With the 4th of July weekend right around the corner, I thought it
would be fun to share some punch recipes with you - for all the picnics and
bbq's that accompany Independence Day. Before I get going though, I do
want to remind people to drink responsibly - don't drink and
drive....if need be, get a cab, catch a ride with a designated driver, or just
pitch a tent and camp out. We do want you home and safe and in one
piece. Alrighty then, here we go - get out the garbage cans.....lol
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Fuzzy Watermelon
375 ml Peach schnapps
1 whole Watermelon
Mixing instructions:
Cut a hole into one end of the watermelon and pour the peach schnapps
into it. Put the watermelon into the refrigerator for at least 6 hours.
-- Or cut the watermelon into small pieces and place them into a dish.
Pour the peach schnapps over the watermelon evenly and refrigerate for
a few hours.
VARIATION - can use a bottle of vodka or rum.
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Berry Deadly
Ingredients:
2 pints Everclear
1 bottle Boone Strawberry Hill Wine
1/2 gal Orange juice
1 gal Tropical Berry Kool-Aid
Mixing instructions:
Add all ingredients to large bowl. Stir gently. Serve chilled
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Donkey Punch
Ingredients:
3 parts Orange juice
2 parts Ginger ale
1 part Pineapple juice
1 part Light rum (Bacardi)
1/4 part Grenadine
Mixing instructions:
Mix all ingredients in a punchbowl and float orange slices on top.
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Garbage Can Punch
Ingredients:
1 bottle Rum
1 bottle Vodka
1 bottle Triple Sec
1 bottle Peach Schnapps
1 bottle Watermelon Pucker
1 bottle Sour Apple Pucker
10 cans of Hawaiian Punch
Mixing instructions:
In a clean metal garbage can or in a large plastic bucket, fill halfway
with ice. Pour in all liquor, then Hawaiian Punch to your liking (you
don't have to use all 10 cans, but it is recommeded so it's not as
strong). Stir and serve. This recipe will serve a lot of people, so bear
that in mind, unless you want to be drinking this for days afterward!!
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Jamaican Rum Punch
Ingredients:
1 cup Bacardi 151 proof rum
1/2 cup Dark rum (Myers)
1/4 cup Malibu rum
2 1/2 cups Pineapple juice
2 1/2 cups Orange juice
1/4 cup Lime juice
3 tblsp Grenadine
Ice cubes
Mixing instructions:
Mix all ingredients together in blender or punch bowl. Pour creation
over ice cubes in any type of glass.
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With any of these recipes, you can increase the amounts - just depends
on how many people you expect. Hope you like them - enjoy. Until the
next time, I'm Bude and I'll be sitting on the pub bar, swinging my legs
and waiting to hear from you! Take care!!
Cin's Poetry SpotLight
CURRENTLY ON VACATION- WILL BE BACK IN THE NEXT ISSUE!
HEYNOW KIDDIE CORNER
CURRENTLY ON VACATION- WILL BE BACK IN THE NEXT ISSUE!
MOONS ART & POETRY REVIEW
Well peoples, I'm back at it again. Much thanks to
NightRaven for substituting in my absence. He did a
great job! The last 2 weeks have been hectic and I've
been under the weather. But here you go, as
promised...
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Extraordinary Quote
"Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its
changes; so shalt thou make thy profit out of all
occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto
thee be the source of
praise."
Akhenaton (c. B.C. 1375 Egyptian King and Monotheist)
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Shakespearean Quote
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
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Poetry Spotlight
I found this on one of my favorite sites. I think I
was drooling at the end of this poem. But aside from
that. The guy that wrote this was so creative and
descriptive, I was truly impressed. And I find, this
you either really liked, or totally hated. Me...I
didn't hate it.
more of the massage.........to change the mood and
heat the ladies...... by Hack
oh that little dimpled area at the small of your back,
my thumbs gently working your muscles to slack.
fingertips flying,
trippingly typing,
luxurious letters
on skin tightly packed.
with hands layed flat on either side of your spine,
I press them upward in one even line.
sensiously sliding,
gracefully gliding,
silently speaking,
in cadence and rhyme.
spread out to cover from backbone to ribcage,
taking my time 'cause the night just won't age.
patiently pressuring,
muscular measurings,
poetical pleasings
on your beautifull page.
all up your shoulders my hands gently ply,
as I work on your muscles you work out a sigh.
palms pressing,
carefully caressing,
drifting downward
in a glorious glide.
all the way back down at a slow steady pace,
moving easily with a well oiled grace,
passionate pleasuring
tickling tracings
precious patterns
of intricate lace.
