How does the DrinkPlanner celebrate freedom and all that good stuff? With a bunch of fireworks blasted off from an emptied handle of Johnnie Walker, that’s how! (click for the large versions, they’re worth it)
Friggin’ awesome
Seriously
A few bottle rockets lift-off
This is just cool
Hope everyone had a kickass 4th!
So we just missed it, and we’re ashamed to say it’s all our fault. Yesterday, April 7th, was the 75th anniversary
of the end of prohibition here in the U. S. of A. A notable day indeed, when F. D. R. came to his senses and realized the teetotaling jerkwads of the time were, in fact, completely wrong. A day when we boozers and members of the responsible drinking public earned our respectability and honor by the President saying in no uncertain terms that yes, we who chose to imbibe now and again (or daily or even hourly, if we so choose), are upstanding and of equal (if not greater) caliber than the average U. S citizen. That our effort through bootlegging and backcountry moonshine distilling and bathtub gin making were not in vain, that we were –nay, ARE– the lifeblood of this great nation, and that we as a country are better with our participation in this grand experiment of democracy.
We are the blood that pumps through the working man as he labors endlessly. We are the 3-martini break in the high-powered executive’s workday. We are the shot snuck from the flask by the everyman in the cubicle as he (or she) makes their way through the 9-hour grind. We are the refreshing splash of a cold beer against the back of the throat of every person working for the weekend. We are America, damnit, and we’re here to drink and enjoy it.
So raise a glass, damnit, and drink one for the glory of America!
I know I know…we won’t shut up about Kuroshio, but we couldn’t let this deal go by without passing it on to you, our loyal drink-guzzling readership. They’re having a full-blown Halloween costume-party thingy on Saturday, November 3rd (yes, we know it’s technically after Halloween, but you know as well as we do that the good parties don’t really happen until the weekend, when we’re free of our accursed responsibilities) where the best costume wins a $50 gift card.
Oh yeah, and all night all draft beers are $1! Can you hear that!?! It’s the sound of our stomachs gurgling in anticipation of the sweetest kind of booze known to man…nearly-free, that is (if it were completely free, we’d already be there lined up outside the door, day-jobs be damned). They’ll have a live DJ on hand to keep the party hip-hoppin’ and be-boppin’ until the wee hours of the morning, when all the suckers who don’t read this site will be sleeping and NOT drinking $1 beers. I feel bad for them, honestly. We’ll try not to rub it in their faces too much. Maybe just a little.
Or something. You get what I’m trying to say. If you made it out to Kuroshio last night, well then you probably feel something like us: satisfied, well-fed, and more than a little hung over. If you didn’t make it out, you probably feel like the poindexter who chose to help his grandmother with her knitting instead of going to a kickass party where things got so nuts that that one girl you like (you know the one, the one you’ve had a not-so-secret crush on since 8th grade?) hooked up with that jackass who shanked you in P.E. in elementary school and everyone laughed…all because you weren’t there. She was looking for you, dude. Where were you? She WANTED you, man!
Grand opening successful? Yes. Wild epic party? Yes. Photographic proof? Here. Though we can’t show you ALL the pictures, this is a family drinking site.
That’s right, you little sake-monsters, Kuroshio is about to have their official Grand Opening Event on 10/20/07. Given our previous experience there, it’s bound to be a blast. We’ve been tipped off that there will be drink and food specials galore, not to mention the thrilling conclusion to their design-a-roll contest. Come on down and we’ll do a sake bomb with ya!*
*You’re buying, of course