2009.
I know I’ve told you guys about Thursday Drink Night like a jillion times. Old news. Blog me something I DON’T know. But now, for the first time ever, brought to you by the power of a hundred internets, is VIDEO of the Mata Hari Absinthe chat in action.
You’re probably thinking, “Wow, a video of a chat room from a week ago, that sounds FASCINATING, thanks for posting this JERKPlanner. Maybe next you can post some exciting behind-the-scenes footage of you completing online surveys in exchange for socks or the thrilling never-been-released-in-the-US mp3 of you snoring for 6 hours. YOU’RE SPOILING US WITH ALL THESE INTERNET TREATS.” Not so fast, JERKReader*. The video is actually of several TDN regulars (like Rick from KaiserPenguin, Marshall and SeanMike from Scofflaw’s Den, Sam from Drinks for the House, and a few others) at the Tabard Inn in DC participating in the chat while having the drinks made for them by the lovely Chantal. They also give a good explanation of what TDN is and what it’s like, show off some of the drinks and recipes, and generate a sizeable amount of envy in me by getting to enjoy a bunch of great drinks while I sit here enjoying yet another cough drop.
So you should watch it, it’s ENTERTAINMENT!
*See what I did there? That’s why I’m a world-famous blogger and you’re just the head of a multi-million dollar dairy conglomerate. ENJOY YOUR STUPID GOUDA.
2009.
Times are hard, y’all. The wife won’t stop yelling about food for the baby. The baby won’t stop crying because your wife is a screaming bitch. The dish washer won’t work anymore (who is also your wife, zing!). THERE’S NO MONEY ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET. You probably want to get a new identity and start another life picking coconuts and herding llamas with a sassy Puerto Rican mama named Rita, we don’t blame you. But the biggest question still remains unanswered: how are you going to afford this month’s batch of beer pong tables? Those ping-pong balls aren’t going to submerge themselves in beer by themselves! Those horse-piss American beers aren’t going to chug themselves, by golly! Consider your query REPLIED TO, my friends…I present: Beer Pong Coupons.
Yes, just when you thought you and your family were going to slip into irreversible destitution and despair, Beer Pong Coupons arises like a Natty-Lite-coated phoenix from the dust and detritus of our own human suffering to give you more discounts on beer pong tables you can shake a stick of government cheese at.* The ONLY site dedicated to online coupon codes for beer pong tables (that we know of), offering savings as high as $35 on brand new beer pong tables, you can ensure that your family won’t be forced to lap up errant puddles of Keystone Light like a bunch of minimum-wage assholes at a Beer Spilling Convention. You can continue to live the life you’ve always known, chugging Milwaukee Beast from solo cups the way God intended…one sweet upper-middle class swig at a time.
Beer Pong Coupons via:: Liquor Snob
*Because you’re POOR now, get it!?!
2009.
Hey gang. What’s been going on? I know, right? Well, worry no longer. It’s all over now, the nightmare has ended, and DrinkPlanner is back in full fighting form. I now have a fully functioning computer-machine, faster and more badasser than ever. Expect to see things return to normal over the next week or so as I get cranked back up and sort through all the ideas and article fragments and bottles of booze that have stacked up in my involuntary hiatus. But we haven’t been just sitting around getting hammered in the downtime (we have), we’ve got large feature articles in the works, booze reviews, and even a site redesign. I might even update our blogroll, you never know!
ALSO, this Thursday is another Thursday Drink Night chat, with the ingredient of the night being vermouth. Dry, sweet, WHATEVER, it’s all welcome. Best cocktail of the night gets a bottle of Dolin dry vermouth. Festivities begin at 7pm Eastern, and it’s not unheard of for things to go until 3 or 4am. Or you can go by there anytime, folks are usually hanging around talkin’ smack.
2009.
I realize I’m posting this a bit late, but TONIGHT at 7pm EST, join the crew in the Mixoloseum Bar chat to mix up some drinks with Mata Hari Absinthe.
If you’re new to drinking absinthe (and you probably are, since it’s only recently available in the US), this is a good one to get in on. The Mata Hari is a Bohemian style absinthe, which is significantly less absinthe-y than the other styles. It’s a dialed-down anise flavor (think black liquorice) makes it a little less intimidating to work with than, say, it’s neon-green brother La Fee Absinthe Parisienne. Not to say one is better or worse than the other, but a Bohemian style is a good place to start before jumping in to the deep end (flavor-wise).
