In true New Orleans fashion...

You know I love to drink. In a house, with a mouse, yes I will have a beer Sam I Am.

However, for the friends of mine who are too concerned about the price for the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience Grand Tasting, I think I can convince them to drink and drive at Audi for a free pair of tickets!!

Join us for a Test Drive at New Orleans Audi and Receive Tickets to the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience!

WHO:
Commander's Palace Executive Chef Tory McPhail will prepare tastings, while “The Food Show with Tom Fitzmorris” broadcasts live from the New Orleans Audi showroom.

WHAT:
Anyone who comes to the New Orleans Audi showroom and test drives an Audi will receive a pair of tickets to a NOWFE Grand Tasting.*

WHEN:
Thursday, May 19
3:00 – 6:00 PM

WHERE:
New Orleans Audi
3400 N. Causeway Blvd.
Metairie, LA 70002


For more information about New Orleans Audi or Test Drive for Tickets, contact Van Bohn at 504.838.8000 or vbohn@bohnbros.com.

This is a legit e-mail I just received. Stay classy!

Fuck that Jaegermesiter bullshit

The beer industry contributes $2.58 billion a year to the Louisiana economy, according to a study commissioned by national industry groups.

Just another reason that beer makes me fired up!!!

Well, and that the NOLA Brewery is right in my backyard. What a fun little shin dig last Thursday!!

Where it's at

It's our 300th post! What are we going to do about it? Why drink for charity, of course!!

ALTR and I will be attending Girls Night Out for Girls First.

Where: Cafe Adelaide & the Swizzle Stick Bar
When: Thursday, May 29, 5 - 7 p.m.
Who: Featuring Celebrity Bartenders Helena Moreno and Rita Benson LeBlanc

Grab the girls and head to Cafe Adelaide & the Swizzle Stick Bar for Girls Night Out in support of Girls First. There is no charge to get in and the Swizzle Stick Bar and the Loews New Orleans Hotel will donate all cocktail proceeds to Girls First, an organization dedicated to providing opportunities to underserved girls in the metropolitan New Orleans area.

To kick off its summer-long Bali Hai Weekends celebration, the Swizzle stick will transform into a tropical paradise for Girls Night Out. We'll serve classic tiki drinks like the Mai Tai, along with some of Bar Chef Lu Brow's original creations such as the Hina Cocktail and complimentary island-inspired hors d'ouevres.

So grab your girl friends and head to the Swizzle Stick for great cocktails for a great cause!

This girl plans on ordering a Mai Tai from one Helena Moreno herself. Work it! Slanging drinks ain't as easy as it looks! Secretly, though, I'm simply hoping the Voodoo-cheerleaders-turned-campaign-schwag Helena Moreno girls will be there.

Good Friday

At a loss as how to "celebrate" Good Friday?

Good Friday Get Together this Friday at Ernst Cafe!
March 21, 2008

Receive a free tray of crawfish with every Abita Beer purchase this Friday from 4pm-8pm at Ernst Cafe!

Ernst Cafe
600 S Peters St
New Orleans, LA 70130

Courtesty of our friends at Abita.

DO EEEET

Join the cause! Help Guinness make St. Patrick's day a national holiday at proposition317.com.

As of today there's still 900,000+ more signatures to go...but we've got until March 16! Do it for the beer!

my stomach doesn't need a bouncer

wtf beer?!

So I put my Ayinger Celebrator in the freezer for 30 minutes because I really was craving one when I got home from work but didn't want to wait for the fridge. I poured it beautifully and then all of a sudden part of it was frozen. WTF?!

And so begins the quick death of my liver.

actual text message I had to send on Sunday:

Sorry I threw up out your car window. I guess trying to drink an entire bottle of vodka on an empty stomach is not a good idea. Do I owe you a car wash?

Needless to say, we had fun at Krewe du Vieux and somehow I ended up in the bushes in front of my house.

Our wine rack has now become a vodka rack and my roommate just ordered pounds of glitter on the internet. To be delivered to ALTR at work, of course.

I love Mardi Gras.

dogs, booze, haircuts

Not only can you bring your dog to the Bridge Lounge, but Mondays during happy hour you can get your haircut!

I wonder if the service is provided for the dogs as well...?

a woman after my own heart...

The 27-year-old Poulsbo woman told police officers she promised sexual favors to a man if he bought her alcohol early Wednesday morning.

