text: name changed to Nates Placennhow do i explain this jointnnits been around for quite some time and since moving nearby jsut recently began coming up in the radar of nearby dive barsnnpros i can ride my bike here the new owner is cool they do poker tournaments they do karaoke for a dive they have nice beers on tap like harp guiness ace pear and kiltlifter they have food never tried it though nncons standard stuff that goes along with a dive bar but that is kind of what makes it fun to go there my favorite old bar fly is Einstein so nicknamed by my former roommate for his wild white hair he speaks in these sort of half sentences all the time you get either the first part or the tail end of any thought that happens into his head he favors the ladies shocking i know and although seems out of it is surprisingly lucid at am for example he was going on about a sort of conspiracy theory and to placate him and being my usual sarcastic self i commented ah i see it is all coming together now at which point whithout missing a beat he responded i do not care if it all falls apart and launched right back into his halfsentence tale of the collusion de jour well played einstien nnanyway back to cons it is waaaay too bright inside here for a bar of that caliber and the karaoke patrons tend to be the ones trying to take their serious shot at american idol i heard more sappy pap country love songs and creed than i can handle i guess i am used to more upbeat or fun karaoke not this i am seriously belting a love song in a dive bar at midnight on the weekend varietynnits got outside seating area with tables but the view is terrible kyrene road right at baseline in a kindof strip mall nnmore cons they only have a beer and wine license that means no shots or no shots made with any liquor that has over percent alcohol content or something weird right nnthe last three times i visited Nates Place I left either immediately after or before finishing my first beer and the last straw was a Thursday night when I took my beer on the patio to escape the waytooloud creed karaoke to find a very strange group of crack heads I blatantly studied the dynamic of the group they were loud and seemingly begging for and def enjoying the attention and came to the conclusion that the mid to late s gentlemen fancied hisself a pimp I swear to god he even rocked a cane He dressed white trash methghetto and had what appeared to be a strung out prostitute in tow I have not been back since