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Stranahan’s Strides Into American West Mythology
One of my favorite Clint Eastwood Westerns is “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” Clint plays an outcast who, despite his best intentions to journey through life alone, keeps collecting an odd assortment of...
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Mythic Structure in Non-Fiction Storytelling. And Scotch.
“This whisky will set you back $700.” The whisky adventure is rewarded as Caroline and I enjoy our Glenrothes 1978 which retails for $700. The words still the chatter, the breath, of thirty strangers...
View ArticleSMWSA Offerings Turn Up the Heat in a Heatwave
To write about Scotch at this moment is counter to everything that my body is feeling. Los Angeles is mired in a heatwave and the temperature topped the 100 degree mark for the third straight day,...
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Whisky Live LA was a Rye Experience
Whisky Live LA was held Wednesday night in Century City. For me, it was more like Whiskey Rye, as that seemed to be my theme of the evening. With nearly 200 whiskies being poured, there was a...
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Vampires, Whisky and Writing Give My Book a Kickstart
“Vampires. Kinky sex. I should have had vampires and kinky sex.” That was the thought that stumbled into my head around 3:30 this morning as I tossed and turned with the half-conscious gauziness that...
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Independence in Writing and Whisky
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden “Independent” has such a strong, rebellious connotation that burns beneath the word....
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Unfiltered Whisky and Writing
Last week, I participated in an improv comedy show here in LA at the M.I. Westside Comedy Theater. The theme of the show was diaries. I was one of three readers who shared a passage from their secret...
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Whiskey and Democracy: Let Your Voice Be Heard
President Barack Obama, descended from Kentucky whiskey makers. On this day, when we inaugurate Barack Obama to a second term as U.S. President, I’m going to take a little time to get all political...
View ArticleThe Slog to Blog
“You don’t drink whisky?” Variations of that reaction have escaped my lips numerous times while meeting or interviewing people who work in the whisky industry. Not the brand ambassadors, of course....
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Whisky Live from the Other Side
I once had a girlfriend who always snapped at me, tossed things at me or punched me whenever she saw me looking in a mirror. Or a window. Or a silver metal object. Apparently, at that point in my life...
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