First, the pretty boys wussified our punk rock… Then they came for our monsters… And that is not cool, man. I’m not down with the growing trend to recreate modern Vampires as ethical, empathetic beings. This new breed is rationalized as merely misunderstood, nay, reluctant immortals. Immortal beasts challenged by their instinctual vampiric desires and [...]

There are few places on STX that I can truly walk into without reservations. And I’m not referring to those oh, so necessary reservations like “Hey we’d like a table at 8:30″ kind of reservations, I mean the kind of place that doesn’t instill a small level of fear when I order from the menu. [...]

Nice little ditty about our pretty little island by Geraldine Campbell in New York Magazine right now. Oh, yeah, and I get a nice little mention as well. Take a gander….   Here’s a low light hipstamatic picture of the New Aged Gimlet referenced in the article.

Hello there. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I thought that for my first real post in a while I’d throw you guys something that I’m particularly proud of. A picture of my daughter. She’s not only sweet & adorable, but also all consuming. Time, sleep, critical thinking skills… you name it, she’s taken it. [...]

I was feeling very, um, inspired last night. Cheers.

Well, Hurricane Earl has done come and gone and the only setback I really suffered was a night off from work (oh no!) and no power to work on this post. It seems the boys from WAPA have gotten over their fear of the rain and repaired our feeder, so I reckon I don’t have [...]

Up next in this sordid cast of characters is my new friend Payman Bahami of Lifesacocktail.com We met up through Twitter, in fact we messaged about meeting up, unknowingly sitting within 6 feet from each other in a seminar. The new social experience… Payman killed it at the two competitions he entered. Watch out fools, [...]

I know I should be adding more content regularly, but this time I want to blame that bastard Steve Jobs and my ever malfunctioning Macbook for this current delay. I hate that guy…. …. yet blindly buy his products relentlessly nonetheless.

(Disclaimer: pretty much all of the foreign people from foreign lands that I have ever met have generally been super cool. Except when I was in Sacramento. Those folk are terrifying. Onward.) Tiare blogs about cocktails over at A Mountain Of Crushed Ice and I have often been impressed with the drinks she offers up [...]

Continuing on with my gushfest of all things Tales of the Cocktail related, I want to introduce to you a few of the people that made my New Orleans experience taste so much brighter. First up, the aptly named Chad Doll of Bryants Cocktail Lounge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I’m not sure I remember correctly how [...]