sorry, i have a boring post about the news but this was really interesting to me

you see, the south carolina constitution only allows for the law to prevent 18-20 year olds from BUYING alcohol.

but once  they have it in their hands, there’s nothing you can do to stop them from drinking it.

probably the most enlightened thing i’ve heard on the subject in a while:

In a statement, McCulloch says the ruling “presents to the General Assembly and ultimately to the voters of South Carolina an opportunity to address the issue of under-21 access to alcoholic beverages in a thoughtful and deliberate way.”

“The constitutional decision to allow 18 year olds a vast array of freedoms, including the ability to fight for our country, suggests that the privilege of alcohol consumption as well should be extended to our citizens who are 18 years old and above,” McCulloch writes.

He says lawmakers, if they revisit the issue, should “look beyond criminalization and resist calls from the pressure groups opposed to alcohol to more productive solutions like education and counselors.”

full story – http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10726099

of course, i’m sure someone here is running afoul of the law – whoever purchased the alcohol in order to give it to the 18 year old is probably violating something or other – but at least the 18 year old isn’t actually breaking the law by drinking.

it’s a new night which means more little bottles of whiskey

the two i’ve tried so far tonight are OLD KENTUCKY TAVERN and J.W.DANT bourbon, both of which were actually stamped with a date. the date was 1956.

that means i’m drinking 53-year-old bourbon. wow

they both taste really good, but i’m beginning to think if you let any whiskey sit around for 50 years it’s gonna end up tasting good.

so this last bottle was called I.W.Harper bourbon, which apparently is more popular in japan than in america these days.

it was also pretty good, but you know, it tastes pretty much just like any other bourbon. i’m beginning to suspect that bourbon snobs are crazy. every one of the four minis i’ve drank tonight tasted just about the same (except the jack daniels i guess). they were all good and all old, and all smooth.

oh well, time to call it a night. not enough hours in the day.

there’s still like 50 bottles left to go through so we’ll have to tackle those some other time

ok so the next bottle of mini whiskey is “old forester” which i had never heard of but i guess they still make whiskey. it was also pretty smooth, not bad.

i think i’ll try one more bottle tonight but then i gotta go to bed

boooooooo

ok so now i am drinking a bottle called “antique” bourbon whiskey. the label says on it “this whiskey is 6 years old” – hahahaha not anymore it’s not!

in fact, according to this bourbon whiskey forum, “antique” was bought by seagrams in the 40s and ceased operations in the 60s. that means at the absolute least this bottle is 50 years old (make that 56 years old).

it’s pretty smooth, i guess a half a century will  mellow out a bourbon.

so we bought a nice desk chair for real cheap from craigslist today. katye went to pick it up, but the girl selling it didn’t have change for 40 bucks, SO she decided to throw in a couple boxes full of old airplane liquor bottles to sweeten the deal.

DEAL SWEETENED.

so tonight is going to be spent sampling these tiny old bottles. i think i will do a running commentary as i try each one.

my first one was a bottle of jack daniels with a green label. i know that’s some variety or other of JD but i don’t know what the difference is. it tasted pretty rough, but i didn’t go blind so i guess it’s ok.

STAY TUNED

so today was a nice day, we went to busch gardens (where they no longer give out free beer by the way, no thanks to their new owners) and then we got home and decided it was time to celebrate whiskey weekend by making some delicious frozen whiskey cocktails.

they are actually very tasty.

here’s what we did:

1. one 12 oz can of frozen juice concentrate (we used raspberry lemonade so far, but we have other flavors to try)
2. 6 oz whiskey
3. lots of ice
4. put it all in blender and wwwsssshhhzzzzzzzzzzzzz
5. drink

it’s awesommmmeeeeee

i saw a recipe for margaritas where they suggested adding 6 oz of beer to the mix, which sounded excellent but we didn’t have any beer and i didn’t want to run back out to the store. OH WELL.

like, ok, when i download some video files from bittorrent, it would be nice if they would at least play properly on my dvd player, is that too much to ask?

i mean,otherwise ahwaht am i staling movies for.

tonight we tired wathing stepbrothers and also the money pit, and neither of them worked. FUCKED.

oh man i was just telling kayte about our cafeteria when i was in high school

we would ocasionally have LO MEIN for lucnh somtimes, which was ok, it was acceptable as far as you can expect high school lunch to be

then, like 2 days later, we’d have “lo mein soup” – i would NEVER eat that

sometimes we’d have these things that were pretty good thoug, they called them the “hurdle special” (i don’t know why) they were a ham and cheese melt ina pastry crust and it usually came with tomato soup. THOSE were really good, in sprte of what you might hting.

kayte is watcfhing freaks and geeks now, i didn’t know that all these fucking dudes were in it. i never saw this show

congratulations, freaks and geeks, your fucking legacy is “I AM A SHARK, SUCK MY DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK”

con gratu-fucking-latiouns

i saw this article via fark this morning and just couldn’t let it go unmentioned.

• mommy wants a drinkypoo

websites where people talk about getting drunk? where have i seen something like that before

these are obviously more sophisticated mommy types, though

THIS IS NO LONGER WHISKEY WEEKEND, OKAY?  I WILL ADMIT THAT I HAD SOME WHISKEY BUT I HAD CONSIDERABLY MORE VODKA WATERMELON.  I ALSO HAD RIBS.  THEY ARE STLL IN MY TEETH I CAN’T FIND ANY FLOSS.  I CANT BE OTHERED TO FIND FLOSS RIGHT NOW, OKAY?  GET OF MYY BACK.

i’m sorry for yelling so much i don’t mean it.  i just get sort of excited.  soooooo excited.  none of you even know that song.  what a bunch of vagina.s  look.  july is only four days in and it’s already been the best month ever.  and next week it will REALLY be the best month ever.  OKAY?  DON”T ARUGE WITH ME IN KNOW WHAT I”M TALKING ABOUT.

i had to listen to some music during the fireworks show tonight.  I dubbed it, “Captain CHeese Dick, Sr”  That’s probably the best desscription that anyone could ever give it.  So I know you know exactly what i’m talking about.  i’m sure that you also listeneed to it during your fireworks display.  unless your fireworks display had considerably less cheese dick than mine did.  which is possible.  I do live in Alabama.  Not for too much longer though, GEEZE