Hell YES, Martinis! It made me really, weirdly angry, this year. I've been paying taxes all my life, so it was a little weird. But I kept thinking about AIG bonuses, and...
I can relate ... the AIG thing and all the rest of the bank bailout bullshit ... I need a bailout, dammit!! :\
My exclamatory question regarding your choice of done-with-taxes-drink had mainly to do with the fact that I LOVE MARTINIS ... I know that I really shouldn't admit this as freely as I do, but 007 has always been a bit of an obsession for me, and 'shaken, not stirred' was the first legal drink I ordered on my 21st!! Of course, that Vesper that I drank on that anniversary a couple of years ago did leave me in such a state ... you can ask J about that adventure ... oh dear ... :) :)
We are in Seattle on Sunday ... :( ... BUT! we'll definitely take a raincheck on this one ... :) ... sometime next week maybe ... and we'll bring the olives!! :) :)
William Powell, in The Thin Man: "The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to foxtrot time, a Bronx to two-step time, but a dry martini you always shake to waltz time."
Well now, there's an alternate history for you -- Shakespeare's son Hammet [sic] lives, grows up to be a playwright, and invents the hard-boiled Elizabethan revenge tragical-comical-historical-pastoral.
If I could rattle off faux-Shakespeare and had a good mental dictionary of place names, I'd write you a pastiche of the opening lines of Red Harvest, about how Personville is called Poisonville. But that's also an alternate history for you.
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:56 am (UTC)MARTINIS???!!!
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-16 02:38 am (UTC)My exclamatory question regarding your choice of done-with-taxes-drink had mainly to do with the fact that I LOVE MARTINIS ... I know that I really shouldn't admit this as freely as I do, but 007 has always been a bit of an obsession for me, and 'shaken, not stirred' was the first legal drink I ordered on my 21st!! Of course, that Vesper that I drank on that anniversary a couple of years ago did leave me in such a state ... you can ask J about that adventure ... oh dear ... :) :)
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:55 am (UTC)I don't think . . .
Date: 2010-04-16 04:03 am (UTC)Btw-- I heart Aster.
Re: I don't think . . .
Date: 2010-04-16 04:12 am (UTC)>> Btw-- I heart Aster.
Not only lovable, but she's also the most famous dog in the NYT crossword.
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Date: 2010-04-16 04:31 am (UTC)Re: I don't think . . .
Date: 2010-04-16 04:39 am (UTC)Re: I don't think . . .
Date: 2010-04-17 12:36 am (UTC)If I could rattle off faux-Shakespeare and had a good mental dictionary of place names, I'd write you a pastiche of the opening lines of Red Harvest, about how Personville is called Poisonville. But that's also an alternate history for you.
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