Ok, it wasn't even that late when I left the bar tonight and went to McDonald's, so I can't even use that as an excuse, but I am totally confused by this.
I understand it's Fish and I understand they will take $1USD from me if I order this... but what do I get in return. Do I get 250 McBites? I think that may be a very good deal no matter how small the bites are. Or do I get 2/12th's of a McBite, in which case I would be disappointed and slightly peeved they just didn't name it The 6th. And since when do we describe food with a series of numbers and slashes?
I may never know, but it may just be America's answer to £1 fish.
Thursday of this week is Valentine's Day. If it's a day you look forward to all year long and you made your plans for this night three weeks ago, just stop reading now and click here: www.valentinesday.org.
For the rest of us, it is one of those days (second only to New Years Eve) that we wish we could sleep through entirely, waking up only after the last bloodied red-heart Hallmark card and the last piece of Be Mine candy has been stripped off the store shelves. For the ever single, the newly single, and those that wish they were single - Valentine's Day is just another reminder that conspiracies do exist - and it's hell being the target of one.
One bright spot for me this week was that a podcast I follow, This American Life, played an episode I've heard before but truly love (true love). It's their Valentine's Day tribute and it covers some very strange aspects of this thing we call love. Calling it the VDay episode doesn't do it justice so I'm just going to assign my own title to this one and I'm calling it "Five Harvard Physicists Explain Why if You're Alone - You are Not Alone" or "Yes, I've found the perfect person for you - Do you speak Cantonese?"
The podcast is an hour long, but you should at least listen to the prologue, it's only 5 minutes and frames the entire show . It's excellent. Listen to it here.
That being said, and since you now know where I'm coming from on this whole VDay thing, my pick for music this week is from Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs (obscure but talented individuals). The piece is actually titled Like the Devil Do but this upload has a different title - another song from the same album having something to do with an actual gun law still on the books in the state of Texas, but that is neither here nor there - I hope you enjoy it.
Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do, Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do. You can dunk me in the river, gonna clean my sin, But you might as well dunk me in a bucket of gin; Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do.
Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do, Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do. I got me drunk on whiskey, drunk on wine-- The Lord don't like it but the devil don't mind; Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do.
Now, that's the inside of a Hallmark card I would buy!
With so many playlists out there for VDay I thought I'd come up with a Love Gone Bad One
14 For the 14th
In no particular rhyme, reason, or order (except sex) - cause that’s how love is
For the Girls
I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett Blow Me - Pink Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor Hit Me with Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar Sleeping with a Broken Heart - Alicia Keys Irreplaceable - Beyonce Someone Like You - Adele Since you been Gone - Kelly Clarkson I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston We Found Love in a Hopeless Place - Rihanna What’s Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner
Unbreak My Heart - Toni Braxton All the Single Ladies - Beyonce
For the Boys
Ex girl to the Next Girl - gang starr Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye Freebird - Lynard Skynard This could be the last time - Rolling Stones You Give Love A Bad Name – Bon Jovi Would I lie to You - Eurythmics Good Lovin Gone Bad - Bad Company One More Night - Phil Collins Already Gone - Eagles Love Stinks - J. Geils Band Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison No, Woman No Cry - Bob Marley Shot to the Heart - Bon Jovi, Lil' Wayne and Rick Ross Don’t Come around here no more - Tom Petty
To view previous Drinking Soundtrack of the Week posts, click Here.
When I was growing up in New York State, (where the bars are open till 4am) I remember returning home from a late night at sometimes 5 or 6am and my father, standing in the doorway, would always greet me with the phrase "Well, the Prodigal Son has finally returned home!"
For so many years, I never really understood what he meant, but in writing this post (my first since December 9th) I may have a sense of what that son felt returning home. I apologize for my wandering from this blog, and I now return home to repent my wasteful ways (prodigal means wasteful I found out today) and pray that my sins have been forgiven - if only until I wander away again.
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni
To catch up a bit, apparently the world did not end in December of last year. Much hype was again for naught. I must say it's always a bittersweet moment for me when the world doesn't end. It's not that I believe any of the doomsday notions to begin with, but they serve as such good background for jokes...and of course drinking parties. YOLO becomes a toast for a round of shots because of course you only live once and the world ends tomorrow! Of course, at 10 minutes to midnight on the 20th, I admit I did have that fleeting thought of "What if the crazies are right and tomorrow is the last day...I am so totally screwed!"
So I don't believe we should have a year where the destruction of our planet is not on anyone's calendar, and although I have not researched it thoroughly, I'm not aware of one for 2013. But I did hear about a comet that will pass very close to earth at the end of this year. While it will not strike us, it may make for quite a viewing event on or about November 28th.
David Lillo / AFP - Getty ImagesComet McNaught shines above Chile in 2007.
The online images of previous comets reminds me of a campy movie that I saw once called Night of the Comet. In it, a comet passes very close to us and when the Earth passes through the gases of the comet's tail, the vapors turn almost everyone on the planet into...what else, Zombies.
You can read the IMDb review here, but if you have a chance to see it please do. November 28th is a Thursday so it's a good night to stay at home, bolt the doors, mix up some beverages and watch a good flick, cause remember - you only live once, and tomorrow you just may be a Zombie.
Sorry all, this latest bout of the flu was much worse than the previous one I suffered through just a few months ago. Unfortunately, even while sick I had quite a bit of year end stuff going on at my real job and I could not do both.
I am getting better but I fear my full recovery will coincide precisely with the end of the world as we know it! Be that as it may, look for some new posts this weekend!
I am still battling the flu, at least the fever is gone for now.
Until I return to being able to walk in sunlight, something I came across regarding hangover cures from around the world - with art! Who knows - you may just need one of these in the coming days!
I can't believe I've gotten my second horrible cold of the new Flu Season, but that is how it goes.
Still trying to put up a post, but in the meantime:
This blog is about drinking. Well history and drinking, but mostly about drinking. I enjoy drinking with friends and family as much as I enjoy the holidays and I would like all of my readers to do the same - this year AND next.
Let's not repeat the history of over 15,000 Americans who died in alcohol related accidents last year.
If you plan a night of drinking (plans are always good), plan where you will all meet up, plan on drinking extra water, plan on having something to eat, and most importantly - plan on how everyone will get home safely!
I want to be able to wish all of you a Happy and Safe Holiday Season Next Year too!
As we enter into this Holiday Season of innocence, goodness and kindness..... I say - plenty of time left for that, this weekend - Let's burn down the house!
Grace Potter and The Nocturnals perform "Ah Mary" - not the virgin.
As you make your rounds tonight my friends, may you each find your own "Mary"
She's skilled at the art of deception and she knows it
She's got dirty money that she plays with all the time
She waters the garden but maybe she just likes the hoses
She puts herself just a notch above humankind
Ah mary
She'll make you cookies
Then she'll burn your town
Ah mary
Ashes ashes but she won't fall down
She's the beat of my heart
She's the shot of a gun
She'll be the end of me
And maybe everyone
Call her a bully she'll blow up your whole damn playground
Pour her a drink and watch it go straight to her head
She'll take you so high up and cover her eyes as you fall down
Then in the morning don't be surprised if you're dead
Ah mary
She'll bake you cookies
Then she'll burn your town
Ah mary
Ashes ashes but she won't fall down
She's the beat of my heart
She's the shot of a gun
She'll be the end of me
And maybe everyone
The Historical Inebriant: The Mary Pickford Cocktail
