tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post2480260807813550557..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Bowmore 18 Year ScotchCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-84721977992740975752011-06-13T21:22:20.820-07:002011-06-13T21:22:20.820-07:00when i fall ill
i allow myself a dram
of dom bened...when i fall ill<br />i allow myself a dram<br />of dom benedictine<br />on ice<br /><br />otherwise i guzzle<br />m d 20 20 preferably in dark alleys<br />don't bother to take the bottle out of the bag<br />and smash it against the wall when i'm through<br /><br />OMG<br />i just had a flash back<br /><br />doctoah is there nothing i can take<br /><br />soon won't the moon be full<br /><br />jhjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-5577212058412966332011-06-13T19:35:09.631-07:002011-06-13T19:35:09.631-07:00pulque's like cactus wine-- mezcal's disti...pulque's like cactus wine-- mezcal's distilled, like tequila, so after the conquest. Same plant yo pienso. <br /><br />much tastier than some honkay scotch eh Anny. The blue bottle tequila--Patron?? Muy sabrosa.<br /><br />anglos pretty much suck in about everything except making tanks, guns, ships, planes,etcJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-978152845087033412011-06-13T17:44:04.825-07:002011-06-13T17:44:04.825-07:00here is that drink that the worm was "pickled...here is that drink that the worm was "pickled" in<br /><br />Mezcal:<br /><br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezcal<br /><br />I, as I recalled, had 5 shots of this .... "stuff" ..<br /><br />and ate the worm like it was an oyster ... one bite and then swallow...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-88204224830833959232011-06-13T17:35:51.576-07:002011-06-13T17:35:51.576-07:00fermented cactus juice was invented 12,233 years b...fermented cactus juice was invented 12,233 years before thos Christian saviors hit the rock in Plymoth!<br /><br />what was it called Pulque ?<br /><br />and they jazzed it up with a worm..<br /><br />In Quernevaca in about 1967 I in a Mexican saloon<br />got the last swaller out of the bottle... had to eat that worm...<br /><br /><br />I think it was some kind of Tequila or ( I forget its name)<br /><br />the waitress wanted to marry me and move to America<br /><br />the land of Milk and Honey <br /><br /><br /><br />she was one of those "youwannameetmysister" girls !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-19255191074761345162011-06-13T14:35:58.815-07:002011-06-13T14:35:58.815-07:00Non sequitur, not to say your typical pop-nihilist...Non sequitur, not to say your typical pop-nihilist perspective. I said WASPs, not jews (but did say the WASPs had connections to jews). First, alcohol is a commodity--a concept you continue to overlook. And its production and consumption does involve exploitation--some perhaps not so egregious (ie, the bourgeois who enjoys a shot or two), and some quite egregious (ie, exploiting natives and minorities, even irish--liquor stores in poor urban areas, the workers harvesting grapes, wheat, oats, etcetc). And ...alcholism remains a problem. Anyone who dodged a drunk driver--or two or three (usually some whiskey-swilling hick, but also hispanics)--or who knows people injured--or killed by drunken drivers-- will probably change his mind about the wisdom of selling whisky and the rest to the plebes. <br /><br />And at times the history of America does show that the white anglo-saxons used booze to exploit native peoples, indeed to subdue or even rob them. It's not in the George Washington type of pop-history curriculum, but one who reads a bit beyond History 101 will discover it. <br /><br /> Life is not just some pleasure zone for Nabakov wannabes, Faville. <br /><br />I rarely eat burgers, and don't eat pork--but mex. fast food and chicken yes. What of it? Legal. Its' dead anyway, might as use the protein. Vegetarianism a typical leftist moralist fallacy.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-59814234439543895792011-06-13T13:26:22.939-07:002011-06-13T13:26:22.939-07:00Okay, let's try it one more time, just for cou...Okay, let's try it one more time, just for courtesy. <br /><br />The consumption or appreciation of spirits invented in Europe centuries before, doesn't connect the colonials in America to some white anglo-saxon plot to exploit native peoples. The two events are not connected. That's sheer nonsense. You're conflating things which have no relation at all. As a conspiracy theorist, your hunches are bogus. <br /><br />It's not clear what you're trying to make of this crypto-racial connection between Jews and American Indians.<br /><br />And now I'm the "health cop"? Oh--because I disdain junk food. Well, I guess I'll just have to accept that role gracefully, and move on. If you're so attached to burgers that you can't see the caviar for the vodka, I guess that's a big cross to bear.<br /><br />If you're not interested in single malt scotch, why comment anyway? Jeez. It just sounds like sour grapes. You're still all wet.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-41045797365866648172011-06-13T13:12:06.331-07:002011-06-13T13:12:06.331-07:00Irish? English-scots, mainly, ie WASPs. And zioni...Irish? English-scots, mainly, ie WASPs. And zionist in the sense that the puritans/WASPs were closer to jewish than were the irish/catholic immigrants--not anti-semitic, merely a historical fact. Cromwell wanted the jews in England--he was borrowing money from them for one (and jews were involved in the distillery business early on) . Really at times I wonder if you completed any history coursework, CF<br /><br />Had the pilgrims not brought the booze, it wouldn't have been here. And you ignored completely my point on WASPs plying the natives with booze--that may sound corny or "F-troopish" to hipsters, but that happened quite frequently. Like....Pocahontas, CF. Read a wiki for starters: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre_of_1622#Indian_poisoning" rel="nofollow">poisoning.</a><br /><br />For that matter, imbibing hard booze is considered a sin by quite a few religious sects--not only muslims, methodists, some catholics, mormons. Even John Wesley had a point on occasion. <br /><br /><br />Your health-cop concerns are BS, Curtis, though typical of Bay Area liberals.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-65603293849260604492011-06-13T12:55:21.568-07:002011-06-13T12:55:21.568-07:00"Wasp-Zionist"?
