text: It is never a good sign when seconds into walking somewhere you feel as if you have made a horrible mistake That you are about to witness an example of what Ignatius J Reilly would describe as the contemporary worlds lack of theology and geometrynnI went to the Dominion Square Tavern about a week ago to meet Joanne I thought it was a bar But it is not It is a sort of restaurant But with a bar But fancy There is also a sign at the front that says you have to wait to be seated So I waited I wanted to sit at a table but apparently you can only sit at a table if you are eating So I had to sit at the bar and felt selfconscious the whole time that people could see my buttcracknnAnd that is the trouble with this whole thing really Because this is the kind of place where I go and I think that the problem really is me Because as I sat there with Joanne getting progressively drunker on blahish expensive drinks eating soso fries developing that sinking impostersyndrome feeling the place kept filling up with people for whom this was all Just Fine a good time on the town sitting there without really experiencing any sort of discomfort at the fauxnostalgia of the whole thing feeling ok with listening to hours upon hours of contrived acoustic stringband music