Tales of Unspeakable Taste

My first author photo. Whenever I talk with a friend I haven't heard from in a while, as I did recently, they inevitably say something a...

[NOTE: I wrote this last night and thought I'd posted it. However, I was also high when I wrote this, and by the time I realized I hadn...

  And hello to the cast. I woke up at 3:30 am this morning to get the fucking cage removed from my bad foot. When I was in preop I was advis...

  Yesterday I found my motivational bottle of whiskey. There's maybe a quarter-inch of booze in there, and I'm guaranteed not to dri...

 It's been three years since my last drink. Not bad for a guy who, if he put in the effort, could down a handle a night. More often than...

 It has been two years and 262 days since my last drink. Recently I almost fucked my streak, so maybe moving into the hotel isn't changi...

 It has been 2 years and 195 days since my last drink. A few people have started to notice that I don't say "I've been sober fo...

 For the past few days I've been getting ready to take this mantle up again, and I thought I'd jump right into politics before Janua...

 Printers Row: Please don't make me get sick before I go. Authorcon IV: Please don't make me get sick before I go (or even while I...

My first author photo. Of course I'm drinking.  The leap year threw off my two-year anniversary of not drinking, so this is the actual d...

 When I was a child I thought I would live forever. And then my best friend died, and Mom explained death to me in a way that perhaps no par...

 It has been a year and 321 days since my last drink. Looks like I might actually make two years! But drinking is a bit of a phantom limb fo...

 It's been one year and one hundred and ninety-three days since my last drink. You know me. In that time I have consumed a lot of books ...

 It's been one year and 179 days since my last drink. Booze has been on my mind lately. Not just because I had an exceptionally shitty d...

 I've heard it for years. "If you really want to lose weight, quit drinking." And I said it time and again: "Drinking kee...

  It has been one year and ninety days since my last drink, and it finally happened. I was wondering when it would happen due to my habits b...

 It's been one year and forty-seven days since my last drink. Today I decided to visit Gramps and Grandma, so I stopped by Williams Liqu...

In case you missed it on my social media I did, indeed, make it to one motherfucking year without booze. This calls for a celebration! WHO...

 As you can surmise from the title of this column, I am at the 364 day mark of my non-alcohol life. One year ago tomorrow I went to detox an...

Shortly after Gramps died I decided that my new Christmas or New Year ritual would be smoking a cigar and drinking scotch in commemoration o...