Category Archives: Drinking

Beer As the Cure

October 13, 2012 – 10:00 am

BEER TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE SYMPTOM Feet cold and wet CAUSE Glass Being held at incorrect angle. CORRECTIVE ACTION Rotate glass so that open end points toward ceiling SYMPTOM Feet warm and wet CAUSE Improper Bladder Contro CORRECTIVE ACTION Stand next to nearest dog, complain about lack of house training SYMPTOM Beer unusually pale and tasteless CAUSE […]

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401-Keg Plan

October 1, 2012 – 5:15 pm

Retirement plans compared… If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Countrywide Financial, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000. With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left. If you had purchased Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac stock, you would have nothing […]

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Oktoberfest 2012

October 1, 2012 – 4:35 pm

Why did Doctor Nick instruct me to give up beer on the cusp of Oktoberfest? It’s a cruel world. <

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Oak Beach Inn

September 30, 2012 – 7:21 pm

In the 80s I would get on my Yamaha XS 650CC and drive out of Manhattan to Jones Beach. I’d avoid the gathering of sun-worshippers at the East Bathhouse and rode past the sand dunes bordering Ocean Parkway past West Gilgo and Cedar Beach to the Oak Beach Inn located across the inlet from the […]

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Annals of Drinking / A Few Too Many

September 29, 2012 – 7:24 pm

My landlord subscribes to the New Yorker. I read the magazine from time to time. Never all of it, but I cherrypick the articles and several years ago I was drawn to Joan Accocela’s THE ANNALS OF DRINKING / A Few Too Many, which was probably the best-written piece to be published in that esteemed […]

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