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BEST OF 2011

Here's a list of things I did to kill time and entertain myself with for the year 2011. You'll notice that not everything is from the year 2011 though. The books I read and the video games I played are from different years. Only the "Movies" list is strictly films I'm rating from 2011, because I don't have time to list every single movie I saw this year.

BOOKS


Hawaiian Dick: Byrd of Paradise
Story by B. Clay Moore
Art by Steven Griffin

OK, NOTHING SPECIAL



Mass Effect: Ascension
By Drew Karpyshyn


OK, NOTHING SPECIAL



Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit
Adapted and Illustrated by Darwyn Cooke


OK, NOTHING SPECIAL



Mass Effect: Revelation
By Drew Karpyshyn


OK - This was the best book I read in 2011. It beat out the other books because if you've ever played a "Mass Effect" game then you'll understand why it's cool to know how Saren learned how to gain control of the Geth.


MOVIES



Tree of Life

AWFUL - the worst movie of 2011 and a clear example of why I hate film critics and the so-called "artists" of Hollywood.



Paul

AWFUL



Batman: Year One

AWFUL



Attack The Block

AWFUL



Your Highness

AWFUL



Terri

BAD



Super 8

BAD



Battle: Los Angeles

BAD



Limitless

OK



Cedar Rapids

OK



Captain America

OK


BTW - 2011 has to be the worst year in movies that I can ever remember!!!



Thor

GOOD



Atlas Shrugged Part I

GOOD - As a fan of Ayn Rand I was glad that they were somewhat able to capture her genius with this film. Her writing definitely reads better than acted out on screen, but hopefully the film at least introduces a new audience to her work.



Ayn Rand: In Her Own Words

GOOD - The best film I saw in 2011. A decent documentary about one of the greatest minds of all-time.


VIDEO GAMES



LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

OK - but then again why is a 34 year-old playing this to begin with?



Full House Poker

OK - Online poker was banned on April 15, 2011. Next thing I knew I was playing this game and betting "play money" for fun. Poker in America has hit an all-time low.



Singularity

GOOD



Dragon Age II

GOOD



LA Noire

GOOD





Half Life 2: Episode 1 & 2

GOOD - Dear Valve can we please get a fucking resolution to the world of Half Life? It's been long enough!!!



Dead Space

GOOD



Age of Mythology

ALL-TIME GREAT GAME - finally got around to beating this RTS classic.



Mass Effect

ALL-TIME GREAT GAME



Gears of War 3

ALL-TIME GREAT GAME



Limbo

ALL-TIME GREAT GAME



Portal

ALL-TIME GREAT GAME



Batman Arkham City

ALL-TIME GREAT GAME



Mass Effect 2

ALL-TIME GREAT GAME - The best game I played in 2011 and easily one of the best video games ever made. And there's a good chance that "Mass Effect" will top this list again in 2012 as "Mass Effect 3" comes out in March.

MORE MYSTERIOUS MONEY MARKINGS

     Here's a whole new batch of weird stuff on hundred dollar bills. Someone told me that these markings are actually called "chop" marks and that they are used by foreign countries to keep track of non-counterfeit bills, but I think there's more to these unusual works of art. There's a conspiracy in here somewhere.

LETTERS


A red letter B in a circle.



Two letter B's in a blue circle.



A purple letter P.



Blue letters SPN along with a purple symbol of what looks like a diamond.


NUMBERS


The number 28698.


SYMBOLS


Blue Arabic writing in a circle.



All kinds of marks: Arabic symbol, a sun with writing inside it, random numbers, and initials RIB.



A money symbol on money, kind of redundant.

BREW REVIEW: Oskar Blues Gordon Imperial Red




                    

     The great beer boom of America that has been going strong now for over a decade has introduced millions of drinkers to new flavors and brands, but this hoppy explosion has come with a price. In the case of Oskar Blues Brewery's Gordon Imperial Red you're looking at spending $11.99 for 4 beers that come in cans. A frugal shopper will tell you that you can buy a 12 pack of most domestic beers for $11.99 and that's even without them being on sale. But welcome to the new day of beer snobs and beer elitists. 

