Category Archives: Drinking

A MAN OF SPEED by Peter Nolan Smith

June 16, 2013 – 11:23 am

Father’s Day has complemented Mother’s Day since 1910, although the holiday was unofficial for decades and Americans treated Father’s Day as a joke, until LBJ proclaimed the 3rd Sunday in June Father’s Day. Six years later Richard Nixon made it. I recall giving my father a tie on several Father’s Day. As I passed the [...]

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Hang-Over Cure #1

June 12, 2013 – 9:03 pm

This cure comes from the WORST CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL CALENDER. 1.) Avoid pills before, during, or after drining to excess. They will fuck you up worst than the hang-over. 2.) Drink lots of fluids. OJ and Tomato Juice contain potassium which handles the wobbly feeling of a good night’s drunk. 3.) Vitamins. A B-12 shot [...]

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BAD BOY DRIVING by Peter Nolan Smith

May 26, 2013 – 7:36 pm

In the fall of 1973 my college comrade Paul Deseret and I worked at the Hi-Hat Lounge in Brighton. The pay for busboys wasn’t much, but the girls were young, the drinks were cheap, and we could sell qualludes and mescaline at the bar. Neither of them were the best available in Boston, but we [...]

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El Phoenix Bar – Boston

May 26, 2013 – 7:15 pm

My friend Jorge posted this photo and I thought ‘pink elephant’. Only one place had one and it was in Brighton, Mass. In college I drank in a Commonwealth Avenue establishment with a mural of a naked woman riding a pink elephant over the bar. THe El Phoenix Room offered draft ‘ganseets at 25 cents [...]

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The First Words

May 9, 2013 – 8:46 pm

The University of Reading in England has determined that two dozen words have survived the fifteen millennium since the end of the recent Ice Age such as “You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the [...]

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