Modern Drunkard Magazine

At age 13, Charles Bukowski took his first drink. “It was magic,” he would later write. “Why hadn’t someone told me?” It was the beginning of...

Societies possessing a robust and realistic attitude toward intoxication have produced mightier warriors than those which censure consumption. This is true pretty much from the...

Rick. Rick, get up. Hunh? What time is it? It’s 6:30. You have to make your tee time. Are you crazy? I feel like there is...

Every dedicated drinker knows what they’re really doing it for. It’s not our health — it’s training. You know what I’m talking about. Some freaks...

October 1 The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and world-class drunkard Ed McMahon debuted (1962). Hi-yooooo! Bourbon in a coffee cup. 2 Groucho Marx’s Birthday (1890)....

The Andy Griffith Show is widely considered one of the most innocent and endearing television shows of all times. Yet drunkenness and moonshining were major...

The Perfect Buzz: The Essential Guide to Boozing, Bars, and Bad Behavior David Bramwell 144 pages HarperResource A wise old man once told me, “If you are...

If you are any kind of drunk at all, you’ve dreamed of owning your own bar. I mean, just picture it: You’re standing there in...

The dogs are barking at the sky And old John Antonia stumbles out of the bar. He’s had too much wine But he’s old and today he’s...

Foreign travel and booze were made for each other. Why? Because alcohol is perhaps the single most effective means of bringing together people of different...

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...

I squinted into the white-hot sunlight of southern Africa at high noon. Before me was a black, mud-brick shack with a roof made of bound...

And why so much? Just where the hell do we get off getting loaded all the time? Do we really need a reason? In...

Who's the greatest boozer of all time? We’re close to finding out. The first round of the semifinals was settled last month, with a young...

Gift Tips Whenever you open a non-liquor gift, loudly proclaim, “Oh, great, how the fuck am I supposed to drink this?” They'll know what to get...

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...

“It’s the men who cry in my paintings.” And it isn't hard to see why they might resort to tears, if not sheer terror. Bearing...

The path of the boozer on the move is beset on all sides by the scrutiny of dabbling sippers, the casual cruelty of protruding...

Trudy Burnstein may call herself the Defense Minister of The Womyn’s Prohibition League but her organization is decidedly on the offense. Since its incarnation...