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...night Jackson was to speak before the Democratic National Convention, I sat at my neighborhood pub pleading with the bartender to switch the channel from ESPN to the network convention coverage. A good tip won out over the rowdy clientele, and the semi-drunken crowd began to listen to the words of the man who had become the nation's latest political phenomenon...
...conversation with them. I discovered that they felt their words were not wrong or harmful. "I'm not prejudiced," the West Virginian explained. "I just don't like them." The two men continued talking throughout Jackson's speech, preaching their racial philosophy and explaining that if my local pub were in their hometown, Blacks wouldn't be permitted to enter. They claimed their local pubs admit Blacks only through the back door...
Come Friday nights, the boisterous gang congregates at the neighboring bars, the Hawaiian, the Whistle Stop or the Red Lion (a pseudo pub), to swap leg- pulling tales and practice one-upmanship by inventing sidesplitter headlines. Billy Burt, editor of the Examiner, proffers the classic example of HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR as the quintessence of a tabloid art form. Balfour opts for convolution: THE TOASTER POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL or, better, THE DOG THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED...
...meet Bill Lee when I was eleven years old. He was my hero even then. My father and I sat next to him in a local pub, watching him swill beer and listening to him talk about Eastern mysticism and the concept of infinity. No doubt my admiration for such an odd figure was disturbing to my parents. Lee had admitted to being a frequent user of marijuana, and to avoid penalty from the Baseball Commission for smoking it, he fabricated a story of sprinkling pot on his organic buckwheat pancakes. The THC, he claimed, would be activated...
GAPSC this year also started a weekly "happy-hour exchange" between the graduate schools. Each week, the happy hour is held at a different graduate school's student pub and the council posters for the event at every graduate school. Since its inception in early October, the program has met with success, say coordinators of the project. The happy hours have also encouraged graduate students to visit other schools' pubs informally, council members...