...how do I answer that one? Who am I? uhhh...an American divorce' who may have had a pint or two with froog in Edinburgh? I also have a blog, it should link from my name...but who knows.
Every bar is a memory.
And all the memories huddle together for company, so that in my mind it often seems as though every bar I've ever been in is on the same street, or at least in the same neighbourhood; every great drinking session I fondly recall happened on one night, or over the course of one weekend; and everyone I've ever drunk with fuses into a single person, the idealised Drinking Companion.
Sometimes it seems to me also that the melancholy that infuses so many of these memories had but a single cause, an idealised Lost Love.
Some of these memories I will now try to share with the enormous, faceless, blog-munching world at large.
These, then, are the mental voyages of the boozehound Froog; his many-year mission to seek out new drinks and new places to drink them in, to write The Meaning Of Life on a napkin.... andnotlose it on the way home.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
5 comments:
It sounds delightful, sir.
Were any of those lovely Szechuan girls you mentioned in attendance?
nice haiku, i've printed, clipped it, and put it on my refridgerator - a high honor along side my kids' haiku!
Snopes - yes, you dog, of course they were there; but I was not falling for any of their charms. Romantic fixation still directed elsewhere.
Weasley - steady on there, the flattery will go to my head. I don't think I've ever been on a fridge door before. Not to my knowledge.
I look forward to having your book of Haiku's signed by yourself one day Froog. I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
And this romance which is mentioned here and there but no-where,,, are we ever going to get any details? I am thursty for some gossip.
And who is WB ??????? Are you new WB? Welcome if you are new/ish.
...how do I answer that one? Who am I? uhhh...an American divorce' who may have had a pint or two with froog in Edinburgh? I also have a blog, it should link from my name...but who knows.
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