Archives for 2012

-Andrew Ramirez * It’s too bad. A few days ago my computer crashed and I watched two thousand words from a story I’d been working on go bye-bye right before my eyes. Very literally, my story became half the guy it used to be. At first, I tried dealing with it like it was just another relationship gone sour. I went for a walk. I toyed with smoking a cigarette at nine in … [Read more...] about Boy Meets Bar: A Half-Loss of Words

By A.J. Serrano I realize that only a few weeks ago I wrote about my feelings towards the Academy Awards but, my God, last Sunday's Oscar telecast could have easily been mistaken as a substitute for Somabien. The disastrous show simply cannot go unmentioned. An improvisatory drinking game proved to be the only reason I made it through the rotting sludge of weary-eyed … [Read more...] about Trailer Trash: Three Ways to Improve the Oscars

The other day I was making a list of all the drunk writers I could come up with. Bukowski, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Carver, Cheever, Chandler, Crews, Poe, Thomas, Thompson, Johnson….And hell, maybe it was just because I misspelled Kerouac so many times that I had all those scratch outs, but that list got so long it was off the cocktail napkin and right out the door in … [Read more...] about Boy Meets Bar: Heavy Weights

- by Megan Rilkoff. So we are almost officially halfway through the NBA season.  32 games down, 34 to go.  With All Star Week in full swing in Orlando, all teams are looking forward to a break -  some well-deserved and well-earned, some...well, looked forward to.  For the Celtics, we are definitely taking advantage of this break to regroup, heal, and rest while Paul Pierce … [Read more...] about Love That Dirty Water: Still Bleeding Green