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The Art Of Getting 86’d

We all hate that guy. You know who I’m talking about: The guy who tries to make time with your girlfriend, knocks over your drink,...

On The Cuff and Under the Table

There are more slang words for inebriation than there are for any other word in the English language. This not only illustrates the creative...
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...
Drink Your Way to Health!

Drink Your Way to Health!

Work Out Secrets Revealed So far in this column I’ve taught you some excellent methods, utilizing alcohol, to better yourself physically. Yet I sense that...

26 Questions with Doug Stanhope

1 What are you drinking these days? Let’s just go with this day. Four mimosas and now have switched to whiskey with a tiny splash...

The Mourning After

It seems a grave betrayal, doesn't it? You unpocket a wad of cash to rescue those drinks from a purposeless existence and give them a...

Bout 6: Mark “Whiskeyboat” Twain vs. Oliver “One for the Road” Reed

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

This River Runs Wild

Nothing goes together quite like alcohol and open water. Maybe it has something to do with the sense of weightlessness. When I was a kid,...

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,...
Pocketful of Joy

Pocketful of Joy: The Hip Flask Manifesto

A hip flask is a container for liquor like a Molotov cocktail is a bottle for gasoline. If you've carried the former or hurled the...

A Is For…

Have you ever noticed that every great drinking story begins with the same word? This word takes you from Point A to Point B of...

A Sot’s Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare

The Tortoise and the Hare (And the Dog That Never Bit Him) One day the Tortoise woke up and looked out his window and saw a...

Prankster of the Gods

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. —Horace People drink for lots of reasons— escape, relaxation, to catch...

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...

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