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Bout 7: Ruth Vs. Faulkner & Bout 8: Bogart Vs. Martin
This installment completes the culling of the original herd of 16 super hoochers into a hard-drinking eight.
Last month we witnessed Charles Bukowski’s psychological destruction...
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...
Papa and Jinny
No one is certain where or when Ernest Hemingway began his long relationship with the tall silver flask he called Jinny, but a handful...
Modern Drunkard Survival Guide
HOW TO SURVIVE AN A.A. MEETING
1.) Do not make eye contact.
If you do, make sure your eyes do not flicker toward the flask...
Verbal Judo for Juicers
Why do you drink so much?
Circular: I’m trying to make up for your disgraceful lack of effort.
Compassionate: With the economy the way it is,...
Know Your Bartender
Bartenders are a special breed of cat.
They are more than mere dispensers of alcohol, if that was the sum of their worth they would...
Party Politics: How to Throw the Mother of All Wingdings
Contrary to popular belief, a party is more than a gang of people getting smashed in the same room at the same time.
Done...
The Booze And I: A Love Story
I first remember meeting her when I was three.
That night, she toyed with me, teased me until I reached out and grabbed her and...
Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Life I Learned from the Rat Pack
“It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don’t want that to die with me.”
—Frank...
Behind the Formica Barricade
30 Questions with Jack Yaghubian II, Master Bartender and author of the Dim Light Bar Guide
1.) What are five things anyone who walks in...
Bout 1: Hemingway Vs. Poe & Bout 2: Parker Vs. Welles
Who is the greatest boozer of all time?
If you’re like me, and I suspect you are, you’ve stayed up long nights, haunted by the...
Liquored Up in LaLa Land
Ah, yes, the City of Angels.
The city of high hopes and crushed dreams. The glitzy crucible where stars are forged, where Bukowski battled and...
King Con
Brian Brushwood practices a trade that could perhaps best be described as “benevolent deception.”
As the writer and host of Revision3's Scam School show, Brushwood...
Under the Influence: Denver Joe Vasquez, Drink Up and Be Somebody
The title of this article was first slurred into a microphone by Merle Haggard in 1967—but when I wandered into Denver’s Cricket on the...
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...
No. 40
Booze Heist! (Italian Edition)
A criminal gang in Tuscany just pulled off the kind of wine theft that usually only happens in movies. Over the...
Dr. Souse Is in the House!
1.
Did you ever think about drinks you could drink?
There’s so many drinks if you only just think!
Such wonderful drinks! Even drinks that are pink!
Or...
Boozing Through a Break Up
Well, here you are. It's over.
It's probably been coming for some time, but being the romantic sap that you are, you thought you could...
