1 1/2 oz. light rum
1 oz. vodka
1 oz. kirschwasser
1 tbsp. grenadine
splash lemon juice
top with cherry 7-Up

Put it in a highball glass over ice, stir and enjoy!

el jo

As I was browsing through my usual blog fare, I happened across the Weekly Feminist Reader for this week at Feministing. It had a link to a cartoon documentary on the roles for women in Hollywood. That took me to an awesome site full of comics (that I will have to make a link to as well).

Well, on that site, I jumped over to a funny little website called Stuff White People Like. On the very first page, I find an awesome story about how unrelentingly white my old hometown is. (But Eugene certainly isn’t any better. In fact, Oregon in general is pretty damn white. I think it’s because this is where all the southern racists came to after the Civil War. Or something.)

Anyway, I just wanted to share that train of links. It’s an awful lot like how my brain works. Just one non sequitur after another.

Ooh! Shiny Things!
el jo

I found this cool little meme through Charley Parker's blog Lines and Colors, but it originated on the LiveJournal. You can check out hundreds of other drawings at davario.livejournal.com.

Super cool!

el jo

I know where my towel is at!

el jo

She sounds like a mafioso. “Hey, eh, you know, things can happen to candidates, you know, when they don’t know I’m the one that’s supposed to be runnin’ the show, see? Bad things. I mean, hey, I don’t wanna give anybody any ideas or nothin’ but, eh, lookit what happened to Bobby Kennedy. You know, I’m just sayin’.”

I really feel that this woman is royally fucking up any future chances for women to run for president. I also really feel that with every single press conference, every time she opens her mouth, she’s destroying her own campaign, her credibility, and the trust of the American people. But when are people going to wake up and do something about it? Don’t the Dems have some say in who gets nominated? Or have the Dems become so cowed by the Republicans (and each other) that they’d rather wait, risking a loss to John McCain, than do something to deal with this petulant little candidate?

Let me just say it now for all y’all to hear: “Hillary Rodham Clinton is pissing me the fuck off! She needs to get a goddamn clue and leave this race!”

el jo

The Second Defenestration of Prague was central to the start of the Thirty Years’ War in 1618.
Some members of the Bohemian aristocracy rebelled following the 1617 election of Ferdinand (Duke of Styria and a Catholic) as King of Bohemia to succeed the aging Emperor Matthias. In 1617, Roman Catholic officials ordered the cessation of construction of some Protestant chapels on land that the Catholic clergy claimed ownership of. Protestants contended the land in question was royal, rather than owned by the Catholic Church, and was thus available for their own use. Protestants interpreted the cessation order as a violation of the right to freedom of religious expression granted in the Letter of Majesty issued by Emperor Rudolf II in 1609. They also feared that the fiercely Catholic Ferdinand would revoke the Protestant rights altogether once he came to the throne.
At Prague Castle on May 23, 1618, an assembly of Protestants, led by Count Thurn, tried two Imperial governors, Vilem Slavata of Chlum (1572–1652) and Jaroslav Borzita of Martinice (1582–1649), for violating the Letter of Majesty (Right of Freedom of Religion), found them guilty, and threw them, together with their scribe Philip Fabricius, out of the high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery. They landed on a large pile of manure in a dry moat and survived. Philip Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title von Hohenfall (lit. meaning “of Highfall”).
Roman Catholic Imperial officials claimed that the three men survived due to the mercy of angels assisting the righteousness of the Catholic cause. Protestant pamphleteers asserted that their survival had more to do with the horse excrement in which they landed than the benevolent acts of the angels.

Celebrate this Discordian Holyday by steering clear of ditches and piles of manure. Especially if there are any tall buildings nearby.

el jo

I actually drew this way back in 2001. It's finally seeing the light of the internet thanks to a little website I discovered called Bad Spock Drawings.

I'm planning on submitting this to them and see what they think.

I’ll have some photos up as soon as I get them developed. (Yeah, the techie geek doesn’t have a digital camera.)

el jo

Get yourself an 8 oz. old-fashioned glass and fill it with ice (”on the rocks”, as they say)
Pour in 1 1/2 oz. of Slivovitz Plum Brandy and 1 1/2 oz. of Kirschwasser
Throw in a dash of bitters, a dash of grenadine, and a dash of lemon juice
Top it with cranberry juice and garnish with a slice of lemon and a maraschino cherry
Shout out “L’Chaim!” and enjoy!

(And like I said, it’s totally kosher for Pesach!)

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