Tag Archives: beermas

The God Of Beermas

Several years back one of the guards at the diamond exchange was drinking on the job. Joe had a Bud for breakfast. He drank another two on his coffee break. His lunch consisted of six beers. According to his calculation Joe consumed 15-16 beers during the course of a day. Finally his doctor advised Joe […]

Drunkenfreude

Last year Susan Cheever entered the ranks of prohibitionism with her entry in the NY Times DRUNKENFREUDE. Her glib mangling of the classic German term ‘schadenfreude’ meaning taking joy in the misery of others opened with a 10 year-old tale of a woman’s heavy drinking at a Christmas party then shifted into an observation that […]

The Longest Night

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Beer Heaven

Lunar Twin Eclipse

There was a lunar eclipse of Gemini on 11-28-12. I was born under that celestial star. The full moon should have some effect on me. I drank with my good friend and landlord of the Fort Greene Observatory at Mo’s and Mullane’s on Lafayette Street. We had more than one beer each, so I experience […]