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Lizawithazee
12/03/08

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More drinking videos... Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight!

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T.S._delegate
12/03/08

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Goddamn it. Allow me to say that today just sucks, very much. And I'm usually much more optimistic. But between the gawker shake-up and grad school, I'm pretty much ready for a cry-fest. Or possibly getting drunk off my ass.
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T.S._delegate
12/03/08

@T.S._delegate: Turns out Korean food will also do the trick.
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bjonston
12/03/08

@T.S._delegate: Check your wall, TS. ;-)
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Senor_Wences
12/03/08

@T.S._delegate: You can always do both! Shoot for the moon.
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i'm a bottle
12/03/08

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I like some sort of artisanal beer with a shot of Jack Daniel's on the side plus a baker's dozen of those tasty Blue Point oysters with just a twist of lemon. What does that say about me?
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i'm a bottle
12/03/08

@i'm_a_bottle: This was from a NYT article about Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience. It does indeed have something to do with our topic here, albeit tangentially:

Mrs. Clinton has praised Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the former NATO commander, and Mr. Holbrooke, an envoy to the Balkans in the Clinton administration, for their conduct of diplomacy, in which both men socialized and drank with Serbia's wartime leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to gauge his strengths. "You don't learn something from him by pointing at him across the ocean," she told The New York Times in an interview this year.
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Lizawithazee
12/03/08

@i'm_a_bottle: You're too classy for this dump?
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i'm a bottle
12/03/08

@Lizawithazee: You're too kind.
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Lizawithazee
12/03/08

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I'll have uh, what I'M having.....

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krismry
12/03/08

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I plan to shuttle between this Sheila story and the other Sheila stories until she gets her job back or hell freezes. I only click on Sheila stories. This is a protest.
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bjonston
12/03/08

@krismry: Welcome to the Sheila Shuttle Express!

To get drunk in NYC, click here: [gawker.com]

To discuss the publishing industry, click here: [gawker.com]

To discuss the racism of Martin Amis, click here: [gawker.com]

To discuss The Real World Brooklyn, click here: [gawker.com]
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krismry
12/03/08

@bjonston: very handy map! now we can avoid giving nick the devil even one cent's worth of clicks on anything but sheila!
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bjonston
12/03/08

@krismry: Glad you liked it. Shuttle at will.
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BxgrlJeri
12/03/08

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Do people still do amyl nitrate in the bars or are the 90s over yet?
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Lizawithazee
12/03/08

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Red beer-- I think it' s a Midwestern thing-- can really hit the spot in the summer. Beer, tomato juice and -- if you're a lady or just feelin' fancy-- a pimento-stuffed olive.
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SaraRueful
12/03/08

@Lizawithazee: I've heard of those as "red eyes," used in the morning to cure hangovers. I despise tomato juice, though, so never got to try. I was happy with my Big Mac-and-Coke-and-more-sleep technique.
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SaraRueful
12/03/08

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"We didn't come to New York to stay sober." -- Nick, "The Thin Man"

Also, a bartender friend learned her micheladas in Mexico, which involved a salt-rimmed glass, mashed limes (I can't remember what you call it, when you take the wood thing and, uh, mash), and Bud Light. The salt made you thirstier, so you drank more. Mmmm. (The ones with clamato and/or tomato juice? Aack. No gracias!)
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bjonston
12/03/08

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Dear Fellow drinkers:

I have innovated a handy system to shuttle between this here bar and Sheila's other thread about the publishing industry, for your drinking and commenting pleasure. Just grab a drink and click on the link below to catch up with your friends in the other thread.

[gawker.com]

Please don't drink and drive.

Love,

Mr. B
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Lizawithazee
12/03/08

@bjonston: Servicey! Are we allowed to say that anymore?

I'm gawna mix me a Negroni now.
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bjonston
12/03/08

@Lizawithazee: Word.
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bjonston
12/03/08

@bjonston: And BTW, if you liked that, you'll love this here public service announcement.

Welcome to the Sheila Shuttle Express!

