Living Loaded

by Dunn, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780307718471
• ISBN10: 0307718476
• Edition: Original
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-02-08
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Summary

Many people drink, few do it professionally. My name is Dan Dunn and I consume alcohol for a living. Thatrs"s right. I get paid to run around boozing, carousing, and getting into all manner of trouble, all in the name of covering the "adult beverage beat" for one of the most iconic brands on the planet, Playboy. I hereby invite you to join me, as I conduct "revealing" hotel room interviews with porn stars in LA; go Zip Cat racing in Scotland with Stifler from American Pie; turn the notoriously posh Pebble Peach Wine Tournament into the opportunity for a 3-day bender (thank God for my trusty voice recorder); enjoy whiskey-fueled romantic encounters in alleyways behind East Village watering holes; get forcibly removed from a boxing match at a Vegas casino (thanks to an unfortunate misunderstanding involving lots of liquor, and the flag of Cuba); get dumped by my stripper/med student girlfriend (mid-lap dance, no less) simply for not being "husband material;" wake up naked on a big-shot Hollywood producerrs"s living room floor; and learn, the hard way, why NEVER to order an Irish car bomb in a Dublin pub. Along the way, Irs"ll share with you the hard-won wisdom from a life lived loaded, including how to amass a kick-ass collection of bar memorabilia, to how to be Yankee and survive bars in the sticks, to how to maintain the perfect buzz during air travel. And for those of you really serious about cocktails, Irs"ve even included 16 original recipes createdjust for this bookby the world's best-known practitioners of the mixocological arts. You can thank me later. A bawdy barroom confessional that leaves no shot glass un-shot, no beer un-chugged, no potential paramour un-hit-upon, this is the most entertaining and honest book about the Drinking Life ever written. At least, ever written by me.

Author Biography

Dan Dunn is the incorrigible if slightly wobbly fellow who pens the enormously popular “Imbiber” column for Playboy Enterprises. A long-time journalist and raconteur, his work has appeared in GQ, USA Today, Maxim, and the LA Times.  Dan is a weekly guest on the Playboy Radio Morning Show on Sirius/XM satellite radio, and former staff writer for the Emmy-nominated Talk Soup. He lives in Marina Del Rey, CA, with his many demons, and is survived by countless ex-girlfriends, his mother, dad, three brothers and two sisters… which would be true if he were dead. Dan chronicles his adventures at www.theimbiber.net