Things That Please Me

This drink is called unicorn blood. Which I guess makes that unicorn a vampire. And if I write the unicorn vampire trilogy, I will never have to work again...

Rough Day at the Office

Dorito and Champagne Night

With the lovely loon. With a shout out to the SteeJos!

Overheard in New York

"What is the difference between an appletini and a French martini?"
"Easy. An appletini tastes like apples. A French martini tastes like French people."

This is what a French martini tastes like:


Or, at least, that's what I think a French martini tastes like. The internet and the woman who Mrs. K and I struck up a conversation with after her "tastes like French people" comment think that it involves pineapple juice and Chambord.

I take the fact that the restaurant we found ourselves in 20 minutes later had the pictured wall of lillet is the universe telling me that I'm right.

Cambridge Culinary Delights

So, since I no longer even fit into my fat pants, I'm trying the cleanse again - no pasta, no booze, no sugar, no fried. So of course, I'm watching the Phantom Gourmet and thinking of things I would like to be eating and drinking. Here is a short list of my local favorites. Enjoy for me.

• Guacamole at Olé
  
• Rosemary Truffle Fries at the Cellar
• Bacon Cheeseburger at Casablanca
• Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese at Upstairs on the Square
• Lobster Pot Pie at the Red House
  
• Lavender Cosmo at Om or the Grapefruit Cosmo at Daedalus
  
• Cupcakes from Sweet (which has almost made me forget my beloved Baby Cakes in Quincy)
• Hot chocolate at Burdick

and since it's breakfast/brunch time right now

• coconut french toast at Zoe's
• Canteen B.L.T. at the Canteen
• Anything at all at Petsi Pies

Sigh.

Did I already do a list of phrases I'd like to bring back?

If yes, I would like to add to it "Mercy" - as in this tweet from Rachel Maddow: How have I lived this long without ever eating a roasted po' boy before? Mercy.

If not, the other ones on my theoretical list are

• My eye (my grandmother used to say this - as "in honest politicians, my eye!")
• My stars (or my stars and garters)
• Golly Moses (Grace Kelly pulls this off in High Society)
• Tight (for inebriated)
  
• Doll (so much better than chick, though I don't know why)
  

I definitely watch too many old movies.

Things That I Know Aren't Practical in 2010, But Mad Men Still Makes Seem Strangely Appealing

• Architectural Undergarments
• Beehive Hair-dos
• Men in Fedoras
• Three Martini Lunches
• Smoking
  

Julia's Twilight Drinking Game

Rules:

• Go to a bar and have your friend explain everything that has happened in the books/movies so far, because you have been living under a rock and have no idea what they are about.
• Go to a matinee of Eclipse (preferably having cut out of work early, but it's okay if you just have your office close early for the holiday weekend)
• Bring Jack Daniels
• Drink whenever someone says Bella or Edward, meaningfully stares or sparkles.
• We added "during lengthy speeches on a Victorian concept of a woman's virtue" for obvious reasons.

warning - we ran out of whiskey about 3/4 of the way through the movie, and would have added "when all the vampires appear on a hill looking like a Vogue Shoot" but were significantly out of luck.

ps - for those keeping score, I am definitely on team Jacob. Robert Pattinson's eyebrows creep me out.