Today's Reason to Drink
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Soused Cinema
From the flickering beginnings of motion pictures to the multiplex-filling offerings of today, alcohol has played a major role in the movies.
In fact, the...
Fables of Almost Famous Drunkards
The Fatal Phone Call
Henry Peepindrink of Ashtabula, Ohio, invented the telephone in 1847, two years before Alexander Graham Bell was born. Peepindrink was a...
Blood And Wine, Part One: The Lost Boys
The Fifth Legion is on the march.
They move at a fast trot beneath a beggar's moon, gladius swords in hand, their armor rattling in...
The Drunkard’s Guide to Poker
To be a successful tournament poker player it helps not to care about money.
If you need the money, if you might not drink...
Postcards from Skid Row #63
Kessler’s Whiskey
Kessler’s whiskey on sale!
It’s the same price as the no-name whiskey
that occupies the space next to it on the bottom shelf.
As soon as...
The Fine Art of the Free Drink
“Oh, the rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense.” —Henry Sambrooke Leigh
Does anything taste as sweet as a free drink?
What...
The Zen of Drinking Alone
“What'd you get up to last night?”
“Got wicked drunk.”
“Yeah? Where'd you go?”
“I didn't go anywhere. I drank at home.”
“You had a party and didn't...
All Star Alcoholics
The near-symbiotic bond between alcohol and athletics goes back thousands of years and their lengthy shared history has produced innumerable athletes who played hard...
Club 33: Beyond the Green Door
Disneyland is billed as The Happiest Place on Earth; and it’s happier still when you’ve had a bottle or two of fine wine.
Growing up...
Apocalypse Ilsan
Outside my home in Ilsan, South Korea is a pedestrian arcade we call "Meat Street." It has a real name, but like all streets...
Strange Brews: Natty Light
“Natty” (or “Unnatural Light,” as it’s also called) has long been the unofficial beer of students and the cash-strapped everywhere.
As the market analysts say,...
8 Hours in a Barroom
5:45 pm You’ll just stop in the bar for a quick one after work.
6:10 pm Just one more beer to relieve the stress. I...
Stand Up Comedy and Falling Down Drunk with Doug Stanhope
Writer, producer and star of Fox’s Invasion of the Hidden Cameras and a regular guest on the Howard Stern Show and Spy-TV, Doug Stanhope...
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...
Diary of a Stewbum
Stella is the kind of broad that grows on a guy.
I've known her ever since we were little kids, but in the early days...
Cocktail Power
Dr. Cocktail knows what you’re drinking.
And he wishes you would pause for a moment and reconsider that vodka/ Kool-Aid combo you’re throwing together, and...
The Drunkard’s Guide to Barhopping
The difference between a proper evening of bar hopping and a night of being rooted in a single bar is the same difference between...
The Secret Language of Cocktails
Your cocktail says something about you.
For instance, ordering a martini says you appreciate the finer things in life, ordering a gin and tonic says...