At 10 am, Irish Guys Vice President Mikey Hoyle finishes his first beer of what is shaping up as a fine Tuesday morning. Blessing himself, he makes his first prolific announcement of the day. The president says he’s healed. Two bar stools down, Wilkes-Barre Mayor and Irish Guys President Spuds McAnus says, thank God. Thank […]
Are we a militia, mayor? The Irish Guys are a social club, Mikey. We’re ethnics, right? Irish, says Spuds McAnus. Trump Irish, Mikey says. That’s us, says the mayor. What about them socialist Scranton Biden Irish? Just Biden their time, McAnus says. Are there any Irish of color? Bite your tongue, Mikey. What’s black Irish […]
Invitations are going out faster than Russian mail-in ballots for Saturday’s Irish Guys pro-Trump rally at their local Wilkes-Barre pub. Here’s what the invite says: “NO MASKS ALLOWED. “Show your support and your balls by packing the Coal Hole for a ‘WE SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT CLAMBAKE,’ an all-you-can-drink fund-raiser that includes beer and wine. Fifty-fifty […]
The woman from Haddonfield, New Jersey, wrote to me on stationary decorated with sky blue and lilac butterflies. “This is the trashiest book I’ve ever read…so much so I’d never pass it on to anyone else,” she wrote. So she stuffed her copy in an envelope and sent it to me at my home address. […]
The name “Johnny Popko” reaches out and grabs you, squeezing like a smooth Ukrainian cage fighter crushing a stranglehold on a terrible tattooed opponent. A gentle man by nature, Popko still snaps and crackles as the laid-back host of an increasingly popular internet radio podcast that puts imitators to shame. Mature, smart, thick-skinned, all attributes […]
