Category Archives: drinking

Cúchulainn

Now you’ll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
And they’ll take you from this dump you’re in and stick you in a box
Then they’ll take you to cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you’ll stick your head back out and shout we’ll have another round
At the graveside of Cúchulainn we’ll [...]

Crime

Sixty-nine people witnessed a crime today and did nothing. I am drinking vodka tonics, what are you drinking?

Harry’s Bar

My pal, Meghan, and one lone commenter, sent me this story about Harry’s Bar in Venice;
Hemingway haunt gives discounts to “poor Americans“
By Philip Pullella
Mon Apr 7, 12:40 PM ET
ROME (Reuters) - Harry’s Bar, the famed Venice watering hole where Ernest Hemingway held court over hearty food and stiff martinis, is offering a discount to “poor” [...]

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Drinking

I wish I could drink more. Drinking is fun. Working is for suckers.

what I drank

This fine heated afternoon I have decided to drink Tanqueray and Scweppes tonic. ‘I’m Lolita and this here’s Tanqueray,’ as she said on Beavis and Butthead. I have also dropped a few Collins Stuffed Queens olives into the mix. I am not sure if you are supposed to put olives in a [...]

what I drank this morning

Today I am drinking Captain Morgan’s and lime Coke. I know, it is a marketing ploy. Alas, I was too damned lazy to cut up limes to put in my rum drink, and so, thought, ‘hell, those bastions of Americana coca-cola bottling company has done this for me, and let’s give it a [...]

what I drank this morning

Todays first candidate for imbitation is a wine called Red Bicyclette from the vin de pays d’oc winery. It is a fine white wine, and very good when chilled. I drank this bottle of wine accompanied by three camel straights. Afterwards, I thought if you are not handling snakes you [...]

what I drank this morning

The first drink of the day is a jack and coke. I put four ice cubes in a tumbler and enough jack that they float comfortably, and add some coke, then garnish with a camel. This is also the second drink of the morning. The third drink of the morning is similar, [...]