(Not Quite)
WELCOME TO THE FROGGY BOTTOM PUB & CAFE
Froggy Bottom Pub&Café
We’ve Gone Bookish:
A Special Edition for the Bookish,
the Bookmakers, and the Overbooked
A Room With A View (on the next room with no view)
Dear BT FBC Clientêle
Today I’m filling in for everyone who has filed out. Mondays are not the best days to start a new job… but an excellent day to be let go from one. Two days recovery time from two days celebration time, and one wouldn’t have to address the problem of unemployment until Saturday. Perfect…
I’ll try to keep you happy with whatever you order, but don’t be surprised if the service is slow, sloppy and sometimes grumpy…. The bar is open, so take what you want. The books are flying off the shelves… in the best FBC tradition of Brother Feldspar… “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. – Erasmus”
Name an interest, and I’ll throw you a book… I don’t recommend the food today, it’s all coming from the deli next door. But I can recommend the great pot luck provided by our friends and patrons… Recipe cards are next to the betting slips on the window sills.
Food Catered by the Full Belly Deli
There’s a heavy poker game going on in the back, just follow the trail of the stale smoke… As always there’s a pool game going on downstairs, and please remember NO JUMP SHOT ALLOWED I don’t know how long we can keep the pool table, one more broken cue and one more chipped 8 ball and it might be the end…..
Try to remember:
“No Spillage In The Village”
“No Hassle in the Castle”
Basically, try and clean up after yourself, because it’s pretty sure I won’t have time to get around to it. The first race is on at 2/30 and the last one is running at 6/30. There will be no service at all for those four hours…. Clear the runway, keep the door open at all times. The pay phone is hardly working, and any money you lose in it is lost and gone. The bar phone is not officially working, so anyone ducking the boss, the creditor, or the Love Object, rest assured your anonymity is our number one concern.
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Today’s café is brought to you by: Poets, Editors & Novelists (PEN), The Writers’ Guild East&West, The Screenwriters’ Guild, National Association of Newspaper Journalists & Editors, The Literary Guild, Everyman’s Library, The Harvard Classics, the Atheneum, The Berkeley Public Library, the San Francisco Public Library, the Boston Public Library, the Mugar Library, the Baker Library, and of course, all the Carnegie Public Libraries around the US. All the libraries with all the missing or stolen books over the last 30 years…. If the books have turned up here … I swear I don’t know how.
The Record Collection
The Complete Frank Zappa
The Complete Frank Sinatra
The Complete Glenn Gould
The Complete Louis Armstrong
The Complete Edith Piaf
The Complete Berthold Brecht
The Complete Grateful Dead
The Complete ZZ Top
The Complete Spinners
The Complete Aretha Franklin
The Complete Marvin Gaye
The Complete Otis Redding
The Complete Temptations
The Complete Sam Cooke
The Complete Lionel Hampton
The Complete Luther Vandros
The Complete Barry White
The Complete Roy Orbison
The Complete Beatles
The Complete Paul Butterfield
The Complete Marianne Faithful
The Complete Carlos Santana
The Complete Joni Mitchell
The Complete Barbra Streisand
The Complete Maria Callas
The Complete Gershwin
The Complete Cole Porter
The Complete Nat King Cole
The Complete Muddy Waters
The Complete John Lee Hooker
The Complete Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Complete Rogers & Hammerstein
The Complete Bob Dylan
The Complete Yehudi Menuhin
The Complete Miles Davis
The Complete Ramsey Lewis Trio
The Complete Eddie Harris and Les McCann
The Complete Dizzy Gillespie
The Complete Count Basie
The Complete Charlie Parker
The Complete Jimi Hendrix
The Complete Gil Scott Heron
The Complete Robert Cray
The Complete George Benson
The Complete Carmen McCrae
The Complete Ry Cooder
The Complete Enrico Caruso
The Complete Joe Williams
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald
The Complete Dinah Washington
The Complete John Coltrane
The Complete Sarah Vaughan
Self Serve:
If you can’t find what you’re looking for, just ask Yvonne.
Hi suskind, well you seem to have a bit of a problem with too wide pics. on diary, I suggest you move them, down instead of wide.
See my email address at the bottom of this comment and send me an email…then I will send you another invite.
One of the’ rules’ of the cafe is to call it the cafe..
please……not the ‘not’….lol…
Other than that a fine job…we do have some logo’s available on the group site, so I am hoping you can find your way there…
Dear Diane,
Is the group site People For Change???
If I stack my drinks, will it narrow the page?
Will e mail you posthaste!!
suskind
No the group site is not people for change…Yes stacking, will narrow the page, and I just sent you another invite to address on you tag line.
Oh my heavens, how I love this place tonight. I am drooling at the music selection you have……I will take some Miles for a while, then please if you have some washington handy, I can tolerate that for a long while…Ella will be my end of a perfect day, if you please….
Do you have some Charlie Parker in your collection?
Can I look in your bar for me Baileys? and maybe make some coffee to boot. I am still on call as usual and can only drink one drink, but can do with lots of coffee,,,,
Hi everyone from TN. At least we have had no rain so today. If it doesn’t rain during the daylite hours, it does during the night. The humidity is just horrible here. Otherwise, it is a great day to be playing in your neighborhood.
