A penalty shoot-out is the worst way to loose a soccer game. Mano-a-mano with the goalie sounds like a great idea, but PKs are a stressful, unfair way to end two hours of evenly matched football. Especially when your team’s captain, widely regarded as the finest footballer of his generation, does something idiotic in the [...]

Today started out as a single-post day. Ran some errands, straightened up the house, settled in to watch the World Cup final between France and Italy. Such occasions call for a drink, particularly when you’re facing double overtime and the possibility of a penalty shoot-out—a penalty shoot-out in the final game of Zidane’s career.
Then, once [...]

Today’s drink comes courtesy of Kaiser Penguin. I found this recipe a few weeks ago and kept telling myself to remember to make it. Naturally, this was around the same time that Intoxica! arrived, so the Orange Viola and its orange-y wonders were waylaid by the magic of tiki fever.
Now I have finally managed to [...]

Happy 4th of July!
I promise I’ll be back with updates, I’ve just been out of town for the past week and I’m behind on everything.
Especially posting.

As previously intimated while discussing the Don the Beachcomber Zombie, Beachbum Berry’s Intoxica! is a great book. So great, in fact, that we went a little crazy stocking the bar just so we could experiment with the recipes in the book.
Because we went a bit over the top picking up fun and exciting new rums [...]