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The Drinking Dead, Part IV: What Rough Beast
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In the flickering candlelight I poured a Guinness from the tap, drank it straight down, poured another,...
Three Drinks Ahead with Humphrey Bogart
“The whole world is three drinks behind," Humphrey Bogart proclaimed in 1950. “If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have...
Taking a Dive with Dave Attell
The Star of Comedy Central’s Insomniac might not be able to sleep, but he can sure as hell drink. The Drunkard talks to Dave...
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...
Strange Brews: Jeppson’s Malort
I don’t know how many countries actually signed the Evil Booze Nonproliferation Treaty of 1903, but we can safely say it was a total...
Rise Of the Dives
Night falls on San Francisco's bustling North Beach district as tourists, flesh peddlers and hipsters troll the sidewalks beneath an ashen sky.
I maneuver past...
In Praise of the Liquor Cabinet
“Hospitable” was once a high-ranking compliment, one of the nicest things you could say of people, redolent of all sorts of related traits like...
Waiting for the Punch
Act One
“Mr. Talbot wants to talk to you.”
“What for? I haven’t done anything.”
“He’s waiting for you right now.”
A half-empty pint of vodka sat on...
Barfly Field Guide
The Soap Opera Star
An attractive and vulnerable figure trembling with tragedy, her flickering eyes and winsome smile serve as a nearly irresistible aphrodisiac...
Soused Cinema: Movie Reviews
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Dir: Jerry Lewis/Wr: Jerry Lewis & Bill Richmond
If asked to list the greatest alky films of all time, most critics would...
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...
Drunkus Maximus
Bibamus moriendum est.
Death is Inevitable;
Let's Get Drunk.
—Roman Aphorism
Turn on the news or flip through a magazine and you are confronted with stories of greed,...
Postcards from Skid Row Archives
Full moon moonshine
Drank got drunk stumbling beneath the blurry pair of pale faced moons.
Sip your gloom away the screaming crowd cries swaying.
Slouch down in...
