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Article: The Oceanic Brew Pub Chronicles

Hello Angelina

by Dan McClenaghan
April 24, 2025

I Fall In Love Too Easily Angelina poured down her first pint of the night in ten seconds flat, standing right there at the bar. Her job as a field reporter for the local news had given her the unenviable task of performing a mock interview of Charlie, the pelican who had taken up a roost ...

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Then the Saints Came Marching In

by Tony Ozuna
March 18, 2025

"Satchmo! Pops! Mr. Louis! Mr. Armstrong!" Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash. Cameras ahead. All he could do was smile in reply, with his big grin, and keep on moving through the crowd. Behind him, his entourage followed along trepidly. The Louis Armstrong band, or in their own terms, the OJ Express: the Original Jazz ...

Article: The Oceanic Brew Pub Chronicles

I Wish I Were In Love Again

by Dan McClenaghan
February 20, 2025

The Dance of the Infidels Word around the Whispering Palms Trailer Court was that Barb, the lady who ran the place, could have cleaned Mike Tyson's clock, in his prime, if it had ever come to that. It never did, but she came out on top of about every physical confrontation she got herself into. If ...

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Dance Dance Dance

by Dan McClenaghan
December 20, 2024

Dolphin Dance The dolphins frolicked just south of the end of the pier, leaping in playful arcs that took them completely out of the water. They bumped fins and swooped in and out of the pod. A select few angled their slick bodies into vertical positions, coming half out of the water to eyeball, up on ...

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Two Presidents—Vaclav & Bill

by Tony Ozuna
November 25, 2024

On January 11, 1994, US President Bill Clinton was recorded live at the Reduta Jazz Club in Prague, playing sax with Czech jazz players. Czech Radio Broadcasting later released the recording of this concert on the CD titled Two Presidents' Jam Session, (Praha, 1994), with sponsorship by the Radegast brewery. Statements by Vaclav Havel in italics ...

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Between The Devil And the Deep Blue Sea

by Dan McClenaghan
July 26, 2023

When the wife invites the ladies over for Mahjong, I get out of the house. They're a great bunch, but they play the game like it's a blood sport. Fractious trash-talk melodies. Clacking, tile-smacking-the-table percussion. Wild ear-piercing laughter... So I drove down to the beach, Ella Fitzgerald singing about the devil and the deep ...

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Tonal Warriors

by Peter Rubie
June 30, 2023

New York City, July, 1983 “Man, it's like walking with lead shoes on," I complained. Roger, our drummer, smiled, shook his head and muttered, “I may just take off in a minute." Eddie said to me, “You're a miserable motherfucker sometimes, Phil. You know that?" The three of us sat ...

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What A Little Moonlight Can Do

by Dan McClenaghan
December 11, 2022

The birthday bash for my granddaughter Marisol went down at my son's house, on the other side of town. And since her other abuelo was on the patio cooking chicken taquitos in a makeshift deep fryer, I'd offered to buy the pizzas. I phoned in the order: five pepperonis, extra cheese all around. They wouldn't take ...

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Bye Bye Blackbird

by Dan McClenaghan
December 3, 2022

Carter Johnson quad-caned his way out to his patio with a glass of whiskey and water in his hand, ice cubes tinkling like piano notes as he did his damnedest not to spill a drop. The cane steadied his unsteady gait. The whiskey had been measured out parsimoniously by Carter's wife, Olivia. In her mind, a ...

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Vintage 31

by Robert Slentz-Kesler
September 21, 2022

Max marched through the front door and looked at his watch. “Where's Louie?" “We still have ten minutes." I was setting up the music stands. “Yeah, but we need time--" “Maxie! Mad Max! Max the Mad Hatter!" Louie walked in with an extended open palm, his upright ...