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Issue 64 The Usual News from the Front Did You Know? Drunkard of the Issue You Know You’re a Drunkard When… Postcards from Skidrow Helpful Hints for Hoochers Wino Wisdom Beautiful Drunk Talk United Booze Federation Adventures with Alcohol Dear Concerned Cad Clash of the Tightest Redux Ask Dr. Buuz-Hund Sections How-To History Interviews Icons Fiction Travel Podcasts Politics Film and Video True Adventure Creed Prohibitionists Biography Bar Culture Etiquette Poetry Investigative Booze Cocktails Spirits Beer Wine Top Hits Archives Drunkard Gear Search Contact FAQ Change of Address Chat Board Video Brutal Hammer Podcast Our Rich History Newsletter Shop SUBSCRIBE Modern Drunkard Magazine Issue 64 The Usual News from the Front Did You Know? Drunkard of the Issue You Know You’re a Drunkard When… Postcards from Skidrow Helpful Hints for Hoochers Wino Wisdom Beautiful Drunk Talk United Booze Federation Adventures with Alcohol Dear Concerned Cad Clash of the Tightest Redux Ask Dr. Buuz-Hund Sections How-To History Interviews Icons Fiction Travel Podcasts Politics Film and Video True Adventure Creed Prohibitionists Biography Bar Culture Etiquette Poetry Investigative Booze Cocktails Spirits Beer Wine Top Hits The 86 Rules of Boozing Here’s Why Champagne Is Fucking Overrated The Fire Inside: The Great Drunkards and What They Drank Dead End Drinks Welcome to BoozeTown Archives Drunkard Gear A Brave New Dawn Stanley McHale Community and Freedom Colin Deal Booze of the World: All in with Ten High Bourbon Bryan Dent Bout 6: Mark Whiskeyboat” Twain vs. Oliver One for the Road” Reed Frank Kelly Rich In Praise of the Spritzer Sarah Szabo Today’s Reason to Drink It’s Baron Munchhausen’s Birthday. Now, if you’ve read the books or watched the movie, you probably think Munchhausen is a fictional character, especially considering the highly improbable adventures he got up to. In fact, the real Baron Von Munchhausen, upon whose stories the fiction was based, was born on this day in 1720. He was a German cavalry officer who served in the Russian Imperial Army against the Turks. Upon retirement, he spent the next 30 years getting drunk at aristocrat dinner parties and reciting highly-exaggerated tales of his adventures in Russia. He became so well known for his drinking stories that writer Rudolf Erich Raspe gathered and further exaggerated his adventures in a series of books, which quickly went viral, partly because Raspe placed this encouragement on the front cover, Humbly dedicated and recommended to Country Gentlemen; and, if they please, to be repeated as their own . . . in Watering Places, and other such polite Assemblies, around the bottle and fireside.” They were not the first viral tavern tales in human history, but they are among the best. Articles Drunkard of the Issue #64: Lydia Lunch Luke Schmaltz Lydia Lunch knocks a backhand of defiance into the face of the status quo like a shot of tequila spat into a gaping wound.... Postcards from Skid Row #64 Various Drinking in a Church Yard The idea is anonymity Or peace, As the dead only punch Their hands through the sod In the imagination Or the cheap seats I run... You Know You’re a Drunkard When… #64 Frank Kelly Rich Cenosillicaphobia is fear of an empty glass, and you’re getting damned angry at the snickering bartenders who find it amusing when you have a... Plastered Propaganda Poster 64: Smash the Nanny State Frank Kelly Rich Get a mini or large polycanvas poster right here. The Future of Boozing Frank Kelly Rich Two decades ago, this magazine squinted into the hazy horizon and coughed up a slew of wild predictions about the future of drinking. So, how’d... News from the Front Frank Kelly Rich Humanity stands at a crossroads. I’m not talking about the madness in the Middle East­—we’ve been doing donuts at that particular intersection for millennia—I’m talking... In Praise of the Spritzer Sarah Szabo As a woman, there’s not a cocktail on this Earth that I would feel any kind of