Irish Houdini conquers Alcatraz
It was July 1999 when myself and Dad decided to take the tour of Alcatraz prison, San Francisco. True to legend, the boat ride to The Rock was distinctly choppy, raising the old questions about how the three men, who escaped in 1962, could have possibly made it to the mainland alive. The tour was headed by a frustrated stand-up comedian, who spent the duration of the boat ride repeating his joke that New York was full of Italians named Tony, simply because Italian immigrants