Drink Like the Dickens!

It's odd how smells can come back to you after years and years. Now and then I walk into a room and realize that it smells exactly like ...

I spoke in the post about egg-hot how much I like Mr. Micawber, the suicidal bon vivant from David Copperfield . Micawber is dirt poor, i...

Dickens giving a dramatic reading of his works. Here we have a drink encountered not in Dickens's novels, but in his letters. Whe...

The   Pickwick Papers  is a romp through a lost world of cobblestone alleys and country roads leading to bucolic towns where they still pr...

Kevin Smith's first two films, Clerks  and Mallrats , hit my generation pretty hard. Mallrats  was a box office flop, but everyone I kne...