{{Shir}}
Congratulations, Sean!
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Calli - Apr 11, 2010 3:04:44 pm PDT #15568 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
erikaj - Apr 11, 2010 3:43:40 pm PDT #15569 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I'd love having Batgirl in Congress. Tom Harkin's a great disability advocate, but he's no Barbara Gordon.
sj - Apr 11, 2010 3:56:24 pm PDT #15570 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Shir}}} I'm so sorry.
Sean! Go you! And yay for Italy even if it means not "meeting" you again.
DCJensen - Apr 11, 2010 4:24:45 pm PDT #15571 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
t wonders how hard it would be to make Buffista Peeps....
omnis_audis - Apr 11, 2010 4:52:17 pm PDT #15572 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
WindSparrow - Apr 11, 2010 5:04:13 pm PDT #15573 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
That's cute, omnis.
DavidS - Apr 11, 2010 5:15:29 pm PDT #15574 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Okay, the 209 gin makes a really, really tasty martini.
Steph L. - Apr 11, 2010 5:20:09 pm PDT #15575 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So, Hec, this is gin that's so fancy it has a number instead of a name? (I know very little of gin, since it is to me the devil's own drink.)
DavidS - Apr 11, 2010 5:34:41 pm PDT #15576 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So, Hec, this is gin that's so fancy it has a number instead of a name?
Correct. There's been an explosion in upper tier small batch gins in the last ten years, some by boutique distillers, some by established gin makers putting out a specialty item. So gins like 209, Tanqueray's 10 (another number), Junipero (by Anchor Steam), Aviation and Broker's would all be in this group.
There's also an interest in older styles of gin, like the classic Plymouth, and Old Raj which have very different feels on the palate. This is not unlike rediscovering older beer styles (Anchor Steam being one example).
Gins vary quite a bit in flavor, defined only by a neutral spirit infused by a certain amount of juniper (in the case of Junipero - a lot of juniper) and a bunch of generally "grassy" botanicals. Bright, herbaceous flavors.
I don't know if you'd ever come around to gin, but used in cocktails the flavors you don't like would be buried a bit, but adding complexity to the cocktail.
Not in a martini, though, which is just really cold gin and vermouth. And olives.
NoiseDesign - Apr 11, 2010 5:50:35 pm PDT #15577 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Sean, excellent work on the mentions in the reviews. That is really something to be proud of.