After gagging on my sushi & ginger-ale during the CNN segment “Year in Judgements” I’m going to share some things. Screw year-end reviewing or Top [multiples of 5] lists! Below are 11 things I think you should know about / be apart of because damn it woman, the end of 2011 is NOW (or soon)! So hop on this future train, we have cocktails!
11) Thought Catalog
One of the best content experiences on the web. Self described as a tribe of “nobrow and nonpartisan [writers]. We don’t take any of this or ourselves too seriously. Culture is our politics.” It’s like the JV squad for McSweeney’s . Spunky, snarky, QUEER and focused on spring chickens like me.
READ: Anything that Mila wrote
10) Stop saying “awesome-sauce” or “amaze-balls”
No really. Just. Stop.
9) Home-Made Simple Syrup Save Cocktails
Here’s the secret to simple syrup. It’s fucking simple! As the token irishman in most of my social circles, the thought of being in charge of the siggy drink @ a party makes me sweaty. However, holiday cocktails at one Lee Lee Sobiesky’s house (that’s a pseudonym of my pal Lee Lee who is in no way related to the actress of Glass House) were a huge success! The secret was in the sweetner!
DRINK: The Moscow Mule
| For the Syrup -> |
For the Cocktail -> |
2 parts water
1 part sugar
3 inches of ginger sliced SUPER thin
1.5 (ish) teaspoons mixed peppercorns
* Boil the water
* Add the sugar & stir & until all of it disolved.
* Add your ginger & peppercorns.
* Keep a rolling boil for 30-40 mins.
* Bottle it & fridge it over night. |
Your KICK ASS Simply Syrup (KASS)
Ginger Beer
Good Vodka
Lime Juice (freshly squeezed dummie!)
Fresh Mint Sprigs
ICE |
Note: Copper Mugs are awesome but not everyone has those – so regular high ball glasses will do.
1) Combine Ice, 1 shot of KASS, 2 Shots of Vodka, 1/2 Lime’s worth of juice & Stir
2) Top with a spash of Ginger Beer
3) Twist Sprig of mint and run it along the rim. Then add into the drink as a garnish.
4) Get WASTED
8) Feminist Frequency
I will not objectify this brilliantly intelligent & well spoken woman. I will mention that she’s really pretty & it’s oodles of fun watching her nice lips spit truths with a critical eye on the media.
VOTE: Anita’s been nominated for Women’s Media Center Social Media Award & I think she should win
7) Michelle Tea for XOJane
If you read this and thought “Who is Michelle Tea?” a) how are we friends? b) run do not walk to go read her stuff RIGHT FUCKING NOW. If you read this and thought “That’s so 5 mins ago/1990s/been done” a) how are we friends? b) run do not walk to go read her stuff RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
6) Femme Realness
I feel like glitterbombs are exploding in my heart – which is to say – the first rule of this group is that there is no group. But you should know that I found the most awesome supportive community! Other rules include kindness, sale codes, advice, sex work, politics, queer/queer love, depression, SHOES, falling in & out of love, moving, oil cleansing routines…I could go on…BUT THIS GROUP IS PRIVATE! And amazing! Thanks to afro titty and Bevin for inviting me to it! Sadly if you want to join this collective you’ll have to read the rules. One which states members must drag for your life – so as Rue says “You Better Werk it Gurl”
WATCH:: A video about Glitter or Fight Club or Rue Paul’s Drag Race
5) ALL of 30 Rock on Netlix
I could quote this show. But emily does it better.
READ: I gave him top front on tumblr.
4) SOPA / PROTECT IP = fuckin scary!
these two acts of government lunacy should scare the living daylights out of you. They break everything about how we use the world wide web!
PETITION: The president to veto this nutter.
3)My Wife’s Ass
I went to this amazing workshop at Re/Dress (#rip, #missyou) run by Glenn & Hana dubbed “We need your Fat Imagination”. Now I’m biased bc I already like both of them as people but I must tell you, this body positive workshop truly helped feung shui my soul. A circle of chairs, two fantastic facilitators, oreo cookies and I opened my mind and my mouth, learned more about myself and my relationship with my body in one evening than I have in the years of therapy! It was an awesome workshop – small and intense. Hana and Glenn have also created an amazing show along the same lines dubbed “My Wife’s Ass”
DONATE: By sending them a paypal donation :)
2) Fat Girl web series
I finally understand how people in the MTV show RealWorld in the late 90s felt. You can really forget that the camera is in the room. At the amazing workshop mentioned in #3 “We need your Fat Imagination” there was a camera attached to a lady’s face. She bounced around and shot all sorts of footage. At first I felt the lens on me, but because Hana & Glenn are such amazing group leaders, the person with the camera faded away. Until the work shop was over. Then I met the creative brains behind the internet videos known as Fat Girl web series. One min shorts that sum up a lifetime of what it feels like in a larger than life body. She’s now accepting cupcakes and video streams.
WATCH: Fat Girl web series
1)Book Club
I love to read. Too much in fact. That the idea of being hulled away between a blanket, cup of tea, and a book sounds infinitely more exciting than going out and meeting the woman of my dreams. Sometimes the only thing that can break me of this desire to read words on a page is oodles of pretty girls, drinking, and talking about words. Thankfully all of these things are present @ BiblioDisco! Between talking about books & hitting on poets @ the Bowery Poetry Club Tuesdays I can feel fulfilled and social in ways that I didn’t think possible!!
START: A book club. NO really! It’s awesome! Wine, booze, borads and books; it’s a perfect combo!