The Slow Gin Fizz

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It’s a wonderful life December 31, 2009

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No, not really. But here’s some pretty rad things that managed to happen in ’09. you have no idea how hard it was to refrain from sarcasm by adding items like ‘a guy rejecting me by calling me a cougar’ or ‘that bug bite on my face that blew up to the size of toronto’.

  1. getting to watch the taylor swift episode of CSI. (spoiler alert: she’s awesome in it)
  2. tom morello continuing to exist in his various forms
  3. the time me and jian went to that wine tasting, closed the place down and she took 5 trains to get home and gave her free bottle of wine to a homeless person
  4. rice
  5. the time me and GCT went to showtunes night and insulted each other for like 5 consecutive hours
  6. the great karaoke extravaganza of 2009 for the aforementioned GCT
  7. furthering the cause of jam based cocktails
  8. the time me and Rachel crashed Brett’s birthday party and he totally had it going on
  9. fish tacos
  10. the movie ‘Pirate Radio’
  11. terrence moving back to astoria
  12. lots of honey
  13. la push beach
  14. getting on Japanese television
  15. and then eating poutine
  16. spending Halloween with borat
  17. magically experiencing a 5 for 5 record of mets home game wins
  18. taco bell coming back to my neighborhood
  19. marionberry jam
  20. having, seriously, the coolest friends of ever
 

End of year/decade lists I decided not to make because they were too negative December 29, 2009

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  1. best hospital dining hall items of ‘09
  2. worst days ever
  3. harshest rejections of the decade
  4. favorite calories
  5. personal achievements of the decade
  6. biggest bug bites
  7. best fights with rachel
  8. things I thought would have happened by now that didn’t (#1 understanding when to use affect and effect)
  9. bad drink choices
  10. bad drunken choices
  11. the ones that got away
  12. bad habits i’ve developed
  13. best typos and grammatical errors
  14. best scripted and least probable romantic comedy moments
  15. biggest ny mets letdowns
 

Guest Blogging by Lori February 19, 2009

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I had the pleasure of joining co-author of the theslowginfizz, Rachel, on a fabulous date to Newark, NJ to see touring company of Rent with the original Mark & Roger from the broadway production.  It was a magical evening and I want to share some of the best moments y’all. (Note: you might need to been a rent FAN-atic to understand some of these.)

  1. Lori: I want a beeper.
    Rachel: I want wine.
  2. Lori: Did someone just say sesame chicken?!?? (during the opening moments of Contact)
  3. <cop stops traffic so Rachel & I can cross street> 
    Lori (to cop): Thank you!
    Cop: Don’t thank me until you’ve finished crossing the road.  You won’t be thanking me if you don’t make it all the way.
  4. Lori: Rachel, can i ask if you if we’re a thing and you respond that we’re everything?
    Rachel: Ummm, we ARE everything.
  5. Rachel: Lori, I will not be your moat.
  6. Mark Cohen: You can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can’t take the Jersey out of the girl…
  7. <while pointing at the audience>
    Cast: … to you and you and you you and you
    Lori: oh my god – he just pointed at me.
  8. Rachel: I want to date Adam Pascal’s arms
  9. Lori: Who won the devil’s game?
    Rachel: “Don’t mess with the devils, buddy!”
    (Seinfeld reference for the non-Rent lovers)
  10. Lori & Rachel: I wish Teddy was here with us… he’d love the size of our box!
 

reasons to love gin January 30, 2009

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2009 is officially the year of gin and let us all hope it is more successful than 2008, the year of sake, aka the year of yacking on a curb for the first time in my life.

1. gin is flavoured with juniper berries (some varieties of which are toxic!)

2. the most common type of gin is London dry gin and I’ve been told that some of our readers here like british things

3. gin evolved from the dutch spirits jonge and oude and originated in the Netherlands in the 17th century. i love dutch things the way you people love british things.

4. gin was sold in pharmacies and used to treat such medical problems as kidney ailments, lumbago, stomach ailments, gallstones, and gout

5. in england, after the glorious revolution (which after a quick read, seems like it was actually pretty glorious) it was made from grain that isn’t good enough to brew beer with. HA!

6. gin was so popular in england that it caused enough death from alcohol related afflictions to stabilize the skyrocketing population

7. as late as 1913, common gin was flavoured with turpentine

8. in tropical british colonies, gin was used to mask the bitter flavour of quinine, a protection against malaria, which was dissolved in carbonated water to form tonic water. This was the origin of today’s popular gin and tonic.

9. the national gin museum is in hasselt, Belgium

10. sloe gin is a common ready-sweetened form of gin that is traditionally made by infusing sloes (the fruit of the blackthorn) in gin.

 

the future according to the twilight zone January 1, 2009

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btw, according to the twilight zone, the future was supposed to happen in 2000. and fyi, sitting at home alone watching hours of the twilight zone WILL scare the bejesus out of you. here’s to 2009. happy new year!

  1. all furniture is white though no one has a lot of it
  2. sometimes people wear togas
  3. other times, people wear superhero like jumpsuits with capes
  4. which makes sense, because spaceships are pretty common
  5. all doors are automatic and sliding
  6. people’s voices are oddly monotone while the voices of robots have inflection and personality
  7. men either wear turtlenecks or chest hair revealing boatnecks
  8. not even a nuclear disaster can erradicate pageant hair and gameshow host shiny side parts
  9. people have names like ‘doe’ and ‘sig’
  10. the matrix has you