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Extra-Sensory Cocktails

August 17, 2008 4:17 pm Frank In the News No Comments

In case the cocktail itself isn’t good enough (blasphemy, I know), an Australian bar seeks to enhance your drinking experience by stimulating the other senses. Jay, a bartender I once had the privilege of knowing (may he rest in peace) was way ahead of the power curve on this fad–if you ordered a Bronx Cocktail he’d blow smoke in your face and yell, “What the fuck you lookin’ at?” in a genuine Bronx accent.

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The Second Coming

July 19, 2008 2:59 am Frank Drunken Raving No Comments

Not entirely sure why, but my mind always turns to this excellent Yeats poem when I’m shellacked:

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? 

WB Yeats

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Beasts of Boozing

July 12, 2008 5:14 pm Frank Alcohol AV 1 Comment

This 1972 educational film features a novice drinker taking in a swinging grownup basement shindig. It’s interesting in that instead of relying on the traditional Authoritarian Voice Over promising doom and destruction, it craftily attempts to soft-sell its anti-booze message in a somewhat subtle manner: with the help of his old friend television, the young observer slowly absorbs the idea that hard drinking encourages the grownups to behave as wild beasts. Examples of animal behavior include aggressive snacking, unbridled singing of foreign songs, wanton thrusting of cleavage, salacious staring, public displays of affection, blatant yawning, loony laughter–the works.

Not sure how many teenagers this turned off of drinking. Most likely had the opposite effect.

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