To me when it comes to Vodka, its all about Red Bull and Vodka. A drink that makes you feel good and keeps you partying all night. But when you're making a Red Bull and Vodka make sure you use cheap vodka, because it's a sin to waste high-end vodka in a mix drink. If you spend the dough on something like Stoli, Ketel One or Grey Goose then be a man and drink it straight up or keep what you mix with it to a minimum, think of James Bond and his martini. I can't stand people who waste good vodka in their cranberry drinks or screwdrivers, when a $5 bottle could easily do the same job.

USA's #1 Poison

With 28% of the liquor market, Vodka, is the unquestioned King of Booze in America


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Bloody Mary

     Perhaps the only drink that's acceptable for a man to drink that has a vegetable hanging out of it, maybe because he's usually drinking it before noon, the Bloody Mary is a mixture of vodka, tomato juice, Tabasco, and Worcestershire sauce that symbolizes the ultimate hangover cure.

     ALCOHOL and its intoxicating effects are more than one way responsible for the rise of America. Take a look at how the founding fathers drank first and pioneered second.


Thomas Jefferson

     Jefferson certainly discussed ideas for the Declaration of Independence with friends and associates over alcoholic beverages. He even wrote parts of it in a tavern, with a glass of wine next to his ink.


George Washington

     Alcohol, at one time, played an important role on Election Day. Washington lost his first bid for elective office (to the Virginia Assembly) in part because he didn't buy enough booze for voters. Two years later, he won with the help of 144 gallons of rum, wine and beer.


Ben Franklin

     Franklin wrote about the ill effects of alcohol, but remember, this is the same guy that tied a key to a kite and went out playing in a lightning storm - clearly he got shitfaced. He was concerned with excess drinking in the colonies, but he never had any objections to it himself.


Abraham Lincoln

     During Lincoln's stint in the White House, the American temperance movement was starting to get fired up, but Lincoln supported a man's right to drink. He regarded abstinence as fanaticism, and therefore evil, and before freeing the slaves, Honest Abe freed people's inhibitions with his liquor license and ownership of several taverns.

(Source: "The Spirits of America" by Eric Burns)

The Westmont Theater Westmont, NJ

     Steven Spielberg, yes Steven "E.T." "Close Encounters..and all those other cool movies" Spielberg credits seeing "The Greatest Show on Earth" at the Westmont Theater in 1952 at the age of five as what inspired him to become a director. The young Spielberg lived in Haddonfield while his father worked at the RCA building in Camden, New Jersey. Yeah, Camden actually use to be respectful back in the day.


Steven Spielberg

     But just think about it, this small theater in south jersey in some way played a role in the history of motion pictures. What if this theater didn't exist in 1952 and the young Spielberg didn't go to the movies, would the "Summer Blockbuster" or the way films are made today be the same?



     The Westmont Theater opened in 1927 and began showing silent films. Back then every Sunday a 120-piece orchestra would perform along with the film playing on the screen. The theater closed during World War II, but reopened in 1949 when it was renovated into a 1,200-seat first-run movie house. But ironically, the movie icon who was destined for greatness because he saw a movie at the Westmont Theater might actually be the cause of the theater's demise. Because with the birth of the "Summer Blockbuster" thanks to a movie called "Jaws" the movie industry and movie theaters began to change. Theaters expanded from just 1 to 2 screens to massive multiplexes that could hold anywhere between 12 to 24 movie screens. As the times changed The Westmont Theater however did not, and in 1986 the curtain fell and the doors closed on this New Jersey landmark.