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Every Friday we designate this weekend’s honorary drinker.  You know, like a parade marshal.  Except cooler. After last week’s holiday hiatus, we return with this week’s honorary drinker:  Eric Stratton.  Some people are Bluto guys.  Others are Neidermeyer guys.  A few people are even pants-less Donald Sutherland guys.  Me, I’ve always been an Otter guy.  [...]

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OnStar For Life

If you listen to the radio at all you have probably heard those OnStar commercials where they play live calls from people using OnStar in an emergency.  But, maybe you haven’t noticed the disturbing escalation of the emergency calls they are choosing.  That’s why they pay me the big bucks.  I notice these things. The [...]

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All The Filler Fit To Print

Entertainment columinsts can’t just publish continuous stories about Michael Jackson.  (Right? Please tell me it will stop.)  Sometimes they need to throw in a little filler.  Check out three of the latest entertainment stories that azcentral.com has picked up.  Beware, this is shocking stuff. Daniel Radcliffe Wishes He Was A Little Bit Taller.  No word [...]

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Every Friday we designate this weekend’s honorary drinker. You know, like a parade marshal. Except cooler. This week’s honorary drinker is Anthony Bourdain.  America’s crankiest chef and unrepentent smoker, drinker, meat-eater, and appreciater of the truly fine things in life.  Go forth and beware of vegans. “If some Birkenstock-wearing knucklehead driving around in a SUV [...]

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Ever Wanted Listen To “I Am The Walrus” Underwater?

Reports are that Michael Phelps will sign his first endorsment deal since photographs of him smoking “the pot” (as Katie Couric so lovingly refers to it) were released last year.  No, all you jokesters, it isn’t a new multi-year deal with High Times magazine, Captain Crunch, or Trails. The new deal will be with H20 Audio, [...]

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Every Friday we designate this weekend’s honorary drinker. You know, like a parade marshal. Except cooler. This week’s honorary drinker is Sam Axe.  When he’s not watching Michael Westen’s back or wooing the widowed heiresses of Miami, he can be found sipping a mojito or having a beer (or six) along the bars of South [...]

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It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (In 3.5 Billion Years)

Here at SoD, we celebrate the dark arts.  And, there is no darker art than Cosmology.  Which makes what I have to tell you all the more unsettling: The Earth is going to collide with Venus. Well, maybe.  Actually there is only a 1% chance this could occur — 3.5 billion years from now.  The cause of this disaster is [...]

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Every Friday we designate this weekend’s honorary drinker. You know, like a parade marshal. Except cooler. This week’s honorary drinker is Inigo Montoya.  Once upon a time, Montoya was a rising star –ambidextrous with the sword and the ladies.  But, he threw it all away down a bottle of rum.  That is, until a giant sobered him up.  In his [...]

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Every Friday we designate this weekend’s honorary drinker. You know, like a parade marshal. Except cooler. This week’s honorary drinker is Jasper Newton “Jack” “John” Daniel (when you know him as well as I do, you call him John).  A distiller, a life-long bachelor, and a “Who’s More Grizzled?” three-time champion.  Get a glass and [...]

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Delaware Gets Cool

Earlier this week the Delaware Supreme Court approved an ass load of awesome. Delaware’s high court ruled that the state constitution did not conflict with a bill allowing sports betting. The NFL, in an attempt to piss on the wishes of a state with no NFL team, argued against the measure. Delaware is the 4th [...]

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