Tag Archives: Key West

It’s almost worth the trek to Key West just for the bistec pallomilla at El Siboney. No visit is complete without at least one pilgrimage.

In what has become a nationally televised tradition, on New Year’s Eve the Bourbon Street Pub will lower local drag star Sushi in a giant red pump.

These lovely Vancouverites are JMG readers and one of them won the amateur strip contest at the always manic Bourbon Street Pub.

It’s still a bit early for last night’s hard-partying crowd, so we more responsible adults are enjoying some relative solitude. Yeah. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Gawd, that moon is bright.

On Marathon Key, we’ve stopped at our usual on-the-way to Key West spot for conch fritters, oysters, and pulled pork. That’s Father Tony in the shadows with the pig. (That sentence may also apply at other times in the coming week.)

“The promise from Navy leadership in this meritocracy is that any Sailor, regardless of background, race, gender, or sexual preference, has the opportunity to go as far as they can in this great Navy based on their work ethic, intelligence, aptitude, and commitment.” – Commander Tate Westbrook, at the commissioning ceremony for the Navy destroyer USS Spruance. The event took …

Just the stuff that made it to the coffee table of my hotel room.

He still has the attitude that probably cost him that chunk of his ear.

A rolling billboard for one of the local dirty bookstores.

I found this description of the funky building now housing Walgreens on Duval Street: The Strand Theater in Key West opened in the mid-1920s as a single screen movie house that sat 800 around people. The theater closed sometime in the early 1980s and reopened as a nightclub. It remained open as a few other nightclubs until it became a …

This raspy-voiced fellow has been pacing on the railing outside my hotel room every morning.

I went whizzing all over the island on my little scooter this morning.

Yesterday Father Tony and I arrived in the mid-afternoon and were whisked to our Cypress House accommodations with instructions to quickly prepare for the Key West Pride kickoff party at Island House. After a few hours of poolside menz and frozen drinkies, we were hustled off to dinner at The Flaming Buoy (heh) where the co-owner related how a recent …

Father Tony and I are staying at the fabulous Cypress House, where we have adjoining apartments. I’ll post a slideshow recap of yesterday’s goings-on shortly.

I love everything about Key West’s airport, like the one luggage carousel. (Where’s my bag? Oh. Carousel one.) But especially the super creepy multi-culti statue family on the roof.