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Featured Architecture
I decided to do this part of the column for a few
different reasons. On September 11th, 2001 the
majority of people around the world knew exactly where
they were, what they were doing, and how they felt the
moment they heard or saw what was happening. I know I
did. I remember when this happened I was around 7
months pregnant with my son and all I could think was
"God how am I suppose to keep him safe from things
like this?" It's hard to imagine that was almost 2
years ago now. Because I'm sure a lot of us think of
it all the time. Not to take away from what is really
important at the end of all this, but reading about
the structures put me in awe. So here's a bit of
history of the landmark before the tragedy. It's
pretty remarkable and worthy of a tribute in itself.
The World Trade Center
Caption:Height: 1,368 and 1,362 feet (417 and 415
meters)
Owners: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth and Sons
consulting
Engineer: John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of
Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson
Ground Breaking: August 5, 1966
Opened: 1970-73; April 4, 1973 ribbon cutting
The World Trade Center is more than its signature twin
towers: it is a complex of seven buildings on
16-acres, constructed and operated by the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The
towers, One and Two World Trade Center, rise at the
heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 feet
higher than the silver mast of the Empire State
Building.
Construction of a world trade facility had been under
consideration since the end of WWII. In the late 1950s
the Port Authority took interest in the project and in
1962 fixed its site on the west side of Lower
Manhattan on a superblock bounded by Vesey, Liberty,
Church and West Streets. Architect Minoru Yamasaki was
selected to design the project; architects Emery Roth
& Sons handled production work, and, at the request of
Yamasaki, the firm of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and
Jackson served as engineers.
The Port Authority envisioned a project with a total
of 10 million square feet of office space. To achieve
this, Yamasaki considered more than a hundred
different building configurations before settling on
the concept of twin towers and three lower-rise
structures. Designed to be very tall to maximize the
area of the plaza, the towers were initially to rise
to only 80-90 stories. Only later was it decided to
construct them as the world's tallest buildings,
following a suggestion said to have originated with
the Port Authority's public relations staff.
Yamasaki and engineers John Skilling and Les Robertson
worked closely, and the relationship between the
towers� design and structure is clear. Faced with the
difficulties of building to unprecedented heights, the
engineers employed an innovative structural model: a
rigid "hollow tube" of closely spaced steel columns
with floor trusses extending across to a central core.
The columns, finished with a silver-colored aluminum
alloy, were 18 3/4" wide and set only 22" apart,
making the towers appear from afar to have no windows
at all.
Also unique to the engineering design were its core
and elevator system. The twin towers were the first
supertall buildings designed without any masonry.
Worried that the intense air pressure created by the
buildings� high speed elevators might buckle
conventional shafts, engineers designed a solution
using a drywall system fixed to the reinforced steel
core. For the elevators, to serve 110 stories with a
traditional configuration would have required half the
area of the lower stories be used for shaftways. Otis
Elevators developed an express and local system,
whereby passengers would change at "sky lobbies" on
the 44th and 78th floors, halving the number of
shaftways.
Construction began in 1966 and cost an estimated $1.5
billion. One World Trade Center was ready for its
first tenants in late 1970, though the upper stories
were not completed until 1972; Two World Trade Center
was finished in 1973. Excavation to bedrock 70 feet
below produced the material for the Battery Park City
landfill project in the Hudson River. When complete,
the Center met with mixed reviews, but at 1,368 and
1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were
the world's tallest, and largest, buildings until the
Sears Tower surpassed them both in 1974.
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Musical Artist Spotlight
THE DOORS-Jim Morrison
Caption: James Douglas Morrison was born in Melbourne,
Florida December 8, 1943 to Clara and Steve Morrison.
