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That Free Silver is a crazy looking cocktail. Citrus and milk, gin and rum?! Really an odd one. This Old Tom cocktail looks interesting and calls specifically for Ransom. There are about 10 Old Tom drinks on Kindred Cocktails you can take a look at.

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 06:48 PM) Whoa, Chief. Actually, I wonder if I would like Old Fezziwig as much if it wasn't one of the first good beers I'd ever had. I wonder the same thing. I'll have to get this year's holiday sampler because 15-20 years ago it was hard to beat Old Fezziwig as a Christmas ale.

QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 5, 2011 -> 06:34 PM) Made a splurge purchase of Ransom Old Tom gin. I hadn't seen an old Tom here before so I grabbed it. Now, what to do with it... I am very jealous, great find. I get Haymans here which might be the more accurate Old Tom interpretation of an Old Tom, but I hear nothing but great things about Ransom. It is going to be spicier than Haymans and it is pot stilled so it will have more depth and heaviness so keep that in mind when adjusti g mixing ratios. As for where to use it, basically any gin cocktail prior to 1900 was much more likely made with an Old Tom or with Plymouth than with the then newer and less popular London Dry style of gin. So reach for the OldmTom for the vintage gin cocktails. With the body and spice of Ransom you can probably substitute that for anything calling for genever as well. It may not have quite the malt backbone of a true genever but it should make very tasty cocktails as a genever sub. My go to favorite Haymans OT cocktqil is a Martinez with these ratios. Give it a spin with Ransom and tell me what you think. - 1.75 oz old tom gin - 1.25 oz sweet vermouth - 2 tsp maraschino liqueur - 2 dashes Ango Stir/strian/up Still one of my favorite classic cocktails.

To be fair, only the third verse of Brown Sugar is about slave rape. The first two verses are merely about whipping the slave girls and the house boy (also a slave) getting some.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 31, 2011 -> 02:54 PM) It was the next one to be added. What surprised me was the Who didn't really have one that fit. I also left off anything by Sublime because I was thinking classic to give it a little focus. And why wasn't there any Doors or Stones? Mother's Little Helper is an obvious one there. Possibly my favorite classic song with an overt drug theme.

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 29, 2011 -> 03:41 PM) I don't know about chipotle in a beer...but I do love smoke! I just bought some Lapsang Souchong tea that is incredibly smokey from the pine wood they smoke the leaves with. I made up a Lapsang simple syrup last night and it is going to go here and here and here tonight.

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 28, 2011 -> 08:54 PM) I have been making my way through the Southern Tier collection. Slowly but surely. I guess the fall (and now early winter) have gotten me off cocktails for little while. In any event, Southern Tier has proven itself worthy of the accolades. A couple must tries are Mokah and Hop Sun (summer seasonal). Mokah smells like chocolate ice cream and the flavor nails it. Truly an impressive brew, and a dessert in a bottle. I also recommend Phin and Matt's Ale which is a nice entry level brew for those uninitiated and others just looking for something simple. I have a bottle of Oat sitting the fridge waiting to be drunk. Their raspberry wheat wasn't too bad either. The only real loser, for me, was Pumking which is considered the best pumpkin ale in the world. The one I had was terrible. Tasted like ginger bread and not in a good way. But obviously I'm alone there. I have plenty more to try from them. Unfortunately, they sell almost everything in bombers so I can't mix up a sixer and take a tour. Oh and if you haven't tried Lagunitas Little Sumpin' Sumpin I recommend you remedy that situation. It's a wheat IPA (or some oddly made up style) but it is essentially a wonderfully malty pale. Plenty of hops for the hop head but a great brown sugar backbone that makes it a pleasing sipper for everyone. Of course, I practically slammed it. The Unearthly and Iniquity IPA's are about the only Southern Tier beers that regularly make it down here. I like them both very much. I also had a bottle of their 2009 Cuvée Series Three that I just drank a few months ago and it was phenomenal.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Oct 31, 2011 -> 11:32 PM) Sam Adams Winter Variety pack is a winner this year. They replaced the White Ale with a coffee stout. 2 each of: Old Fezziwig Holiday Porter Winter Lager Black and Brew Chocolate Bock Boston Lager My only complaint is that this pack is the only way to get most of these beers. Now if it would just snow, it would feel perfect. I agree, having to get the sampler just to get Old Fezziwig etc. is a shame. Now that they have gotten rid of that gawdawful wretched cranberry lambic though, this doesn't look like a bad selection.

