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Lover Man

by Dan McClenaghan
June 25, 2026

Hobgood stacked the last chair upside down on table number four and glanced around the empty dining room of the Oceanic Brew Pub. The smell of stale Sea Lion Ale and lemon cleaner lingered in the air. Beyond the windows, fog drifted in from the Pacific, three blocks west of the Coast Route pub. softening the ...

Article: The Oceanic Brew Pub Chronicles

Flirtibird and the Black Thong

by Dan McClenaghan
November 28, 2025

The Taquito Tuesday thing took off like a rocket down at the Oceanic Brew Pub. It was, from the perspective of the kitchen, an ass buster, one sheet pan of those little rolled tacos after another going into the oven. Fortunately--for the owners, Roy and Rafaela--they had hired Hobgood, a guy who had spent 40 years ...

Article: The Oceanic Brew Pub Chronicles

Billie Holiday Blues

by Dan McClenaghan
May 6, 2025

Don't Explain Rafaela showed up at her job at the Oceanic Brew Pub with a slight swelling beneath her eye and a discoloration of the skin beneath it. The new grill cook, Hobgood, saw this right off when she came into the kitchen. Her effort to avoid eye contact and to avert the damaged side of ...