wheee!

[thehefner]

I've always been rather impressed by your boundless capacity for rage at people who have no joy. It's adorable. :)
-- charisma18, regarding my last post.

I'm so used to being teased by so many people, I can only say that I think I was just given an awesome and observant compliment. I've never thought of myself that way, but it makes perfect sense. Pay close attention, future John Hefner biographers!



My first-ever Long Island Iced Tea is a success. I imagine it's helped that I used Bombay Sapphire and my expensive (and running low!) Jose Cuervo Tradicional tequila; as with martinis, I suspect this is the kind of drink where you really should break out the fancy stuff. Man, this really does seem like the middle class martini. I can't imagine Smokey, Dino, or Ol' Blue Eyes drinking this, could you? It's always seemed more like the drink of choice for Girls Gone Wild and dejected housewives. But that could just be me remembering that SIMPSONS episode...

I made this drink for three reasons: 1.) I didn't want to try it out at my party and be knocked out too quickly, 2.) tomorrow (or later today, rather) I may have around $1,000 worth of car repairs to my struts and/or suspension, (The god damn ice and snow recently did a real number on my car, I suspect) and 3.) while my car is being repaired, I'll be spending allllll day with my father, who lives right near the Exxon where they'll be working on it. Whoop-ee.

But right now, I can't really feel my face. And that's not a bad thing at this particular moment in time. Although as my fingers get more and more numb, I'm finding difficulty typing out this entry. I honestly tried to just make a small one, but even that one put me on my lush ass. Perhaps I'm in over my head here.

I wonder how a Long Island Iced Tea would taste with Captain Morgan and/or pineapple juice. Not to mention if I Brita-filtered the vodka. Hmm. Any other suggestions?

Whoop, to quote Gary Larson, there goes my head. Time for bed, methinks.

Note to self: need more Cap'n Morgan and Jose Cuervo Tradicional...

Comments

[heykidzcomix.livejournal.com]

Brita filtering only has psychological effects on the taste, not anything substantial. Filtering can make a bad vodka better, but it can't make a bad vodka good.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Really? Now that's interesting.

While I would have experimented with a bad vodka, just to see the effects, I would have actually used Smirnoff as my drinking vodka. What would the effects be there, do you think? Would it improve the taste?

Or are you saying it's a placebo effect?

[kwsapphire.livejournal.com]

Long Islands are a great way to get drunk, but it all depends on how strong they are, and for me, what mood I'm in. And yes, good liquor will make the long islands smoother, though I think chilis uses all bottom-shelf stuff and they're tolerable. Lately I've just been doing shots of straight rum, chased by coke, to get buzzed. I don't actually like the taste of alcohol, it's just easier that way. *rambling* Yay Benadryl! *eyes glaze over*

[torberg.livejournal.com]

Mythbusters did a few episodes that included vodka myths, and one of the ones was whether charcoal filtration can improve cheap vodka.

The bottom line was that there would be some improvement of the taste, but it still wouldn't match a top shelf vodka.

[fiveseconddelay.livejournal.com]

I found the more its mixed, the less expensive it need be. However, bottom shelf tastes like bottom shelf no matter how much its mixed.

[gore-whore-5.livejournal.com]

In a few months, I want you to make drinks for me so I can see what kind of bartender you've become. I promise not to get totally shitfaced again.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm not so certain that's a good idea, least of all being that I don't know how to make anything that will keep you from getting shitfaced. All my drinks are, like, pure alcohol. Which is why I don't drink them too often after I've experimented making them the first couple of times.

[gore-whore-5.livejournal.com]

Okay fine. Just one drink per party then.

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that comment is so perfect.

Also, this is not related to your numb-facedness, but I'm going out as I type this to try to rent "The Ninth Configuration". I'll let you know.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh huzzah! Good luck! If you don't find it, I'll comPLETEly understand.

Yeah, I'll... I'll simply say that you never have and never will see a film like that again. It's strange in a way that no film has ever been strange.

Also, if you get the DVD, watch the alternate ending. That's the ending that was on the VHS, and it's the one I prefer.