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Nighthawks
Well, my first visit since the Thanksgiving holidays. I do love coming to the Palmetto Diner late at night, when my sleeplessness ensues. The place is indeed a relic. The front end, facing the highway, is a completely unmodernized 1940s stainless steel diner, in every......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-02 13:18:26 | Rating:

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Adios, Jukes!
Brenda Morabito sits next to me, with her usual plate of things that usually contribute to the shortening of life as we know it. A mountain of steak fries, well done, surrounding a cheesesteak and onions on a club roll. A very tall glass filled with Coca-Cola sits next to......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-03 19:55:58 | Rating:

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Hard as nails...
The place is somewhat crowded tonight. Tonight, it's Gladys taking care of the counter, and Leathea- Rochelle's smaller, bespectacled, more taciturn sister- doing the tables. I don't recognize any of the faces. They're all suburban faces, soccer and gymnastics faces,......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-04 19:06:09 | Rating:

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Political Roundcounter
"Well, I sure as hell don't like her." Brenda Morabito sticks her fork into an oversized slice of chocolate creme pie. "I never did, either." "For starters," I add, as Dawn places a bowl of wheat porridge in front of me, "I can name five......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-07 22:04:57 | Rating:

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The Horseshoe Club
Alan Adler's here. Alan's a member of a select group of New York Jets fans, known as The Horseshoe Club. They get together at each other's houses, watch the games. They all obsess together. All of them are in their fifties, and have been getting together......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-09 08:01:20 | Rating:

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Do you, Scott Baio...
"No, I didn't sleep today. I didn't sleep yesterday, either." Brenda's having a pork roll, egg, and cheese, on the customary hard roll. Of course, in other places, it's called a 'Kaiser Roll'. Hard roll works better, if only because you're......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-09 18:40:33 | Rating:

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Magic Fingers
It's very, very quiet tonight, in the Palmetto Diner. Now, the Palmetto Diner opened for business way back, back, on the 23rd of November, 1941. If your math skills are at least passable, you'll notice that's two weeks before Pearl Harbor. It opened as the......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-11 19:29:06 | Rating:

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The Mike Huckabee Blues
Harland Woods is sitting here tonight. He's an EMS guy. Hailing from Orem, Utah, he married a local girl, and settled here. He's in his late 20s, very tall, and very lanky. Like Brenda and myself, he's a big baseball fan. "You know,......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-13 18:17:09 | Rating:

| Views: 64 | Comments: 1 | Tags: The Diner

Sea Shells By The Sea Shore
It's pretty crowded on this Friday night. The corner's crowded. Next to me's Brenda, next to her's Don Don. On my right's some Dale Gribble looking character, in a ballcap, a padded vest, and a flannel shirt in red and black checks. I'm having a bowl of wheat......Read More

Posted on: 2007-12-15 07:48:38 | Rating:

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Happy Waitress
The weather's on its way to being horrible tonight. It's a sleet storm. My trepidation is cancelled out by my knowledge that this will all turn to rain in short order. However, I also know that a third of the country tonight will be blanketed by yet more......Read More