How to throw a solid Halloween party
When it comes to Halloween, it’s not the most exciting time for adults. Children are excited as they get to collect massive amount of candy,…
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Reflecting our collective fears
Halloween is a time of year that is surrounded by darkness, fear and celebration. Witches, ghosts, bats and vampires are all popular images that symbolize…
Real-life witches that don’t celebrate Halloween?
When you think of Wicca, do you imagine a really weird pseudo-religion that involves creepy ladies surrounding a bubbling cauldron, tossing in human eyeballs and…
No Shalloween for me
When searching for Halloween costumes for myself and my teenaged daughter, the vast majority of costumes I find in stores and online for women and…
From Dracula to Twilight
Today, vampires are sissies compared to what they used to be. I love classic vampire flicks, Bela Lugosi as Dracula or the rodent like Count…
Wine is happier when it has a friend
Foodie snobs the world over have made the average Jane nervous about hosting dinner parties, or ordering wine in restaurants and subjecting themselves to the…
Lucky fuckin’ Lager
“Let’s get some Lucky Lager and howl at the moon!” – Brad Pitt as Early Grace in Kalifornia. Yeah they call me Lucky, what the…
Aspiring to intoxication
There is perhaps no better way to legally distort reality than with alcohol. For some — OK, for many — it is the social lubricant…
The gin and tonic
I am the gin and tonic. If you are drinking me you probably enjoy my cool, crisp refreshing taste, perfect for hot days and stuffy…
Mistakes of a 17-year-old rummy
When I was a 17-year-old kid, I would carry around a 10 oz. flask. It was a little metal flask made out of either tin…