Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Kassel Is Emasculated By An Empowerpuff Public Relations Morselette (And Brian Howlett)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

Ever heard of a cocktail called a Mint Julep?  How about a Mai Tai? Yeah; me too, so why is the publicist from Empower Public Relations sending me emails listing them among ‘Five Cocktails You May Not Have Heard Of’? … Continue reading →

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Beat The Muddles: Drinks from the Beatnik Generation

Posted on January 7, 2012 by

January 6, 2012 would have marked the 77th birthday of John ‘The Hipster of Joy Street’ Wieners, an influential lyric poet who was one of the lesser known writers of the Beat Generation. Like any self-respecting beatnik, Wieners was born … Continue reading →

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2011 San Francisco World Spirits Competition: The Best Booze in the Biosphere?

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

First, you mint a coin in honor of ‘Dirty Jobs’—that enchanting cable TV show that finds host Mike Rowe up to his neck in manure, leeches, cucarachas or bull semen in the Discovery Channel equivalent of a ‘Stay in School, … Continue reading →

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Calvados: The Apple of My High

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

Wherever mankind blazed his imperialist trail, booze soon followed.  Using whatever was fermentable, findable or farmable, liquor has been distilled by thirsty barbarians since the 2nd millennium B.C., taking any guise that propriety demanded: medicine, holy elixir, even fuel.  But … Continue reading →

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Why Bomb Iraq When You Can Get Bombed on Arak?

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

There’s aragh, the sound you make when you skin your knee, and there’s ouzo, which is what drips from your infected skinned knee when you fail to treat it.  Both are also the names of some distant cousins of arak—a … Continue reading →

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Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

When it comes to free-associating the term ‘barely legal’, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who imagine Miley Cyrus’s eighteen birthday party and those who think about absinthe. Long the realm of bohemian pre-rock rock stars—men … Continue reading →

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