You don’t have to drink alone.
Happy Birthday William Faulkner! The Nobel Prize winning author was born on this day in 1897. Bill was no stranger to strong drink, reportedly even doing some bootlegging during Prohibition.
Faulkner’s favorite drink was the Mint Julep, a cocktail I’ve never learned to appreciate. But with fall officially here, and winter just around the corner, I believe I’ll have occasion to enjoy another of the writer’s whiskey choices -the Hot Toddy.
He prepared it in the kitchen in the following way: Take one heavy glass tumbler. Fill approximately half full with Heaven Hill bourbon (the Jack Daniel’s was reserved for Pappy’s ailments). Add one tablespoon of sugar. Squeeze 1/2 lemon and drop into glass. Stir until sugar dissolves. Fill glass with boiling water.
The perfect drink to sip while reading a good book, maybe one of Faulkner’s.
Why waste perfectly good whiskey with all those add-ins? The only way to drink whiskey is straight out of the bottle. Aside from the internal damage, it’s fine.
As Faulkner himself saidÂ
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others.Â
The lesser whiskeys go in your juleps and toddies. Also, I’m a lightweight, lol.
I never drank it for the flavor:)Â Jack Daniels or McCormicks–made no difference to me.
…I happen to be a fan of the taste
…but I still can’t afford the seriously good stuff that’d be old enough to buy its own drinks so I guess I mostly compromise
…I have a friend though that can’t stand any whisky these days…because when we were young(er) & dumb(er) he was too dumb to listen when I told him not to drink Teachers…even when I wasn’t old enough to buy booze I knew better than that…it’s what some people I know refer to as “kitchen whisky” & probably perfect for making a hot toddy…or passable in a whisky & soda for folks of a certain generation…but he wouldn’t listen & he drank the stuff neat all night…the tragedies of a misspent youth & all that
…the next day while they were waiting to get a train home someone actually walked up to them on the platform with a bottle of water & some alka seltzer & just said, “here – you look like you really need these”
During my drinking days my favorite whiskey was Thai rice whiskey. My girlfriend at the time had two half brothers who turned me on to the stuff. It was the smoothest whiskey I’d ever had. I think they came to regret introducing me to it because I was drinking them out of house and home.
…can’t say as I’ve ever tried that…although I can vouch for there being some pretty good japanese single malts?
That’s a new one to me. If I ever get a chance I’ll try it.
They had cases of it shipped to them straight from Thailand, so I’m not sure if it’s actually available on a retail basis here.
Ah, probably not.
Damn, they must have looked rough, lol.
…that I can certainly attest to
ill go with a different faulkner…..fits me mood now
tbh…i prefer the original..but this has a campfire song kinda quality i never quite forgot about
Fun tune!Â
Ok, that’s weird. There was a different song here when I first looked.It was one of the ones shaq posted last night. Those were fun. This is lovely.
welp…life is wierd sometimes
*shrugs*
life is wierd
That happens to me all the time, especially on my phone. All the songs will show as the “stuck on the DUAN song”. I refresh and it will usually go back to normal.Â
wait…what?
Sometimes a song from Stuck On DUAN shows up in weird places. Tonight it was in place of the video farscythe posted. /p>
…it’s a little odd but sometimes youtube links embed the link but preview with a song that’s been posted elsewhere – like the others said it seems to resolve if you refresh the page but it can sometimes be confusing for a second
…until today I thought it was just one of those things that only happened to me…because *reasons*…but now I feel bad for not telling you so could worry about it?
I’ve had it move all songs in DUAN move down so that it would show I posted the song the person after me posted, etc.., but weirdest was it showed everyone posted Harper Valley PTA!  I thought it was some inside joke I was left out of. Â
I’ve removed the feature for now (I usually forget to change it anyway) so let me know if anything happens while I look into it?
speaking of booze,
I have never been interested in cruises. That doesn’t look at all enjoyable!
I don’t understand what makes people think cruise ships aren’t a terrible thing…
I love Ozzy Man! I definitely need Happy Hour right now. Got a text this morning from a friend that I had dinner with last weekend and he has Covid. Went and got tested w/ the kids a little while ago, luckily it was easy and pain free around here. Wife already gets tested every week and is negative again this week so hopefully we will be too! Today’s happy hour will include Melvin Brewing “The Dry Hopper’s Guide to the Galaxy” with the amazing Galaxy hop. At 9% alc it may also cure Covid but your mileage may vary.
Well hell shaq, I hope you all stay healthy! How soon will you get the results?Â
Hopefully within 48 hrs but could be 4 days.Â
Fingers crossed for you and the family.