Talkin' Shit About A Pretty Sunset

Not gonna elaborate so much, but I had to call the tow boat recently. Luckily, I'd bought unlimited towing insurance for $125 and got $...

This is essentially a dead blog, but I was browsing through it for nostalgia just now because I'm homesick (and a little drunk) in a ho...

I've been to Indonesia half a dozen times and it's the only country I've been to where the food is consistently terrible. During...

I have a reoccurring dream that during times when I need to be alone, I escape my house and drive across the city into one of the dirtier pa...

I spent last weekend sailing my boat with two good friends. We left at 9pm on Friday and ended up at Tilghman Creek on Saturday at 4am. ...

Well, I failed in getting Lady GaGa to have a beer with me. She just arrived in Taipei, where I am right now, waiting for the flight out tom...

One drawback of living in DC is that lots of people here don't appreciate stories about catching fish, especially rare and legendary spo...

I'm in India for the third time in my life, trying to get more business going. My company has been exporting to India for four years now...

Here's a video of a recent fishing trip 6 of us took out of Norfolk VA in the Atlantic Ocean. Right now, you cannot keep rockfish caught...

My neighbor gets carted away in an ambulance every month. And his sickness is drinking too fucking much, not lupus or cancer. This is the gu...

My lady is taking my boy to Michigan to see my in-laws this weekend. That type of weekend is rare, and a call to go on the sailboat, have th...

I just spotted this banner outside a clothing store a few blocks from my house. Love it: It's supposed to be a play-on of the Spanish wo...

My go-to station now is Hot 99.5 FM (DC). That's just the state of my music today. And I have 'No Apologies' (as Curt Kobain s...

Poachers of Chesapeake Striped Bass are destroying the Bay. Shawn Kimbro has an eloquent post describing this shit.

For two years my friend Jason has been patiently reminding me that to be a true sailor I should *fucking read* Master & Commander by Pa...

One thing I love about having a basement bar that all my friends love is that they often bring me little gifts to adorn the walls or add to ...

I never thought this would happen in 20 years, but I have to make a major revision to my original 'The Right Way to Make a Martini (The ...

I recently emailed my business associate in Iran, Ali, to see how he's doing during the latest anti-government protests in Iran. I am ...

My latest favorite cocktail to make at my home bar is the Blue Blazer -- a cocktail that dates back to the famous 19th century bartender, Je...

I still think most Americans are clueless about how close we were to the edge of a cliff after Lehman collapsed. You really see this in th...

There's an email exchange going back and forth with some people I work with about this article on "urban agriculture" in Cuba...

Thank god people like this exist -- a group of four anarchists who bought a derelict boat and sailed from Florida to Dominican Republic. The...