by waiter | Mar 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s early evening and I’m playing blackjack inside a small casino off The Strip. I’m sitting at “first base” and the little old Chinese lady sitting next to me has been my good luck charm. When I’m not sure if I should hit or stand she usually...
by waiter | Mar 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s late afternoon and I’m taking notes for my upcoming book in front of the Paris Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard. But I’m not the only person working “The Strip” today. Several Latino men and women wearing t-shirts proclaiming “Hot Ass...
by waiter | Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hi everybody. I made it back from Vegas in one piece and somehow avoided the poorhouse. I’m wiped out from the flight home and my body has to detox from the all smoke, booze, neon, noise, and humanity I subjected it too. As soon as I catch up on some work...
by waiter | Mar 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hey everybody! I made it to Las Vegas in one piece. Someone should’ve told me about the turbulence when landing at McCarren Airport! I think I left my complimentary bran muffin on the tarmac. I can’t tell you where I’m staying, but I’d like to...
by waiter | Mar 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s a weekday afternoon and my friend Phil and I have just walked onto a gun range. Phil and I usually get together twice a year and blow stuff up. For some strange reason I find it very therapeutic. Phil brings the guns, I buy the beer. To be safe, we drink...
by waiter | Mar 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
In the next episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Tony is truly taken in by the locals as they show him Sri Lankan culture and cuisine. Portuguese, Dutch, British, Indian, Arab, Malay and Moor traders have all contributed to the diversity of Sri Lankan food. ...
by waiter | Feb 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m eating dinner with a young woman at a restaurant on the Lower East Side. As the discussion winds though typical first date topics like work, hobbies, friends, and family histories, we end up on an interesting subject – chivalry. “When I’m on the...
by waiter | Feb 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s Thursday morning and I head over to the post office to mail a package. I love the post office in my town. A stately edifice overlooking a traffic circle that revolves around a monument to the town’s Spanish-American War dead, the building looks like a...
by waiter | Feb 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Its Saturday night and I’m rolling around a urine slicked floor with a nurse. I know what you’re thinking but please, get your filthy, perverted minds out of the deep dark gutter they’ve just fallen into. Its not what you think. But since I work...
by waiter | Feb 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
As a teenager growing up just outside New York City, Manhattan – to Tony – was like living a dream. And there were institutions in that dream, some of which are still going strong, some of which are hanging on by a thread and some luck, and some of which have since...
