This post is dedicated to my one true friend, who will always be beside me, guiding me through the pitfalls of life and helping me to achieve my highest potential. I speak, of course, of alcohol. By choice I drink single malt scotch, but that can occasionally (read: pretty much all the time) be beyond my meager budget. When I can't afford the 18 year old Highland Park, and don't feel like drinking a lot of beer, I turn to the mixed drinks for a quick and tasty drunk. I compiled a list of drinks that I thought sounded good, and here they are. In no particular order. I've made up names where they were missing, and I've edited for consistency a little bit. But not a lot.
If you feel like playing a game, see if you can guess the six names I made up. Email your answer to drinking.contest@gmail.com. There is no deadline, but there's only one winner: the first person to get it right. Obviously. If you get it right, I'll take you out and get you hammered. There are some caveats here, though. I'm not leaving Vancouver to do this, so if you're out of town you have to come here. Or Winnipeg, where I'll be for a couple of non-consecutive nights towards the end of March. Just to be clear, I'm willing to pay for your drinks until you can no longer drink. Ideally I think we'd be looking at some mild alcohol poisoning on your part.
The Tipsy McStagger
2 shots vodka
2 shots Irish creme
1 shot butterscotch schnapps
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Doin' the Dew
4 parts Mountain Dew
1 part Cinnamon Schnapps
1 part Butterscotch Schnapps
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Los Irish-Canuckian
Kahlua
Bailey's Irish Creme
Canadian Club
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Flaming Rum Sunrise
1 shot Tequila or Rum (or 1/2 shot of 151)
1 dose grenadine
Glass of OJ
Bacardi 151 on top
Pour tequila in OJ, hit it with the grenadine (will sink) and then float 151 on top. Light and serve. The sooner you blow it out, the more hammered you're going to get.
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Tucson White Trash Classic
Open a bottle of Corona and take a quick swig. Pour in enough Bacardi Limon to refill the bottle, do the Thumb Over the Top Upside-Down Bottle Mixing Trick and enjoy. The added bonus is that you won't be the resident fruit-in-the-beer weenie.
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Hiroshima
1 part everclear
3 parts sake
Splash of your strongest sours
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Drumk
1/3 dark rum
1/3 kahlua
1/3 ginger ale
Serve over ice.
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Mind Eraser
1 part kahlua
1 part vodka
1 part club soda
Put in glass of ice in that order, they layer quite nicely.
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Master Shake
1. vanilla ice cream
2. vodka
3. kahlua
4. reeses peanut butter cups
5. ice cubes
Blend.
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Redheaded Slut
* 1 1/2 oz Jagermeister
* 1 1/2 oz Peach schnapps
* Fill with Cranberry juice
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Flaming Bob Marley
in layers:
Peppermint schnapps
gallino
grenadine
float of 151 or higher
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Tie Me To The Bed Post
Malibu
Amaretto
Peach Schnapps
Southern Comfort
Pineapple
Cranberry
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Negroni
1 part gin
1 part sweet red vermouth
1 part Campari
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El Presidente Margarita
8 oz margarita mix
1 oz El Presidente (or generic) brandy
1 oz cointreau (or triple sec)
2 oz tequila
Shake with ice and strain into a salt-rimmed glass.
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Sour Oligarch
1/2 Bacardi 151
1/2 Rosa's Lime Juice
Splash of Sprite
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Aaadriaaaan
2 oz spiced rum
4 oz bourbon or rye
4 oz heavy cream
1-2 oz spiced simple syrup (see below)
1 very fresh egg
Shake hard with ice, a minute or so to incorporate the egg. Pour into cocktail glasses, dust with fresh nutmeg. Enjoy. Repeat. This amount will make two medium sized drinks.
spiced simple syrup
Put 2 cups sugar, 1 cup water, orange peel, star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, &c. into a smallish saucepan. Heat over medium low heat, stirring, until the sugar is dissolved (15 minutes or so). Turn off heat and let cool. Strain.
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Hydrolic Pancake
2 Part - Kahlua
1-2 Part - Irish Cream
1-2 tbsp Maple Syrup (or to taste)
Fill with Coffee
It's too late now, jackass
As we look forward to our very own rightish wing government, I feel that a few words about this are called for. To begin with, I'd like to lambaste the non-voters. Who the hell do you think you are, 36% of Canada's eligible voters? And where were you yesterday? Flu? Out of the country? Car broke down? What I'm getting at here is that in Canada we take our government for granted. We say things like, "It won't change my life that much", or "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos".
Well I've got news for you. It will, and I voted for Kodos too. Didn't seem to help much. Even if we had proportional representation, Kodos wouldn't have enough seats in parliament to have a real voice anyway. All I have left to cling to is the fervent hope that having a minority government will hamper the more rabid elements of the Conservative party.
Welcome to our brave new world.
Well I've got news for you. It will, and I voted for Kodos too. Didn't seem to help much. Even if we had proportional representation, Kodos wouldn't have enough seats in parliament to have a real voice anyway. All I have left to cling to is the fervent hope that having a minority government will hamper the more rabid elements of the Conservative party.
Welcome to our brave new world.
Merry Fuckin' Christmas
It snowed last night here in Vancouver. The snow was light and fluffy, and it reminded me of time spent well with friends and family. I stayed up quite late playing in the snow, slept for a couple of hours, and showed up two hours late for work. My shoulder hurts, my head hurts, my feet hurt, my legs hurt. This is why I don't play in the snow any more. It's fun while the snow flies, but the aftermath is just too much for me.
Stolen hats
I hesitate to have two photo posts in a row, but this was just too good an idea to pass up. To those of you whose hats I have stolen over the years, may I say; word.
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