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Bullfights, Whores and Tequila: An Interview with Avant-Garde Filmmaker Larry Wessel
In a genre crowded with self-styled mavericks and eccentrics, Larry Wessel manages to stand head and shoulders above other documentary filmmakers.
Figuratively and literally. An...
To The Bottom!
Of the many things Russians are famous for, first and foremost is their monumental appetite for booze.
They approach the act of drinking with breathtaking...
A Bedtime Story
A butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker
Walk into a bar.
A bloody mary, a buttery nipple, and a hot damn
Coming right up
Two clocks get...
Martini Madness!
The following account may startle you.
And it may save you from a horrifying fate.
In the 1950s a sinister new menace swept America. Spawned...
Bold Crow
Tom really needed a drink.
Vodka, Scotch, gin, it really didn't matter, even a beer or a cheap Chablis. He hadn't had anything to drink...
100 Years of Modern Drunkard Magazine
A Slanderous Birth
The first incarnation of what was to become Modern Drunkard Magazine was a one-page death threat written by saloon keeper Hiram...
Maybe The Booze Ate Your Baby: Movie Reviews
Hollywood has always sent mixed messages when it comes to booze.
At times it wholeheartedly celebrates drinking (The Thin Man, Animal House, Barfly), other times...
What Extinct Tastes Like
I've never really been “into” Scotch.
Scotch tends to make people make snooty noises, makes them swirl their drink and discuss the “bouquet of flavors,”...
Adventures with Alcohol: A Tribute to Harpo
I was drunk, naked, and teeing off on the 16th hole of a public golf course. Or maybe it was the 15th. Fuck if...
Barkeepin’ College
Two weeks ago I woke up drunk under a speckled sow — for the last time.
As the hotel proprietor threw me out the...
Cheers! A Short History of the Toast
As much as we might sling around the phrase “Judeo-Christian,” most of us are pagans at heart.
Scratch modernity, find paganism lurking underneath. Take toasts,...
Liquored Up in LaLa Land
Ah, yes, the City of Angels.
The city of high hopes and crushed dreams. The glitzy crucible where stars are forged, where Bukowski battled and...
The Drunks Of War
Societies possessing a robust and realistic attitude toward intoxication have produced mightier warriors than those which censure consumption.
This is true pretty much from the...
Mullocked In Minneapolis
Thursday
Denver International Airport
2 Budweisers
Airport bars should be exciting. You want to be sitting next to some chap in a pith helmet off to safari...