But after getting two bottles of inexpensive fortified wine, she used one to hit him in the forehead.

Read the whole thing here.

making the jump from beer to vodka

BEEGS.COM: The latest organic vodka comes from a surprising source, Anheuser-Busch. The folks behind Budweiser is now selling the “ultra-premium” Purus vodka in the Northeast. Purus vodka is distilled in Italy’s Piemonte region and is made from water from the Italian Alps and wheat grown without pesticides or commercial fertilizers.
The bottle is 100% recyclable and the label uses soy-based ink. It is the first vodka created and marketed specifically by A-B’s subsidiary, Long Tail Libations. The bottle sells for $35. The company will plant one tree for each of the first 100,000 registrants at Purus’s website.

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I don't buy it. Nor will I.

Some random thoughts...

• The Times-Pic has picked up on the omg-Golden-Compass-is-anti-Christian bandwagon, citing the same e-mail I received about a month or so back. Why do Christians get so up in arms about this stuff? It's a work of fiction. Is it because it isn't the same BS the community wants you to be spoon fed? Sheesh, relax.
  
• Cuervo has done it again. They have now come out with Cuervo Reserva de al Familia. Plata. This has traditionally been a premium anejo. I guess this plata tequila is such a big deal because Cuervo actually makes it in Mexico instead of in Connecticut. I was drunk and really upset when I spied that bottle at the bar while enjoying my Milagro Silver.
  
• This Tonka truck commercial irritates me every time I see it. "Boys are built different." Little girls can't be interested in trucks? Or making messes? So annoying and sexist.
  
• I can't wait for this National Championship nonsense to be over. It's already out of hand and I want to bang my head against my computer monitor every time the talk gets going in my office.
  
• Not a lot of people are talking about it 'round here (except Adrastros, but Dickie Scruggs got busted last week for bribery. As someone once told me, some people have more nerve than sense. Check out the Insurance Coverage Law Blog for a play-by-play in what's going on with that.
  
• Politics With A Punch is Thursday night. The ALTR and I will be attending. Personally I'm hoping to jump Roop Raj after the show.
  
• Lastly, In Matte has joined our esteemed panel of bloggers. Look for her well versed and insightful blogs to appear soon!
  

today and tomorrow

This morning's not-so-hungover-hangover was brought to you by: Shiner Bock, New Orleans Amber Rum, and the letter W.

Tomorrow's? Champane Happy Hour at Savvy Gourmet

My co-worker told me our love affair had to end, as I am killing her slowly with alcohol and cigarettes.

Here come the Chinese

I like tequila. I'm a little snobby about it. So, of course this caught my eye - 'Chinese' tequila worries Mexico.

The title is a bit more sensational than the actual issue. It appears that parts of China have a similar climate to certain areas of Mexico. Thus, the plants indigenous to Mexico are able to flourish as they would in their natural habitat. The plants in question are maguey and to a lesser extent nopal. While maguey is a form of agave, it is not the blue agave in which true tequila is made from. In fact, it is used to make mezcal, which is a product similar to tequila. In addition to being from another plant, mezcal generally comes from a region other than Tequila - Oaxaca. Mezcal is also of the "tequila worm" fame.

So I guess what it boils down to is that the Chinese are wanting to produce maguey to make mezcal, which the general public (and the media, it appears) generally doesn't differentiate from tequila. Because tequila has grown in popularity the last 10-15 years, China can make some bank in the tequila market.

What Mexico wants is denomination of origin so that tequila (and I guess mezcal) can only go by such a name if it comes from Mexico. This Chinese stuff would have to have another name. You know, like Syrah is from France and Shiraz is from Australia.

See also:
The Grande Enchilada
The Incontiguous Brick

[h/t: Beegs]

ALTL's tequila advice to you: Quit drinking Cuervo Gold, 1800, and Sauza. The 2006 Tequila Trade Agreement allows for tequilas such as these to be bottled outside of the country. They are only required to be 51% blue agave, while the real stuff is, well, 100%. Read the fine print at the Cuervo website: Imported and/or bottled in the United States by Heublein, Norwalk, CT. Get yourself to Dos Jefes or Yo Mama's and order yourself a Herradura Reposado. Neat. No training wheels. Sip it. Give tequila a real chance.

A day in the life...

