Modern Drunkard Magazine

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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A man is, ultimately, the sum of his accomplishments. Each culture, of course, has a different idea as to what rates as an accomplishment. Muslims,...

I'm lying in bed with my consort of the moment, staring at the ceiling with a loud white void glaring garishly in my memory. There...

I The alarm clock went off and I reached out and found that there was still a bit of scotch left in the bottle, so...

I rendezvoused with Satan at the Bon Chance Bar in New Orleans. I must confess I doubted his credentials from the moment he called us,...

Do you have a favorite drunkard? Some amazing man or woman, past or present, who stands colossus-like atop the Big Keg, the ground below littered...

Girl Gone Mild Smashed by Koren Zailckas Viking Press I was sold on the title alone: Smashed, a term that brings warmth to the heart of a...

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder and Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM). Special guest: Troy Baxley Featuring: Hangover...

“The martini,” Dr. Giorgio Lolli wrote in his seminal 1960 book Social Drinking, “conveys the impression of a powerful stillness.” A mix of gin and...

Who's the greatest boozer of all time? The Contenders Humphrey Bogart 20-1 Charles Bukowski 8-1 Richard Burton 40-1 Lord Byron 30-1 Winston Churchill 6-1 William Faulkner 10-1 W.C. Fields 3-1 F. Scott Fitzgerald...

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...

Bobby Costello sat on a lone barstool in The Shillelagh. A small knot of men had formed on a cluster of stools only a few...

1. It shines a light in the darkness. “When I need a light inside me, I walk into a pub and drink 15 pints of...

Before he was known across the country as Pretty Boy Floyd, the outlaw Charles Floyd was known in his Eastern Oklahoma hometown as “Choc.” This...

Every man, whether he knows it or not, feels some primordial attraction for the allure of paradise. After all, down the centuries the world’s major...

“A True Bourbon.” That was once the emphatic claim of Ten High, back when it was a cheap but honorable straight bourbon whiskey. Today it...

Winston Churchill said the Royal Navy promised nothing to its enlistees but “rum, sodomy, and the lash. ” If you could stand buggery and...

 JoJo the Killer Pimp (or possibly an accountant) tries to talk his way out of an execution. Excerpt from 16mm MDM 1998 feature film Nixing the...