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| d4b3a6e | "We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat." | audrey-hepburn bar bars breakfast-at-tiffany-s cat drinking failure irony loss new-beginnings new-yorkers snobs the-recession vanity | Gillian Flynn | |
| e6760b7 | The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink. | alcohol americans bar bourbon change changes drinking electronic-books electronic-revolution electronic-software electronics new-age recession sarcasm technology the-future the-internet the-past the-public the-recession tv video-games | Gillian Flynn |