Today, I drove by one of my favorite Oregon Tavern Age joints. Two months has passed since I sat at my favorite table and wrote utterly noncommercial crap or art. I was never sure. But I surely loved writing at that table and gathering stories. The OTA book was already out but I never stop writing the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The virus had shut down OTA country. At times I feared it was for good. It seemed like these great greasy joints might not survive. They were already threatened with extinction from gentrification, and now this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BUT NO! The sign on the window of the joint said it would open tomorrow at 9 in the morning! How they would go about with the social distancing and all that was a story I must investigate. I doubt I’ll be there when the doors open, but I want to see what the OTA regulars had to say. And of course I already knew! It had all been a Left Wing conspiracy! Give me cheap lager or box wine in a dive bar or give me death! Will they conform to the rules? Would they rail against Governor Brown and rip the Chinese and blame Obama? I am dying to find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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