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The Mikes' book group reads a book about a book group. This won't end well.

It's cocktail time!
Shelby, Drink Your Juice!
In a champagne flute pour:

• 1/2 shot of Southern Comfort
• orange juice to about halfway fill the glass
• top with club soda

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Two Mikes learn all about Adult Vampring in Clare Kohda's Woman, Eating.   Sometimes you gotta pay your dues and sometimes you  just gotta drain the blood out of your intern supervisor.

It's Cocktail Time!

Hallucinogenic Milk

1 shot Pernod

Juice of 1/2 lemon

A teaspoon of powdered sugar, or sugar substitute

Shake with ice, pour into a glass, ice and all, and top with club soda.

Chin, chin.  

 

 

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In which the Mikes realize they're reading the same book at the same time and decide to record their thoughts, with no regard to what they're really supposed to be reading, which is Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating. 
It's Cocktail Time!

The Black Death

2 oz black vodka

3 oz limoncello

1 oz club soda

stir with ice and garnish with a lemon (or a dead rat)

 

                                                 
                     

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Pack up you belongings and quickly relocate with the Two Mikes and William Hallahan and his 70s horror novel The Search For Joseph Tully.   Maybe you'll find a new apartment or maybe you'll just loose your head.  That's one way to enforce rent control. 

 

 It's Cocktail Time

The Wrecking Ball

In a shaker of ice pour:

1 ounce Gin

1 ounce Rum

1 ounce Tequila

1 ounce Triple Sec

1 ounce Vodka

Shake for longer than you'd think and pour into a martini glass or serve over ice. Garnish with lemon or orange peel.  Stay home for the evening.

 

 

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Wherein the Two Mikes look upon creation and find that it is good enough.
It's Cocktail Time!
Black Sunrise
Make coffee ice cubesWhen ready, place in shaker.Add:    1 shot espresso
    1 shot Kahlua
    1 shot blackstrap rum
Shake and pour entire into tumbler.
Go to work.

 

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The Two Mikes hop into the Misery Machine to solve a mystery, along with some damaged kids and a precocious Weimeraner. What they discover is a man in a mask behind a mask behind some tentacles, in a mine, behind a mask.
It's Cocktail Time!
Essential Salts
A day before you make this cocktail, prepare tomato water ice cubes.

• roughly blend four large tomatoes, a hot pepper, a selection of herbs, and a tbsp of balsamic vinegar
• pour into fine sieve lined with cheesecloth and let drip into container. Do not press: you want a clear orange liquid
• make ice cubes out of liquid (save the solids for chili or something)

When ready, rim margarita glasses with a mixture of salts: we recommend Hawaiian salt, smoked salt, and seasoned salt. Just run a lime or lemon wedge around rim, and dredge through salt mixture. Set aside.
In blender pour 1.5 shot of Cuervo Gold tequila and 1.5 shot of sage liqueur per serving you plan to make. Add in four ice cubes per serving. Blend and pour into glasses. Garnish with lime and cilantro or a fried sage leaf.
 

 

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Are you there God? It is us, The Two Mikes and Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires.  Listen as we journey through a plague ridden world devoid of compassion, and goodness and replete with superstition and horror. Here is where the leaders are most likely the actual spawn of hell.  No, it does not take place in 2022.

It's Cocktail Time!

Arrow in the Tongue

For 15 minutes, gently warm a quarter cup of cream or half and half, with either a Ghost Pepper or a Scotch Bonnett.  Let this cool.

In a rocks glass filled with ice combine:

1  shot of the infused cream

1 shot of Kahlua

1 shot of Cream de Cacao

Stir and garnish with a sliver of the hot pepper skewered by a cocktail sword.

Chin Chin.

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In a town that is not Salem's Lot, comes a man who is not John Rambo to fight a vampire who is really a vampire. What should we title it? Not First Blood. How about Night Blood! Yeah, that's good.
It's Cocktail Time!
The Hoosier Hot Shot

• Perk some crappy hospital coffee (not the goods stuff).
• Pour into a diner-style mug, leave an inch of space
• Float shot of James Dickel bourbon
• a shot or two of half-and-half
• shot of Kahlua

 

 

   Click to listen.  Listen to the Mikes as they nibble that oh so tempting cheese in Stephen Gilbert's Ratmen's Notebooks. It is that time of the year the critters come in from the cold; Why not contemplate some petty revenge?

                                           

It's Cocktail Time.

 RAT POISON

Recipe:

A splash of Vermouth

2 ounces Gin

1 Tbs of Cornichon  Brine      

Place everything in a shaker of ice and shake well, Strain into a martini glass and garnish with a Cornichon.                                  

 

 

 

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The Mikes pack their gear and head into the woods for some up-close encounters with nature. Worms are nature, right?
It's Cocktail Time!
As the Worm Turns
In a shaker mix

• 2 oz mezcal
• 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
• 1/2 oz ginger juice
• 1 oz agave nectar

strain into ice-filled glass and top with sparkling water. Garnish with worm from bottle.