     Is Gordon Imperial Red a good beer? Yes, it is. It's satisfying, has a great color, packs a nice 8.7% ABV, but it's not worth $11.99 for 4 cans. I've seen other breweries like Dogfish Head go down this road and tell their consumers that their ingredients and the time they put into their beers are where the money goes, but let's be honest, one beer drinker to another, the biggest ingredient in beer as is in soda and as in wine is water. That's why ultimately after everything is done one single beer that has been mass produced really only costs about 25 cents to make. Given that Oskar Blues isn't as big as Budweiser I'll say that it costs them $1 to make one of their beers and obviously they don't have the same volume that Bud does, but why are you really paying that much extra for a good beer? Is it really that unique and one of a kind? Or is it just an image the Oskar Blues and Dogfish Head want you to buy into?

     So go ahead and feel proud and special that you're drinking a Gordon Imperial Red...you've paid for it! 

MYSTERIOUS MONEY MARKINGS



     Being that I play a lot of poker I always have cash on me. And something I've noticed in the last year or so are the mysterious markings I keep seeing on hundred dollar bills. Now I know it seems to be trendy to hate on the Federal Reserve and blast the U.S. Treasury for how they bail out people, and being a poker player I don't have any love for either of them at the moment, but that doesn't mean I would fuck with their money. 
    

On the left: A blue triangle with a B in it, the red number 396-2 On the right: a blue RP in a circle

     Of the 16 examples I have; 13 have markings on the front of the hundred dollar bill while 3 are on the back. What kind of sub culture is doing this? Is this the work of a Banksy type character? Is it some kind of elaborate form of communicating? Or is this what art school dropouts do to leave a mark?

     I've grouped the markings into four categories so far: Symbols, Animals, Letters/Initials and Random.




SYMBOLS


A red diamond with KK on one point



Could this have Middle Eastern connections?



Another possible Middle East connection?



This one looks like a fraternity symbol.



LETTERS/INITIALS




















ANIMALS


A blue lion.



A red cat.



A blue bird with the initials A M on it.



RANDOM


I don't know what this is or if I even have it right-side up.



Two random blue markings on the right side of the bill with a red G in the bottom righthand corner.


WSOP 2011: The View From The Top


The View from the top of The Stratosphere

      First of all...sorry. This blog should have been posted about 2 weeks ago but I got caught up with life at the shore and have neglected to finish my WSOP 2011 story. So here it is...the exciting conclusion to my annual poker vacation to Las Vegas.
     
June 29, 2011 - Las Vegas, NV - Day Three

     When we last left off I was down -$495 for my trip so far, but with two full days of poker left I felt I could get back in the black.


It's not how far you fall but how high you bounce.

     I decided to start the day by not playing poker but instead playing pinball. I figured a good way to stay off "tilt" was to check out the Pinball Hall of Fame which is right off of Tropicana Ave and looks like from the outside the most non-descript Hall of Fame in the world.



     But once you get inside you enter perhaps the greatest collection of working
pinball machines in the world. Now, the Pinball Hall of Fame doesn't have every single pinball machine ever made, but they are not far from it. Since 1991 the Hall has been collecting machines and encouraging the progress of pinball. 90% of the games cost 50 cents to play while the more recent machines cost 75 cents. I'd actually like to see every machine cost only a quarter but the selection and maintance of the machines make up for the extra cost.
 



Again with Spy Hunter


Bad Cats - one of my favorite old school machines



     The one thing about playing at the Pinball Hall of Fame is that much like how Funspot is the epicenter of arcade games and has the highest scores you'll find in the world; the machines at the PHF have insanely high scores and getting a replay is almost impossible on a popular machine. I did get two free games though....thanks to matching the Match.