shame for ordering. Blowjob shot? Hit me, I’m... Beautiful Drunk Talk #64 Frank Kelly Rich A Brave New Dawn Stanley McHale It is generally assumed that the drunk is an animal of the night. That we are to be found prowling the dark jungle of dives... Did You Know? #64 Frank Kelly Rich Community and Freedom Colin Deal Social media is a benjo ditch, an open sewer where gondoliers named Zuckerberg, Musk and Gates spend the day steering fancy Venetian canoes. Every day,... Booze of the World: All in with Ten High Bourbon Bryan Dent A True Bourbon.” That was once the emphatic claim of Ten High, back when it was a cheap but honorable straight bourbon whiskey. Today it... Welcome to the Nano State Frank Kelly Rich The Strange Case of PBR Bryan Dent Pabst Blue Ribbon is a beer of simple pleasures. It didn’t actually win a blue ribbon, but no one buys Pabst for its award-winning pedigree.... The United Altered States Sarah Szabo The United States of America” has always been a misnomer. States of America,” yes. United?” Well… In the sense that we’re all stuck together, that... The Ghost in the Machine Frank Kelly Rich MDM: Before we start, let’s have a Papa Doble. EH: Good idea. You and master bartender Constantino Ribalaigua Vert conspired this cocktail, didn’t you? At La... UBF Memo #16: What’s Booze Good For? Frank Kelly Rich Wino Wisdom: Issue 64 Various It’s not day drinking if you’re still up from last night. It’s second-wave night drinking.” Unknown gent, who probably spent too much time in school,... Tipping Points Luke Schmaltz A Blast from the Past Wealthy Americans adopted the practice of tipping as they traveled about Europe in the mid-19th Century. At the time, trans-Atlantic... Oliver Reed: Profile in Drinking Courage Joseph M. Boylan In the pantheon of history’s heroically great drinkers, there is a special place reserved for the British actor Oliver Reed. Reed’s alcohol consumption was truly... Modern Drunkard Video Choose Your Booze Update: Who’s Ahead in the Poll? 03:37 The 86 Rules of Boozing 10:00 Lesson 26: Infiltrating the Drys 02:19 What Fathers Really Want for Father’s Day 01:29 Without Alcohol Humanity Would Still Be Living in the Trees or Extinct 03:56 Columns and Regular Features Episode 12: Absinthe and Evan Williams with JT Habersaat The Boozer’s Bucket List The Updated 86 Rules of Boozing Bout 5: Jim Lizard King” Morrison Vs. Carson Keep ‘Em Coming” McCullers Under the Influence: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Whiskey Evangelist News from the Front: The Reverse Metamorphosis of a Dive Dive Bar Confidential Under the Influence: Charles Bukowski, High Laureate of Cheap Booze Know Your Booze: Evan Williams Bourbon Under the Influence: Denver Joe Vasquez, Drink Up and Be Somebody The Drinking Dead, Part IV: What Rough Beast Ask Dr. Buuz-Hund #62 Booze-Soaked Fiction The Director The Last of the Losers King For A Day Adventures with Alcohol Adventures with Alcohol: Genetically Predisposed Top 2020 Drunxpeditions Konyagi: Tears of the Lion All the Pretty Pictures United Booze Federation PSAs Martini Madness! Get That Ten High Smile and Other Vintage Ads That Seem... How To Articles Seven Habits of Highly Effective Drunks Boozing For Love in All the Wrong Faces The 86 Rules of Boozing: Rule 66 Drunkards of the Issue Drunkard of the Issue July 05: Scott Wexton, The Voodoo Organist Drunkard of the Issue, August 2004: Richard Cheese Drunkard of the Issue #54: Tucker Max Inebriate Interviews The Ghost in the Machine 26 Questions with Doug Stanhope Punch Drunk: An Interview with David Wondrich Clash of the Tightest Bout 3: Jack Kerouac Vs. Richard Nixon The Finals: Gleason Vs. Bukowski Bout 13: Hemingway Vs. Gleason & Bout 14: Bukowski Vs. Faulkner The Great Drunks Top Drunks: Keith Moon FDR: Portrait of a Drinking President The King Is Dead, Long Live the King: Dr. Hunter S... Historical Hooching FDR: Portrait of a Drinking President The Great Eggnog Riot Blood And Wine, Part One: The Lost Boys CHOOSE YOUR BOOZE Which liquor is going to...