Archive for the ‘Love’ Category
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Love, Mark Alberto Holt, Mexico, My Friends, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
More fun and frivolity with TasteTequila.com at the S.F.T. Bar in Sayulita, my town by the Sea. Grover and Scarlet shot this great video about what’s the best Tequila to pair with food, and posted it on their great Tequila site, and you can see it and their site HERE.
In my humble opinion, what Tequila [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
White is the color of my true love’s Tequila
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Blancos, Love, tequila
Growing up in 1980’s northern California, and being a good time rock-n-roll sort of fella, Tequila represented a number of things to my crew. It represented the truest way to get drunk - “liquid cocaine” we called it, no less. It represented the drinker at his roughest - the hardest of the hard, a toughie, [...]
Welcome to the Tequila Journal…
Posted by Gabbi "El Pulpo Negro" | Filed under Love, Mexico, My Friends, My life, tequila, the S.F.T. Tequila Bar
My name is Gabbi Villarrubia, and I like to drink. Like is a soft word in a hard world to describe my love of drinking, and even though my world is far from hard, I like to soften the edges with a drink. Often. Though I would comfortably say I like all sorts of drinks [...]
