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  • Of Hulk Hogan and Outlaw Bikers

    Author’s Note: I am not a patched member of a 1% motorcycle club.  I have no affiliation with any said club, nor should any connection of any kind be inferred.  I do not speak for any motorcycle club…only for myself.  There are many different clubs, chapters of clubs, and individual riders in this world, each…

  • A Dish and a Bottle #2: Trailer Park “Chopped”

    A DISH AND A BOTTLE #2: TRAILER PARK CHOPPED Let’s talk about being poor.   Anyone who’s been on the grind has had those nights where that evening’s menu was determined by whatever random ingredients you happened to already have on hand…not because you wanted that stuff (and not because you came home shitfaced and…

  • A Dish and a Bottle: #1

    Although I am a professional drinker by trade, I more broadly consider myself to just be a glutton.  A glutton for “the things”…ALL the things…the things that we love…the things that make life amazing…the things that are the reason working people grind at jobs they hate for less money than they deserve…THOSE things. And for…

  • The Most Embarrassing In-Person Purchase I’ve Made Since Porn (In 1991)

    “Since dignity is no longer a consideration for me here at Target, why don’t you give me two boxes of Preparation H, a liter of sex jelly, a box of Franzia Fruity Red Sangria, and that copy of The Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits on vinyl.” My father texted me to let me know that my…

  • Finding A Needle (In A Haystack Of Sh##y Wine)

    “What kind of wine do you want tonight, honey…Snoop Dogg or Martha Stewart?” It happens to ALL drinkers, no matter your specific area of expertise.  You walk into an unfamiliar liquor store and they have a really great selection of ONE thing, just not the thing you actually came to buy.  You end up standing…

  • Where Eddie Wasn’t Dead

    “You’re a musician, Marcus…tell them I’m right about Roth being a badass and Hagar being a dog shit taco.”   Every generation of rock and roll fans has its music beefs.  Little Richard or Elvis Presley?  The Stones or The Beatles?  Machine Gun Kelly or death by seppuku?  But perhaps the most contentious of these…