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'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 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...
Bout 5: Jim “Lizard King” Morrison Vs. Carson “Keep ‘Em Coming” McCullers
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...
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...
Liquor and the Law
When people disagree with the actions of others — let’s say tippling in this case — they work to catch the ear of the...
Drinking Along The Nile
We human types have been scribbling history for perhaps 5,000 years, but we’ve been making fermented beverages for at least twice that long. The...
Strange Brews: Jeppson’s Malort
I don’t know how many countries actually signed the Evil Booze Nonproliferation Treaty of 1903, but we can safely say it was a total...
The Finals: Gleason Vs. Bukowski
Who's the greatest boozer of all time?
Sixteen supreme drunks dove into a sea of booze eight months ago, bent on determining exactly who should...
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...
The Dry Piper
William Wilson was, by his own account and those of others, a degenerate alcoholic.
After a quasi-religious epiphany, he “cured” himself and went on to...
One Night in Barcelona: The Secret Underbelly of Spain’s Wildest City
We sat in the shade finishing our double bourbons as the matador delivered the coup de grace.
Less than twelve feet in front of...
In Praise of Day Drinking
Mention being in a bar at 7:00 a.m. and the average person recoils in horror as his mind conjures up images of an ancient...
Top Drunks: Keith Moon
Wild-eyed and soaked, a naked young man breaks the surface of the swimming pool full of party debris—bottles, pool side chairs and an…er, Cadillac—gasps...
Episode 1: Absinthe with Shorts McGraw
Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder and Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM).
Special guest: Shorts McGraw.
Featuring: Why...
Martini Madness!
The following account may startle you.
And it may save you from a horrifying fate.
In the 1950s a sinister new menace swept America. Spawned...
Crank Mail #1: The Ballad of Badaaaaass Billy Macdowell
It started innocently enough. A simple request for a link.
From: addiction
To: [email protected]
Subject: Add a link
Would you consider my site? http://www.voai.org.
Bill Macdowell Founder: William...
The Heroes Of Hooch
Few subjects have inspired artists like intoxication.
Some works celebrate sozzlers, propping us on a dais for a little while, displayed at our hiccupy...
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...













































































