The Jolly Inebriate

I haven’t posted a collection of links in awhile because my recent move up to Dupont from Little Italy left me with a number of home renovation projects to complete in time for my upcoming 30th birthday.

I quickly found myself sitting on a good 200 or so stories, articles and recipes. While some of them are out-of-date, the rest are quite worthy of being brought to attention and the only question concerns the best way to do this.

I think I’m going to put out two collection of links for now, which will be posted every Monday. Inside Ontario will focus on what’s happening in our province while Outside Ontario will collect the best of what’s happening in the rest of the world.

Each of these will be further divided by theme. Cocktails will collect recipes and offer how-to guides on making syrups and mixers. News will talk about bars, the industry, the laws governing it and any interesting science concerning our consumption of booze that turns up.

Food is the biggest change for this blog and represents a growing interest of mine. I simply can’t talk about what I drink any longer without at least occasionally delving into what I eat. The two are inseparable as far as I’m concerned and I want to share quick-and-easy recipes, a companion to the DIY aspect of the blog’s cocktail coverage.

I’m really excited to ramp up my coverage all of the interesting things going on in the world of food and drink and I look forward to keeping up with the challenge of posting regularly.

But the older I get, the more I think that the whole purpose of life is to have fun.

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(Photo taken by Adam Goldberg.)

I’ve been having way too much fun this summer and my roommate and I were temporarily disconnected from the internet for a couple of weeks. While being unplugged can be good, it also meant I couldn’t write about the outstanding things I’ve been doing. Anyhow, I’m back!

God, I miss Dennis Hopper (although the only time I’ll drink PBR is when its cheap).

You may have noticed that the look of this blog has been changing dramatically. I’m a bit of a tinkerer at heart and while I don’t know all that much about CSS, I’m definitely willing to rip this project’s guts out and try and put ‘em back together in a manner more to my liking.

While this approach has worked thus far, I’ve reached a bit of an impasse and find myself unable to find certain vital bits of code needed to affect a change in several graphic elements.

So, while I make some new friends on the WordPress forums, I hope you bear with me and ignore the bits that don’t like quite right. They should be fixed soon.

But I’m thinking of a different context entirely.

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld