Today's Reason to Drink

'Tis The Season

Xmas Shopping for Winos

The holiday season places a heavy burden on our...

Tis the Season to Get Falling Down Drunk

Gift Tips Whenever you open a non-liquor gift, loudly proclaim,...

The Drunkard’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays

Maximize your shopping time. Every year we find ourselves rushing...

Hooching Through the Holidays

Ah, the holidays. Gregarious gatherings complete with cold turkey, warm...

Articles

Hooch And the Hunt

There’s a rite of passage I was fortunate enough to experience as a boy on my way to becoming a man. This ritual educated me...

Urban Legends of Alcohol

THE RUMOR Workers at the Corona brewery in Mexico urinate in the beer vats.     False. This persistent rumor started in the mid-1980s and spread like...

The Ghost in the Machine

MDM: Before we start, let’s have a Papa Doble. EH: Good idea. You and master bartender Constantino Ribalaigua Vert conspired this cocktail, didn’t you? At La...

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,”...

Episode 3: Bloody Marys and Martinis With Sara Fischer

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder and Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM). Special guest: Sara Fischer, divetender...

Blackout Like You Mean It

“Dude, I have never laughed as hard as I did last night when you intentionally vomited on that couple in the booth.” “Couple?” “Don’t you remember?...

The Founding Drunkards

Soon after they're born, American's minds are stuffed with interesting and inspirational stories about their nation's Founding Fathers. These men are a large part...

The Booze And I: A Love Story

I first remember meeting her when I was three. That night, she toyed with me, teased me until I reached out and grabbed her and...

Drink Your Way to Health! Workout Secrets

Do your friends call you a fat drunken slob? Do you wake up in the afternoon and drink out of shame? Well stop drinking out...
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Nixing the Twist: Swimming with Sharks

Jimmy goes swimming the the Shark. Excerpt from 16mm MDM 1998 feature film Nixing the Twist. Players Jimmy: Luke Schmaltz Happy: Karen Exley Director Frank Kelly Rich

The Lush Lexicon: Buzz Words for Booze Heads

“Hey, slop jaw, quit boozgarting the felony juice so we can finish frontloading and get our fade on.” Confused? You should be. Bar slang is...

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...
Pushing Prohibition

Pushing Prohibition: The Wacky World of Anti-Alcohol Art

Out, puny drunkard, out! In this Soviet poster, we see four apparent giants ejecting the inebriate with a coordinated attack of multiple haymakers. To his...

The United Altered States

“The United States of America” has always been a misnomer. “States of America,” yes. “United?” Well… In the sense that we’re all stuck together, that...

Bout 4: Blackbeard the Pirate Vs. Truman Capote

Who is the greatest boozer of all time? We've posed that question before. In 2002 we  resurrected 16 of the history's hardest-pounding hoochers and squared them...

Wasted Youth

Do you remember your first drink? I know, I know—asking an anonymous, career drunkard if he or she remembers anything is, necessarily, something of a stupid question....

Columns and Regular Features

Booze-Soaked Fiction

Adventures with Alcohol

All the Pretty Pictures

How To Articles

Drunkards of the Issue

Inebriate Interviews

Clash of the Tightest

The Great Drunks

Historical Hooching