I don’t know how I found this book, but somehow while freezing on the train platform in Tokyo on New Year’s morning, I located this little gem. I started to read it on my phone, as I stood huddled in a train car trying to not get elbowed by too many hungover locals on their way to see family. I’m told by a coworker that it’s a tradition in Japan. First you get hammered on New Year’s Eve and then travel to see your family […]
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” – Mark Twain
Like many attorneys musicians men humans, I like drinkin’ ‘cause it’s fun. I am adept with beer, malt liquor, gin, rum, absinthe, the occasional fermented millet drink, and moonshine. Sadly, however, the drink that I wanted to love more than any has eluded me. That, friends, is whiskey. Despite my many attempts to sip the amber nectar of my heroes of yore, I simply have not been able to stomach whiskey without quickly developing a sour stomach and a headache. It tasted like peanut oil. […]