Happy St. Patty's Day

Jayson and I are live blogging from the Coat of Arms RIGHT NOW. Sure it's a British bar, "foe" of Irish pubs, but whatever. It's where we love and so here we are.

AND RACHEL IS HERE!!!! (Rachel Cole, nurse extraordinaire, and our mutual friend of two years - she asked to be mentioned personally).

It's only 7:30pm, and already people are being turned away. Granted, we don't have much perspective on what it's like out there right now, but it is clearly happening in here.

St. Patty's at the Coat

Jayson says: I was considering going to Boston, but honestly, St. Patrick's Day is about home, friends, and family. Even the Boston PD thinks so. So we're thankful that we have such friends and family to spend the holiday where everyone's Irish (okay, Jayson's Irish and Heather is Scottish). (H: FALSE! My great-grandmother is an O'Sullivan.)

We came here specifically because our friend Chris Cote of The Johnnies has played here every year for quite awhile. While the Johnnies themselves are not an Irish band, they play the classics quite well. (H: My favorite is "Holy Ground", which I pretend is about me, even though it's about a brothel.)

Chris Cote and Les Coates

There's still no word on Ri Ra, the new Irish Pub on Market Square. It had intended to open on St. Patrick's day, but a hangup in customers prevented that from happening (lame). (H: Jayson is blogging while drinking. He meant "customs." Clearly.)

Anyway, we're starting to feel the liquor, so we'll give you more info tomorrow!