Archive for the ‘Drinking partners’ Category
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Sayulita, Tastings, events, tequila, the Sayulita Tequila Journal
Your friendly neighborhood self-destructive author, about to bust open his new bottle of Don Fernando T.K.O. - 40th Birthday, October 09
Don Fernando’s TKO Plata 100 x 100 is a unique tequila, and I don’t just mean that the bottle is a bright red glass boxing glove. Honestly, at first glance, this bottle comes across as [...]
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Tastings, mezcal, raicilla, tequila, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
Another rockin’ time at the S.F.T. Tequila bar here in Sayulita. More fun with Grover and Scarlet from TasteTequila.com, at the end of the day, with the famous skull and crossbones coke bottle booze (see my posting where we previously reviewed the Raicilla from this very same bottle HERE). In this bottle is Raicilla, a [...]
the S.F.T. Tequila Bar (in honor of our hometown bar)
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Mark Alberto Holt, Maximo, Mexico, My Friends, My life, bartenders, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
Mark Alberto and Yours truly behind the bar at the S.F.T., beholding and be-drinking the new batch of beauties!
My hometown bar, my fave haunt, my watering hole, the wood upon which I sit and drink, not to mention the best new international top shelf Tequila bar in Mexico (if not the world…) - the S.F.T. [...]
Mark Alberto Holt and The World International Tequila Conference
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Idol worship, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexico, My Friends, bartenders, events, tequila, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
(L to R) Mark Alberto Holt, the Fiend (me!) and Son, Maximo Lobo
I met Mark Alberto Holt in 2004 when we hired him and his restaurant, Sayulita Fish Taco, to host our rehearsal dinner for our wedding in Sayulita. We had heard from local friends of this great guy, full of life and character, and [...]
Tequila and Bourbon - 2 great tastes that taste great forever
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Bourbon, Drinking partners, Love, My Friends, Tastings, USA, Wisdom, tequila
“When I die, may the devils dancing on my grave have hearts full of fancy, songs full of madness, and glasses full of Bourbon and Tequila, spilling down onto the dirt above me.” - Me, today Sept 10 2009
My Father-in-law, the honorable Billy Stoops (Blues madman and soul-twangin’ leader of Junkyard Jane and Billy Roy [...]
“Don’t Try”
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Bukowski, Drinking partners, Idol worship, Love, My life, Uncategorized, Wasted..., Wisdom, bum wine
“The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.”
—Charles Bukowski, Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews & Encounters 1963-1993, 2003
My drinking life leads [...]
the Hawaii Tequila Journal
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Hawaii, Mai Tais, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexican Holiday, Mexico, My Friends, My life, USA, Wisdom, holidaze, moonshine, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
Welcome True Believers, followers and just plain bored and drunk friends/wanderers - to the first ever in a hopeful series of “the Journal on the Road“. Of course, as we are poor of money, but rich in spirit(s) - we can rarely afford to travel, so the next one in this series could be 4 [...]
In Honor of the evening drink
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Love, Mexico, My life, Uncategorized, Wisdom, wine
In a few weeks, my wife and I are taking the boy over to Hawaii. This is our first vacation since we moved to Mexico 3+ years ago, and we are stoked. Not that we don’t get enough beach time, but it’s a nice getaway, we get to hang with her family, drink tropical drinks [...]
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Love, Mark Alberto Holt, Maximo, Mexico, My life, bar photo, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
What’s our poison? Tequila for Dad, Titty for Maximo - S.F.T. Tequila Bar, 6/09
Before you cast aspersions upon me due to the picture above, please consider the following. I live in a tiny little Pueblo in Mexico called Sayulita. My town is all about family, and everyone in town knows my son Maximo. It is [...]
The right drinking partner is forever…
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Love, My life
I found my drinking partner years ago. Her name is Andrea Leigh Stoops Villarrubia, my wife, partner, best friend, baby-mama, you name it, she is IT. I had her name tattooed on my chest yesterday. Though our history is long, we married on May 23, 2004, which makes our anniversarry this weekend. I won’t gush [...]
Love your Bartender
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Wisdom, bartenders, tequila
If you are any kind of self respecting Drinker, you not only know your bartender’s name, but you think so highly of him or her, that their name could be the name you give one of your future children, Boy or girl… Yes, the relationship with your Bartender is paramount to a good drinking experience, [...]
Wisdom from behind the bar
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Wisdom, bartenders, tequila
I don’t just drink at my favorite bar, I listen… Mark talks. Here is some recent wisdom I learn and live by…
“With all the rush-rush in life, I have gone on a new campaign. “Sipping for a longer Life”
By slowing down, it lets a person relax for a moment and regain ones self. [...]
Sweet Sweet Tequila, the blood of Christ or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bottle(s)
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Drinking partners, Ed Schwartz, Mexico, My Friends, My life, Tastings, bartenders, events, tequila
I have had a long and fruitful love affair with alcohol. I often want to write about it , but hesitate, full of worry that my loved ones will see my affection for this bottled elixir in a wrong light. I don’t worry much, as a man of 39 years, well schooled in hard knocks [...]
