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Bout 2: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Vs. Doc Holliday

Who is the greatest boozer of all time? We've posed that question before. In 2002 we  resurrected 16 of the history's hardest-pounding hoochers and squared...
Your Guide to Home Bars

Your Guide to Home Bars

The Liquor Cabinet AKA The Booze Box or Liquor Pantry, these demure containers take up little space, are easily disguised and some are actually quite...

Cocktails with the Cavemen

Has progress banished us from a prehistoric paradise? What the Lifestyle Gestapo ignore or are too dumb to realize is that intoxication has always been...

Dead Sober at 40,000 Feet!

“It can hardly be a coincidence,” wrote Douglas Adams, “that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.’” Oh,...

Episode 11: Scotch and Tiki Drinks with Kent “Doc” Wilson, Part 1

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder & Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM). Special guest: Kent "Doc" Wilson, Forensic Psychologist. Featuring: All...
Dionysus Rising

Dionysus Rising

The savage drumbeat grew louder as the worshippers of wine whirled, gyrated and staggered ever faster around the gilded altar. Letting loose great animal shrieks...
Hacking new vegas

Hacking New Vegas: Weird scenes from DEFCON

“I'm sorry, sir,” says the walleyed clerk, “I don't have the keys to that. We'll have to wait.” I take out my flask and show...
Clash of the Tightest

The Finals: Gleason Vs. Bukowski

Who's the greatest boozer of all time? Sixteen supreme drunks dove into a sea of booze eight months ago, bent on determining exactly who should...
Woody Woodbury

Woody Woodbury: High Holy Man of Hooch

In the early 60s Woody Woodbury reigned as the High Priest of Liquor Culture. His headquarters was a famous watering hole in Fort Liquordale (Fort...
Welcome to BoozeTown

Welcome to BoozeTown

We all dream of a homeland for drunks, but one visionary spent much of his life trying to make that dream a reality. This...

Ladies Thirst, Part 1

If you read enough of the historical articles in this publication you   might start getting the idea that women didn’t used to drink. Which...

The Naked and the Dead Drunk

“There are no gentlemen in Denver,” my mentor Giles Humbert III said, “thus there are no gentlemen’s clubs.” “Sure there are,” I said. “The phone book...

Ladies Thirst, Part 3

The 1920s: Prohibition was in full swing. Liquor (other than “medicinal” whiskey and sacramental wine) was illegal. Federal enforcers prowled the landscape, busting drinkers,...

Episode 13: Locked Down and Loaded with Frank and Nick

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder & Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor for MDM). Special guest: The dreaded Wuhan Virus Featuring: All manner of...
I Drink the World: The Charles H. Baker Jr. Story

I Drink the World: The Charles H. Baker Jr. Story

When asked what he liked to drink, which was often, Charles H. Baker could have replied with great authority: "I Drink the World." Which probably...

Got Kymyz?

From Tatarstan to Kyrgyzstan to Tuva, in what used to be the great thirsty interior of the Soviet Union, Central Asian nomads have the...

May: 365 Reasons To Get Drunk

May 1 May Day. Comrade drunkards of the world, unite! We’ve nothing to lose but our outstanding bar tabs! Red wine. 2 Manfred Von Richthofen’s Birthday...
Adventures with Alcohol

Adventures with Alcohol: Genetically Predisposed

I’m in a pub in Malta, full of retired British men passing the evening the proper way. I sit on a tall bar stool...

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