A Case of Flirt and Run
We’ve all met someone like that. A person who’s in a bar, or perhaps a club, for the sole purpose of having you buy drinks for them. Preferably, several different you’s, as sharing too much of the...
View ArticleSomething Else to Drink with Your Vodka
Vodka is a very popular mixing drink. You can mix it with just about anything. Coca Cola, orange juice, grenadine, vermouth, cranberry juice, you name it, you can probably mix it. Going out this...
View ArticleThe Phoniest Nightclub Line in Chicago
Recently, I was detoured by a couple of semi-reformed club kids to one of Chicago’s allegedly hotter and trendier clubs. Fortunately, Paris Hilton was not in attendance that night, but there was plenty...
View ArticleAttack of the Oompa-Loompa Busboys
When last we left this particular escapade, myself and two aging club kids had just bribed our way into one of Chicago’s allegedly hotter nightclubs, despite a really silly excuse for an entrance line....
View ArticleThe Things You Find on the Floors of Bars
Perhaps you’ve seen The Matrix? It was a fairly popular movie. Popular enough to have spawn all sorts of essays on philosophy and the meaning of “take the red pill.” I found an alternate...
View ArticleTwo Women in the Men’s Room
I was sitting at the bar, feeling the weight of world on my shoulders. No, that’s not quite correct. I was feeling the weight of the world on my bladder. So I went to the Men’s Room, and did...
View ArticleAn Anti-Valentine: The Girl Who Stopped My Watch
There are some people you’re just not destined to get along with. There’s a particularly grating young lady who falls into that category for me. You know the type: One of her parents is European,...
View ArticleThe Birth Control Show-Off
It was an altogether too quiet Saturday night and I was chatting with the bouncer when a group of three people walked into the bar. Two women and a man. The man and one of the women looked familiar, so...
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