Prohibition! January 17th, 2014 @ 5:36 am PST
It’s the 94th birthday of Prohibition! The Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, took effect on this date in 1920, a year after it was ratified. Congress passed the Act even though President Woodrow Wilson had vetoed it. It made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal. It took almost 14 years before the 21st […]
#FridayFive: Favorite Drinks November 1st, 2013 @ 3:56 am PDT
Read the Friday Five …Cats, Whiskey, and Papa October 1st, 2013 @ 12:39 am PDT
Ernest Hemingway Taught One of His Many, Many Cats to Drink Whiskey
#FridayFive: Los Angeles Bars March 22nd, 2013 @ 7:53 am PDT
Read the Friday Five …To Have and Have Another November 2nd, 2012 @ 7:15 am PDT
How to drink like Hemingway
Contains Quinine May 3rd, 2011 @ 9:05 pm PDT
Because I’m a man that enjoys a good G&T, I occasionally find myself buying bottles of tonic water. The chances of me ever pouring myself a glass of simply tonic water are only slightly higher than the chances of me ever pouring myself a glass of creamed yak milk. I’d never drink the T without […]
#FridayFive: Favorite Places to Drink Beer May 14th, 2010 @ 4:49 am PDT
Read the Friday Five …Zima: RIP November 26th, 2008 @ 8:51 am PST
To Coors’ horror, Zima proved most popular among young women — a demographic that, while generally fond of getting tanked, just doesn’t have the same thirst for hooch as its male counterpart. And once the ladies took a shine to the stuff, the guys avoided Zima as if it were laced with estrogen. from The […]
Big Boobs and a Liquor Store January 10th, 2003 @ 1:46 pm PST
Best thing I’ve read that someone else blogged because they read it in another blog’s comments in a long time: “Call me enlightened but I don’t care what a woman looks like as long as she has big boobs and owns a liquor store.“
Alcohol January 20th, 2002 @ 3:41 am PST
I found a great feature at the New Scientist on alcohol: Everything you ever wanted to know about the stuff but were too drunk to ask. link via Looka!