Stanley Cup Playoff Drinks
Stanley Cup Playoff Drinks
Here are some drinks to celebrate the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! Just like the playoffs themselves, playoff drinks have to strike the tricky balance inherent to a winter sport being played in June, like seriously why did we ever let the California teams get good enough to make it into the later rounds it’s like a million degrees what the hell are we doing trying to play scoot and shoot on ice. These are some of my favourites for watching the Cup while in your cups.
The PIMs Cup
By Ethanbentley at en.wikipedia [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons
A playoff version of the classic British summer drink, prepare a fruit cup per your favourite recipe, but serve in a glass with a salted rim. Discretely brush off the salt before drinking, it’s just there to provoke horrified looks. Celebrate bright fruity spring flavours and your favourite heavily-penalized dillhole at the same time
Toast: To a different little shit who has his own towel in the penalty box each time you take a sip. Toasted players should be unique, unless toasting Brad Marchand, who is unique enough on his own. Like a proverbial river, you can’t step in the same Marchie twice
Garnish: A smug look at your friend having a shrieky meltdown that you would celebrate such a classless goon
The Playoff Beard
By Chris huh [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
Mix a sex on the beach or a tangerini or similarly coloured drink and then serve in a scotch tumbler with a single pretentiously-large ice cube.
For some people loving sports means sometimes having to pass as Totally One Of The Guys, Nothing To See Here. This drink gives the option to do that while remaining true to an identity as a smouldering queer dumpster fire. Looks like a manly drink for manly men but tastes like an afternoon cackling at a matinee performance of one of the funny tragedies at Shakespeare in the Park
Toast: The patron saint of smouldering queer dumpster fires in the NHL, Tyson Barrie. Alternatively Tyson Barrie’s dignity, which needs all the help it can get, or the boat his cardiologist gets a little closer to buying every time he hits on a teammate on camera and then isn’t sure if they’re going along with it jokingly or are actually into it
The Flannel Shirt
Mostly I go for fruity drinks to celebrate playoff joy, but sometimes you need a soothing wintry drink for playoff heartbreak. The flannel shirt can be an excellent balm for postseason hard times. Feel free to play around with the spice mixture (allspice in the above recipe, but other mulling spices can also be good) for comforting nostalgia suited to you.
Toast: Those halcyon winter days when you happily doze by the cabin woodstove wearing nothing but Hilary Knight’s cozy flannel shirt. You hear the shoothing rythm of firewood being chopped outside and wait for her to come to come back in, face red from the cold, to cram herself into your chair and unwittingly light up your whole spine with her icy hands on your warm neck. The shirt smells like her and no one has even been mathematically eliminated yet, let alone blown 4-1 leads in the final minutes of game seven, been swept (or reverse swept), or knocked out by the same division rival for the second year in a row. You’re safe.
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I made a game! It’s a text-based adventure about living with mental illness. I pulled a marathon coding session yesterday and ported it to javascript, so it’s now you can play it in a browser without having to install anything. Yay!
As the subject matter might suggest, it’s a little on the dark side. Writing it was an emotional but very rewarding experience. Self-expression through code!
Let me know what you think!
A present I made for my dear friend @ave-puella. You may recognize it as a short Temeraire fic she posted a little while back. It’s done entirely by hand, and was my first time attempting borders and illumination. I’m still figuring out gold leaf, but it was super fun to work with (there’s also some gold work on the border of the third page). For those of you unfamiliar with the Temeraire universe, there are dragons, hence the second page border.
It was a heck of a lot of work, but was entirely worth it for her face and incredulous ‘what did you do?!’
The ice we skate
Is getting pretty thin
It signifies our youth
And pleasures chucked into the bin
Mercedes and James Hutchinson
HOOKED RUG
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Fenimore Art Museum
Did you run into the human one or the cartoon one? I feel that both would be very intereting to do coke with, but in very different ways
i just saw the grink lol haha
Heh, I love this take on this, it’s far more hilarious than my game was. If anyone is interested in actually playing it, you can download a windows installer from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bqhY0xzEu3ckxadVA1d2ZleU0/view?usp=sharing. If you’re worried about downloading strange files from the internet, that’s very wise of you! The source code is here: https://github.com/isaach/sdabto. This will also let you run it on a mac or linux machine. Click the ‘download ZIP’ button and then run it with python 3 (which you may have to install) from the command line for some text-based good times! Well, not really good times, as @ave-puella mentioned.
If anyone actually wants to play this game and is having trouble getting it going hit me up and I’ll help you run it. I really love hearing people’s reactions to it.
first person computer game: mental illness
> ‘command: walk out front door’ is not allowed. the future is terrifying. staying at your start point inside the house is your best bet.
> good job! lying on the couch and staring at the opposite wall for two hours has boosted your energy. you can now throw away the jar of peanut butter you had for dinner last night.
> the quest you are following no longer exists. a full day has passed and your priorities have changed. go to the menu to read your new quest.
> minus one mind point. your last save was two months ago. click ‘ok’ to repeat the ‘get a diagnosis’ quest while under the influence of an unmemory potion.
> oops! the villager doesn’t understand your explanation of ‘weird brain fog.’ now they treat you with suspicion. looks like you have to go to the next village for your errands from now on.
> you have collected five good days! check your menu for your new treasure, ‘memory of when i could function’. it might come in handy in the future!
> cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘cry’. all quests will be put on hold until ‘cry’ is complete.
> cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘spontaneous desolation’. all quests > cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘negativit > cube unlocked! you have > cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘only taylor swift songs make me feel anything’. all quests will be put on hold until > cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘scream’. all quests will be put on hold until ‘scream’ is complete.
> this is your new companion, GARGOYLE. he will accompany you on the quest ‘pass as functioning’. keep an eye out for his secondary weapon: whispering ugly truths only you can hear.
How parental support can make a world of difference for a trans* youth. Learn more. Retweet. Share on Facebook.
Codex Callistius, a 12th century “travel guide” to Santiago di Compostela.
Chi-rho page from the Book of St Chad, which dates from circa AD 730. It contains some of the earliest evidence of the Welsh language in written form
Ooooooooh, @ave-puella added some closeups!
A present I made for my dear friend @ave-puella. You may recognize it as a short Temeraire fic she posted a little while back. It’s done entirely by hand, and was my first time attempting borders and illumination. I’m still figuring out gold leaf, but it was super fun to work with (there’s also some gold work on the border of the third page). For those of you unfamiliar with the Temeraire universe, there are dragons, hence the second page border.
It was a heck of a lot of work, but was entirely worth it for her face and incredulous ‘what did you do?!’
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Calligraphy, complaining, potentially calligraphic complaining someday
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