Intoxicology

I'm sure that when your 9th grade guidance counselor asked you: "So, little Johnny/Kevin/Karen-what do you want to be when you grow up" You absolutely answered: "I'd like to work in the most dysfunctional place in the world where alcoholics and drug addicts burrow in and never leave. I'd like to clean up metric tons of vomit, and give psychotherapy and divorce advice for free, and I'd especially love to be berated by a full on jackwagon of a 'general manager' who got his associates degree in business administration from his local junior college and drives a Dodge Stratus. I really want to eat standing up, chain smoke-standing up, sleep-standing up, have sex in the bathroom stall -standing up, and cry in a walk-in cooler when I get overwhelmed. I really want to lift and pull things twice my weight and super-punch soda syrup boxes until my knuckles bleed. I would like to also-cut thousands of lemons with those same bleedy knuckles and raw palms from...

Six Days in the desert! Six days have passed, and it has been six days since I left you hanging on part 1 of movie cocktails. Your thirst is great. I get it.  Fear not, loyalists and sometimes readers-I have not left you for good. I'm back.  I had a very busy week of family gatherings, my husbands birthday, his music gigs, and other odds and ends. Apologies for being scarce.  But....life. It always has a way of catching up to you.  I'm going to try to pump out at least three posts this week, because this coming weekend is going to be pretty packed with family stuff also.  Where is the Bond Martini?! Where, I ask you?! For this is surely the most known and special cocktail to ever grace the screen.  Keep your pants on-PLEASE-no one wants to see that. Well, unless you happen to be Henry Cavill-in which case-strip at will, son. ;) Anyway, no worries...we will get to the Bond effort. Read along, and your wish will come true. The fairy Grandmother of crafty bar-...

I lied.  Sorry. This post will not be about pairings-as originally declared. I decided I need to do just a bit more research on that, especially the wine varietals-first. We tenders-I mean, the professional ones, are lifetime learners. And while we may act like we know EVERYTHING about-everything, we really don't. (Don't tell anyone that I told you this-I will be banned for life from the secret society of bartenders and my life could be at risk)  We have hooded cloaks and cookies. Of which, I appreciate both. Don't compromise me.  Thankssomuch.  That said-the post today is going to be the first of a two-part series and a fun one. Mimicking The Joker-"Why so serious?" And also, using a movie quote-is apropos to our subject, which is.... MOVIE COCKTAILS.  Sitting around a fire with some friends a day or so ago, celebrating the big patriotic day-we got to talking about cocktails-while drinking cocktails. Weird, right? (Yes, even me...I had a little Cap'n in me-u...