Posted in G&G Videos, Spirits on Jan 22nd, 2011
Before setting sail for battle, it is best to drink rum. And a shitload of it. In fact, why don’t you light it on fire first to add a bit of toasty courage to your gullet (video below)? So goes the wisdom of the Ron Cremat. This past weekend, my wife and I were once […]
Posted in NYC Events, Spirits on Sep 7th, 2010
All the birds sing words and the flowers croon. In the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room. That’s how the song went. And really that’s all I remember of the words, but the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland still sticks with me vividly. Images of singing robotic birds, steamy jungles and Polynesian gods made into […]
Posted in Spirits on Aug 10th, 2010
1920-1933. Prohibition sucked the nightlife out of the scene like one does an oyster from a shell. But the party raged on…albeit behind secret doors and fueled by often dangerous concoctions of bathtub gins and white lightning. And so, many American simply crossed the border to Havana, Cuba where the party heated up in broad […]
Posted in Spirits on Jul 27th, 2010
“Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water. Dark and dusty, painted on the sky. Misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eye. Country roads, take me home. To the place where I belong.” -John Denver Every country has it’s hillbillies. Its backwaters where the yokels live by their own rules. For Brazil, these people are called […]
