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  • Episode 157 - Simon Raven's Doctors Wear Scarlet

     




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    Continue your studies abroad with the Mikes and Simon Raven's Doctors Wear Scarlet.  Will you graduate Summa Cum Laude? You will if you're a nasty young chap who get's his kicks from having his neck gnawed on.   


    Cocktail Time!

    Tbe Dick Fountain Cocktail

    1 ounce anise flavored liquor

    1/2  ounce simple syrup

    1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

    one egg white 



    Put everything in a shaker of ice, sans egg white. Shake well.  Now add the egg white and shake well. Pour into glass with the ice or strain into a martini glass. Chin chin.






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  • Episode 156: Thomas Disch's The Priest

     

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    The Mikes have a confession to make: we read and have thinkings about another Thomas Disch novel. We marvel and cringe at the what goes underneath those cassocks. 
    It's Cocktail Time!
    No one Drinks the Spanish Inquisition
    In a shaker with ice, mix
    • 1/2 shot Cointreau
    • 1/2 shot calvados
    Pour into coupe glass (for up) or rocks glass (for on the rocks). Fill glass with cava and top with a shake or two of bay leaf bitters.
    Chin Chin!

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  • Episode 155 - The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones

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    Join The Two Mikes but quietly tip toe backwards as they come upon a herd of ghostly elk in Stephan Graham Jones's horror novel  The Only Good Indians.  You can run but the Elk Head Woman will find you and she's going to want to play a mean game of H-O-R-S-E.


    It's Cocktail Time!

    The Elks Club  ( yes, there is no apostrophe)

    1/4 ounce dry vermouth

    2  ounces SoCo

    Dash bitters

    Maraschino Cherry to garnish.

    Directions: Shack in an ice filled shaker.  Pour into a high ball glass or strain into a martini glass.  



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  • Episode 154: John Peyton Cooke's Out for Blood



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    The two Mikes visit old haunts in Chicago and Madison, as they learn the ropes of vampirism and the club scene with new creature of the night.
    It's Cocktail Time!
    Kroba
    1 shot calvados1 shot vodka1/2 shot kirsch1/2 shot maple syrup
    shake with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Enjoy with herring. Lots and lots of herring.


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  • Episode 153: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

     


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    The Mikes trip on hippie brownies and head into the 1960s and Chicago's Westside in Emil Ferrris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters.  Are monsters real?  Take a look in a reflective storefront window and find out for your damn self.


    It Is Cocktail Time!

    Monster Mash

    Take fruits that can represent monsters. For example:

    Kiwi= The Wolf Man

    Strawberry = Dracula

    Blueberry = Booberry

    Lime = Frankenstein

    Muddle fruits with a little sugar in the bottom of a glass. Add ice and pour in as much corn mash whiskey as needed  and top with soda water. Stir and enjoy. Chin Chin.

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  • Episode 152: Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties

     

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    Two Mikes and a Linda put on their dancing shoes and head to a party, where all, it seems, is not well. We try to solve the mystery of the crime solvers, learn to say "yes" to the dress (and hear what it has to say in return), and finally pull the ribbon on the whole thing.
    It's Cocktail Time!
    Difficult at Parties Punch
    Freeze ice in a ring, like in a Bundt pan.Slice a blood orange for garnish.
    Then, in a punch bowl, mix:    3 cups sweet vermouth
        3 cups campari    Add 1 cup assorted fruit (like Buddah's hand, duryan, ugli, … kidding: just some berries and such)
    Pour in 2-3/4 cups prosecco. Stir gently.Settle ice ring in bowl.
    Ladle into those fancy punch cups your grandma left you; garnish with blood orange slice. Commence party.
        


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  • Episode 151 - Flannery O'Connor's "Good County People"
    Click to listen The Two Mikes travel to the Deep South with Flannery O'Connor and her short story "Good Country People. Bless their hearts, it isn't all fried chicken and sweet tea. It's Cocktail Time! Hooch in the Bible 1 shot Campari1 shot good Bourbon1 shot ginger liqueur Place in a tumbler of ice, shake and decant into a martini glass. Garnish with a shaving of ginger. Chin Chin.
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  • Episode 151: Flannery O'Connor's "Good County People"
    Click to listen The Two Mikes travel to the Deep South with Flannery O'Connor and her short story "Good Country People. Bless their hearts, it isn't all fried chicken and sweet tea. It's Cocktail Time! Hooch in the Bible 1 shot Campari1 shot good Bourbon1 shot ginger liqueur Place in a tumbler of ice, shake and decant into a martini glass. Garnish with a shaving of ginger. Chin Chin.
    40 min
  • Episode 151: Flannery O'Connor's "Good County People"
    Click to listen The Two Mikes travel to the Deep South with Flannery O'Connor and her short story "Good Country People. Bless their hearts, it isn't all fried chicken and sweet tea. It's Cocktail Time! Hooch in the Bible 1 shot Campari1 shot good Bourbon1 shot ginger liqueur Place in a tumbler of ice, shake and decant into a martini glass. Garnish with a shaving of ginger. Chin Chin.
    40 min
  • Episode 151: Flannery O'Connor's "Good County People"
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    The Two Mikes travel to the Deep South with Flannery O'Connor and her short story "Good Country People. Bless their hearts, it isn't all fried chicken and sweet tea.

    It's Cocktail Time!

    Hooch in the Bible

    1 shot Campari
    1 shot good Bourbon
    1 shot ginger liqueur

    Place in a tumbler of ice, shake and decant into a martini glass. Garnish with a shaving of ginger. Chin Chin.


    40 min

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