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The Poster is ready for OPENLY WE CARRY / CARRY WE OPENLY

Oh, I know I’ve said it before, but I can only hope to say it again and again: there is nothing like that new poster smell!

It says, “Oh, this is coming, baby!  Coming fast!”

 

"Confession at St. Andrews": Chapter 11 of THE STARTING GATE at St. Andrews

 

We’re getting close now.  I finished my book, The Starting Gate, a month or so ago. And now we’re even coming up on the end of my public chapter readings at the St. Andrews Bar and Grill. There are only three left now.

So I hope you’ll  consider joining me as I read “Confession at St. Andrews”, the eleventh chapter of my book, about my favorite bar in Seattle.

 

I’m at the St. Andrew’s.

It doesn’t matter when. Unlike the Starting Gate the St. Andrew’s still exists in what I’m currently calling the present, and so there’s a changelessness to the time I spend here.

The bartender Mark, who also happens to be one of the owners, is again holding court, again stringing along some beer and food salesmen, who sit a few stools down from me. Mark has told me that he has the vendors come in only on Thursdays, which is his day to open the bar. He’ll listen to their sales spiels, but they in turn have to listen to his shtick: his filthy stories, his dumb dirty jokes, and his cutting critiques of the products they’re hawking.

I sit on the corner so I can watch both the stage (i.e behind the bar) and audience, (i.e the bar stools.) It’s an old trick from my playwright days. Always watch the audience. Mark knows I’m watching and he knows that I plan someday to write about this place, so his performance takes on an extra enthusiasm. I’m waiting for him to say something utterly filthy and outrageous. Something designed to shock the salesmen and even me. It’ll be tough. Together we make a pretty jaded crowd.

“These young guys, come in here, trying to score some hot chick their age. I say, ‘Let me give you some advice.’”

Okay, here we go. This should be good.

Here are the details:

When: Monday, January 12, at 8pm

Where: The St. Andrews Bar, 7406 Aurora Ave. North, Seattle, WA 98103

Who: Me, and you, and probably a few others you know

How: Quick and dirty, the readings rarely last longer than 25 minutes.

Why: Why not?

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