No. 60 | Modern Drunkard Magazine

Choctaw Beer

Strange Brews: Choctaw Beer

Bartender's Burden

Bartender’s Burden

Wino Wisdom

Wino Wisdom: 60

You Know You’re a Drunkard When…

News From the Front

A Word to the Young Widow of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Frank Kelly Rich

June 24
It’s World UFO Day. June 24th was chosen because on this day in 1947 aviator Kenneth Arnold witnessed nine unidentified flying objects performing acrobatic stunts near Mt. Rainier. For the first time such an event would be widely reported, and the UFO spotting craze was on. So, is there a link between UFO sightings and drinking? There may be. According to a 2014 report which examined the 90,000 reported UFO sightings in the last 40 years, they tended to spike on Fridays during what we’ll call “The Drinking Hours.” The study tries to suggest that drinking is making people hallucinate, which as any experienced drink knows is nonsense. What’s much more likely is that after a few drinks, as we lift ourselves out of our workaday shells and raise our eyes upward and outward, we become more open-minded and sensitive to data that our straight-jacketed sober minds would suppress with rigid doubt and disbelief. Keep your eyes skyward, drunkards! …