I should go to this!
(via 2012 West Coast Mustache & Beard Championships | Stumptown Stash & Beard Collective)
Ok, people go to this and support my friends Don and Lucas. I can’t be there because my lame brother had a kid a couple of years ago and now we have to get together and celebrate the birth of that kid and the ripping of my brother’s wife’s vagina (Yes, that shit rips).
So please go and tell me all about it so I can be jealous.
Happy Birthday Henry!
Just… Staggering
Actual comment from a CNN.com article on the budget stalemate in Congress:
“part of the reason that the top 1% has so much wealth is nanny state mentality that the democrats are pushing on us. Get rid of that and the wealth will spread out more.”
I just… I mean, how do you respond to something like this?
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a sadist. No matter sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
The discussion at Reddit that goes with this is illuminating, and worth your time.
My Corpse Reviver #2
Based on the original recipe from Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail Book. The Cocchi Americano is the closest available thing to the the original Kina Lillet, which went out of production in the 80’s. Also, I like Grand Marnier better than Cointreau, but feel free to use that instead.
- 1 oz gin (I like Martin Miller, Westbourne Strength)
- 1 oz Grand Marnier
- 1 oz Cocchi Americano
- 1 oz lemon juice
- 1 or 2 drops absinthe or pastis (I like Lucid Absinthe)
Combine, shake with lots of ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with either a slice of lemon peel or a cherry (I’ve used both).
Enjoy!
About me
Technomad, Creator of Art (in the very broadest sense of the word...)
