From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Whiskey, rye whiskey

by Michael Dietsch on October 29, 2006 · 0 comments

in Booze in song,Rye

Jack o’ Diamonds, Jack o’ Diamonds, I know you of old
You have robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
It’s a-whiskey, you villain, you’ve a been my downfall
You’ve kicked me, you’ve cuffed me,
But I love you for all.

And it’s a whiskey, rye whiskey
Rye whiskey, I cry
If I don’t get rye whiskey
Well I think I will die.

It’s a beefsteak when I’m hungry
Rye whiskey when I’m dry
Greenback when I’m hard up
Heaven when I die.

I’ll a-go to yonder holler
I’ll build me a still
I’ll give you a gallon
Fer a five dollar bill

Whiskey, rye whiskey
Rye whiskey, I cry
If a tree don’t fall on me,
I’ll live ’til I die.

If the ocean was whiskey
And I was a duck
I’d dive to the bottom
An’ never come up

Now the ocean ain’t whiskey
And I ain’t a duck
I’ll play Jack o’ Diamond
And trust to my luck

Ha ha ha whiskey, rye whiskey
Rye whiskey, I cry
If whiskey don’t kill me,
I’ll live ’til I die.

–Tex Ritter, “Rye Whiskey”

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Imbibe’s Karen Foley in a video interview

by Michael Dietsch on October 25, 2006 · 3 comments

in In the library

Kevin at TasteTV.com writes to tell me of Karen Foley’s interview on the TasteTV site. (Thanks, Kevin!) Karen talks about the ideas behind Imbibe magazine. The interview appears to be a couple of months old because they talk only about the first two issues, but it’s worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.

Unless your broadband is fast like Speedy Gonzalez, I advise you to let the video fully load before you watch.

Here’s a direct link, if you’d rather go out to TasteTV to watch.

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New cocktails!

by Michael Dietsch on October 19, 2006 · 0 comments

in Cocktail humor

I can’t reproduce the image without paying a damn expensive license fee, but Cartoonbank has a fun little mixology-related cartoon that was recently in the New Yorker. It’s worth a click. Thanks to Emdashes for the link.

(I know, I know–from a computer-nerd standpoint, I could easily reproduce it, but I don’t want lawyers after me. And is it just me, but does Tunatini sound less weird than some real drinks out there?)

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MxMo: Exotics

October 15, 2006

The theme of October’s Mixology Monday is exotic drinks, a category of beverages in which I am quite the raw novice. Exotic beverages always seem to require a lot of equally exotic ingredients that I don’t normally keep on hand: passion fruit, orgeat, rums older than Dakota Fanning–you get the idea. This class of drinks [...]

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MxMo updates

October 10, 2006

I’ve missed posting in the last couple of Mixology Mondays, mostly owing to my own incompetance, but I do want to take the time to announce the following two MxMo’s. October 16 brings MxMo 8, on the theme of exotic drinks. Meeta’s hosting it, over at What’s For Lunch, Honey. Break out your tiki mugs, [...]

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