Immediate disclaimer: whoops — we forgot to bring the camera along. Sorry folks.

But here’s how it went. Around dinnertime we headed over to where else? The who-cares-if-it’s-Irish-or-not P.J. Hanley’s (449 Court @ 4th Place). All of Hanley’s was, as expected, packed. Line at the bar. Wait for a table. Pasty people in green looking jolly. There was no water in the glass — only Guinness. I would’ve been arrested if I ordered anything else.

Then a guy comes in with the bagpipes and 100% Celt get-up and starts to shred. Being 2/3 Scot, this makes me want to grab a claymore and/or caber and attack a 19th-century imperialist Brit…which has nothing to do with St. Patrick, but what can you do.

After a short wait, we’re seated. Hanley’s is only serving corned beef & cabbage, Irish stew (lamb, carrots, taters in a Guinness broth), some kind of fish, or cheeseburgers. Me and a pal get the stew, the mrs. orders the corned beef. It’s all very, very good. Warm in our guts.

The second course is making asses of ourselves at the always-raucous Lido Bar Friday night karaoke in Red Hook (200 Columbia St, to be exact). Needless to say, Cheap Trick, Run DMC, ELO, and others were rocked hard and enthusiastically off-key.

The predictible epilogue to this non-threatening little saga turns out to be that pleasant 24-hour diner on Smith St that I can never remember the name of. What can I say? This place does what it does well (fun fact: their burgers/fries make for a solid hangover cure). After quite the combo of blueberry pie and some onion rings, though, it was time to rest.

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