Black Sun

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Black Sun
1/2 oz. white rum
1 1/2 oz. Cointreau
Cola

Fill a shaker with ice, then pour in rum and Cointreau. Shake, pour over ice and then top with Coca-Cola.

For this one, I substituted white rum with my favorite sugar cane rum (brazilian cachaça) and evened out the mix to a 3/4 oz. mix for both liquors instead. This balanced out the almost over-powering taste of the Cointreau and adds a bit of bite on the back end of this drink. Comes off almost like a modified Cuba Libre.

Hennessy Sidecar

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Hennessey Sidecar
1 1/2 oz. Hennessey Cognac
1/2 oz. Cointreau
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice

Combine all the ingredients in a shaker filled with ice, shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.

I approximated the lemon juice by taking a quarter wedge of lemon and squeezing that into my cocktail shaker.

Stupid women suck

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Stupid women. They just really make zero sense to me.

For instance… cute ass girl that was in school locally wanted a “thug”… she got one. Dude done some federal time, went to jail for having sex with a minor, as well as strong arm robbery. Thug out mofo for real, right? Guess what… she got him angry and a year later, her parents are just now finding her remains after he’s been asked and asked by the cops, made a child with another woman – who also liked thugs – and finally gave himself up all because his brother turned him in because of an “off comment”…

However, I’m personally glad that he indeed got caught, the parents can finally have some closure – not the kind they’d rather have – and the guilty get punished.

That’s an extreme example… I’ll give you another though.

One of my boys and his girlfriend of ten years… that’s right, a decade, finally decide to get married. About two years ago when Hurricane Isabella came through (that’s the f***in‘ hurricane that chased me from Charleston, SC to Mechanicsburg, PA and caught me there, but I did get a trip in to Atlantic City, NJ) and destroyed not only her apartment complex, but also half of his original house. They built a house a year later together. Not trying to paint a perfect picture here… dude originally was dirty with shorty. I mean… dirrrrrty. But the last 5 years, dude cleaned up his act, much to the threats of myself and my big friend up in the same area as dude up in VA Beach, and started treating her like the woman she was. This chick… golden as far as I could see. He pops the question… she says yes. A week later, she admits she cheated on him from the time she said “yes” to when she told him.

Damn that’s dirty… but his karma caught up with him I guess.

My problem though… good guys don’t finish first for s**t. I’m not moaning or complaining – this is straight rant – but damn. I’ve all but stopped hoping that I’ll be 100% happy with whomever. Not that I’m overlooking anybody – Del, you’re my babydoll – but I swear it just makes it harder to keep that romantic part of you alive when you see that you had more women interested in you when you were playing the livin’ hell out of them. They flock to you. I went through an asshole period two years ago as well as most of my college years… needed a stick to fight them off.

Decided that I wanted to settle down, be more mature… picked the wrong chick. She decided to run through the crew… oh well. That was actually fun. She got treated like she wanted… treated like a ho. I have no regrets though.

But seriously… chivalry ain’t dead. It’s just that most females don’t deserve it… so they don’t get it. Or better yet, when they get it, they won’t appreciate it.

They’d rather find a man that either doesn’t give them the appreciation they desire, they go for a man that’ll just basically stick and move on them if given the chance, or they’ll go for the insta-happy of flashy money, car, and whatnot; overlooking what they might lack in responsibility or downright “man training”… all because they think somewhere down deep in some misplaced motherly instinct notion that they can actually “change him”.

I got a bridge I’m willing to sell your dumb ass too.

It takes a real man that’s willing to commit to waking up to the same woman day in-day out and willingly go into that knowing that on some days there is no f***in’ way they’re gonna be right about anything, even the way he breathes that day. Oh well… that’s why guys have garages, basements, the outdoors, that ol’ recliner or a project (something) to turn to. Concentrate on the good, take out the negative energy on something else in a constructive manner.

Real women though… you shouldn’t be too upset by what I’m saying. It doesn’t really apply to you. Just don’t be too surprised if the door ahead of you just isn’t held for you each and every time.

Thank the stupid ones for that.

Tuaca-tini

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The recipe? Simple enough.

Tuaca-tini
3/4 oz. Tuaca
1 1/2 oz. Vodka
3/4 oz. Cranberry Juice
Pour over ice in cocktail shaker, shake and pour/strain into martini glass.
Garnish with lemon twist.

For the martini lovers… this is a new twist on things. And I’m a martini lover. For the uninitiated martini drinkers, start with the apple martini and go from there.

Enjoy.

