Perfect Manhattan: [link]

Me neighbor makes a pretty awesome one. (This is the same neighbor who has, at last count, 14 different kinds of bitters in his bartending cabinet. He is a very good neighbor.)

I need to read more Neal Stephenson.

Cap'n and Coke

Made me think Cap'n Crunch.

I went through a Captain Morgan phase. Occasionally, I would have too many and start bellowing "YOU AND THE CAP'N MAKE IT HAPPEN" every time I got a new drink. I still say it sometimes, just more calmly.

(This is the same neighbor who has, at last count, 14 different kinds of bitters in his bartending cabinet. He is a very good neighbor.)

Yum... I'm definitely intrigued by all the different kinds of bitters but am not yet at the level of being able to mess around with them. I'm still trying to get solid on the classic combinations. We have 4 kinds of bitters: Angostura, Fee's orange, Peychaud, and maple.

Occasionally, I would have too many and start bellowing "YOU AND THE CAP'N MAKE IT HAPPEN"

Guerilla marketing at its finest.

I need to read more Neal Stephenson.

A character spends three or four pages calculating how long it takes for Cap'n Crunch to get soggy. It's awesome.

But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard -to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

Occasionally, I would have too many and start bellowing "YOU AND THE CAP'N MAKE IT HAPPEN" every time I got a new drink.

Ahahaha!

Let's see. I don't like beer (cheap or fancy), I can't drink any alcoholic drink with fruit juice because it gives me a nasty stomach ache (WOE!!!!), I'm not really a fan of red wine, I still have vodka PTSD from two years in Moldova... and y'all begin to understand why my go-to drinks are bourbon and ginger beer if they have the latter, and Jack and coke if they don't. Or white wine, which I drank a lot of this weekend as the best alternative to all the (free)(shitty) beer.

and y'all begin to understand why my go-to drinks are bourbon and ginger beer if they have the latter, and Jack and coke if they don't.

It's that or moonshine.

Occasionally, I would have too many and start bellowing "YOU AND THE CAP'N MAKE IT HAPPEN" every time I got a new drink.

Guerilla marketing at its finest.

Ahahaha!

hmm, maybe they'll have the captain at the F2F.

It's that or moonshine.

There's actually moonshine in my fridge right now, but it's my roommate's. I'm sure she'd share if I asked.