F Minus by Tony Carrillo for July 10, 2021

While I pondered, bleak and beery …

Do I hear the sound of snapping fingers? Maynard G. Krebs is about to take the stage.

Ah, the bar must be in dear old Ireland

Strange – I don’t see his man-bun, nose piercing, goatee or soul-patch.

A poetry bar!? I love it.

Jim Morrison in East Africa after he faked his death

Now that’s a bar I’d like

I remember “poetry bars”. Young people in berets, belly dancing, guitar playing – oh, wait, those were coffeehouses.

~ It’s 9:00 on a Saturday…~

Dylan Thomas would be furious.

Mostly a guy thing. I always warn my wife when choosing a restaurant: if we sit near a tv screen you know I’ll be totally distracted!

How times change…..

Yeah. There’s a reason it’s the last.

I’ve always wondered why sports became synonymous with TVs in bars. Not everyone who wants to go to a bar for a drink wants to watch whatever the “big” game is. Why not a bar that features 60s sitcoms? Old movies? Nature shows? Game shows? All would be more interesting to me.

“it was a dark and rainy night”

Oh many a peer of England brews

Livelier liquor than the Muse,

And malt does more than Milton can

To justify God’s ways to man.

Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink

For fellows whom it hurts to think: . .

He’s read the writing on the [Men’s room] wall.