Miscellaneous: My First Written Words about McGilchrist. Plus: The Golden Hour and Abstinence
Written and published on December 19, 2021
Topic
Food and Drink
A collection of 574 issues
Gin, Gin, and More Gin
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Fields, concerned about rationing, took a hand truck to a liquor store and loaded it with six cases of gin. When someone asked him why he need 72 bottles of gin, he replied, “I think it’s going to be a short war.”
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I Don't Love the Nightlife and I Don't Got to Boogie (Published in 2020)
But I miss the bars: An Ode During COVID
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Samuel Johnson
Like Samuel Johnson and Alicia Bridges (see title), I like a good bar.
Brews You Can Use, Philosophy Corner, and a Short Story for Halloween
"The Necessities," E. Studs MulliganBooze Coke
I don't know if I'm surprised because it's Coke or because it's the first Coke
product with alcohol: Coca-Cola launching its first alcoholic beverage next year
[https://nypost.com/2020/09/29/coca-cola-enters-alcoholic-drinks-market-with-molson-coors/?utm_
Friday
BYCU
This was a heckuva coincidence. Thursday evening, I was flipping through vodka
cocktail recipes on my Kindle during timeouts of my kids' basketball games. I
saw a reference to walnut liqueur and thought, "Man, walnut liqueur. That sounds
nasty."
Less than 48 hours later, a TDE
Friday
Brews You Can Use
I didn't drink a whole bunch during the holidays, but I am on a diet with the
aim of losing twenty pounds (to get my weight to 165), so I need to watch my
liquor intake. No less a hard-core drinker like Kingsley Amis
Thursday
Regular TDE readers know I'm not a big fan of New Years Eve. Well, that's not
exactly accurate. Relative to Thanksgiving Eve, I'm not a big fan of New Years
Eve. Also, I'm more of a fan of New Years Eve afternoon,
Friday
My gift to you: The Holiday Tom.
It's my own concoction, though I know with virtual 100% certainty that it's been
made many, many times. It's not very complicated and it's basically the Tom
Collins made with vodka.
Here goes: 1/2
Friday
Some advice from Kingsley Amis' Everyday Drinking, with my commentary in
italics:
"If the red strikes you as thick, dark and heavy, feel no shame in cutting it
with the local bubbly mineral water; worth trying in parts of Italy and Spain."
I'm gonna have
BYCU
"The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both
make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink."
Kingsley Amis
This, of course, echoes GKC's "Omar and the Sacred Vine."
> Drink because