The story of a group of reprobates and their kind-hearted probation officer who happens to have a soft spot for whiskey-high quality Scotch Whiskey. Our hero is a young thug who nearly beat a man to death for no good reason, has gotten his girlfriend pregnant, and has a surprisingly good nose for single malts. The Probation Officer takes this young fellow under his wing and teaches him to appreciate fine whiskey. They go to tastings and take a tour of a distillery. The rest of the community service crew comes along for the ride, though they clearly lack the…
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Against All Things Ending
Stephen R Donaldson writes about people you don’t like doing things you don’t understand. But I still have a soft spot for him. Among the first books I discovered on my own were the three books of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever. These were kind of a cross between Alice in Wonderland, Lord of The Rings, and Dune, with a touch of The Wizard of Oz tossed in for good measure. I loved these stories. The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant were a little less cheery than the first, and the first were about as cheery as a…
Hot Sauce, Real Hot Sauce
If the only hot sauce you’ve ever heard of is Tabasco, you need to get out more. Not that there is anything wrong with Tabasco, I love the Chipolte flavor and I have a soft spot for the plain old orginal Tabasco. But once you become a serious chilihead, you find that there are a lot of other fish in the sea. Like Blair Hot Sauce. Blair’s Hot Sauce is the most recent hot sauce to get some fun buzz with the name Blair’s Death Sauce and the fact that it is the hottest thing around. But it far from…