Hi Brenda, how are you tonight. Help yourself to the Baileys, and get one for me as well, I think it is open bar tonight.
I guess we are early birds in this not FBC cafe and not open…
I wish we could have some rain, so send some this way.
comin your way, Girlfriend, and wished I had it in me to blow hard enough to get it to you asap. I really am tired of all this rain. Maybe if Emily goes more towards Mexico an dstay away from Tx we will be ok. It is that northern front that concerns me. If it would just go on its way and leave., we might see some relief fome all of this depression.
Hope our w/e was ok.
Host/tess I feel you are right on when it comes to the pool tables. I can not play well and if I did I would tear something up.
The service really sucks around here… there’s a bit of gambling going on, and Yvonne, the flirtaholic can’t seem to keep her mind on the job…. i am only filling in, so anyways, here…
Hi Brenda,
Over here at the other end of Tennessee it’s still raining on and off. Haven’t been able to mow the grass this weekend, but I’ve had a project to do for work, so I’m not too upset. The last few days, every time it starts to dry up it drizzles just a little bit more…
Love your taste in music – most any kind of jazz works for me, but especially the small groups (trios through quintets or so) from say 1955 through the late ’60’s.
Especially Miles! The man was Orpheus reincarnate.
Immediamente, Brenda!!
Ask Yvonne for a glass. I’ll be right back
Here you are:
We’ll all have one. Ella is on now. Smooth. I’ll see if Yvonne has your coffee on….
je suis desolee parceque Yvonne… elle est absent toujours!!! ce n’est pas de ma faute… elle est un indolent wench!!! and I’ll fire her in the morning… if we survive this evening!!!
Friend suskind, I fired off an email to you with a link to our coordinating site. Your own diary here is lookin’ pretty darned good, and you may have noticed I closed the day’s diary & posted a link to this one. Just keep those drinks flowin’ and you’ll do fine….
How about a Benedictine and Brandy?
but then again, everything is on the house, except Yvonne… who doesn’t seem to be IN the house at all…. Jesus!!
Aye, that’ll do. Now where did I put my smoking jacket and tassled fez?
The fat man hasn’t got your fez or the smoking jacket either … I’ll ask Yvonne….Yvonne!!! YVONNE!!!!
Wireless network seems to be cutting in and out on me, so not sure how long I can stick around this evening.
In a bit of a cruddy mood tonight…I feel like I’m in this all by myself…it’s a rough road and it’s a long way out…
Is hurricane Emily doing you in??
What part of the globe are you stationed in?
Way far away from Emily, thanks for asking though…I’m on the Left Coast of the US, in the area known as the Silly Con Valley in the heart of the Golden (Parachute) State.
Probably the best thing for me would be to get to bed soon…it’s not even 9pm my time, but I didn’t sleep well last night (spent part of the night on the couch inadvertantly), and me and the spouse had a busy day today. It’s just that we didn’t get any cleaning done, and I feel like it’s going to be up to me to get this disaster organized so the spouse and I can actually go out and play occasionally.
Better get some rest — I know that it’s going to be a rough week ahead…
How about one hot toddy before I call it a night. . .(sniff, cough, cough, whiny complaining sound. . .)
Thanks, just right. . .and now to sleep, perchance to dream. . .
with a cold or flu, my mom would make me hot milk with honey and rum; don’t know if was medically useful, but I sure slept well…
Mom’s are great, aren’t they? Mine would fix us hot lemonaide. . .no good stuff, they were non drinkers. But I learned to add the goodies when I grew up.
You found her!!! That’s our Yvonne. What can I get you???
Here is the cafe logo, you can grab the image off this if you want Suskind.
Excellent job Suskind, Bravo, and the way a Tavern should be set up, KUDOS on the music selection.
LOL, actually it reminds me of a lil’ place I owned about 25yrs ago, and pretty much the same set up. There was really poker in the rear, I did throw out the pool table, after the first arguement, no jukebox, only stereo and personal selections. I did have a waitress much like Yvonne, and a customer named Yvonne that acted much like yours ; ) LMAO
On the T-shirts from the pub the motto was: “Liquor up Front, Poker in the Rear” (true) After 25yrs I still have people asking me to remake them…LOL
Thanks for the memories ; )
Great first diary, suskind! I love your funny “recommendation” notice.
I have a stolen library book to report, alas. I didn’t mean to keep it this long. . or let my dog eat a page of it. . .honest, officer. To make matters worse, it’s a book written by a friend of mine.
Sorry to greet and run, but I must be off to earn the money to replace the book.
First cafe, I should have said.
One quick coffee refill before I flee. Finished the new HP! Loved it. Want the next one NOW, please.
Factoid for day:
Saw Johnny Depp interviewed on Actor’s Studio yesterday. He thinks he has nine tattoos. One of them is a heart with the name “Betty Sue” in it. Betty Sue is his mom. (I heart Johnny Depp) I wonder if George has a heart tattoo with “Babs” in it.
Bye, Green Ones.
No. Babs ripped his heart out long ago.
Which ‘splains a lot.
Lol! And sob. Which has a dual use in this case.