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The Priest
I was sitting outside at a table at the Dahlak on Sunday with my friend Rich and this punk rock girl I had never met before. She had short blonde hair, and wore thick streaks of pink eyeshadow, almost a Blondie meets Benatar kind of look. She was pissing me off by making the same [...]
Read More..>>It’s Me!
Drinking Liberally, 2 weeks ago. For a dirtbag, I think I look almost OK.
h/t Albert Yee
Read More..>>No Goddamn Class
One of the things that annoys me the most about the Republican Party is its deliberate racial sops to the poor to distract from the inner party’s delight in elitism. More nauseating is this disgusting classism is nothing but a farce: when it comes down to it, Republicans have no shame, not tact, and no [...]
Read More..>>There Stands the Glass
There stands the glass …
That will ease all my pain …
That will settle my brain …
It’s my first one today …
I recorded, as usual, WRDV’s Country Gold Classics, on Friday. I was watching TV, so I kept the volume low.
I played the tape on Saturday morning as I read about another shooting in Philly, murder [...]
Fleshtones, 7/14/06
Tonight I went to the industry party (?) kicking off Southern Comfort’s rock series in Philadelphia this weekend. I’m missing most of the event, which features the Flaming Lips, De La Soul, and a whole bunch of others, as I’m heading (-ed, actually by the time this post goes up) to New York for [...]
Read More..>>I Threw a Bottle At Someone Tonight
I’m sitting at a table at Dahlak, an Ethiopian bar in West Philly. Byron, who helped me with my plumbing, is sitting across from me at a different table. Byron looks like a skinny male version of Della “Touched By A Morbidly Obese Angel” Reese, and sees himself as a bottomless well of [...]
Read More..>>Drinking Liberally
Act 1. Scene I
SCENE I. An urban place.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three disgruntled Lefties.
First Lefty:
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Lefty:
When the hurlyburly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won.
Third Lefty:
That will be ere the set of sun.
First Lefty:
Where the place?
Second Lefty
Why, Drinking Liberally of course, Tuesday, at Tangier, corner of [...]
Tonight is The Night!
18th and Lombard, Philadelphia: Drinking Liberally holds its weekly get together starting at Tangier, from 6:00 PM until whenever they throw us out or Duncan starts throwing punches. Come on out and talk some shit about George Bush the Fecal King.
Read More..>>Tonight’s the Night!
I have a new volunteer gig as co-host, along with Tattered Coat Matt, of Philadelphia Drinking Liberally.
We get together every Tuesday evening, from 6:00 PM until the last holdout heads home, at Tangier, a bar and grill located at the corner of 18th and Lombard Streets. Free wings for early birds and drink specials [...]
Filth
FILTH
Back in November 1998, I was in an awful way; in May, my girlfriend of 5 years fucked me over as cruelly as can be; I walked in and caught her with another guy; it’s a story that’s been repeated more times than I can count in country songs from Chattanooga to California.
It’s November in [...]
