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Hermione Granger ©

20090720.0252 #illustration

Your soul is as dried and withered as the books to which you so cleave.

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Untitled Hard-Boiled Science Fiction

20090719.1541 #writing

[Note: I started writing this (in a radically different form) a long ass time ago. It's high time I sat down and finished it. So, here's part one of the final beta version before I attempt to get the sucker published. ~el jo]

Novara is not a planet for nice girls like me. It’s a dead rock littered with drunk and desperate men. I met my contact in one of the seedier dives on the outskirts of the urban decay. He perched on a barstool and clutched a drink like a molting raptor. I eased up to the bar and ordered two shots of juscou from a bartender with shimmering purple eyes. Maybe they were violet. The willowy barkeep wore his Valosian heritage seductively. The gnarled up bird man on my left wore his heritage like a cadaver. I took my first shot. Bang! The fumes alone were enough to evacuate my sinuses. That is potent little water!

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Poor Man’s Singapore Fling

20090718.1806 #booze

Now that I’m graduated, I don’t have the Federal cash flow I once did. (Actually I owe about $20 K for student loans. Not as bad as it could be.) So that means my liquor cabinet doesn’t get refilled as often as I’d like. But I just rediscovered my RTF file of mixed drink recipes and I thought I’d share a quick and relatively cheap drink.

Throw a couple cubes of ice into an old fashioned glass and mix:
2 oz. gin
2 oz. sloe gin
splash lemon juice
top with orange juice

It doesn’t really compare with the original Singapore Fling. (Which for some reason hasn’t yet been transferred over from my old site. I’ll have to remedy that soon.) But if all you can afford is a bottle of gin and a bottle of sloe gin, and you forgot to stock up on tonic, this is an awesome little drink.

el jo