Spirits a "WASP ..."Wasp-Zionist"? <br /><br />Spirits a "WASP invention"? <br /><br />Alcoholism has been a big problem for Native Americans, but you can hardly lay the responsibility for that on the doorstep of Irish peasants monkeying around with secret stills in the mud bairns of Ireland four centuries ago. That's nonsense.<br /><br />Your thinking is very confused here, mixing apples and oranges. You can't pull a Burbank on things that have no common DNA. <br /><br />Trying to defend a junk food diet as if it were a form of honest rebellion against upper class pretension is really a pretty silly maneuver, even for you. Just drop it.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-59490305469574921252011-06-13T08:24:49.864-07:002011-06-13T08:24:49.864-07:00Booze is a big part of WASP-zionist ideology, IMHE...Booze is a big part of WASP-zionist ideology, IMHE, jhita. Distilleries were part of the Reformation, really. Cat.s did allow for some wine/vineyards (and are not entirely innocent), yet...liquor was a WASP invention, really, or at least a WASP-hustle--often used to trick/beguile natives in early America (ie, the colonialists would ply the Iroquois or whoever with some firewater a few times, make them happy... after a few months of pseudo-harmony....surreptiously put a bit of turpentine...or arsenic in it, and when they're sick and dying...rob and kill them, abduct/rape their squaws, etc. That happened on numerous occasions--out west as well, e.g. in battles with apaches).Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-42247929163214134142011-06-12T23:17:21.542-07:002011-06-12T23:17:21.542-07:00such decadence and high noble sensibility on the s...such decadence and high noble sensibility on the same page<br />would we think the same if there were no labels<br /><br />we're deceived by ikons<br /><br />no wonder there's no point to poetry anymore<br /><br />taste requires humility<br />and not epicurean delectation<br /><br />to have to place a value on this stuff is quite silly<br />i mean if someone broke in and stole all your precious scotch would it be a devastation or a slight misfortune<br />it gives the truly wretched an excuse for trash talk and little else<br /><br />the false romanticsm of inbibing is the doorway to AA<br /><br />if you're going to drink screw taste screw poetry become a social liability and give the cops something to do<br /><br />the good news is<br /><br /> WV -nonymoda:<br />an anti modal dispensation commonly associated with art that claims no purpose<br /><br />TIME FOR BED<br /><br />jhjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-4031928353499695102011-06-12T21:17:09.657-07:002011-06-12T21:17:09.657-07:00Isn't there like a Single Malt Bible, a refere...Isn't there like a Single Malt Bible, a reference or guide book that tells what to look, smell and taste for when you tipple a malt? I think it's even got a rating system with individual numerical grades for the various outputs of nearly every known label. <br /><br />John McPhee wrote an essay on scotch whisky. I think it was in Pieces of the Frame. He was on his way to Dunsinane Castle and stopped in at a distillery enroute.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061304265345986242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-22352552820896388942011-06-12T14:09:52.471-07:002011-06-12T14:09:52.471-07:00icy Coors--the original sort, not lite-krap-- and ...icy Coors--the original sort, not lite-krap-- and a Big Mac. Ja, Anny. that's authentic, unlike Sir Fagville's gaelick singlemalt and what radicchio and escargot. Or something.<br /><br />Fancy booze decadence?? don't f**k around with anglos--aquavit and some oysters, or kipper, or the good stoli, iced...few puffs chiba....chi-white when its aroundJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-39856639668661679472011-06-12T12:55:05.056-07:002011-06-12T12:55:05.056-07:00where does Boone's Farm &
