Strange Bruen

I'm proud to point you to an original piece of writing from Ken Bruen in this week's City Paper. A while back, we realized that we were short a column on the food page for March 16, so I thought it would be fun if Ken would set us Americans straight on how to do St. Patrick's Day right. Hence, "True Irish."

However, I had to do the unthinkable:

Edit Ken.

You see, Ken turned in about 800 words of brilliance. The problem: the column space can only accomodate 450 or so.

Yeah.

So I promised Ken that I'd do some gentle surgery and run an abridged version in the paper, but then release the full monty on Secret Dead Blog tomorrow, at the top o' the mornin', in honor of the holiday.

Hope you enjoy it.

(If any Bruen junkies would like a complimentary copy of this week's issue--which, I might add, features an excellent cover story about long-forgotten Philly noir writer John McIntyre--drop me a line and I'll put one in the mail. Offer only good in the U.S., otherwise Cindy in accounting will have me hurt.)