Bullshit reigns at the bar. Bruce Springsteen’s \u201cAtlantic City\u201d plays. I think of that forgotten Burt Lancaster classic from 1980, Atlantic City<\/i>, with a young Susan Sarandon. Was I the only one who saw it?<\/p>\n
A pickup pool tournament unfolds with staccato bursts of profanity.<\/p>\n
An OTA man drinks a long neck Miller and holds it funny.<\/p>\n
Cinderblock construction. A true dive. Someone died in here, I can feel it.<\/p>\n
Four thin strips of glass block throw dirty light onto the carpet.<\/p>\n
A vacuum cleaner stands upright in the middle of the joint. Vacuum for five minutes and earn a free shot of Crown.<\/p>\n
Two overhead fans fan.<\/p>\n
Video Lottery mesmerizes an OTA man who weighs less than a hundred pounds.<\/p>\n
Two OTA women watch vintage cartoons on their phones.<\/p>\n
Someone wrote a novel in here, I can feel it. Nobody read it. I wrote a novel that nobody read. Nobody ever will.<\/p>\n
There is a struggle to survive among the patrons. It suffuses the air. We are on the precipice as a country.<\/p>\n
(If you found this post enjoyable, thought provoking or enlightening, please consider supporting a writer at work by making a financial contribution to this blog or by purchasing an NSP book.) <\/i><\/p>\n\n Bullshit reigns at the bar. Bruce Springsteen’s \u201cAtlantic City\u201d plays. I think of that forgotten Burt Lancaster classic from 1980, Atlantic City, with a young Susan Sarandon. Was I the only one who saw it? A pickup pool tournament unfolds with staccato bursts of profanity. An OTA man drinks a long neck Miller and holds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[804,803,101,61,21,27,23,805],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-tavern-age","tag-atlantic-city","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-dive-bars","tag-novels","tag-oregon-tavern-age","tag-ota","tag-taverns","tag-writing-novels","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}