These are a few of my favorite things

[featherynscale]

A few resources, stashed away for later.

List of American Mead Association commercial mead producers in the U.S. Proof the gods have a rough sense of humor: despite my affinity for honey and honey products, I am a mean honey drunk. I have special treaties with rum, can hold my whisky with no more ill effect than a tendency to make pronouncements and challenge people to contests, and tequila does not make my clothes fall off. But mead or Barenjager, my favorites, make me depressed, surly and/or vindictive. Nonetheless, a treat to be savored, just in smaller quantities.

Monstropedia. From the wanderings of digibri, an online editable guide to monsters of all stripe. Since apparently, my totem animal is Monster, I'm there.

Kansas City Food Circle is an organization that hooks up local farmers with local food buyers. They're having a big expo event on 3/24 that I'm hoping to be able to sneak out to for a bit in between my other responsibilities of the day. Part of the eating better initiative.

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[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

can hold my whisky with no more ill effect than a tendency to make pronouncements and challenge people to contests...

What sort of contests?
Slaying the Calydonian Boar?
Obtaining the girdle of Hippolyta?
Seeing how many playing cards you can toss into a hat across a room?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I try to start with things like the third and work my way up. Fortunately, I usually go to sleep before I get to any legendary monster challenges. Mostly games, though -- cards, trivia (I am particularly enamored of the little trivia machines you can play with at places like Buffalo Wild Wings), chess, so on. Also wordplay, arguments, general oneupsmanship, and in rare cases, singing. It's not pretty, but it's not particularly destructive, either.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

chess, so on. Also wordplay, arguments, general oneupsmanship, and in rare cases, singing.

I feel a need to get you drunk on these avoidance items just to get you to do this... It sounds fun! ;-p Unless of course, the surly part comes when you lose such games or are you the one whose coordination and mental acuity increases with alcohol consumption?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I am the one who gets quicker and sharper with drinking. And I will be delighted to drink and play games with you any time. It's an excellent pastime, in my humble opinion.

Surly seems to happen only when it's honey-based. It mostly seems to be related to a 'nobody loves me' or 'nobody wants to fuck me' mentality. It's pretty wretched, and I recognize that I'm doing it, but get powerless to stop it. So I have learned: two glasses of mead or two shots of Barenjager is my limit.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

I imagine you would be exceptionally good at playing "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen", a favorite drinking game.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an absurd amount of fun, actually.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

The game is out of print, but it's not very big. Drop an e-mail to gamera_spinning@yahoo.com with the address of the house, and I'll put a photocopy of it in the mail if you like.

Will do.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nifty! Thank you for continuing to provide us with weird geeky stuff. :)

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

And I will be delighted to drink and play games with you any time. It's an excellent pastime, in my humble opinion.

I think perhaps we should make a date of it (so to speak) after the show, which, btw, I need to post about. :-)

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Any time you get into a 'nobody wants to fuck me' mentality, give me a call. I'm sure we could work something out.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You're so sweet!

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

We have a lot of very, very good mead. Including a couple of bottles of a reserve that's amazing stuff.

There's an awesome place in Boulder whose 'reserve customer list' we're near the top of.

Joel used to (maybe still does?) run the main mead email list out there.

[crookedface.livejournal.com]

My favorite drink for years was the snakebite--Yukon Jack and lime juice. I kept a bottle of whiskey around at all times for sore throats, too. Then I started getting a headache every time I drank some--a single drink was all it took.

So now I have no favorites. I'm looking to begin brewing beer and mead and would love to learn how to make hard cider. I just have to find a place to store the carboys.