Clara was a housewife and daughter of a lawyer. Steve
was an officer in the U.S. Navy. Jim had two younger
siblings: a brother, Andy, and a sister, Anne. Anne
was the youngest of the three. Jim, at an early age,
was a fervent reader. Although he exhibited great
leadership and intelligence, he also showed a tendency
to challenge authority. This disrespect of authority
led him to get kicked out of Cub Scouts for tormenting
the Den Mother through constant misbehaving.
Because of the position Jim's father had in the
military, the family was required to move often due to
transfer orders. The family moved from Florida, to New
Mexico, and eventually to Alexandria, Virginia in
1958. While in Virginia, Jim continued to clown and
heckle in and out of class. He became quite popular
amongst his classmates, and eventually met Tandy
Martin, his first girlfriend. During this time in
Virginia, Jim also continued to read. He found
interest in Nietzsche, Plutarch, Ginsberg, Michael
McClure, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, James
Joyce's Ulysses, Balzac, and the French Symbolists
(most important of these poets being Arthur Rimbaud,
about who Morrison would write the song Wild Child
about). By the time he reached the age of fifteen, Jim
was writing poetry, painting, and was identified as
having an I.Q. of 149. During this time he also made a
habit of sneaking out of his house at night to go to
sleazy bars downtown and listen to blues musicians.
1961 brought with it Jim's graduation from high
school. Immediately, his parents sent him to St.
Petersburg Jr. College in Florida where he was also
made to live with his grandparents. During the
following year, Jim became tired of living with his
grandparents and of life at St. Petersburg and decided
to transfer to Florida State University and major in
theatre. He lived a mile from campus in a three
bedroom house with five other FSU students, only two
of whom he had known previously. Due to his same
heckling shenanigans, his roommates asked him to move
out. This time at FSU was productive, however. It
brought about several important events which would
greatly influence Jim's life. First, he took
Philosophies of Protest and Psychology of Crowds,
which he identified later as two of his favorite
classes (that would in the future aid him in his role
as lead singer of the Doors). He also wrote a research
paper on the imagery of heaven and hell in the
paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. Finally, he managed to
get a part in Harold Pinter's play The Dumbwaiter
without having any previous acting experience. By 1964
Morrison had gotten tired of the theater arts
department at FSU and transferred to UCLA where he
became part of the film school.
During the week, Jim would go to his film classes and
participate in school schedules, but during the
weekend he went to Venice Beach and wrote poetry (the
poems he wrote during this time would be later put
together and made into the volume The Lords and The
New Creatures.) On the beach of Venice he read Jung
and Dylan Thomas, and began to experiment with drugs
(primarily marijuana). It was also here on Venice
Beach where Jim would run into Ray Manzarek and decide
to create The Doors. Jim would graduate in 1965 with a
Bachelors Degree in cinematography from UCLA, and
begin putting most of his attention into the music of
the Doors. During this initial stage of the Doors
touring and gig-hunting, Jim met Pamela Courson, one
of the two primary women in his life that he would
refer to as his "soul mate." The Doors rose to new
heights from 1964 to 1970, but as their fame
increased, so did Jim's addiction to alcohol and drug
experimentation.
This time between 1964 and 1970 not only held trials
and tribulations for Jim Morrison - it also held some
of his happiest experiences. During this time Jim
Morrison came met the second important woman in his
life, Patricia Kennealy. It was Kennealy Morrison
eventually married in a Celtic pagan handfasting
ceremony in June of 1970. Morrison and Kennealy had a
relationship away from Jim's addiction. Kennealy wrote
in her book Strange Days: My Life with an Without Jim
Morrison that Jim stayed with Pamela because she
allowed him his addictions. Kennealy also writes that
she knew the real Jim, the quiet, reserved trickster
and not Jim the addict. Despite Kennealy and Jim's
love, however, Jim chose to escape to Paris in 1970
with Pamela.
