Bottom Shelf Mixology: Hot Punch in the Mouth

Welcome to Bottom Shelf Mixology™!  We have racked our brains (and our livers) to come up with special "bottom shelf" versions of popular drinks, and some original creations that range from "oh, that might be interesting" to "that sounds absolutely disgusting".  
 

Hot Punch in the Mouth

• 32 oz Cran-apple Juice Cocktail
• 1 Tbsp Powdered Lemonade Drink Mix
• 4 Cloves
• 6 Hot Tamales Candies
• 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 cup Franzia Chillable Red Wine

Combine everything but the wine in a large microwave safe bowl.  Cover it, and microwave it on High for two minutes.  Stir it, and put it back in on High for another two minutes.

Add in the wine, and, you guessed it, back on High for two more minutes.

As soon as the microwave stops, pull your bowl out, and serve this piping hot punch!

This drink is another wonderful addition to the holiday season, especially for those adults who have to sit at the kids table when you run out of seats at the adult table because your cousin Alex brought his new girlfriend Marlene and her two adult sons without informing the rest of the family first, and they get to sit at the adult table because they are guests.

Animated Gif Jackpot (56k Warning)

Last October, I managed to find an amazing site full of animated gifs.  As a person who loves the nostalgia of old GeoCities and Angelfire websites, I was in poorly animated heaven.I didn't think it could get any better.

Then I found this:

Take a minute to soak it in.  I don't know what my favorite bit is either.  I really like the Windows 3.1 compatibility, but what puts it over the top is being able to use it on OS/2 (it's a hip-hop operating system).

This magical little CD contains 246 gifs, and all of them are horribleoutstanding.  There are a number of categories, ranging from Animals, to Dividers, to Home, and Leisure.

It's either John Quincy Adams or Bilbo Baggins

Look at the quality of that!  I can not, in good conscience,  hoard these all to myself.  It's time for a pic dump.  And yes, I'm kidding about the "56k warning".  It was just a throwback to the days of yore, much like these gifs.

Up first, the Holiday category!

Reminder: Tomorrow is Groundhog Day

If you hate winter, tomorrow can be a pivotal day for you.  Tomorrow is that day where everyone heads to Pennsylvania to watch a rodent come out of a hole.  Legend has it that if it's slightly overcast tomorrow morning, Spring will come early.  If not, it's six more weeks of Winter!

No one really cares about that though, because there is something much better about Groundhog Day: Bill Murray.  One of the greatest comedic actors of all time (Garfield movies notwithstanding) has the greatest Groundhog Day movie of all time: Groundhog Day!  And while it is a great movie to watch any time of the year, it doesn't get much better than watching it tomorrow.  That way, if you happen to get stuck in the same time vortex as Mr. Murray (I dare not disrespect him by calling him by his first name only), you at least have a great movie running in the background.

Also, there are many thoughts on how long he was stuck in the loop, but there is a great, and very in-depth, article that figures it to be somewhere around thirty-three years and three hundred and fifty days.

CSM '12: The Holiday

It's December, and almost Christmas! Therefore, I've decided to do a follow up to my surprisingly popular Halloween Movie Madness! Every night through Christmas Eve, I will be watching a different Christmas movie or special and then rambling on about them, sometimes even being coherent!

The Holiday
(2006)

What's this?  A chick flick?  Yes indeed.  I am a big sap, and that means I like watching romcoms.  I do promise that this is the one and only romcom I will write about on the site.  Unless something comes up where I would need to write about My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Christmas Special Mania '12: Christmas Vacation

It's December, and almost Christmas!  Therefore, I've decided to do a follow up to my surprisingly popular Halloween Movie Madness!  Every night  through Christmas Eve, I will be watching a different Christmas movie or special and then rambling on about them, sometimes even being coherent!  

Christmas Vacation
(Warner Bros. Pictures, 1989)

I have a confession to make: I haven't actually watched this movie in about four years.  Not for lack of wanting though.  We just didn't have the DVD, and while we talked about purchasing it every Christmas season, it just didn't happen.  This year is different though, and now I get to watch the movie with only patchy memories of it.

What Time is it?

Christmas Time!

It's the little unexpected things like this Christmas-themed set of Adventure Time figures that makes me love this time of year even more.  I want to thank whoever sent me this with no return address.  This really brightened up an extremely hectic day.

Also, I taught my students how to make text from a picture and put it on another picture.  I had them use two pictures of their favorite holiday foods (I let them pick from any holiday).  This is my favorite one.

There is just something about this picture that speaks to me...