Let me say this about that. A year or so ago, I wrote a series of blogs extolling the virtues of one of my favorite subjects - ‘Sleazy Bars’.  Hanging out in a sleazy bar is like hands-on research for all the evils you hear about when you go to church.  In fact, it is rumored that Moses did not […]

Let me say this about that. Part of what makes a great sleazy bar is the cross-cultural, mixed bag, mongrel ethnicity of it’s patrons.  It is, at the same time, the best and worst examples of the human species.  If it is true that the patrons of “Genevieve’s Bar” in Singapore were made in God’s own […]

Let me say this about that. Someone once said that: “Old bars never die, they just smell that way.”  But, lets be honest.  Which would you prefer …….. the dank, musty smell of an old sleazy bar, or of say, a dentist office?  That’s what I thought. There is one sleazy bar, however, that may never […]

Let me say this about that. With apologies to Humphrey Bogart “Of all the bars in all the world …… ” give me the sleazy ones  (that last part was mine).  Sleazy bars are home to a rare breed of animal that is comfortable with who they are, have no desire to change their station in life, […]