Thursday Drink Night: Vegas Style
Get Your Chat On, Interview, Metablogging, Rum, TotC, Uncategorized November 19th, 2008
If you don’t know by now, and really, you should, there’s a weekly online drinking event called Thursday Drink Night hosted by the indomitably-spirited Rick of kaiserpenguin.com at the Mixoloseum Bar. Now, normally, this is your run-of-the-mill affair whereby bartenders, enthusiasts, and mixologists get together and mix drinks that are submitted on-the-fly and put them through the gauntlet of criticism of the sort not seen since Baby Geniuses. Which is to say, unlike the movie, it’s an absolute blast.
So, “what’s special about this one?” you don’t ask? Well, firstly, it’s the first sponsored Thursday Drink Night the Mixoloseum will be having. The good folks at Leblon have seen fit to sponsor the event, take questions, and, hopefully, use the recipes we develop to solve the global financial crisis, reduce poverty by 45.71% and solve the looming energy crisis by using our drinks to catalyze cold fusion. As you can see, they got a hell of a deal.
Secondly, after much whining on my part about being stuck in Vegas sans my home bar, they’ve taken pity on me and kindly set myself and Rumdood (who will be joining me after a drive from L.A.)1 up at a location on the Las Vegas strip where we, our laptops, and hopefully a small crowd of people will take part in TDN live and on-site at Trader Vic’s in Planet Hollywood. We will be there featuring Leblon in the drinks submitted by the online bar crowd, requesting the crowd or the bartenders submit drinks for TDN, or generally running up legendary bar tabs and ensuring the resulting mayhem and awesomeness doesn’t lead to a destroyed laptop or two.
So, if you’re in Vegas, come by and visit. We’ll be there around 6:00pm and would love to see you and, if the bartenders aren’t already sick to tears of us and giving those smoldering withering stares only barkeeps can, we may even buy you a drink. If you’re not in Vegas, join us at the online bar, pull up a seat, mix a drink with Leblon cachaca, and enjoy the show. It will prove to be a fun, informative (we’ll have Gerry and Steven from leblon on-hand to field questions and provide the edutainment of the evening), and lively time.
- and yes, Matt, I will continue in my persistence that you live in L.A. [↩]
It’s ok to think Matt lives in LA, we all think you live “somewhere in the middle” (Kansas? Alabama? North Dakota?), and the OC wishes it were LA anyway.
I’m irritated that our childbirth class is on Thursdays. Hmpf.
I know! I hope yu guys are able to make it on after the class. Since Matt and I will be in PST and imbibing on the relative cheap, it will hopefully make for a long enough evening for you to join in the festivities.
And, for the record, I live in Shits-and-Giggles, Buttavia.
It seems like Leblon is making quite an effort to throw itself at the cocktail crowd. They are sponsoring our upcoming USBG meeting. In research for an upcoming post on The Slow and Certain Decline of the Holiday Gift Set, I saw that Leblon offered forth a particularly shameful entry, the “Ultimate Caipirinha Kit”. It features a bottle of Leblon cachaca and a bottle of Finest Call Caipirinha Mix.