Bring out your drunks and get on the bus, friends and neighbors: The 19th Manayunk Shamrock Local is on tap for this Saturday, March 13. Think of it as State Patty's Day for grownups.
Grab your flashing LCD belt buckles, put on your drinking socks and get ready to ride. I'm actually ambivalent about going on the Local this year, coming as it does a few months after the death of our beloved "Aunt Flo," aka Florence Cook.
Flo never was one to ride from place to place -- hauling your drunk shit on and off a bus all day was for kids -- but she was always waiting there for you at Spanky's to start off the Local, and later at Scanlon's to check up on you when you disembarked. I'm not sure I can do an afternoon of beer-soaked tears, but some of my favorite Shamrock Local memories have Flo at the center of them. So we'll see.
