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first thing: i love scotch

or, at least, i love speyburn highland scotch. i won’t pretend to be an expert or to even have a full set of taste buds at my disposal, but i have learned a thing or two. these, i will share with you now:

• scotch is whisky from scotland. only from scotland. and it is always spelled whisky, never whiskey.

• it must be from one of four regions of scotland: highland, lowland, speyside, and islay. (fuck you, campbeltown!)

• the first known reference to scotch attributes its distillation to an order of monks. oh those wacky friars, if only they were so cool today..

• it is stored at room temp and best served on ice or with a little splash of water. i prefer water.

at first i was shooting it like everything else i drink and it was a bit painful and unpleasant. once i learned that it was meant to be mixed with water, i realized that it actually tastes really good. i also like that i can drink it slowly and feel the buzz come on gradually over the course of several slow swallows. it’s made getting drunk the past few nights altogether different. i also find that i’m less intoxicated by the end of the night.

second thing: pinball history is fantastic!
props to dr mcdougal for this.

from the article:

“In New York, the pinball ban was executed in a particularly dramatic fashion. Just weeks after Pearl Harbor was attacked, Mayor Fiorello Henry La Guardia issued an ultimatum to the city’s police force stating that their top priority would be to round up pinball machines and arrest their owners. La Guardia proceeded to spearhead massive Prohibition-style raids in which thousands of machines were rounded up in a matter of days, before being dramatically smashed with sledgehammers by the mayor and police commissioner. The machines were then dumped into the city’s rivers.”

i can only imagine that the archaeological expeditions of some future civilization might lead to the conclusion that the natives of manhattan were known for their ritual sacrifice of large mechanical idols in the hopes of appeasing the vengeful river god, hudson.

third thing:  a simple , unintelligible list

1. washington irving meets charles babbage (also edward belamy – looking backward)
   
2. prague, winter king and queen, rudolph, voynich manuscript, john dee (mckenna lecture)
3. the golem and the babylonian captivity
4. liminal wiki – convert from evernote to wiki; stories read, names to follow, influences and resources
5. testy culbert.
   

time to go…

Tags: if pinball list scotch

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