Friday Finds - Drunkies

This Friday Finds was going to be about gifts you could get for gay weddings and/or baby showers. My friend Mark just found out he will be adopting a baby in a few months with his partner Richard and I saw some cool rock n roll glbt friendly baby gear here on 4th st. at Lil Devil's Baby Boutique. But my search led me down a dark path. I typed in "gay" and "baby" and got some weird porno sites for gay guys that like to act like babies and wear diapers. I then learned way too much about diaper kink community acronyms. I decided to go back to that Finds plan sometime later...

So, change of course, and now today's finds are all about the bar, which I can say I know something about!

Flask Holster, for when you're taking a trip back to those speakeasy days. $45 for a real leather holster custom fit for your thigh, ankle, whatever. You get a flask in it too! By Radjuli

Say you have kind of a lodge theme going on in your rumpus room. You need these moosey shot glasses. $30 for the pair at Bestow Boutique


I don't know about you, but I think those silicone ice trays are way more trouble than their worth. I mean, that shape better be freaking awesome because you are going to spend 10 minutes breaking them out of their little silicone prison. I'd make an exception for these Space Invaders trays, $12 at Urban Outfitters

Uncommon Goods has a few good ideas.

The pool ball bottle stopper is a decent $30, but you could definitely recycle an old set of pool balls that maybe have seen better, rounder days by affixing them to a stopper with epoxy.

The Vietnam era munitions case wine bar, however, is $300. Kind of steep.


For $35 you could get instructions on how to build your own from scratch, along with a few other plans from Readymade magazine's store.

But you could also salvage a vintage or antique wooden box and mount it if you are crafty. Just be sure it isn't so old that it falls off your wall!

This dry bar is super sweet and the plans for it are cheap! For $5.99 you can buy plans for this beauty at Curbly.

How best to decorate your bar? I would try to steer clear of the typical bar fare, such as French ads for martinis or paintings of bottles of wine. A lot of people have that. Why not try and frame photos of your favorite bars or the watering holes of your idols?

You could try the White Horse Tavern, host to Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Anais Nin, James Laughlin, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara.

The Algonquin, home of the famed Algonquin Round Table that consisted of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Harold Ross, Harpo Marx. Little known fact? Dorothy Parker took her little dachshund everywhere. It was probably at her feet under the table!

Long Beach's own Reno Room was a haunt of Charles Bukowski's

M and his friends love the Mission Bar in San Francisco. Urban Outfitters has a mural based on an Aaron Morris photo of the bar (it's not credited correctly in the description, but you can trust a drunk like me to know that bar when I see it). M. bought me a 16x20 photo from Morris' website as a birthday gift. It hangs above our bar cart now!


If you aren't a drinker, well then, sorry, I don't know how to communicate with you. Hopefully it's just a temporary thing?