Aware of being drunk

There’s this disconnected feeling I get at some point during a night of drinking… Sort of an autopilot sensation that my body and my conversation have gone on without my conscious oversight and that I’m playing catch up with myself. Let’s see… Fiona came home and needed to unwind, so we went to the pub. [...]

Wandering into an Adult Friend Finder Hookup

My buddy Don and I started drinking early that day… Well, actually, Don and his office manager started drinking REALLY early and I just kind of caught up in time to… well, catch up. The were at this dive bar near Don’s office that has an amazing selection of whiskeys — fill your card with [...]

Watching the Cougar Pounce

It’s a meat market… but they’ve got a great band. They play covers of 70′s hits like Freak Out and Earth Wind and Fire’s insidious song, September (ah di ah, tell me you remember, ah di a, dancing in September… Can’t get it out of my head once I think of it…) Fiona’s niece sings [...]

I’m not that different drunk

I come from a long line of mentally controlled people. Fiona refers to my father as Sarek, the name Gene Roddenberry gave to Spock’s father. My mother is a poet, so one might assume that I constantly struggle between my Vulcan and Human halves. But then, I think all men struggle between their beast and [...]

Regular Drinker

I think the last time I saw that bartender was two years ago. I mean, I like PF Chang’s just fine, but it’s more of the kind of restaurant I go to when I traveling — familiar food and a decent bar guaranteed, even if its soul is washed in the corporate waters. They don’t [...]

An Average Friday Night

Tonight was one of those basic Portland nights… I was working through this problem of how to manage clients and vendors with a web based application when Fiona texted me to say she was almost done at the salon, only the women who run the upstairs facial and nail faction were celebrating because they put [...]

A drunken ramble about drinking

Until the end of the 19th century, beer was the main beverage of choice for breakfast. We had that attempt at prohibition, but all that did was create some great cocktails. Then we settled into the 3 martini lunches… but somewhere along the line drinking became… bad. Yet, we’re still the same people we were. [...]

Male Strippers… and me dressed as Santa…

Let’s see… I was dressed as Santa and the drag queen show had just ended and that’s when the male strippers started their thing… But I should probably give some background. A friend of mine convinced me to go to SantaCon — if you’re not familiar with it, SantaCon is a bunch of people who [...]

Sex and The 300 Mile Rule

I need a new name for it, but there’s this concept I call “the 300 mile rule” where people get 300 miles from home and then fuck anything in sight. This isn’t limited to men (the radius is probably smaller for men), girls go wild on business trips and vacations. Part of it is probably [...]

Being “Naughty”

After our recent visit to the strip club I got to thinking about people “being naughty.” By being naughty, I don’t mean just doing something that’s outside the rules, I do that all the time. I mean people who have an almost childlike pleasure in doing something they know they aren’t supposed to be doing. [...]