The koudou (a.k.a. kudu, iqudu, and koedoe, pronounced KOO-doo) is a species of antelope in Africa. Male koudou hang out in bachelor packs for most of the year, meeting female koudou only during mating season. Occasionally Jews chop off their horns to use for wind instruments.

Unlike the vast majority of uninteresting koudou, the Drunken Koudou is a mythical beast whose legend begins in antiquity and reaches to the obscurest and most exotic corners of the world. Its speed tires the fastest Jaguar – the car, not the cat. Its meat rivals the finest Kobe beef. Its ivory teeth put pearls to shame. Some tales even suggest that the Drunken Koudou’s gullet is capable of producing gold from chewed-up shrubs.

This web-log chronicles the continuing journey of a group of adventurers intent on finding the Drunken Koudou, like Jason after his Golden Fleece or Hercules after the Cernean Hind. These adventurers have a wide variety of interests – tattoos, politics, music, coin tricks, Marx – but all are united in their search for the elusive beast. This is a story of courage, of eccentricity, of tedium, and of love. And of a lot of drunkenness.