On the night before I departed to Viet Nam I was sitting in my squad bay all alone except one other guy from Kentucky that I didn’t know. I was a Marine about to head into the worst part of the war in 1968. I was never a drinker as a teen because I was into the whole hippy thing and preferred pot and wine so that’s why I wasn’t out like the rest of the guys drinking on my last night in the homeland. Read More…

Ever have one of those mornings where you wake up to your alarm not fully understanding where you are? Then you realize that you are in your own bed. You feel ok, but for some reason you can’t walk straight. Then you walk downstairs and there are bodies everywhere; live ones. So you say, “did I get drunk last night?” The answer is simple; uh, YES! Read More…

I have so many stories in the genre of “being entirely too drunk,” but I will probably just share them one at a time with the website to maintain hilarity. The first one I will tell happened with me and my former best friend when we were living together. We used to clear out handles of Captain Morgan over the weekends, just between the two of us. Read More…

(Names have been changed to protect the innocent.)

There are few people who will ever know the joy of standing in their yard at 3:30 in the morning, shocked sober with your shoes in your hand and semen on your feet. I am one of those people. Read More…

New Orleans. Uniquely American and yet universes apart From the blandness that is also what we know as America (Cheerfully fake waiter: “Welcome to Shenanigans, can I interest you in some Shrimp Shooter appetizers with fat fuck sauce?”) The city is real, with a rich history and lives honestly like others among it: simultaneously full of promise and trouble. Read More…

So, my mild-mannered woman says to me: “Honey, some friends from work are going to get a few drinks when our shift ends, can I go?” Read More…

To fully appreciate what I’m about to tell you I must ask you all to travel back – back to a

time when Brittany Spears was teaching us all in true schoolgirl fashion to just hit it baby

one more time. Read More…