Exile in Portales

There's a LOT that might could fall in that category; this is just the latest: And what that means is that 1 in 3 adults drinks exce...

I coulda titled this piece "The Sunday Re-Run" but didn't.  But the fact remains: this IS a re-run.  Onward and upward... ...

Well, now.  This is rare: " The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy ."  A few excerpts: Not discussing the beneficial i...

... and a treat for deprived taste buds: That would be a half-dozen bottles of Bulleit Rye.  I got a call from the Cannon Class VI sto...

There's an interesting article in The Atlantic about the resurgence of rye whiskey over the past few years in these United States.  It...

Pete Townshend with an acoustic version o' " Won't Get Fooled Again :" I'm pretty sure I like Townshend's aco...

We're back to this again. Just in from yet another trip out to Cannon Airplane Patch to do the usual, customary, and reasonable thi...

... jiggity-jog.  I think that's how it goes, but memory ain't what it used to be.  But, yes... we're home after what passes fo...

OMG.  The unintended consequences of THIS photo had to be epic.  What a bevy o' beauties, eh?  I particularly like (??) the woman o...

So, we're just back in from a run out to Cannon Airplane Patch for to stock the larder and the likker locker... where we saw this: ...

Meaning the sort o' day where the folks from Shoebox have to step in and save my blogging bacon.  With this: What?  It's too ...

Late night entertainment on the last train home... From the Tube O' You description: Published on Jun 2, 2014 ...

A box of Partagas 1845s in the Double Corona size, along with a freebie... two Partagas-branded " old fashioned " glasses of a r...

We received a re-supply o' cigars in the mail late yesterday afternoon.  I had ordered a box o' one o' my favorite sticks... th...

Ah, yes.  THIS woman and Lordy, is she not SULTRY? I love the commercials wherein she flogs Dewar's White Label and have been kno...

This from yesterday's WaPo ... Bombay gin (Democrat) and Kahlua (Republican) are the only brands on this chart that are regular f...

Lotsa folks are linking Dave Barry's Year In Review ... or whatever ya wanna call it... so I guess I will, too.  It's funny but th...

We took our first beer and a cigar out on the verandah this afternoon, our first outdoor Happy Hour in ten days' time, or thereabouts. ...

Remember that frou-frou post I put up Saturday?  About egg nog?  Well, Martha Stewart has a take on that stuff, and it's pretty dange...

... but good! That would be our second Kahlua and egg nog o' the afternoon, which I'm findin' goes pretty good with Tom C...