I’m back on the wagon as of today — this time for a 3-month stint. This may be the last alcohol-related post for a while:
>> Cocktail Recipes for the Recession from The New Yorker. “Long Island Iced 401(k): Put hopes in shaker. Add dreams. Shake until dashed, then drink all the vodka, gin, tequila, and rum left in liquor cabinet.” (via kottke)
>> Binge drinking: Not sexy. Strangely, this study seems to assume that women drink to impress men. Writes Judy Berman in Broadsheet: “Pardon my sarcasm, but didn’t we learn, just a few months ago, that women’s binge drinking could be blamed on the excesses of feminism? And now we’re supposed to believe that ladies are overdoing it at the bar because they’re trying to impress their dates with unseemly levels of intoxication? Well, which is it? Are we drinking because we’re liberated or because we’re oppressed?”
>> A review of Bonterra Vineyards 2007 Zinfandel. “The strong taste of the blue cheese was exactly what this wine needed to bump it up to something noticeable. It ended being an excellent complement to my grilled blue cheese burger.”
>> Earlier: I drink because I’m tragically intelligent and well-educated.
Update: Blame it on the juleps. In the 1842 letter, Edgar Allen Poe apologizes to his publishers for drinking too much: “Wallace would insist upon the juleps, and I knew not what I was either doing or saying.” Earlier: My own private E. A. Poe
Photo by jeffsmallwood
The Poe thing reminds me a bit of Danny Devito after he showed up drunk for his appearance on The View (which I still think was a limoncello product placement)
When you are choosing wines, avoid ones with plastic corks. The cork producers chose Rob Schneider as a celebrity spokesperson, but please don’t hold that against them.
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Comment by Martin — March 14, 2009 @ 3:57 am