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		<title>Block on Fish and Poison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You drink like a goddamn fish,&#8221; Charlie said. &#8220;That&#8217;s nothing. I swim like an alcoholic.&#8221; &#8211; Lawrence Block, writing as Sheldon Lord, 69 Barrow Street &#8220;He got the hell away from Sondra’s place and the Gila Monster and found a bar, a nice ordinary bar where the customers were quiet, clean-shaven alcoholics and liquor was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballard on Thirds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I finished my Scotch, already thinking not of the next drink, but of the one after that.&#8221; &#8211; J. G. Ballard, Millennium People]]></description>
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		<title>Hastie on Literary Tastes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It tastes like licking a library book from 1964.&#8221; &#8211; John Hastie, after drinking Jeppson&#8217;s Malört]]></description>
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		<title>Sours Are Sweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to appropriate the vernacular of today&#8217;s youth. To wit: the Pisco Sour. Being snowed in, these made quite the tonic for cabin fever. (Followed by fondue, if you must know.) Given a bartender who mixes these correctly, home would become but a distant memory. 1 1/2 oz. pisco 3/4 oz. lemon juice 1 oz. heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Object Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ . . . on the danger posed by Bailey&#8217;s Irish Cream. Puzzlingly, the offender was French.]]></description>
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		<title>Your Big Cocktail Is Nothing to Brag About</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catching up on some 2010 reading that I had heretofore missed&#8211;will my manservant ever catalog the periodicals correctly?&#8211;I find that Wayne Curtis shares my aversion to supersized cocktails. Small cocktails were favored for a simple reason: they stay chilled from beginning to end. Few things are as unappealing as a Martini that’s warm when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willeford on Greed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I give you a beer, and now you want an egg in it, for Christ&#8217;s sake.&#8221; &#8211; Charles Willeford, Sideswipe]]></description>
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		<title>A Lump of Coal for These Christmas Spirits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the worryingly named Eatocracy (phonetically closer to autocracy than democracy; I suspect they intend the latter whilst I prefer the former), it is suggested that guests may be adequately provided for with a slapdash, mix &#8216;n&#8217; match drinks philosophy &#8212; although to call it a &#8220;philosophy&#8221; does it too much credit. In fact, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poetry of Gin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man of my acquaintance mailed George Bilgere&#8217;s very fine poem, &#8220;The Return of Odysseus,&#8221; to another man (also of my acquaintance), with its excellent description of how a household hero&#8217;s wrath is salved: I slammed the door. I threw down my book bag in this particular way I have perfected over the years that lets my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These Christmas Cookies Are Not for Tots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Designated Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the electronic mail, from a relative in the McCulloch clan, a recipe for &#8220;Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies.&#8221; While I cannot personally recommend tequila for yuletide consumption, this does recall to mind injuries sustained whilst baking macaroons in the company of 16-year-old Lagavulin. Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies   1 cup of water 1 tsp baking soda [...]]]></description>
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