Okay, we’re doing a little adjustment here, I was doing posts from the MBIP past on Thursdays to free up a little time for me to work on my upcoming book, “Confessions of a Spiteful Writer.” Well, I’ve written seven chapters and will eventually finish it, but last week I had an idea for a book I think I can write and publish fairly quickly, so I’m putting the Spiteful book on hold and I’m starting this new idea this week.
The new book is going to be about a blog I did when I was living in New York City in 2010. Some of you may know of it, but it’s called, A Guy Walks Into 365 Bars and if you click on that link you can take a look at it.
Basically, I went to a bar every night for an entire year and did a daily blog on it. It got some publicity and it kind of blew up on the internet and beyond. I think this will make a fun book and it’ll be easy to do since the blog is still up. It’s going to be a behind the scenes look at what happened and how I did the blog for that year.
I thought on Thursday’s, I’d post some photos and a link to some of the more memorable posts that went up that year.
So of course we have to start at the beginning and the beginning happened on Monday, January 11, 2010 when I posted my first entry about going to the very first bar: Otto’s Shrunken Head!
Below are photos from the post and a link to the post from over 14 years ago!
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January 11, 2010 - Bar Number One: Otto’s Shrunken Head
There it is, Otto’s Shrunken Head at the corner of 14th and 2nd. I checked it out online and happily, they’re still open! Check their website out here.
I took a shot of the bar and there’s Lani, who was bartending. She was super nice and happily posed for a photo.
I was most nervous about asking strangers to pose for photos, but I got these and there’s even more at the post at the blog.
They had live music and I knew the band’s wouldn’t mind me taking photos.
That’s a shot of me in the morning and my official Otto’s Tiki bar glass. Sadly I no longer have the glass, but at least I have the photos and memories on the blog.
You can check out the original and entire post by clicking here: January 11, 2010 - Bar Number One: Otto’s Shrunken Head.
I’ll have further updates on the 365 bars book next week! See you all tomorrow!
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Related Post: Looking Backwards: Last Night @: Sully’s.