If you think you are gonna take a train to Montauk for St. Patty’s day and “brown bag it”, think again.
The police forces from all of the towns to the west and the Long Island Rail Road are going to be on extra alert for anybody who is heading to Montauk and is drinking on the train. Expect to get asked to throw out your booze, or worse, get thrown off the train or handcuffed. The Friends of Erin in Montauk and the East Hampton Town Police Department are taking extra care this year to make the St. Patty’s Day parade more of a family affair then it already is.
This is all fine and good, just as long as they don’t stop me from getting a beer at Shagwong’s, or The Point, or Memory, or O’Murphy’s, or… where the hell am I?
See you at the parade March 30! Details of it are here. Happy St. Patty’s Day everyone!
March 21st, 2008 at 11:55
The Entrepreneur
Every night he sets his alarm clock; and
each morning when it goes off
he says “fuck this “I aint getting up this early;
and he says I’m going to count to 100 and then I’ll
get out of bed; but he falls back to sleep by the time he reaches 26
and this is when all the dreams come to him about how his company is
going to make it “Big” this new day.
Now with these thoughts he counts to ten and wills himself to the dark roast coffee machine that he set up the night before and all he has to do is push the ON button and then get back into that glorious bed while his coffee roasts and drips into the fantastic pot .
And he keeps counting 1-10, 1- 50 , 1-100 ; whatever it takes as the strong coffee aroma permeates his bed space until he gives it one final count and then off he goes straight to the coffee pot, pours a cup; strong and dark and takes it right back into the bed with him until the caffeine starts to take hold and then the entrepreneur starts to come alive and the fear, loneliness and insecurity turns to unbending confidence and, all off as sudden, he can’t wait to take a shower and shave and get to the office where he can put all of his dreams and schemes into practice and see how they work out.
There is no boss waiting, no time card to punch. His own mind , heart and soul wills him on to the next step into the abyss; the abyss of success or failure and he says, “fuck this, I got out of bed, I planned my day in the shower and now lets see how the fucking day goes from here. If the day goes well: the day goes well, if the day goes shitty, the day goes shitty….
and that’s just the way it fucking goes; with this life I chose.”
Michael Domino
Port Jefferson, NY
March 20, 2008