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Rummy Royalty

Modern Drunkard: You are a hobo, sir! Soup Bone: That I am. MD: An actual hobo. SB: That’s right. MD: But no ordinary hobo. You are...

Postcards from Skid Row #61

Full moon moonshine Drank got drunk stumbling beneath the blurry pair of pale faced moons. Sip your gloom away the screaming crowd cries swaying. Slouch down in...

Episode 6: Bourbon and Beer With Brian M. Clark

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder and Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM). Special guest: Noted libertarian misanthrope...

Come Fly With Me!

I Come fly with me, we’ll fly, we’ll fly away If you can use some exotic booze There’s a bar in far Bombay On September 30th, 1968, the...
Tippling Through Tempation

Tippling Your Way Through Temptation

It’s Friday night and the bar is crawling with feminine felines of every sort: The slobbering, the smashed, the cackling, the delirious, the insane, the...

The War on Booze

The War on Booze is nothing new. We're all familiar with the reign of terror called Prohibition. Going further back, temperance leagues have scolded and...

The Greatest Drunk on Earth: Andre the Giant

Do you have a favorite drunkard? Some amazing man or woman, past or present, who stands colossus-like atop the Big Keg, the ground below littered...

Drunkard Q&A

What's with the layout? It seems a little dated. A little dated? Try a lot dated. You can date it all the way back to...

The Home Bar Handbook

Everyone should have a bar in their home, and if you don't believe me, just ask someone who has one. Once he's done lording...

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...

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of...

The Qingdao Beer Festival Is Evil…

Qingdao (pronounced Ching-dao), is located in the northeast Chinese province of Shandong. The city of three million is famous for three things: sailing, meat...

I Busted Out of Rehab!

I kneed the guard in the gut and laughed as he collapsed like a dynamited bridge. He went down hard but managed to swing his...

Plum Brandy

P.G. Wodehouse— ”Plum” to his friends—is arguably the 20th Century’s finest writer of English prose. He was certainly the funniest. Most famous for his creation...

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 Faded Glory of the Martini Lunch

Winston Churchill, bolstered by gin martinis, outlasted the Luftwaffe. James Bond typically enjoyed a martini while on the clock, right before pummeling an extra into...

How to Ace an Intervention

It may have already happened to you. A friend or family member invites you over for a drink and suddenly you find yourself surrounded by...

What Extinct Tastes Like

I've never really been “into” Scotch. Scotch tends to make people make snooty noises, makes them swirl their drink and discuss the “bouquet of flavors,”...

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