This bar holds many stories. Of being a regular, a barfly. Of becoming friends with the owner and the staff. Of cousin dingus working in the kitchen. And this story, of how I took my shot with the bartender Maggie.
Old Year’s Day
Tag: Portland
Getting to Portland OR, and a few notes on L-O-V-E
The Unhaunting of the Morrison Hotel
Uncharted Dives 100th Post!
The 3 Founding Authors of Uncharted Dives return to the location they first met years ago: the Morrison Hotel.
Bar of the Gods
“I am a great friend of chaos. It’s all we have. Life is risk, life is chance, life is being open to chance. The best things in my life, and probably in anybody’s life, comes out of being open to being blown off course.”
~Tilda Swinton
Uncharted Ghost Stories!
Uncharted Dives has uncovered many spooky stories in haunted taverns, ghost ships and doomed pubs. These are the best of those stories…
Drink, Play, Fuck: The Other Side of Enlightenment
Izzy enters the holiest Balinesian city skeptically. In the silence that follows he makes unexpected offerings.
MoHoWeen: the Uncharted Dive Origin Story
This is a story no different from any other Halloween, except this is the night Wara met Vic and Vic met the MoHo, all while Isy embraced his mortality behind Big Buck Hunter. Welcome to Halloween on Morrison Street.
Dives of Christmas Past: Showdown at the Jolly Roger
an Oral History of the Great Christmas Snowpocalypse, as told by the authors of Uncharted Dives: Wara, Isy Badger and Vic Neverman.
Portland’s Bucket of Blood (or “I’d Rather Be Lonely Tonight”)
Vic participates in a paranormal investigation experiment, sitting down in the closet of an old tavern in a place known as a Gateway to Hell. And he is not welcome.
Football is Life
Portland, OR “We completely undervalue curiosity” I was nearly shouting as I shouldered in through the door, talking back towards Roy who closely followed on the balls of his feet, his long arm reaching up to keep the door open long enough to enter. Inside the place was buzzing, and a chorus of voices poured…
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