Published on November 16, 2007
in Uncategorized.
If you have not had the pleasure of drinking a Manahattan, now, as cold weather sets in, is the time to indulge. This whiskey drink will warm your core.
Here are the ingredients:
2 shots bourbon
1 shot sweet vermouth
1 dash of Angostora bitters
1 marachino cherry
Mix with ice, strain into glass.
And feel free to deviate from the proportions listed here. Provided it tastes good to you and includes all of the above ingredients, there’s no wrong way to mix a Manhattan.
Caution: this drink is quite strong. Unless you imbibe frequently and/or have a hefty avoirdupois, limit to two if you plan on operating heavy machinery (a car, for example) afterward.
And be sure to ask for it “up” when ordering at a bar.
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Published on November 9, 2007
in Uncategorized.
After a long hiatus, Visionary Larry is blogging again. His mercurial comeback post covers “cyber communities,” which he claims to have invented. (Actually, he says he co-invented the first one with Al and Tipper Gore and Tipper’s college roommate, “this guy who called himself Shirley.”)
While the post starts off with an absurdist twist, the bulk of the long entry is Larry’s candid reflection on his late youth, seen through the prism of an evolving relationship with Facebook, the social networking site.
As we’ve come to expect from Larry, the post defies categorization.
Here are the two biggest news stories to come from the recording industry in the past week:
1. The indie band Radiohead decided to let fans choose how much to they’re willing to pay for their new album. The lowest acceptable price? $0.00.
2. A group of record labels successfully sued a Minnesota woman (a single mom earning $36,000 a year) for illegally downloading music from a popular file-sharing site called Kazaa. The woman must pay $222,000 in damages, which amounts to $9,250 per illegally downloaded song.
Photo (of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke) from Michell Zappa
Published on September 18, 2007
in Uncategorized.
Paul, Tom, Stanley, Maureen, David and others are now free from the TimesSelect prison!
Yay!
