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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! 8 Sep 2009 | 04:41 am
If there is one country on our pale blue dot that has done more over the centuries to wrassle its citizens’ drinking habits to the carpet and hog-tie ‘em, it’s Russia. And, time and again, no other co...
Freedom Isn’t Just Another Word 1 Sep 2009 | 06:00 am
Read a strange and disturbing thing at the bar the other night. (Yes, I’m the whack-a-doo who reads in bars.) Was making my way through an interesting tome called Booze by Craig Hebron, a Canadian wit...
What the Hell? 20 Aug 2009 | 01:36 pm
I love drinking in Denver, and have always believed that this city has produced some of America’s foremost drinkers. I mean, you don’t get voted “Drunkest City in America” three times unless people ar...
My Favorite Bar 24 Jul 2009 | 05:38 am
Every drunk worth his gin blossoms has a favorite watering hole, a special spot that succeeds, for him, on all levels. It’s a home away from home, a room-sized recliner where his presence is as regula...
Man Tamer or Painkiller? 30 May 2009 | 12:22 pm
Bud 1950 I detect a pair of divergent messages here. Women will view Bud as a tool to get their men to don dainty white gloves and help out in the flower garden (he brought his pipe, so his masculin...
They’ll surrender to anything. 30 May 2009 | 11:20 am
And, in this case, who can blame them? I, for one, was not aware monstrous wild turkeys invaded France in the 17th Century. The fowl tyrant’s cruel gaze seems to have completely daunted the monarch, b...
Cocktail Sophisticates 23 Apr 2009 | 04:33 am
If you read enough of my various opinions/ravings/diatribes here, then you know my drinking predilections run toward the very simple. Not because I consider myself to be some sort of “man of the peopl...
Take Your Kid to the Bar 1 Apr 2009 | 06:41 am
American children receive almost zero education in the finer points of drinking, and of tavern etiquette, cocktail savvy, personal tolerance, etc., they rarely of ever hear so much as a word before fi...
It’s All About Etiquette 17 Mar 2009 | 08:10 pm
Off and on for the past six or seven years my home-base watering hole has been 3 Jacks Tavern in my home town of Denver. It calls itself a sports bar, but is a damnsight more than just that. With its ...
Freak Magnate 29 Oct 2008 | 03:50 am
I spend an appreciable amount of time in bars. They are my favorites spots to do research and write rough drafts. Bar life is conducive to creativity. Just ask Hemmingway, Dorothy Parker or P.G. Wodeh...
