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I haz a sad that I cannot invade with you guys.

Before: Gerald Clayton -- Two Shade Since: British Sea Power -- Valhalla Dancehall

Yay!

Was: Kenny Werner -- Lawn Chair Society Is: Ry Cooder -- Bop Till You Drop

Poor Brent

Although it means something quite different to Reks in other contexts , I am quite certain that at your age I never considered cellaring anything. Kids these days...

I found the World's Fair stuff way more interesting than the murder stuff.

That sucks Mike. I hate the phony "on the truck for delivery" reports.

Just beer and not too much of it because I was working in the evening.

It really would be cool. Claire likes the iTunes store and I refuse to use it. If there was an option of hi-rez I would definitely buy stuff there.

Zing!

I was literally just looking at recipes and wondering what Dinny used.

Maybe we can take a picture of Gene smoking a cigar with PS-1s and little round glasses on to see how close he can get to Bonnie's Freud.

Drinking another 21st Amendment Brew Free or Die! IPA. Beer night is a nice break.

Gene, you know better than anyone that I can swing both ways! Tonight so far it has been a 21st A. IPA and a Sierra Tumbler. Maybe I will add some plain spirits later, and maybe I will make a cocktail. Who knows?

99th Anvil List cocktail: Tom & Jerry using the Jerry Thomas recipe recited by Jim previously, although with a single egg, 2 oz of Zacapa and .75 oz of Maison Surrenne. Not bad, and not all that different from some of the other warm nog-like drinks. I need a pro to make one of these and see what it is really supposed to taste like. And 100 of 100 on the Anvil List: The Zombie or as the Stork Club Bar Book calls it, The Zombian Using Regan's Joy of Mixology recipe with an addition of passion fruit syrup because I bought it not remembering which recipe I was going to use: 2 oz anejo rum (Zacapa) 1 oz light rum (Appleton) 1 oz dark rum (Black Seal) 1/2 oz fresh lime juice 3/4 oz pineapple juice [1/4 oz passion fruit syrup] 1/4 oz apricot brandy (R&W) 1/4 oz 151-proof rum (Bacardi 151) Angostura bitters to taste (2 dashes) Shake and strain into a tall glass 3/4 full of cracked ice and garnish with mint sprig and fruit and a straw. Pretty tasty but I put in way too much lime -- read half ounce as juice of half lime -- and the addition of the passion fruit might be throwing it off a bit. Still tasty and potent! Here is the last drink of the list, up close and personal fin

Stagg rules. Here is what my last Anvil night is looking like:

Wire -- Red Barked Tree

It must be the 13th somewhere! Happy birthday John and have a great day today and tomorrow! Cheers!

Have fun with the new arm, Ari!

Thanks Tyler!

^This

Sorry about the unexpected and annoying expenses, V. Mayberry still has one fuse box in a closet covering some of the oldest knob and tube wiring in the house.

I like that muddler a lot. It is a good shape and very functional, but I wish the wood were denser and therefore had more heft. The Tap-Icer is the shizz. And remember -- vibrate -- don't pound! Good advice in many contexts.

That guy in the back looks wasted and grumpy. Anvil - 3 Hot Buttered Rum a la Stork 1.5 oz Jamaica rum (Appleton V/X -- still don't like this rum) 1 lump sugar 1 small pat of butter (unsalted) 4 cloves Pour ingredients into mug or old fashioned glass and then fill with boiling water. Meh. Warm and all that, but I just don't dig on the hot drinks for the most part. And then there were two.