QUOTE (The Baconator @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 10:28 AM) Has anyone seen/heard of this movie Session 9 from a few years back? I was looking around and some horror movie lists and it popped up as one of the top 5 scariest. I watched a preview of it and was stunned to see that I just stayed the weekend at that insane asylum a couple weeks ago. Apparently it's filmed at the old asylum in Danvers, MA just outside of Boston; it's since been converted into luxury apartments/condos. The movie itself looks super creepy and I think it would be doubly so knowing that I've already walked around the premises. It's available as a streaming NetFlix movie. I may watch it tonight.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 28, 2011 -> 09:04 AM) James Madison 1) Most influential author of the Constitution 2) Wrote the Bill of Rights 3) Co-wrote the Federalist Papers ^^^

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Oct 27, 2011 -> 11:35 AM) I've never seen it and I call myself a baseball fan...shame on me. I consciously left *61 off the list because it was not a theatrical release, but I should have included it. Great movie.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 27, 2011 -> 12:33 PM) Keep Me In Your Heart is the most obvious (but still awesome) choice for me. Zevon?!!? If so, then you and me both, but that would be more for during the service. For the recessional it would have to be Party For the Rest of the Night from the same album.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Oct 27, 2011 -> 11:36 AM) Paul Leka, a Songwriter of ‘Na Na Hey Hey,’ Dies at 68 I know the PERFECT recessional song for the funeral!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 05:21 PM) False. It's been awhile, but I'm pretty sure while tripping he, connected to his bowling ball, "flies" down the lane and into pins. In the Gutterballs dream sequence he gets swallowed up by a giant bowling ball that does hit pins, but that cannot in any way be construed as him bowling.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 03:26 PM) BASEketball was at least about a sport...a messed up one, but a sport nonetheless. I agree about The Big Lebowski. Bowling was merely a backdrop. And just because they show poker on ESPN doesn't make it a sport. Pawn Stars in on the History Channel, and even though it's a great show there's nothing historical about it. Fun Lebowski Fact: The Dude is actually never seen bowling in the film. I cut my list off at 15, otherwise Kingpin would have crept onto the list.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 12:39 PM) IMO The Big Lebowski should not be on this list. Bowling is just a backdrop of the movie, it isnt the focus of the movie. Superman Returns isnt a sports movie just because he saves a plane from crashing into a baseball game. I love the movie, but it does not belong here Agreed, even though I love the film. QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) Does anyone doubt that Rudy will be #1? It made my list but it wasn't near #1. I assume it will be #1 or #2 because it will make almost everyone's list.

Is "death by misadventure" a uniquely British coroner's category or do we use that here as well? I know that was written on Brian Jones' coroner's report as well.

Damn, Breaking away didn't even cross my mind. Should have definitely made my list.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 21, 2011 -> 12:31 AM) Definitely -- the Ramones certainly had pop sensibilities. The snarky tone was because I just wrote a huge term paper on a closely related subject last spring (but that was more about the political ideologies, or lackthereof, of different eras/types of musicians -- specifically blues, folk/counterculture, and punk), so those quotes I pulled were from books I read for that. douche.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 20, 2011 -> 04:54 PM) I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Letters of Note (it's possibly my favorite Google Reader subscription), but here's a really good one. It's a fax cover sheet sent by David Foster Wallace to Harper's Magazine with instructions on how to edit (or not edit) it. This also reminds me I need to read Infinite Jest. Do that ASAP. Great book.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 20, 2011 -> 11:54 PM) This was also what I wanted to say, but kudos to you for saying it in a much less douchey way than I managed to. I just read your post. Douchey perhaps, but very well-informed. On this side of the Atlantic, the Ramones are the quintessential example of "punks" that never got very far away from pop at all. And bless 'em for it.

QUOTE (Felix @ Oct 20, 2011 -> 09:21 PM) Because the whole point of punk originally is that it was a counter culture to pop and accepted styles of music. The fact that the pop genre has decided to hijack that movement and its sound for their own benefit annoys me to no end. I don't listen to pop music for the most part, so it doesn't really bug me that people don't like the type of music I listen to. Most of my favorite bands (Ween, Mr. Bungle, Zappa to name a few) aren't an easy listen the first time around, which turns a lot of people off of them. It's a completely different musical experience than that of Fallout Boy/any other radio friendly band. I can't speak to any modern incarnations of pop punk, but it was a powerhouse genre that followed right on the heels of the original punk movement (which really was never as far removed from pop as the original punks wanted to think it was). Buzzcocks were total pop punk and they were very relevant and worth paying attention to. And xtc in particular — one of my all-time favorites — began as a loud, shrill, but strangely fun pop punk band.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 20, 2011 -> 10:30 PM) My average per day has dropped the past three years from 28 to 14. My biggest posting time was when Pa, Steff, SS2k5, YASNY, and I all had jobs where we could post during the day. hell we'd have 50 posts each before lunch. lol great times. I would have fired all your asses.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past. And with his crutch, it's old age, and it's wisdom it whispers no, this will be the last. And the wind cries Mary. Good stuff right there. Here's a boatload of examples of personification in modern pop music.