Pan-galactic!

So Bonnie has been after me to do pan-galactic gargle blasters. I will not stoop to linkage to explain this. If you have no idea what a PGGB is, you are culturally deprived and possibly dangerous.

Anyway, it turns out that there are a jillion recipes for such out there in both Internet-land and bartending guides. I won't pretend to have tried them all. But I will say this: If you are after a brilliant – indeed, fluorescent green – drink with a fair mix of sweet and tart, you could do worse than to mix equal parts vodka, rum (white rum, preferably rhum blanc agricole or cachaça), and Midori; toss in a couple of dashes of fresh lime juice; shake with ice; pour into martini glasses; and top up with Sprite (we used Sprite Zero). It's vivid . . . it's green . . . it's a little fizzy . . . it's actually pretty good.

That is all.

The Company

At our October 26 session, we had Bonnie ("Xiang Wen," a.k.a. "Wu Xie Zhi"), Marc ("Anabel Windsor," a.k.a. "Abigail Wilson"), Martin ("Zhu Zhang," a.k.a. "Harold Lee"), Mike ("Vincenzo Calliente," of many aliases), and Stéphane ("Hamid Fassal"). And please welcome Torsten ("Qoqa Ramazanov," a.k.a. "Zoya Petrovna Sidorov"), who joined us for the first time.

( Last session's events . . . )