Cocktail Painting — The Nighthawk
Evoking stark contrasts between light and dark, and between loneliness and community, Nighthawks is a famous 1942 painting by Edward…
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Ask Your Fortune — The Magic 8 Ball
Answering important questions (and not so important) questions with twenty possible answers, the Magic 8 Ball is a toy that…
Stimulated, Muscled, Or …? — The All Jacked Up
Is someone really excited? Is someone seriously muscled? Is someone or something really FU as in the old military acronyms…
Get Carded Here — The Brandy Library
You may get carded at a bar, and you need a card to check things out of a library. Combine…
Robin Williams and Wordsmiths — The Dead Poet
Starring the late great Robin Williams (and featuring soon to be well known actors such as Ethan Hawke and Josh…
Lively And Boozy — The Pura Vida
“Pura vida” is a Spanish phrase that literally means “pure life.” While Costa Rica uses the phrase as a national…
An Ode To Irish Cocktail Joy — The Good Cork
Ms. Cocktail Den had a business trip to Cork, a small city in southwest Ireland, and I shamelessly tagged along.…
Clickbait Cocktail — The Naked And Famous
Made you look! That’s what clickbait online is all about. Although Joaquin Símo at Death & Company in New York…
Dare To Be Different — The Renegade
Sometimes the word renegade has a bad connotation, e.g. the wanted man in the classic Styx song. Sometimes history ultimately…
So Good It’s A Crime — The Racketeer
A lot of colorful people, both real and fictional, have been and are racketeers. Meaning someone who’s engaged in an…