Today's Reason to Drink

'Tis The Season

Tis the Season to Get Falling Down Drunk

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

Xmas Shopping for Winos

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

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

The Subtle Art of Beer Snobbery

While wine snobs have blighted the earth for thousands of years (you can bet there was at least one guy curling his lip at...

The Drinking Dead, Part II: Barhopping in Hell

Click here for Part One. Click here for Part Three. I rounded the corner and nearly collided with a wheelchaired zombie parked in the middle of...

Hobohemia

So you wanna be a wino. Well, it ain’t as easy as you might think. I mean, you can’t just wake up and find yourself...
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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

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...

Weapons of Mass Inebriation

Alcohol is much more than a sure cure for sobriety. Cast a gaze back into the mists of history and you'll see wine, beer and...

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...

April: 365 Reasons to Get Drunk

Key: Holiday. Pithy comment. Suggested holiday libation. (Recipes included for the odd ones.) April 1 April Fool’s Day. AKA The Day of Abject Cruelty Posing as Good-Natured...

Palace of the Drunkard

Remember running through the streets, drunk on whiskey vomiting from the joint smoked at the taxi queue, stealing newspapers at dawn it was my birthday you were there but— I...

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...

Top Ten Sitcom Souses

In between running up monstrous bar tabs and guzzling moonshine, they found time to make us laugh. MDM salutes the best of the primetime...
Welcome to BoozeTown

Welcome to BoozeTown

We all dream of a homeland for drunks, but one visionary spent much of his life trying to make that dream a reality. This...

Cads, Rakes and Bounders

Does a drink cadged from a stranger taste far superior to one earned by the sweat of your brow? Are you immune to the slightest...
Choctaw Beer

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...

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,...

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Drunkards of the Issue

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Clash of the Tightest

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