Lit for Christmas

Episode Eight: Vodka and Ghosts


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Welcome to our Christmas in September party!

In this episode, Marty and his friend, Madeline, are haunted by Liquefied Ghosts and Louise Erdrich's The Sentence.

BONUS POINTS:  Count how many times Madeline talks about the Lizard Man in the sewers of Bloomington.

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT SPIRIT:

Liquified Ghost

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz. vodka
  • 1 oz. vanilla simple syrup (or regular simple syrup if you use cream soda instead of club soda)
  • 1 oz. cream
  • 2 oz. club soda (or cream soda)
  • Directions:

    • Mix all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker and stir just to blend. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
    • Nonalcoholic Alternative:

      • Substitute 2 oz. of cream soda for the 2 oz. of vodka.
      • Marty has a Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press.  For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, also on Anchor.fm.  Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.

        Madeline has a BA in English Creative Writing and gin drinking.  Currently, she is pursuing a Library Science graduate degree and avoiding the Lizard Man of Bloomington.  In her spare time, she enjoys reading eco-lit, true crime, and Alice Hoffman books.

        Music for this episode:

        "Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.

        "A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.

        A Christmas Carol sound clips from:

        The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.

        Other music in the episode:

        "I Put a Spell on You."  Simone, Nina.  Phillips Records, 1965.

        This month's Christmas lit:

        Erdrich, Louise.  The Sentence.  Harper Collins, 2021.

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