Currently Reading: ShoreBilly’s Swill

Over the years we’ve touched upon the various ridiculous things I’ve seen and heard in my many years as a bartender. We’ve gone over some examples of the absolutely absurd behavior that many display while out in public and drinking … Continue reading →

Let me start with a follow-up to last week’s piece. The article that posted on Thursday last week. I may or may not have, hypothetically sent an email to my landlord with Shorebilly’s Swill attached to it. Either way, I … Continue reading →

This is yet another week that required a rewrite. I had another piece almost completed until last night when once again, life happened. Subsequently you’re about to read another exciting episode of ‘I swear I can’t make this stuff up’. … Continue reading →

I had something else in the works for this week, then I realized that this week ends with the Fourth of July. It actually occurred to me as I was driving to work yesterday  as I crossed the two bridges … Continue reading →

As is so often the case, I had very different plans for this week’s piece. But then life happened and the subject matter abruptly changed. I can pinpoint for you the exact moment that it did. Earlier this week I … Continue reading →

As promised, I’m coming back this week to introduce you to some more of the cast members for the 2015 season. If you haven’t been following, cast members are the people who come to the bar night after night and … Continue reading →

It’s mid-June in Ocean City and one of the things that means for the locals is that our peaceful beach town is being inundated with seniors. And I don’t mean AARP card carrying walker hobblers emptying the bingo hall for … Continue reading →

Only a few short weeks into the 2015 season and already this year’s cast members are identifying themselves in droves. I did a similar piece last year, so I’ll try not to be too repetitive, but it’s really the same … Continue reading →

Well we got through Memorial Weekend, the official summer kickoff holiday, and from where I stood, it was huge. Now granted, I have no highly sophisticated or deeply scientific means of coming to this conclusion. Like the town of Ocean … Continue reading →

It’s now that time of year when there are enough people coming to town and enough going on in the bar that I can switch the focus of my articles back to my life at the bar and away from … Continue reading →

A little while back, I started writing a piece titled “Growing Up My Way”. It’s essentially a summary of examples illustrating the snail-like pace of my emotional maturation and my sometimes less than conventional parenting techniques. Every time I think … Continue reading →

This weekend marks what I believe to be the most important holiday of the year. Now, I know I used similar verbiage to describe Pork in the Park a few weeks back, but this time I’m serious. The holiday I’m … Continue reading →