All Alcohol is Bad for You, Until It's Not
Scientists can't draw a circle any better than a retard using his left hand. In fact, they're worse at it. He can at least make curves. Scientists? Their only tool is the straight line.
Topic
Drinking
A collection of 38 issues
BYCU: Bands that Sell-Out to Beer
Later addendum: John Densmore's excellent The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial is only $2.99 on Kindle.
5 Band Beers
1. Dogfish Head Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale (5.3% ABV)
2. Juice Runners Paloma Remix (5.9% ABV)
3. Hanson Brothers Beer
Five Reasons to Drink at the Bar
In the twilight of Western civilization, where the sterile grip of the left hemisphere has throttled the soul out of our culture, the pub stands as a defiant outpost of human connection against the gnostic tide.
The churches once held the line too, but many—mainline Protestants, Jesuits, and their
A Local Bar is a Good Place to Be
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a splendid ode to local bars last week
[https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2022/01/09/A-good-place-to-be-A-local-bar-can-be-more-than-a-place-to-get-a-drink/stories/202201090022]
. Two people, neither from Pittsburgh, recommended it to me.
It's the type of thing that could only be written by someone with a Catholic
How Many Beers Does It Take to Find the Tao?
C.S. Lewis would’ve said “zero.” It’s the Tao that helps you find the beer.
It is Nature, it is the Way, the Road. It is the Way in which the universe goes on, the Way in which things everlastingly emerge, stilly and tranquilly, into space and time.
Parliament Created the 18th-Century’s Great Gin Craze
“[N]oe sort of Brandy Aqua vite or other Spirits or distilled Waters of any Kingdome Country or place whatsoever shall after the said foure and twentyeth day of August be imported into the Kingdoms of England or Ireland . . .”.
If you read the Wikipedia entries about England’s Great Gin
Waiting for the Biggest Bar Night of the Year
💡BYCU from 2021
“The waiting is the hardest part.”
Tom Petty
#blackwednesdaysmatter
It sits there. Five days away, the biggest bar night of the year, two years removed from the last one.
Black Wednesday.
I will have the traditional BYCU Special Edition next Wednesday.
Today, I wait. I’m itching
Hand Me a Gallon of that Vodka and Mountain Dew
Here’s something obvious that I never brought to the surface of full consciousness: a cocktail must, you know, taste like alcohol:
A cocktail “must have sufficient alcoholic flavor.” Even the simplest of cocktails like a vermouth cassis must taste of alcohol. If you don’t like the taste of
Drunk and Driven
My pursuit of drunken perfection (humor)
I’m thinking about becoming an alcoholic. Beer and wine are my favorites, so I’ll drink a lot of them. I don’t like hard liquor, but I’ll drink it if that what it takes to realize my ambition. Unlike some people
I Spent Wednesday Evening with a Bottle of Gin and a Pile of Old Magazines, Wasting Time on a Stupid Task
It was a delightful waste of time.