Star Wars Pinball


Avatar - this just came out and costs 75 cents to play




Gottlieb, Williams, Moloney & Stern - the greatest names in pinball

     I played pinball for close to three hours before I figured it was time to go play poker. There's something about playing pinball that makes your mind and reflexes sharper so I felt good as I got out of a cab in front of the Aria.



     Since I had been having no luck at No Limit Hold'em I decided to change things up and play 1/2 Pot Limit Omaha at the Aria poker room. The Aria is the newest poker room on The Strip and it has wasted no time in becoming the hottest room in town for cash games, and PLO is the juiciest of the juice when it comes to action. In just one hour I won one of the biggest pots in my career and almost erased all of my losses for my trip so far. 
    
     The key hand: I'm sitting with roughly $500 in front of me and get AA910, I think one of the Aces was suited with diamonds. Eventhough this was a 1/2 game, PLO games, especially at the Aria, play very fast and aggressive. The action before the flop was $40 to go and I just called. Myself and two other players saw a flop of A34 with two spades, with $120 in the pot the first player bets out $80, I call and and a player behind me calls. The turn is a 9 of clubs. The initial bettor now checks and I bet $220, the player behind me tanks for about 2 minutes and then shoves all-in on me, the initial raiser folds and I call. The river comes a 9 of hearts making my hand a full house of Aces over 9's. The villian mucks his hand and I'm pushed a pot of $1130, putting me up $630. I play for a little while longer and start to feel the momentum of my big hand starting to fade, and once you lose your mojo in PLO it's wise to get up. I give back over $200 in the process of losing my mojo and left the Aria poker room up $406.   


The Monte Carlo

     The sad thing about Pot Limit Omaha is that it isn't spread as much as it should be in poker rooms. Pretty much if you're going to visit a bunch of poker rooms you're going to end up playing No-Limit Hold'em, which I don't mind but I like changing things up from time to time. The Monte Carlo poker room is about 1/4 the size of the Aria's room and they had about 5 1/3 No-Limit Hold'em games going when I got there. I sat down at what seemed like a pretty normal and straight forward hold'em game. The table was filled with middle-age men and older guys which usually means they either have it or they don't. You wouldn't anticipate any crazy moves or sick bluffs...looking back I didn't know what I was getting myself into. It turns out the table captain was this guy in his 60's from South Korea who was more of a craps junkie than a poker player. He controlled the action of the table with his raises and re-raises. Even worst you could never get him off a hand, twice he called me down on a board like KQ649, I'd bet on river with a missed flush draw and he'd call me with his 56 for a pair of sixes. At the same time when he wasn't calling you down with bottom pair he'd be ready and willing to play for stacks when he thought he had the best of it. I was waiting for my spot to get involved with him for a big pot but similar to the hold'em games the day before my opportunity never came. I closed my session down -$206 and headed back to the Stratosphere where I played some Roulette, Craps and got drunk on Pai Gow Poker.

     Overall between the Pinball Hall of Fame, roaming the The Strip and tables games at The Stratosphere I didn't really play much poker, but thanks to one big pot I did put a dent in my losses.

Aria 1/2 Pot Limit Omaha 1 hour: $406
Monte Carlo 1/3 NL Hold'em 4 hours: -$206

Down -$295


June 30, 2011 - Las Vegas, NV - Day Four

     My flight home was tonight at 11:00pm so I had one full day left to win back my money. I decided to head to my favorite poker room in Vegas; The Venetian Poker Room.    


The Venetian

     The Venetian's poker room is well run and has nonstop action. I find that on average the best grinders play here so the competition is above normal. If I was wise and really wanted to win back my money I would go find a softer game somewhere else, but I only get out to Vegas once a year these days so I wanted to test myself. I sat down at 1/2 Pot Limit Omaha game and although it wasn't as fast and aggressive as my session at the Aria last night I did quickly accumulate an additional $200 or so to my starting stack. I gave back $100 and decide to stand-up before that bitch god named "Variance" got the best of me.
    