Inglenook
&...where does Boone's Farm &<br />Inglenook <br />& Cutty & Captain Morgan<br />fit into this diet ?<br /><br />I mean<br /><br />I NEED something to dip my <br />El Producto <br /><br />how about that Red White and Blue<br />or<br />Miller's High Life or for the RICH<br /><br />a frosty COORS<br /><br />to wash down this Big Mac ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-68149566376625641482011-06-12T11:27:23.124-07:002011-06-12T11:27:23.124-07:00Haven't had Ardberg or Port Charlotte (Florida...Haven't had Ardberg or Port Charlotte (Florida?), but I'll try them sometime. Had a Talisker 20 the other night that was quite good. And even enjoy the much different quality, the smoothness, of a Macallan 18.Geofhuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-79513602945159173022011-06-12T10:03:47.848-07:002011-06-12T10:03:47.848-07:00Non sequitur. I don't eat fast food all the t...Non sequitur. I don't eat fast food all the time. And some--say del taco breakfast food, bean/rice/cheese/egg burritos--as healthy as most get in Ozzie and Harrietland.<br /><br />But let me reiterate. Brothers smashing in liquor stores--and I nearly join 'em in spirit (maybe save a bottle or vino. or not). Where the F. is my bow tie??<br /><br />Allah akbarJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-27517619707530854352011-06-12T10:00:33.073-07:002011-06-12T10:00:33.073-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-4485986417033610092011-06-12T09:57:34.675-07:002011-06-12T09:57:34.675-07:00J:
Does one need to be rich to eat healthy?
Obvi...J:<br /><br />Does one need to be rich to eat healthy?<br /><br />Obviously not.<br /><br />Is eating pretentiously exclusively the province of the rich?<br /><br />Obviously not. <br /><br />Wines and spirits can be expensive, but there are hundreds of cheap very good wines out there, if you're willing to look. <br /><br />Hard stuff mixed with fruit juice. Well, what can I say? Variety is the spice of life. If all you needed from booze was to get high, like Bukowski, then it wouldn't matter, would it? That's one thing I never liked about Buk--the drunk for drunk's sake business. Alcoholism doesn't have much to recommend it. <br /><br />Nor does eating hamburgers and fries and burritos, all the time, either.<br /><br />Defending that kind of behavior is probably even weirder. I mean, if you have to dumb down your palate, for financial reasons, it's just a necessity. <br /><br />"As freedom is a breakfast food..."Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-40674698861658945022011-06-12T09:43:51.303-07:002011-06-12T09:43:51.303-07:00I think your preoccupation with faux-epicurean d...I think your preoccupation with faux-epicurean delights such as scotch reveals a lot about the pompous Favillean ideology--for that matter, Jim Beam tastes better than Dewars or the rest. And yeah I eat fast food and avoid westside or SF sort of chi chi eateries. Cheap, hot, has protein. Tommy's---ay. You aren't what you eat, Sir F. <br /><br />Im sure you don't see many working class--or even middle class--at those posh Bay Area scotch/whiskey sipping events (or wine sipping ). So, yes I stick to my original assertion--expensive booze, like expensive cigars--bourgeois, like Schwarzenegger style bourgeois. Nouveau riche<br /><br />Ti Jean Kerouac was content with tokay. Bukowski stuck with vodka, mainly--later a wino, perhaps. Maybe stoli when he had some scratch.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-2842958604920789902011-06-12T09:24:53.539-07:002011-06-12T09:24:53.539-07:00MacDonald's, anyone?
