March 24, 2004
What? No Cold Duck?
Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: King Tut Drank Red Wine, Research Reveals.
December 17, 2003
October 03, 2003
Pre-Cocktail
Melusine and I can certainly get into the most curious and involved of conversations in email sometimes.
While our latest email conversation is probably FAR too curious to speak of much in a public post, there was this silly frivolous bit at the tail end of our emails this morning that I just felt like extracting and posting.
Call it whim. Call it thirst. Call it Ishmael.
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ME: .... Do remember -- I'm not intrinsically optimistic by nature, so if I say IT CAN BE SURMOUNTED, it can be surmounted.MELUSINE: Heh! I know -- and I have watched you surmount many seemingly oppressive situations!
ME: Let's make up a new cocktail concoction and call it the SURMOUNT. What should be in it, do you think?
MELUSINE: Now THAT is the most stimulating drinking concept I've heard in the last few dozen weeks! We shall ponder -- and then we shall concoct -- and then -- we shall QUAFF!
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Recipe forthcoming. After the pondering.
November 16, 2002
Today is the 50th anniversary
Today is the 50th anniversary of Irish Coffee's invention.
Saw this article this morning.
I knew about the drink having been invented at the Buena Vista in San Francisco -- used to work across the street from the Buena Vista years ago. But I had no idea before that there was on record an actual date of inspired mixology.
So, in tribute, I popped out to the corner store, bought a bottle of Irish whiskey, and made this little celebratory beverage "still life" pictured here:
A little Irish coffee and a little trivia is a pleasant way to start the morning (as long as I do not instead dwell on everything else that I noticed in the news this morning, that is).
Hmm. Three or four of these drinkies could probably aid me quite well in not dwelling. But as tempting as that sounds, can't indulge in that as I've got some other things to attend to today. Drat. And more drat.
As for any tendency towards dwelling, I could try to follow the advice of one of Oscar's lines:
"Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain."
But I'm not sure I could believe that wholeheartedly without really, really dwelling on it. Not to mention a whole lot more whiskey in my coffee ...
But what the hell. I'll take a stab at it this minute.
Joyous Irish Coffee Day. Cheers!
uh-huh.
February 12, 2002
Need more coffee?
Need more coffee? Of course, you do.
Just stumbled across this spiffy article on the history of coffee:
Coffee a Historic Drink
