Category: Esoterica

This is the story of my last day drinking. It’s rather comical, I’m happy to say, unlike any number of last-day-drinking stories I’ve heard in the rooms over the years.

This is an odd one, a bit over my head, but it does have the best men’s cologne ad I’ve ever seen. She is quite intelligent and her analysis of the rise of social networks, esp. TikTok, and the popularity of perfumes is fascinating. The evolution of Chanel No. 5 over the past 100 years…

In this episode, we step back into San Francisco at the end of the roaring twenties, when bootleggers, blackhanders, and quiet Mafia bosses carved out invisible empires in North Beach. It was a time when the city’s underworld tried to keep its violence out of sight — but the headlines told another story. As the…