Happy birthday to me

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Man. Usually I make a huge deal out of my birthday; however this one just sorta snuck up on me.

Hell, it took somebody else to remind me of my own birthday.

Oh well… happy birthday to me. Thirty-one years and counting…

12 Steps to Saving America: Part 1

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Let’s face it, America is indeed in a crisis that’s been hid by the current administration under a rug for far too long. I typically shun away from political rants; however it’s time that America prevents an upcoming race, social, or financial dispute that’s bound to erupt here shortly.

If anything, the situation(s) surrounding Hurricane Katrina and the lax manner that President Bush – who was on vacation, per usual, FEMA – who’s been sending conflicting reports to the Hurricane Relief Group that’s local to me, Condeleeza Rice – who was shoe shopping in NYC during this situation in New Orleans, and Dick Cheney – who’s in Wyoming… doing something.

So where to begin…

  • * We have a sagging automobile economy. It’s no longer a time to offer incentives to people that can’t simply afford or need a new car. Open up trade to Cuba and see how badly a whole country needs auto parts for their aging cars. Also, see how a country that’s been US embargoed for nigh 50 years will in-turn buy the American cars that they severely want. Also, this would take away the Hugo Chavez-Fidel Castro volatile situation by injecting much needed money into a country that needs it as well as we probably need them.
  • * The textile industry in the Southeast US is dead. It has been dead or dying for the last 100 years, but the death has been accelerated in the last 10 or so years. Textile mills close almost monthly in areas that depend on those mills for near everything… they’re usually the economic center of these small towns. And they’re disappearing. So this is a two-in-one way to deal with this problem. Legalize textile hemp. That’s right… textile hemp. If done right, the textile hemp could spark two sagging industries at once. It could give the Midwest US farmers something to grow and sell to make money to avoid foreclosure(s). It’ll give the textile workers something to do… but it has to be done right. That means giving the rest of the world no chance to compete in this area. Give the US a 20-year exclusive to textile hemp to be sold in the US. Do not allow imports to be sold in the US for that time to allow for ramp-up, production optimization to optimize profits and distribution, and acceptance of this product. Which leads to my next point…
  • * Legalize marijuana. Over a billion US dollars just to keep people that use this drug, oft referred to as a gateway drug, off the streets. Last I checked, a dude high off marijuana isn’t about to go steal a TV out of a pawn shop window because they need their “weed fix”. You’re likely to find that dude in his mom’s basement laughing at television commercials. Tax it like liquor, disallow it for public use – much like cigarettes – and drop the jail terms… it’ll be sold at your local 7-11. Watch the money come in, Federal Government and street crime drop. No need to use the harder drugs, they’ll have access to this to ween them off. Those that are already addicted to harder drugs, set up paid-for clinics/drug rehab centers for the truly addicted.
  • * Stop white-collar crime with serious punishment. Nothing like a person scared to commit crime. Steal a car, you’re likely to get 5-6 years in a prison. Embezzle a few million dollars or doctor up the books to make your company look golden when it’s actually sinking… you’re likely to get 18 months in a posh jail. If that. All of these high-ranking bank officials that are laundering drug money through the system, a few of them caught, tried, and convicted… those spineless bastards officials will most likely become as extinct as an honest lawyer. Give it a try, what’s corporate America got to lose?
  • * Protect the social security benefits with a more aggressive manner commitment to disallow spending it before it’s been even spent. The US is spending more and more money ahead of schedule, by the time I retire, I’m going to either have to have hit the lottery, gotten married to some rich chick – I’m taking applications, btw – or plan better than what the US government is doing. Preventative measures can be taken, but it’ll mean that money is not going to be spent on frivolous stuff… like the war on terror.
  • * Yes, I said it… the “war on terror” is about as bad as the “war on drugs”. Want to see them terrorist dudes shut up with a quickness? Step out of their country. Let NATO handle them. We pay our dues… let France and Germany send what they think is enough, and just match them. Not a penny more. Not a soldier more. Start giving out incentives for hybrids to companies to develop them, as well as expedite the hydrogen fuel cell car race to get ourselves away from Saudi and other mideast oil countries. Can’t “jihad” on a group that’s not even there… nor cares about being there. Besides, the US has oil reserves in areas that we should start drilling for anyway. And we have access to the oil fields in Alberta Canada that could keep us going for the next few decades at our present oil consumption rates. Even more if we drop it to where we just need oil for lubrication.

And astro-glide.

That’s seven 6 points to start on… I’ll post the rest in a day or so.