he felt quite sure that he would never die [UP #90]

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drunk as fuck 2:03 EST

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Originally posted "live" on 6/17/08 at 2:03 a.m. EST. Reposted (in sequence) 10/30/08.

I don't know why this Hemingway phrase sprung into my head just after last call, though he also visited and wrote about the UP. Dan and I had been downing pitcher after pitcher of Oberon, a local wheat beer, at the Downtowner Lounge, a big lakefront bar just next to our motel. The bar was brimming with locals on a Monday night, many of them having just finished a softball game.

As we did during most of the KC Siege, Dan and I talked to no one. The next night, at the same bar, we would learn once again why that's usually the smart thing to do.