Last night my co-worker and I had a date with that attractive bottle to the right. The date went so well that we almost finished the entire bottle. Needless to say today was a little rough, but never dull in our office environment.

Today's early morning buzz was someone all up in arms about the racist trash debacle, already claiming that the mayor is going to be on the outs and discussing the line of succession if the mayor resigns. He was all excited as the prospect of Jackie Clarkson becoming the Acting Mayor, as she will be president of the Council soon. Unfortunately someone said to him "Well, if the mayor is indicted he won't resign, history has shown us that." I was sort of interested, so I dug up the City Charter and it appears that the City Council appoints one of the two council members-at-large, the prez isn't simply a shoe-in. Sorry buddy, Jackie's not in Ray Ray's office yet.

A series of posts on Wonkette had me near tears while not doing my work and pumping myself dull of fluids. This one was the highlight: Georgia man tries to use fake $1 million dollar bill, Fails. I mean, seriously? And then he got mad about it? The human race never ceases to amaze.

To top it all off, right as I was starting to feel normal again, I find out that Tales of the Toddy is sold out (of course my ass failed to buy tickets in advance despite knowing for a month). It doesn't help that the people that work for Tales of the Cocktail are impossible to get in touch with, despite plastering their phone number(s) everywhere.

So instead I am continuing my recent-war-related movie marathon by watching Blood Diamond. In the last week this list has included Lord of War and Lions for Lambs.

This is very verbose, I must still be a bit intoxicated. If only ALTR would blog from time to time. Maybe she's taking notes on the YouTube GOP debate.

stupid corporate America

I was reading this article and it just infuriated me: Mambo tangles with Anheuser-Busch over michelada beer.

Mambo Seafood is a chain of restaurants in Houston (maybe throughout Texas). Apparently they submitted a trademark application for their Mambo Michelada. Anheuser-Busch is all up in arms because they think - get this - it sounds like Michelob.

I guarantee you this is not because Mambo sounds like Michelob. It's the michelada part that somehow sounds as if it could be confused with michelada. News flash, A-B, the michelada is an old school drink found in Mexico! The Mambo owner explains...

The words michelada and chelada come from the Mexican slang for beer, or chela, said one beer analyst in Mexico City, who follows Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo, which is half owned by Anheuser-Busch.

Some say chelada. Some call it michelada. Some add tabasco sauce or other ingredients, depending on the part of Mexico where the drink is made, the beer analyst said.

"It depends on the region. We call anything that has beer and lime a michelada," said the analyst, who did not want to be identified.

Yeah, buddy. I learned to make a michelada by real live Mexicans back during my booze slinging days during a World Cup match. Throw some hot sauce and lime juice (drop or two or Worcestershire if you like) in the bottom of a salt-rimmed glass and top it off with a nice dark Mexican beer, preferably a Negra Modelo. This is not some new invention. Is it simply because someone thought to trademark it?

I gotta agree with the article, Anheuser-Busch is just trying to edge out the little guy, while trying to make more room for their own awful canned michelada the Budweiser Chelada. You just can't can things like that! It's like that stupid canned/bottled mojito from Bacardi. Barf.

mmm mmm good

Last Wednesday:

This Wednesday:
Tales of the Toddy

we be boozin'

Americans Prefer Beer Over Wine

Surprise! Only 64% of Americans drink!

I wonder how the stats would be different if the 1000 people polled were New Orleans residents...

ALTL gives two thumbs up

The new Absolut New Orleans was announced in conjunction with Tales of the Cocktail.

After enjoying a fantastic dinner this evening at such an event, ALTL was able to sample the new vodka. Two thumbs way up! A strong, citrusy scent, yet the mango taste is not overwhelming. The black pepper then kicks in and you're not stuck with the vodka after taste.

Bartender, I'd like an Absolut New Orleans on the rocks! Does that make me a cliche?

Introduction

It all began with Political Drinking Night. Sometimes the there was more drinking than politiking, other times there were politiking than drinking (yeah right). On a Friday afternoon after working their tired but true jobs for "the man" A Little to the Right (hereinafter referred to as ALTR) and A Little to the Left (hereinafter referred to ALTL) decided it was time to blog. Yeah, we're a little behind on the times, but what easier way is there to achieve random internet fame? Especially when it comes to booze, politics, and sex. Yes, sex. So here we are, to entertain not only ourselves with our views on politics (especially in the great state of Louisiana) sex, and the elixir of life.