Ode to Spirits

Kwazy

Shared on Fri, 02/02/2007 - 19:11
Throughout my life, I've had a very tough time differentiating between love and lust. While love is composed of ingredients such as respect, adoration, and appreciation, lust must draw its breath through a more hardened orifice. Lust is passion, anger, and drama rolled into one. It allows you to want simultaneously to crush your sole's delight in the deepest embrace while caving in the side of his head with a brick.

Where love is creative, lust is destructive. But, like so many exploits in which we partake against our better judgment...damn, what a powerful drug. And drug is the right word. Another one is addiction. Which brings us to:


Bourbon. It's my newest lust. From my earliest years of waltzing with the half-empty glass, Scotch was my love. Scotch is sophisticated, cultured. It demanded respect and appreciation. I so enjoyed our relationship, but my pallet began to wander. So it came I found my glass in league with a new temptress.

Vodka. Kettle One fresh from the freezer to be more precise. This was exciting. It was as if dating a woman much above my social station. I always think of Madam Vodka as slumming when we were together. Distant and standoff-ish. This aloofness drew me in even more. But it always ends up the same; separate ways in the morning. No chemistry...ten crispy twenties on the nightstand, thank you very much. Vodka, I'll always enjoy you. Call me anytime...preferably Wednesday morning, 3:00 AM...apologies to Mr. Simon.

You start out with your Martinis up. For you, the uninitiated in the Way of the Grain, up means chilled...either shaken in ice and strained or...well, as far as I'm concerned that's the only way to do it. Eventually , you get sick of the games. A well made martini is at the mercy of a bartender's skill...up, that is. When you graduate to on the rocks, it's like peeling off the condom. Raw. Sexual. And utterly independent of a bartender's interference. Nice try, no cock-block for you.

Time out. Have to switch gears for just a second. The mouth-breather on my portside just ordered a "Royal Crown and Coke." The bartender didn't miss a beat. Royal Crown is a soda, you fucking nitwit. Crown Royal is an overrated Canadian Whiskey. I'll bet you drive a Lexas Sport-ute, don't you? I'm going to poop on it on my way out.

Game on. I believe when last we left, I called up vodka, but she had to do this societal scene thing with her hubby. It's for charity, don't you know and everything. I tell her to send me a self addressed stamp envelope, and I'll give her two dollars a day...about the cost of a cup of coffee.

Hhhhhmmmmm....visions of Sally Struthers. We could carve her rather bountiful backside into steaks and feed most of Afrika through 2013.

Yanking the wheel back on course, the tires squeal with protest and we find ourselves again on Bourbon Street. I think that's the way we started? Bourbon is the other direction...180 degrees from vodka. Bourbon is sex. It's sultry. Bourbon doesn't care about the contents of your wallet. It doesn’t give a shit if your address doesn't fall high enough up the hill on the hippest street. She's ready. Right. Fucking. Now.

And she'll let you do anything you want to her.

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Fetal's picture
Submitted by Fetal on Sun, 02/04/2007 - 05:03
i guess gin is that cousin who only visits once a year. gin is for summer.
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Submitted by Kwazy on Sun, 02/04/2007 - 10:46
Ah, gin. Gin is the "friend with benefits." She's the one I should probably be in a relationship with, but it would just be too healthy. I've never been good at healthy.
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Submitted by Armorsmith76 on Sun, 02/04/2007 - 11:29
Tequila is my south of the border summertime shag. She is wreckless and rude, but her ample attributes are just too much fun to walk away from. She does dirty things to my brain that I just love (and horrible things to my body the next day) Kind of an S and M thing.The trick is staying the master. Common baby leave a welt on it! BTW what kind of Scotch do you drink? And what Bourbon? I'm always looking for something new.
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Submitted by Kwazy on Sun, 02/04/2007 - 12:54
Tequila has never been my thing...kind of like fake breasts. I can appreciate why some guys are into it, but none for me, thanks. As far as scotches go, Cardhu and Balvenie Doublewood are my favorites, though I'm not too picky. I'll usually get a Dewers Rocks or a Fiddich neat when we're out and about. Bourbons; Woodford Reserve is like heaven in a glass, but it's expensive. Knob Creek is my daily standby. I'll have a Makers Mark from time to time, but it's a little too sweet for me. A friend got me a bottle of Bookers for my birthday. Oy vey, does it have some kick! Just finished it last week, and I believe it's about 125 proof. Now that's a hard core relationship.

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