Sadly, I won’t be able to be there. It’s The Other DrinkPlanner Guy’s birthday today (Happy Birthday buddy!), so we’ll be partying it up whilst the Mixo Crew is mixing things up in the chat. They’ll also have Gerry Fischer, master distiller for Mata Hari, on hand to answer questions about absinthe and all that good stuff. You should definitely join them even if it’s late, as they’ll most likely be going until the wee hours of the night.
OH, and there’s a PRIZE! The best drink of the night will get one of the amazing reproductions of a vintage cocktail book from Mud Puddle Books.
2009.
Confession time, guys: over the past year, I’ve become a rabid 24 fan. I’d never really watched it before (despite the insistent proddings of family and friends who were fans), but with the writer’s strike and everything I had some time and some friends who goaded me into catching up and boy-howdy, did I enjoy it. It’s pure action and fun, and there’s really nothing not to love about it.
It’s just entered its 7th season now, and like any show running for that long, it has developed patterns and trends that happen every season, if not every episode. This is exactly the kind of thing that is ripe for a drinking game. I searched around at what’s already out there, but the current drinking games for 24 are so silly and predictable they’re not worth playing. So guess what I did? If you guessed started an ostrich farm, you’re only half right. The other thing I did was create…
In order to create a balanced and steady game that doesn’t get you wasted in the first 15 mins and then leave you in the lurch for the last 45 mins, I’ve created the following rules. I’ve tried to make them as generic and non-season-specific as possible, so you should be able to go back and play the game with old episodes if you so desire (you should always follow your desires*).
Take one drink if:
- Jack says “damn it!”
- You hear the CTU/FBI ringtone
- Something (security systems, computers, video, etc.) is hacked into
- Someone needs an open socket
- Jack orders someone to do something “NOW!”
Take two drinks if:
- Someone requests something sent to their screen, PDA, or phone
- Someone flanks, moves into position, or secures the perimeter
- Something is going to happen “within the hour”
- Someone needs schematics or requests access codes
- Someone requests to be “patched through” or conferenced in to a call
- Jack promises to “I give you my word”
Take three drinks if:
- Jack orders someone to drop their weapon
- Jack drops his weapon
- Chloe is awkward
- Chloe is a pain in the ass
- Someone is followed
- Jack breaks protocol, the law, or commits treason
- Someone is tortured until they give up information
Take a shot if:
- Jack says he “doesn’t have time to explain”
- Jack says “I just need you to trust me”
- Jack says “Right now he’s our only lead!”
- Jack “had no choice”
- A suspected “bad guy” is really a good guy working undercover
- Someone thought to be dead is actually still alive
Finish your drink if:
- A mole is revealed in CTU, the President’s staff, or the FBI
- Jack recovers from death or near-death in an inhuman amount of time (like within the hour)
- Someone mentions Jack’s wife or his estranged relationship with Kim (this rule won’t work in the 1st season)
Drink and Don’t Stop if:
- The countdown timer to a bomb or whatever is running out of time…stop drinking when the timer stops
Toast and Finish Drink:
- If someone important dies and the episode ends in the “silent clock”. RESPECT.
I think it’s a pretty solid set of rules. It’s hard to say this season with things being so different if it will still work, but if things keep going the way they have, it should work out just fine. Happy drinking!
*As with anything like this, we’re not responsible if you drink too much and you’re big boys and girls and you should know your limits yadda yadda we don’t have any money to sue for anyway so don’t waste your time.
2009.
While ComputerGate ’08 ’09 rages on, I thought I’d share this humorous text conversation I had with my youngest brother. In his defense, he just turned 21 a few months ago, so he’s relatively new to the wonderful world of booze. But this was too funny not to share, and I’m sure he’s not the first person to make this mistake.
DP: Never heard of it
Bro: The guy at Harry’s said it was okay and that it was michael jackson who apparently reviews beer loves it
DP: ah…Must have been a while ago, MJ died last year
Bro: Wait what…no way
DP: The beer/whiskey guy? Yeah in August
Bro: I was thinking the pop singer
DP: And you thought he reviewed beers?
…
Bro: I don’t know
You can practically hear the “Doh!” coming through on that last text. You can’t really blame the guy though, when I was 21 I definitely didn’t know there was more than one Michael Jackson on the planet, and that he was some old dude expert on beer and whiskey. But hey, he was on the right track, heading to a farmer’s market and looking for new and different things to try, that’s what being a good drinker is all about.
On the other hand, it’s more than a little hilarious that he’d think a beer endorsement from the man who supplied 2 songs to the “Free Willy” soundtrack was a good thing.
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