December 5th, 2008: 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition

Good Lord, I’m fucked up.

The Week in Cool 11-9-08

Autumn is such a wonderful time of year! The falling temperatures, the leaves changing color, the shift from summer to winter clothes. I can finally order hot cocoa and not be looked at like a frickin’ lunatic. I’m lovin’ it, like a cheesy McDonald’s ad campaign.

November has particularly gotten off to a good start. I’ve been working on new projects, got some things in the pipeline, and I’m finally gaining some semblance of stability. The past week has been an historic one, as you all should know. So for me, it’s been gratifying on both a large and small scale. Here’s what went down and what was cool this past week:

Team Liquor: Moe’s Brooklyn

May as well post my Yelp blurb about Moe’s here.

For those who don’t know, Moe’s is my favorite bar in BK. Awesome staff, great prices, cool clientele. Gotta thank Sheila G for putting me on. And yes, to my friends who receive those mid-day drunken texts … and sometimes those late night drunken texts … nine times out of ten, I’m sending them from Moe’s.

From Yelp:

Before I even moved to BKNY, one of my good friends invited me to drinks at Moe’s. I so fell in love with the staff, the atmosphere, the drinks, that when I finally moved into the nabe, Moe’s became my watering hole of choice.

Team Liquor: The Bomb Bloody Mary

Those that know and love me know that recently I’ve taken up with that classic alcoholic beverage known as the Bloody Mary. While I’d always liked the Bloody, it was never a major component of my repertoire until a few months back when, on a flight to Miami, I had a few on the aeroplane. The one I had on the plane was the bootleg version — vodka and tomato juice, viola! It got the job done.

However, being a massive proponent of brunch culture, as I began ordering Bloodys instead of mimosas on Sunday (and sometimes Saturday) mornings with my omelets, I realized that there was much more to the beverage then I’d originally thought. It was just my lucky (inside joke, not a typo) that two weeks ago on my birthday, I found a recipe for the bomb Bloody Mary on Lifehacker. And so I finally enjoyed the bomb Bloody for the first time this past Sunday. Why’d I wait two weeks to enjoy the bomb? Well you’ll just have to hit the jump to find out, now won’t you?

House of Reps to Negroes: “Yeah … sorry about that whole SLAVERY thing.”

What, nigga?! We said, Sorry!

Iono how I’m supposed to feel about this, black people. Maybe I should run to the rooftop of my brownstone and scream, “It’s about time!!” Or maybe I should head back to Moe’s and have more alcoholic beverages in celebration. But in any case, the US government — well, the House of Representatives — is finally going to issue some sort of apology to all us American Negroes for shit such as slavery, Jim Crow, injustice, cruelty, brutality, inhumanity, and other expressions of general racism. But I’m a little too drunk to really get snarky with it, so I’ll just post the entire article from CNN, which you can find after the jump.