To get drunk in NYC, click here:

[gawker.com]

To discuss the publishing industry, click here:

[gawker.com]

To discuss the racism of Martin Amis, click here:

[gawker.com]

To discuss The Real World Brooklyn, click here:

[gawker.com]

With love,

Mr. B

And incidentally, if I get axed for this:

"T'is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
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MaelstromInTheMiddle
12/03/08

@bjonston: Shouldn't that be

Love,

Mr. J

Don't be a troll, Maelly.
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bjonston
12/03/08

@MaelstromInTheMiddle: Huh? Troll? PM me cuz I'm confused now.
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MaelstromInTheMiddle
12/03/08

@bjonston: Oh, sorry, love. I was just correcting your comment in troll fashion. Next thing you know I'll be correcting someone's spelling.
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bjonston
12/03/08

@MaelstromInTheMiddle: Sweetie, as best as I can tell, you ain't got a troll-like bone in your body, so I was confused a bit is all. No worries. I have the same impulse sometimes myself. Something to do with my legal training I guess...
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bjonston
12/03/08

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Barkeep. Hit me again!
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souplines
12/03/08

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it is seasonal for me

winter - scotch (pref single malts)

spring - gin martini stirred not shaken (tanqueray 10 up with a twist)

summer - Gin and tonic

fall - Dark and stormy

in between seasons - guinness

hangover - bloody mary

never before 12:00am

i know i am particular or perculiar but it is how i roll
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souplines
12/03/08

@souplines: hey dumbshit 12pm. booze has affected my cognitive learning
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BookishLookish
12/03/08

@souplines: Huh, I would've thought you were a bourbon guy. We'll have to work on that.
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souplines
12/03/08

@BookishLatkeish: never acquired the taste for bourbon, being english I think has something to do with it
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Calraigh
12/03/08

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Ha! I laugh at such trifling. 4 pints of guinness, or a ''rake'' as is the plural and poitìn and soda. Or if you're feeling cosmopolitan, poitìn and grapefruit. And/or Smithwicks and a couple whiskey chasers at regular intervals. Best to tell your significant other(s) your going on holiday if this is the bent your bender will take.

Suck it NYT!
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Calraigh
12/03/08

@Calraigh: YOU'RE.

ILLITERATE AND GRAMMATICALLY CHALLENGED. YOU GOBSHITE
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Weegee's bored
12/03/08

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jeez . my laptop (toshiba satellite, for the record) which sucked the moment it came out of the box, now has developed a G spot. The screen only stays on if I press down on this one spot just to the left of the touchpad. this makes it really hard to write and drink. i'm going off line now to do the latter. my thumb hurt from pressing down on the G spot while typing this. O balls. c u later
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bjonston
12/03/08

@Weegee's bored: I think what you described was your computer's blind spot. The G-spot is that button you push that makes the laptop tremble and shiver and shake all around until until eventually it shuts itself down around your finger. No?
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MaelstromInTheMiddle
12/03/08

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What I drink in the morning:

Bacardi and any sort of juice, preferably two. That way I can call it breakfast

What I drink in the afternoon:

Whatever Bacardi and orange juice is left over from breakfast and my first Bacardi and Coke.

What I drink in the evening:

Bacardi and Coke.
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MaelstromInTheMiddle
12/03/08

@MaelstromInTheMiddle: What I drink when stressed:

Bacardi and Xanax (Thanks Sheila!)
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MaelstromInTheMiddle
12/03/08

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I should never have switched from scotch to martinis.

-Humphrey Bogart
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bjonston
12/03/08

@MaelstromInTheMiddle: Yeah, I did that math half-way through my first liver; back when the only thing a president had to do to get himself impeached was get a blow job. Now my liver is paté and the whole world's gone to Hell in a hand basket. Fuck, I need a drink.
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MaelstromInTheMiddle
12/03/08

@bjonston: Aww, BJ. Can I call you BJ? Livers are like Gawker avatar. Everyone has one. Come on over and let me make you a drink and let's talk it over.
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i'm a bottle
12/03/08

@bjonston: I read about a study in the Guardian that basically said that coffee drinkers who are also heavy drinkers have less incidences of liver cirrhosis than do heavy drinkers who do not drink coffee. Food for thought.
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bjonston
12/03/08

@i'm_a_bottle: Way ahead of you, buddie. I drink my two to three cups of coffee on a daily basis, religiously! I was thinking of cutting back my intake until I read the same report and then I was like, fuck that, coffee rocks!!! Besides, I come from a coffee-producing country, so the more coffee we consume the better it is for my peeps back home.

At this stage no coffee = no brainwaves for me.

So thank you for spreading the good word!
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