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The Basics
Age and occupation. How long have you lived here, where did you come from, and where do you live now?
35, bartender/voice-over artist. 18 years in Manhattan, before that Larchmont in Westchester.
Three on the rocks
1. Give me one story about a unique drink origin.
The Suburban: Invented at the Waldorf-Astoria by a race horse owner in the 1880's after his horse won the Suburban Handicap in Sheepshead's Bay. The drink consists of gin, dark rum, port wine, and lime.
2. Do you have any thoughts on the one year anniversary of the smoking ban in NYC?
I don't go to gyms to get drunk and I don't go to bars to get healthy.
3. It's Sunday night at The Magician, what's the vibe?
Post band practice, wannabe future rockstar, hepcat literati...and their 2nd dates.
Proust-Krucoff Questionnaire
Time travel question: What era, day or event in New York's history would you like to re-live?
The unveiling of the newly streamlined "20th Century Limited" at Grand Central Station in 1938
9pm, Wednesday night - what are you doing?
Your girlfriend
What's your New York motto?
"The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fires."
Best celebrity sighting in New York, or personal experience with one if you're that type.
Seeing Rockets Redglare at 7B
Just after midnight on a Saturday - what are you doing?
Getting your boyfriend drunk
What's the most expensive thing in your wardrobe?
My collection of vintage pocket squares
Where do you summer?
On the French Riviera, where else?
Who do you consider to be the greatest New Yorker of all-time? (Name up to three if you must.)
Billy The Kid, Babe Ruth, Joey Ramone
What was your best dining experience in NYC?
Eating a Luna Meatball Wedge on the corner of Lafayette and Grand
Just how much do you really love New York?
That much
What happened the last time you went to L.A.?
Where's that?
Medication: What and how much do you take?
Everything seems so simple after 3 martinis
Of all the movies made about (or highly associated with) New York, what role would you have liked to be cast in?
The ape in King Kong
If you could change one thing about New York, what would it be?
More Gentlemen's Smoking & Hunting clubs
The End of The World is finally happening. What are you going to do with your last 24 hours in NYC?
I will put on my evening's finest and I will go down with the ship like a gentlemen. Now please, bring me a martini.
Not only does Tom not have a website, he doesn't email or own a computer. Awesome.
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I enjoyed reading this...he was to the point and blunt. Loved the fact that he has no email, second person I know that doesn't have one! ha
For a long time my Mother had no email, yet Tom and her are quite different. I don't think we can really draw any conclusions about people who haven't got e-mail, except that they like Martini's with a twist.
i think we need to have an end of the year gothamist interview award for best response to each of the usual questions- b/c "your girlfriend" definitely qualifies.
Good stuff, and thank you so much for not interviewing yet another douchebag with a website, or worse, a blog.
Not only is Tom an excellent bartender and all-around great guy, he likes pocky too.
This guy looks a little like Jesse James from Monster Garage.
This interview smacks, smells, and screams of having been done at 2 a.m. on a Sunday, as Monday's deadline breathes heavy like a passed-out hooker's weazing down the editor's rash-smeared neck.
that's right DJ Dr. TT, it's new policy actually. all interviews are being conducted at 2am on the day they are published. makes them "fresh." word 'em up, yo.
Fresh is the smell of the steamy piles of shit you post normally here. Unbelievable heap of non-hype you got going here. All this free "publicity" must be doing wonders for these people. While this bartender seems like a good guy and all, you, as the moderator, have the skills of a shrink on methadone. Ask something more interesting than the questions they use to screen short-bus riders from the shop kids.
methadone? i'm still riding the white horse, AND LIKING IT. but let's not make it about me by trampling on these interview comments. please register all complaints through the gothamist forum and customer service will get right on it.
While DJ Dr. Truth Teller is a bit harsh, he/she is right on the money. These interviews stink. The subjects stink. The format stinks. The reason there is so much supposed praise is that bloggers love when other bloggers write about bloggers. And in the great scheme of things, bloggers are quite a small group and much less important than their ego filled postings will ever admit.
All these interviews prove is that there is a mutual admiration society of blogging cheerleaders and that Krucoff and other writers have painfully fragile egos when it comes to other people criticizing their work.
Get out of here GUAaB. You know not from the helhole you speak from. The nav to the left will show how few bloggers have been talked to.
Leave the mudslinging to me and the Moderator. It's our battle.
Besides: In the immortal words of my fifth-grade nemesis: "Jealous much?"
oh i do love the taunting, both ways. maybe my biggest weakness. it's all kosher though, as long as you're talking about me then my ego has no problem whether it's good or bad. but i warn ya, don't mess with this bartender. he'll fuckin' cut you man!!!
but seriously, my mom *loves* these interviews and she's not a blogger. case closed.
(mom, if you're reading this and you're one of those anonymous bloggers then please gimme some linkage at least. thanks.)
These interviews are really really boring and the standard questions are truly truly pretentious and lackadaisical. please shut yourself down for the good of humanity.
what a random comment, you house'd me.
oh, ok. so where and exactly when does tom vaught tend bar? a girl's gotta know. have you ever read those ridiculous end page interviews
in vanity fair with strictly b- list celebs? they get months to dream up a bunch of dopey answers to a bunch of dopey questions and still are only un -funny and pretentious.
tom's quick sense of humor is not lost on me, let's get together ladies and get this guy famous. it is our duty
as new yorkers, and, well..... ladies.
sunday night at the magician on rivington at least. i think also saturday there. works other nights at tile bar and some other place. uh, sorry for being so "specific" with the details.
thanks babe, also did my own math, happy hour (5-8) @ wxou, hudson & 11th, mon & tues. went last night,
get naked and drink.
Friday nights at Tile Bar is where I usually see him.
The reason there is so much supposed praise is that bloggers love when other bloggers write about bloggers.
How ironic, then, that your screed is inspired by an interview with someone who doesn't own a computer.
Tell Tom that his long lost Step Bro Jimmy and Andy would love to catch up with him in NY to party!
found an old college book about electricity with
tom vaught signature from 1957 if you want it send an address