Halloween is like spring quarter at UCSD. After seeing the same faces for eight months, all of a sudden the hottest women in the world show up, and, yes, I’m including myself. I don’t know where they hang out every other night of the year, but on Halloween they fly in from where ever it [...]
After five and a half years of bartending, I finally figured out how to boost my tips: provide a modicum of customer service. Just kidding. That idea just smacks of effort. What boosted my tips last night is dressing like a woman. I doubt it would work year round. I’m sure the novelty will wear [...]
It was song 153 on the jukebox at the Market Cafe. You got eleven plays for a buck and Night Moves by Bob Seger was always the first and last song I picked. I’ve always had an affinity for that song and would get excited every time The Ruse would play it, which, wasn’t as [...]
It was a mantra that I kept repeating. I figured if I lowered my expectations to a point where I needed anti-depressants, then maybe the night wouldn’t turn out so bad. When the dust settled, it wasn’t the worst night ever. In fact, it wasn’t the worst night in October. It’s just that with the [...]
When catching up with my friend, Megan, she often accuses me of burying the lead. For those unfamiliar, it’s a journalism term used when someone tells a story and five minutes in reveals the part they should’ve led with. I can not bury the lead today. Although I want to talk about the customers Saturday [...]
Yes, dear Reader, the times they are a changin’. Soon to be dad, Tim McCarty, deserves credit for the above quote. It used to be if you wanted to impress with a nice tip, you left a twenty. This is really nice on a sixty dollar tab. On a four hundred dollar tab, you [...]
I got rid of my Cable TV service last July. It’s an idea I’ve been toying with for a while. I’ve read articles about how people cut their cable and still receive hours of televised entertainment. I haven’t gotten that far. In fact, I only have Netflix and the digital equivalent of rabbit ears. In [...]