Hell's Kitchen Fire Spewing Barmaid

I've been on the Internet for quite some time but I've never done the blogging thing. The main reason I've created this blog is to show some of the more interesting photos I've taken. While I usually post all of the pictures I take to Flickr, it doesn't give me the advanced features that blogging software provides.


I took 4 hours off of work last Friday and caught the train into NYC. I was walking around the "Hell's Kitchen" section of Manhattan and came across a bar named "Blue Ruin." (A slang term for gin.)

My barmaid, Jessica, saw my camera and said she'd give me something to take a photo of. Well, she certainly did! She poured some vodka into a glass, dipped her fingers into it, poured the rest of the vodka into her mouth and had someone light her fingers on fire. The result of this trick can be seen in the photo.

Here's a photo of the front of the bar. You have to watch out for it or you could easily miss it.

Be careful not to make Jessica the barmaid angry. She knows how to use the business end of a bottle of Maker's Mark!