Welcome to... The Saloon

[Perelandra]

Perhaps you'd be interested in a Seattle Sky? I just made it up.

2 oz vodka
1 oz Creme de Violette
1/2 oz dry vermouth
4 oz peach lemonade
juice of 1 small meyer lemon
shake with ice, serve up

It's a pretty lavender-grey. OK, maybe it needs a bit more fine-tuning, but it's quite tasty.

[Feilan]

I'll take 3!

lavender is in the blue-ish end of the spectrum, after all.

never heard tell of Creme de Violette before ... rock on Vansterdam!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joe Hillshoist]

Honestly Darwin Stubbies are ridiculous.

They are too big. Maybe someone with a huge beer belly could finish one quick enough that the beer wasn't warm by the bottom, but I couldn't. Warm beer sucks.

I can't believe you guys have 40oz bottles of beer, even thats too big. Flat warm beer, thats what they drink in Seamus' part of the world.

I'll have a longneck of that homebrew you have stashed out the back tho, and get Seamus one of whatever he's having when he gets in.

[Feilan]

A round of anything ice-cold and brewed in Canada for the house!

Game's on.

[Project Willow]

I am sorry Joe, I am unfamiliar with this concept of too much beer.

I do have some great homebrew I stole from a friend. He thinks it's so good he's about to open his own brewery. Good luck to you SK!

Hope Seamus made it through the weekend.

Cheers everyone! Go Canucks (*cough* ... sports, ehem )

[Feilan]

Go Canucks (*cough* ... sports, ehem )

I thought that was very heartfelt.

Cheers to you, darlin'!

[Canadian_watcher]

okay barkeep. I need something potent to get me through the awful emails I have gotten from neighbours upset that I would DARE try and reach out to them for a little community action.

What is WRONG with people?

<slurp, *sigh*, slide>

another please and this time make it a double.

[Project Willow]

What is WRONG with people?

They're people.





Keep up the good

[Project Willow]

I am on the fence with this young woman's videos, but I love the line: "Summer is a time of moisture and defeat." Oh yeah.

[Canadian_watcher]

^ she was funnier before she got utterly smashed tho.

[Canadian_watcher]

In the spirit of PWs vid selection above, ie - outspoken young women posting videos on youtube who clearly don't give a flying fig if the world thinks they are batshit crazy (which I am using as inspiration to feel the same way at the moment)... here's another:

[annie aronburg]

[Canadian_watcher]

[Project Willow]

I don't know how I feel about Leslie Hall either except that I admire her raw hutzpah.

I'm happy because I just met a submission deadline. Yeah!! I can't believe I've accomplished something. I seem to have reached a level of avoidance and time wasting that could be classified as pathological. It passed detrimental a few months ago.

[MacCruiskeen]

Hey, PW, . This short video talk might interest you (or anyone else who's going through a tough patch with their work, or struggling with motivation):

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilb ... enius.html

(There's also a transcript on the sidebar.)

Got it via Ran Prieur, who writes:

[...] a TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert. Ancient people thought creativity came from outside the creative person. "Genius" used to mean a spirit that gives you ideas. Then with the so-called "Enlightenment" and the extreme individualism of modernity, we started using the word "genius" to refer to creative people themselves. This is a stressful way to think about creativity, and it leads directly to the "tortured genius".

http://www.ranprieur.com/

Don't know anything about her novels, but I did find that little talk very sane and quite moving. Also! this makes pretty entertaining reading - it's about her years spent working in a saloon :

The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon