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,...
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
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...
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,...