It is no secret that your bartender is one part mixologist, one part psychologist, and one part proctologist. What some folks don’t realize is that some seasoned tavernistas are also highly skilled “drunk whisperers.”
Before working on the service side, I put in a good many years on the belly-up-to-the-bar side and went so far as [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 27, 2008
Defining a REAL Alaska Beauty Queen
Prior to this election season, with rare exception, I have never been all that interested in beauty queens – the digression being the Miss America scandal of 1984, wherein dang near anybody alive in America would have had to be comatose to have missed. Yet, here we are again, nearly one-quarter of a century later, [...]
October 22, 2008
Don’t It Make You Wanna VOTE?
While I am oh so tempted to blog on about the wacky antics and zany hi-jinks of our governor-in-absentia, I vowed to keep WSW as apolitical as possible – which essentially means that I am reduced to writing about things far more controversial than word-vomit inducing election commentaries that are already suffocating the web. I [...]
October 21, 2008
The Boys that Go to Sea
In honor of the 2008/09 Alaskan King Crab fishery that opened this past week on October 15th, I find myself once again contemplating the fishers of the now famous (due largely to the popularity of reality television) commercial crab-fishing industry. In my world, most of these men, along with the occasional women that would hazard [...]
October 18, 2008
Sitka’s Annual Tartan Wingding
It’s mid-October. Around here, that can only mean one thing. Oh yes, the weather is more blustery and the termination dust is creeping down the mountains and the streets are noticeably more navigable than they were just a few weeks ago in the throes of tourist season. However, recurring natural phenomena pale in comparison to [...]
October 17, 2008
My Gift To You
A quick apology to explain why WSW has another blogless day:
It’s Alaska Day week festivities, and as a self-proclaimed “talent wrangler,” let’s just say I have been a busy gal. (Insert goofy emoticon here) I intend to elaborate on the uniqueness of our local “Mardi Gras” later on in blogtown…. assuming my liver survives the [...]
October 15, 2008
My Fluffy Epiphanies
Am just beginning to realize that maintaining a blog is a lot of work. Far more so than longhand journaling in the privacy of your own space. For one thing, on the web, one must keep their audience captive.
One must be daring and fearless and of*ckingriginal AND should aim to spell words correctly. Pretty much. [...]
October 14, 2008
Alaska’s Other Lipstick Ambassador
I wear lipstick. Always have. I wear it hunting, painting, walking in the rain, doing the laundry, or meeting the posse for a toddy. I wore lipstick while giving birth. My baby never noticed, but the midwife seemed quite flattered.
In faded photos, I am working on a longline boat that is deck-loaded with black cod, [...]
October 13, 2008
Surviving Exponential Financial Suckage
The stock market plunged this past week. I know I should be concerned, upset, or at the very least – willing and able to justify an urgent trip to the watering hole to chat up my fellow proletariat while we try to figure out solutions over several swanky designer pints of beer. Truth is, I [...]
October 9, 2008
This Girl’s Gone Mild
Howdy Buckaroos!
It was bound to happen. I just love, love, love to write with pen in hand, transforming plain, white-bread thoughts into steaming hot gobbets of delicious, fresh-outta-the-oven, home-baked, drool-inducing wordage onto crispy sheets of paper. However, am recently informed that I’m too young to be “old school” and way too generous to keep my [...]
