Hey, I’m using one of the pay terminals in the lobby up here, so this’ll be a short update.
Link: Let’s go with another classic. I’ll start hitting you with more obscure sites once I have these basics out of the way, but for now, I just can’t take the chance that you’re missing any of the big ones. Ain’t It Cool is the big boss man of all online movie news, rumours, and reviews by people who aren’t more concerned with sounding snobby and smarter than you than with seeing a really good (or bad) movie. By geeks, for geeks, although I personally stay away from the “Talkback” section. Makes you wonder whether free speech is a good thing sometimes…
Drink Special: HAPPY LEAP DAY!! Today don’t count, do whatever the heck you want!! Free day! I found a “Leap Year” cocktail in one of my bar books: 1oz Gin (I used Tanqueray), 1/2 oz Triple Sec, 1/2 oz Sweet (Ross) Vermouth, 1tsp lemon juice. I cut the original recipe back from 1.5oz of gin after some feedback from the staff, and I threw a cherry in there for colour, style, and a bit more sweetness. I liked this one, particularly if you’re a gin drinker.
Well, I’ve got 3 minutes and 32 seconds left on my $2, so I’m gonna go check out some porn. Decide for yourself if I’m kidding. I love you all very very much.
Today around 2 in the afternoon, for no good reason whatsoever, I suddenly got in a really bad mood. A nice classic “fuck everybody” kinda mood. I hate everything and everyone, and I can’t figure out why. Most likely I was just hungry. Nothing more complicated, downside of the food service biz, gotta work while others eat, which means mikey hungry. equals bad mood. hmpf. blah. boo.
Amazing how much chicken tacos can improve one’s mood. yay.
Now how about those drink specials… today was Eric Lindros‘ birthday. Figured I’d go for something with rye again, found a neat looking drink called a “Blinker”: 1oz Whiskey, 1oz Grapefruit Juice, 3/4oz Grenadine. I used Crown Royal and called it a “SlapShot”. I kinda liked it, interesting combination of sweet (grenadine) and sour (grapefruit). If you got a rye fan around, give it a try!
Where do you get your news? No, I mean the REAL news… like “City Council decides gigantic peanut slab is not representative of their town” and “Miscreants make mischief, molassas mess slinging syrup at IHOP brawl”. Your new daily required reading: www.fark.com.
“MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEET!!”
“They’ve gone to plaid!”
Dangit, there are just too many good quotes! ok, seriously… I’ll stop now.
“You are ugly when you’re angry.”
stop.
“I’m a mog; half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend.”
heeheehee… ok, now I’m done.
“In a galaxy very, very, very, very far away there lived a ruthless race of beings known as… Spaceballs.”
This movie rocks.
“If you can read this you don’t need glasses.”
Link of the Day: Filibuster Cartoons. Political cartoons by J. J. McCullough of Coquitlam, B.C. (western province of Canada). He’s got a decent sense of humour, artistic talent, and besides, I prefer to get my socio-political news from cartoons as often as possible!
“We brake for nobody”
Drink of the day: Today was John Steinbeck’s birthday (it was either him or Chelsea Clinton). I remembered enough from high school english to remember that he wrote “Of Mice And Men“, so I managed to twist one of my favourite drink puns of the season so far: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go with RYE!” Needing a cool rye drink, I found something called “Danny’s Special”, 1oz Rye, 1oz Grand Marnier, 2tsp lemon juice, shaken, over rocks. Nobody liked it.
“BAAAARF!” “Pizza the Hut!!”
“Snotty beamed me twice last night. It was wonderful.”
“There’s only one man who would dare give me the raspberry… LONE STAR!”
ok, I’m out of here… otherwise I’ll sit here quoting Spaceballs all night!
Wow. This is cool stuff. Now I REALLY hate those damn koopas.
These are three (out of ?) Flash movies that are amazingly well done. Definitely worth the time of any classic SMB fan. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
I guess I need would need another week or two’s growth. oh well. at least I got a promotion! yeah, I’m not sure how that works either, but hey, a few extra bucks and the occaisional shift on the floor can’t hurt. too much.
OK, another new addition: drink of the day! I said I was a bartender right? Well, one of the things I enjoy most about the job is creating the daily drink special. Rather than just have a boring “rum-and-coke” type special, I try to offer something weird and wonderful that people likely will not have tried before. For inspiration and originality, I consult my favourite little bar-book (Mulligan’s Bar Guide) that has a section of celebrity birthday and cool holidays. For example, February 21 was the birthday of the pleasingly pulchritudinous and sublimely symmetrical Jennifer Love Hewitt. This occasion obviously required something sweet and girly. I couldn’t find a recipe that I felt suited Ms. Hewitt, so I had to come up with my own. Behold, the JENNIFER LOVE POTION: 1oz Raspberry Vodka (we use Stoli), 1/2oz Passoa (Passion Fruit), and 1/2oz Cherry Brandy. Pour into a hurricane glass (curvy, hourglass shape) full of ice, then fill with 7-up. Yes, very tasty. And if Ms. Hewitt should by some freak of fate ever stumble across this recipe… well as long as it can bring her some small measure of happiness I consider my work well done. Not that I would turn down dinner mind you…
Anyway, today, February 26, is the anniversary of the birth of of the original “Man in Black”: Johnny Cash. Now, I know I just said that I like to use interesting and original drinks, but today I couldn’t resist having a “Burning Ring O’ (Prairie) Fire” on special. 2oz of Tequila, and Tobasco to taste.
Something happened yesterday that’s either good or bad… whatever it was, today is different. So I’m growing a beard. At least until I get to work and they tell me to shave off my stubble because I look like a bum. meh. change is good.
I’m going to start sharing the links I read on a regular basis… some of them you will no doubt have heard of, many likely not. Let’s start with an easy one: PENNY ARCADE. The grand-daddy of all web comics and paragon of geek/gaming culture. “My wang has serious growth potential!” Find the context to that quote and I’ll bake you a cookie.
name’s Mike, I’m working as a bartender at a ski resort, slacking off for a year between working at an investments firm in a “big city” and going to law school in the fall. I’m old enough to feel old, young enough to be stupid, unprepared, scared, and mostly invincible.
as for specifics, anyone reading this that already knows me, knows everything about me that they need to, or they can bloody well ask me themselves. not like it’s difficult to find out pretty much anything anyone would want too anyways… but hey, what’s the fun in giving it all away for free?
as for what this blog’s about, I really don’t know yet… journal, diary, ranting, propaganda, journalism, literature… at the moment it’s just going to be random thoughts until I have something better to contribute to the unspoiled landscape of online publishing. Stay tuned.
hey, you gotta do something to keep yourself occupied… all work and no play make mike a dull boy… no tv and no beer make mikey… something, something…
a simpson’s quote. now THAT’S the way to start things off right. welcome.
