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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...
40 Things Every Drunkard Should Do Before He Dies
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,...
The Beauty in the Blackout
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...
Top Shelf Love
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The alarm clock went off and I reached out and found that there was still a bit of scotch left in the bottle, so...
Drinking With Devil: My Interview with the Prince of Darkness
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,...
The Greatest Drunk on Earth: Andre the Giant
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...
Lush Lit Book Reviews: Girl Gone Mild
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...
Episode 2: Homebrew and Schnapps with Troy Baxley
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...
A Powerful Stillness
“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...
Bout 13: Hemingway Vs. Gleason & Bout 14: Bukowski Vs. Faulkner
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...
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...
The Last of the Losers
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...
10 Best Things About Booze
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...
Strange Brews: Choctaw Beer
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...
Paradise Lost: The Tiki Experience
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...
Booze of the World: All in with Ten High Bourbon
“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...
The Dry War
Winston Churchill said the Royal Navy promised nothing to its enlistees but “rum, sodomy, and the lash. ”
If you could stand buggery and...
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Nixing the Twist: JoJo the Killer Pimp
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...