Archive for the ‘Wisdom’ Category
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 [...]
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. [...]
