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I wanted to write a blog about the last two weeks at Keys On Main. There has been fights, nursing conventions, incredible tips, huge douche-bags, a man hog-tied in the back of a squadie after getting pepper sprayed and Westminster College kicking my butt. Unfortunately, real life has gotten in the way. For the last…

The first time I poured a drink in a bar I was 16 years old. I was working as a barback and dishwasher at a crummy little strip-mall bar in North Las Vegas named Gator’s. It was owned by my next door neighbor and managed by her daughter. It was a blue collar bar frequented by…

Hiberniores Hibernis ipsis translated from Latin means “More Irish than the Irish.” It was labelled upon immigrants to Ireland after the Norman Invasion to Ireland between 1168-72 who absorbed into the Gaelic culture quickly and claimed Irish heritiege. They adopted the Irish language, culture, dress and lifestyle quickly and were slapped with that fancy Latin expression in…

We set-up camp just west of the fountains at the Gateway Mall. The streets of Rio Grande were filled with parade attendees all dressed in something green or attached with a cardboard shamrock cutout. Families lined the parade route sitting in folding camping chairs, drinking coffee or hot chocolate under overcast skies. I worked Keys…

It’s a patch-worked wool cap made in Ireland. It sit low on my head with muted-colors. It looks like a hat my Grandpa Tom wore every time we went out. It’s the kind of a hat that a gentleman would wear about town or an Irish thug would guard his head swinging a shillelagh while…