How sleazy was Captain White’s? I remember being mooned by the bartender once. Actually, the intended target was across the room; I just got caught in the crossfire. You’d think the bartender would have been fired, but no…her father owned the joint. Sometimes, you couldn’t use the bathrooms at all because […]
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Sleazy side of Captain White’s
July 27, 2008; 10:19 am
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Not ready for prime time
May 31, 2008; 7:49 pm
I wish we had a word for those people who observed us from the fringes of our Thursday night activities. Some of them liked us, some of them hated us, others were just indifferent.
It was always a delicate judgment call whether to approach such people. On the one hand, I didn’t want to ignore someone […] -
This is culture
May 21, 2008; 12:26 am
It was another smoky night of clogging at the World Famous Captain White’s Oyster Bar and Clog Palace. Someone was playing live old-time music for free-style clogging; I can’t remember who it was that night. I sat at a table near the dance floor in case I felt that old-time religion stir my […]
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The Clog Palace is born
May 8, 2008; 9:53 pm
About a year after I started clogging, the Tap Room closed down, and I felt like an addict cut off from her connection. I was going to the square contra dances at Glen Echo as well, but that kind of dancing didn’t lift my mood up the way clogging did. It took a […]