I find a few sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches and chocolate milk do the trick, but I’d eat those every day if I could. I’m always dubious of claims to national consensus, but this is especially ridiculous. Is our national hangover cure really tomato juice and eggs? I thought it was hair of the [...]
Posted January 1, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: biba, cure, drinking, hair of the dog, hangover, health, national geographic magazine, new year's day, New Year's Eve, remedy. One Comment.
John McCain’s election team apparently told staff at The Phoenix Biltmore to have extra whisky on hand for their election party tonight. They’re not just planning to drown their sorrows: Republicans and Republican-leaning independents drink more whisky than the national average.
Sweet photo by Bearfaced, though I almost used this picture of barrels (or this [...]
Posted November 4, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Politics & Controversy. Tags: conservatives, drinking, liquor, mccain, politics, republicans, whisky. One Comment.
Sure, Clinton played his sax on TV, Bush groped Angela Merkel, but Boris Yeltsin gave speeches drunk, tossed women into the water, danced on stage, and generally did all manner of laughable things. But he also turned back a hardline coup by jumping atop a tank and dragged Russia kicking and screaming toward democracy.
Not [...]
Posted April 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: Boris Yeltsin, dancing, drinking, drunk, remembrance, russia, ussr, video, world leader. 3 Comments.
I read enough of this to get a good laugh, but not enough to understand if it was serious or not. Some of it reads like satire, but other parts as are dry as, well, they’re dry (who really needs a simile anyway, they’re just dry, okay?).
Posted May 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: alcohol, book, books, drink, drinking, libraries, library, notes from a library supervisor, punch, supervision, the vodka in the punch, vodka. Be the first one.
Modern Drunkard Magazine suggests we chase the snakes out of our minds, for as Yeats reminds us:
The problem with some people is that when they’re not drunk, they’re sober.
Posted March 17, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: chasing snakes, drink, drinking, drinking songs, drunk, ireland, irish, irish dance, irish dancing, irish heritage, irish whisky, jig, saint patrick, saint patrick's day, st. patty's day, W.B. Yeats, yeats. One Comment.
Vegas knows liquor. Vegas knows drinks. They go well with cards and dice and slot machines and such. And even though the cards and dice and slot machines and such aren’t my reasons for going to town, I do enjoy a drink. Above, center you see the West Wing Bar’s Sidecar with cognac, [...]
Posted December 30, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Style, Fashion and Food, Travel. Tags: dancing, dining, drinking, drinks, food, las vegas, shoes, shopping, vegas. Be the first one.