Intoxicology

  Recipes.  Yes, traveling the traverse of bottled up (pun intended) cocktail recipes that have been bubbling around in my brain before I host the most epic Halloween party known to man.  Yes, I'm being serious. My yearly Halloween bash is like a bunch of late 40 to early 50-something's acting like a bunch of frat party douchebags-slopping ranch dip down their ridiculously over-planned costumes and drinking too much-everything until someone pukes into their lapel and holds it there all night. We don't even know it happened until we wake up the next morning and the smell hits us. Febreze is the word of the day.  But... See, we're adults now.  So-we spend actual money on costumes and "things". We don't do the 21-year-old sheet with a belt toga, or plastic fangs and a black plastic tablecloth tied around your neck. Or the ever present at every party on a budget hobo with your girlfriends mascara stubble and a bandana tied on a stick.  Refreshments consisting ...

So, as I was doing some internet sleuthing for this very post...I asked the oracle (Google) for some info.  I copied and pasted this for your entertainment and I hope it made you laugh as much as it did me...which incidentally, left me with a room full of teenagers staring at me and my my maniacal laughter- (I wrote it in my 6th hour independent study supervision shift) Here you go: Me: Where does wine get its smell and taste from ?  Google: Wine Gets Its Smell from  the Grape Lordt.  Is it me? Or is the internet getting dumber? I mean...is it dumbing itself down to the level of average intelligence? Does it burp out information based on what it assumes we can handle? I cannot.  Wine gets it smell and taste from grapes.  Wow, I never would have known that without consulting you-oh wise and powerful oracle.  Anyway, to that end-I did find some worthwhile info-eventually, and with much more specificity. Strangely enough, I did find some things I didn't a...