As I did last year, I spent Christmas with my girlfriend’s parents in central Maine. Central Maine, while it has many advantages, is not drinking country. In fact, Maine was the first state to prohibit alcohol sales and manufacture, in 1851. While Prohibition is long dead (and we recently celebrated Repeal Day with appropriate vigor [...]
Archive for December, 2008
holiday cheer
Posted in Random Drinks on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I’ve gone off the idea of progress, it’s over-rated”
Posted in Rants on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are very few things about which I agree with Jonathan Miles, the erstwhile New York Times writer responsible for their seldom enlightening “Shaken and Stirred” column, but a bewildered column from a few weeks ago, about the increasingly weird attempts to be original coming out of New York bars these days, struck a chord. [...]
MxMo XXXIV: Spice
Posted in MxMo, tagged applejack, eggs on December 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So, to be honest, I pretty much started this blog to participate in Mixology Monday. Why? I’m thinking my reasons lie somewhere in-between a desperate bid for validation and, um, something that is less pathetic! Woo. Anyway, I am all kinds of excited, and hope my drink is cool enough!
This month’s theme is Spice, which, [...]
hangovers
Posted in Rants, tagged rambling on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At work, bored, with a headache that I don’t think is actually alcohol-related. Shocker, I know.
Why does everyone seem to think that hangovers are made worse by sugary liqueurs? Ted Haigh, a man who I admire as a very god among mortals, repeats this piece of urban-legend trash in today’s article on White Russians in [...]
