimes be found scanning them to find new places to imbibe. Sometimes, I even like […]