Clearly the shortest rou...MacDonald's, anyone?<br /><br />Clearly the shortest route to inebriation is a bottle of 180 proof whatchamacallit. But for those of us who actually taste what we put in our mouths, that hardly seems like an experience to emulate.<br /><br />I think your populist disdain has let you down a bit, here, J. Good food and drink aren't the province of the rich. Eating overprocessed and underwhelming mass produced fodder is a recipe for mediocrity. I think you're better than that.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-23068659312760534312011-06-12T09:18:55.131-07:002011-06-12T09:18:55.131-07:00For getting f-ed up, one can't beat Everclear ...For getting f-ed up, one can't beat Everclear and 7-up on ice, lemon juice, large like Carl Jr. plastic cup, shot of grenadine if you got 'er. <i>Beautifully unbalanced, yet not incredibly complex, with scents of...citris, and desert zephyrs, the 5 freeway, with hints of diesel, and a hot young mamacita from like Monterey Park.</i> <br /><br /> for gonzo whisky, the good Jim Beam (in moderation). Don't phuck around with the overpriced blimey scotch BS--for like Tory wannabes.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-52748905421629808252011-06-12T09:05:24.833-07:002011-06-12T09:05:24.833-07:00Geof:
Lagavulin's so big, it's routinely ...Geof:<br /><br />Lagavulin's so big, it's routinely rated in the top 5, and many people think it's hands down the best single malt commonly available.<br /><br />The Malt Maniacs site documents thousands of bottlings, and there are certainly rare and wonderful tastes to be had there, unavailable to the average person. <br /><br />The Islay scotches are wondrous. I have some fabulous Port Charlotte, and Caol Ila. When I went to the UK some years back, I bought all I could carry back on the plane with me. Laphroaig is probably a bit over the top in terms of salty-peatiness. I usually refer to its flavor as "old catcher's mitt." <br /><br />Ardbeg produces some of the strongest tasting malts in the world. Many experts and scotch afficionados rate their private bottlings among the best. I like it, but not as much as Lagavulin, Bowmore and Caol Ila.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-66489769079668717892011-06-12T08:05:40.280-07:002011-06-12T08:05:40.280-07:00smashed bugs
the nature of the last indications
of...smashed bugs<br />the nature of the last indications<br />of torchered digestion peaty scotch<br />making a case right to the first<br />morning fart which<br />if anyone would be honest might well<br />be likened to bugs smashed and rotting on the floor<br />take a moment to sniff that<br />and some preoccupation with man's dedication to inebriation as a means of insight<br /><br />that gas one feels after a night of scotch drinking that's the thing that gas that slight headachey contentedness and intestinal cleansing that must ensue and the hinging of the desire upon the possibility of finishing the bottle tonite<br /><br />soem coffee first<br />some clear cool water for drainage<br />and then gas<br />maybe stains<br />not unlike smashed bugs<br />on a rug<br /><br />cigars<br />anyone want cigars<br /><br />ah what poison so mildly delights as this<br /><br />jhjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-18875278350733709842011-06-12T07:19:04.882-07:002011-06-12T07:19:04.882-07:00I am partial to that
clear "stuff" that ...I am partial to that<br />clear "stuff" that we get up in West 'By Gawd' Virginia<br />from Mr. Dingess (& his tree sons who got those abnormally huge heads<br /><br />in Ball Jars it comes<br />& is clear & is called<br /><br /> White Lightening<br /><br />I thing it is made from potatoes a Potato Mash<br /> and is also called Grain Alcohol <br /> Lil Abner called it<br /> Kick-A-Poo Joy Juice<br /><br />they say it can cause blindness ... When is sooooo smothly first goes in/down you can hardly taste it <br /><br />then<br />43 seconds late POW !<br /><br />There is now a very famous song about it<br />that they play at funerals:<br /><br />"I oncet was blind<br />but now I see<br /><br />then they play the bag-pipes <br />and open up their Ball Jars<br /><br />&<br />hotNholler so's that you can hear 'em<br />in the next Valley of the ShaddowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-89378537902750439662011-06-12T06:40:40.589-07:002011-06-12T06:40:40.589-07:00Before reading this post, I drank a bit of Lagavul...Before reading this post, I drank a bit of Lagavulin 16 year last night. We prefer Islay scotches in this household, though I lean to the Lagavulin strongly, and Nancy to the Caol Ila. I think the latter smells something of used motor oil in a hot engine, but Nancy says it reminds her of the sea. No idea how. Caol Ila is too hard core for me, reduced to flatout peatiness, so I prefer the Lagavulin, which cuts that peatiness with something a bit gentler, without going over to full sweetness. I can drink a wide range of scotches, but many seem unpotable to me. I can drink only one bourbon, never really have had Irish whiskey, consider rye a scary thought.<br /><br />My word verification is "cowilwa," which is reminiscent of "Caol Ila" even if that is pronounced "Cull Eela."<br /><br />GeofGeofhuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-86270619632935912172011-06-11T11:18:58.725-07:002011-06-11T11:18:58.725-07:00twasn't me who deleted that first comment
I w...twasn't me who deleted that first comment<br /><br />I was too drunk from my noseinthemalt<br />to find the de-lete button<br /><br />it was all I could do to crawl to the Ice-box<br />to get some ice to drop in the empty glass<br /><br />and to pur another triple-shot from the bottle<br />that I keep in the freezer<br /><br /><br />43 % alcohol sound goodtome... it sure beats the hell out of Near Beer or Near ScotchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com