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The Suffering Bastard:
1 oz. gin
1 oz. brandy
juice of 1/2 a lime
dash of bitters ( I prefer Fee Brothers brand)
1/2 oz. bar syrup
shake with crushed ice, pour (do not strain) into a ceramic mug, and top with ginger beer to taste (I use Reeds Extra Ginger; the others I've tried are too sugary).

My "budget" Mai Tai recipe:
2 oz. Meyer's Dark Rum
1/2 oz. triple sec
1/2 oz. orgeat torani
juice of one lime, plus 1/2 shell
Shake with crushed ice, pour into an amusing ceramic mug. Add straw and parasol.

I prefer to jump on the back of one of those Dungeons and Dragons Rust Monster things, so I can swing around and clothesline elves with the beast's tail.

Exactly. You start with a flight of four beers you've never tried before, and follow up with a pint of your favorite.

"Beer is about getting drunk, and nothing else" says the award-winning chef. A logical response to that would be "food is about nothing more than sustenance". I've been a brewer for 20 years now, and I love the artistry and experimentation. I tend to try to duplicate commercial beers that are strongly hoppy, yet…

Fun Fact: Stacey Nelkin was Woody Allen's girlfriend when she was not-yet-legal, and served as the real-life inspiration for the Mariel Hemingway character in "Manhattan".

If you don't want to spring the big bucks for the Neat Stuff box set, I'd recommend picking up the "Junior and the Other Losers" trade paperback collection used, on Amazon third party or wherever. It has all of the Chet and Bunny Leeway stories, and what I consider to be the single greatest comic of the whole Neat…

Martini Baton is one of the most blasphemous and outrageous comics I've ever seen. Bagge didn't write it, though, he only illustrated.

I've read and re-read Everyone Is Stupid Except Me many times, while I've slogged through the fictional books he did around the same time (Other Lives and Apocalypse Nerd) only once. The terms "Libertarian" and "Reason Magazine" are justified red flags, but that work is as funny and insightful as anything he's done,…

There are a few other sculptures of the Beast of Busco out there. I only learned about it last year, when I was researching cryptids for the series I'm doing. And I've learned of a few more, just from browsing these comments today.

Thanks big spender, I'll mail it out tomorrow.

I've been sculpting, casting, and selling cryptids over the last year for the Art-o-Mat vending machines. They're all from North America, and so far there are 12: Bigfoot, Mothman, Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Loveland Frogman, Beast of Busco, Pope Lick Monster, Skunk Ape, Hopkinsville Goblin, Dover Demon, Fresno…

When I lived in Williamsburg (hey, shut your pie-hole, it was the only neighborhood I could afford in the 90's), the ice cream truck that passed our window every evening was the "Kool Man". I ran out there many times to buy a $1 cone. 25 cents extra to dip it in chocolate-flavored wax. That's what sets the New York…

Shortly after he announced his departure, he mentioned in an interview that he couldn't bear the thought of covering another election cycle. It's all too ugly to investigate on a daily basis.

Let us make a distinction between the ass and the rectum. If you have a shitrectum, then that's perfectly normal. We all do it, nothing to be ashamed of. But if you have a shitass, then that means you don't wipe your ass very well.

Some great set pieces, but it's ostensibly a musical, and I'm not into the Paul Williams score.

No zombies. Or werewolves.

Two things I like about the Fury are the location scenes of the Chicago area (including Old Chicago an indoor theme park I went to with my family in '76 and was closed a couple years later), and the money shot at the very end. Actually I like the whole movie quite a lot, but I only picked five out of a huge catalog of…

My Five Essentials: Sisters, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double.