He retreated to Paris because he had become
disenchanted with the fame he had received as The
Doors' front man and upset by the lack of seriousness
with which he was taken as a poet. Paris offered a
sanctuary. It was the home of Arthur Rimbaud, his most
powerful literary influence. He hoped that this new
atmosphere would allow his to find a sense of himself
in the world and provide him with inspiration to
create fresh poetry. Unfortunately, this goal was
never achieved. Instead, Jim was left uninspired and
severely depressed. On July 3, 1971, Jim was found
dead in the bathtub of his and Pamela's Parisian
apartment. His body was then promptly buried at the
Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Although the circumstances of Morrison's death have
been debated, it is now believed (as reported in
Patricia Kennealy's book, as well as Jerry Hopkin's
book The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison) that
Jim's death was indirectly caused by Pamela. Whether
doped up herself or not, Pamela reportedly allowed Jim
to snort up a large quantity of heroin, which he
believed to be cocaine. This sudden ingestion of such
a large quantity of a drug he had never used before
led him to hemorrhage internally, which sent his body
into a state of shock, and eventually led to the heart
attack which killed him. Jim Morrison died at the age
of 27.
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As always, if you'd like to submit anything you may
send it to me at [email protected] Till next time.
RAVENS TOP 10 LIST & OTHER FUN STUFF
Quote of the week
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
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"Who Said It?"
"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. "
Homer, The Iliad
Previous "Who Said It" Quote Answer: Confucius.
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Ok everyone.. I've tried to keep away from this type of top 10. Every week I have to try over do the previous one. Believe me... at times its harder than it looks.... now I know how Letterman feels..lol Yet, due to my own somewhat creative ability as well as my sarcastic nature... I just had to do this set. I will start of by giving credit to the sites that I took some of this from. Also, I would also like to give credit the Master Card. Hey... I know the copyright laws..lol So with all that out of the way... you asked for it... you finally go it...The Top 10 Priceless Commercials they won't show on television.
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"Top 10 Priceless Commercials Not Shown on Television"
10. "Drinks for the night... $30.00. Finding santa on vacation... n/c. You and your girlfriend trying to blow Santa: priceless!"
9. "Two pre-party sixpacks BW at home... $ 5.95. Cover charge .....$.5.00. Three "party pills from the bouncer..... $10.00. Dropping the last pill on the floor, and now showing your cheeks while picking it up: priceless!"
8. "Tickets to the staff party.... free. Using the photocopier.... free. The pics of your ass around the office and on the net... priceless! "
7. "One set of new clubs... $200. A troud of lessons.... $100. Distracting your instructor with the money shot.... priceless!"
6. "New shoes... $45. Nights worth of beers.... $60. Getting so wasted you take your pants off and crawl around on the bar... priceless!"
5. "Packet of Malboro Red... $ 5.85. Bottle of cheap tequila.... $ 18. Passing out drunk and having your boyfriend take naked pictures of you to show your tits to all of his mates.. priceless!"
4. "Salary for being in the Jungle for 6 months... $23,286. 3 Letters a week back home to your girlfriend... free. Getting caught by your mates having a wank... priceless!"
3. "Burger King sign that says "Slam me in the pooper" instead of "Home of the Whopper".... priceless!"
2. "Flowers for your wife... $25. Chocolates for your wife... $15. Being and un-romantic cheap fuck and buying her smokes.. priceless!"
And the number one top 10 priceless commercial.
1. "New computer... $2000. Internet connection... $40. Logging on to yahoo chat.. $0. Getting caught using your sons computer for cyber sex..... priceless!"
Dr Phil Quote of the week by meme
"You don't need athlete's foot to run out into traffic."
Hillbilly Book Review
this weeks book is The Bad Place by Dean Koontz... this was a very interesting book .... its about a husband and wife detective team... they take on this case of a guy who doesnt remember who he is or where hes at.... he is carrying alot of money and jewels but yet he has no memory... come to find out he has the power of teletransportation.. but he is runnin from some one and doesnt know why... he finally figures out he has a brother who is tryin to kill him ... things get very weird ..... he starts poppin in and out and finally runs into his brother ... he grabs his brother and transports them together... when they popback they r half way disolved together ...in the end they completely disappear ... its a really good book ... i give it a 3 liqs on a 5 liq scale
IN CLOSEING
Many Thanks to Everyone who is Helping with their Participation in bringing you all this Weekly Newsletter. I hope Everyone Enjoyed it and Continues to Come back Each week to see what we have Next for you.
Much Love,
Kimmy.