     I hadn't played any 2/5 No Limit Hold'em while I had been in Vegas and I decided to take a shot at one of those tables. The 2/5 game I sat down at was well above the normal game I usually play in. I bought in for $500 while most of the players at the table bought in for $1000. Unlike in Atlantic City where the max buy-in for a 2/5 game is $500, in Vegas most 2/5 games have a max buy-in of $1000 or even $1500. But I felt comfortable buying in for 100 big blinds so the starting stack sizes weren't much of an issue. What was an issue is that the players at this table weren't in Vegas for fun. These guys were dead serious poker players. They were going to test anyone and everyone who got in a hand with them. I saw some ridiculous bluffs and moves I would never see at the normal 1/2 game. A game like this raises your level of play but I was pretty much card dead. I saw multiple pots in the $500 range but I never really found a position to get involved in the action. Really the only hand of any significance I had was when I had pocket Kings and got one of the bigger stacks at the table to fold pre-flop when I 3 betted him. Since I really hadn't been playing any hands it was easy for the other player to put me on AA or KK. After a few hours I decided to try my luck in the less shark infested waters of the 1/2 NL Hold'em games.
    
     The 1/2 game I played in at The Venetian was a lot less volatile than the 2/5 game I was just playing but nothing I did seemed to work. Unsuccessful bluffs, AK losing to pocket pairs that held up. Over the next few hours I couldn't make any hands while my opponents connected with everything. The last topping on my cake of fail came when I had pocket Jacks and the flop came 456 rainbow. I bet out and a short stack of about $100 shoves all in on me. I call and off course the villian flips over 78 for a flopped straight. I was done with poker in Vegas. It was around 8:30pm and I decided to collect my things and head to the airport for my 11:00pm flight home.

Venetian 1/2 Pot Limit Omaha 2 hours: $95
Venetian 2/5 No-Limit Hold'em 2 hours: -$89
Venetian 1/2 No-Limit Hold'em 2 hours: -$200

Final Total for Las Vegas Trip: -$489

     Still nothing beats the energy of Las Vegas. As I boarded my flight home I wondered what if I had won that WSOP single table satellite four days ago. I checked to see who won WSOP Event #48 and some guy named Athanasios Polychronopouls won his first bracelet and $650,223. He was probably just a guy with a dream of poker glory. A guy just like me. 

WSOP 2011: Up In The Air & Then Smashing To The Ground


The Stratosphere


June 27, 2011 - Las Vegas, NV

      I arrived at The Stratosphere around 12:30 Vegas time for day one of my annual poker vacation to Sin City. Why The Stratosphere? Why not? Hey look it's a big needle thing like that thing in Seattle, and I've really never spent much time down at this end of the Vegas strip before (there might be a good reason for that).


The view from my hotel room



On channel 31 in your hotel room at The Stratosphere you can watch people get a thrill by jumping off a ledge really high up in the air.



     Right from the beginning The Strat had the kind of bush league hotel service that was instantly noticeable. My room for one wasn't ready, which actually served me well as I went to the poker room and won $196 in 2 hours playing 1-2 NL Hold'em, but when I did get to my room there really wasn't anything special about it. The view of The Strip was OK, the window was kind of small and unimpressive. The TV in the room had a fuzzy and grainy resolution. I'm not sure if it's even HD, maybe it just has really bad component cables? The TV's speakers were also blown out which was nice and irritable. The internet connection of course didn't work, which is why I'm posting two days of action in this one blog. It took the "technicians" at The Strat a good 5 hours to figure out why the connection wasn't working. But why am I bitching so much about my room? Who spends time in their room when they come to Vegas? Let's get to the action!!!



The heart of the 2011 World Series of Poker

     I entered The Rio feeling good after I had won almost $200 in just two hours while waiting for my room at The Stratosphere. The 2011 World Series of Poker had been running for weeks when I made my attempt to satellite into Event #48: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em. The satellite works by 10 players putting up $175 each and the winner gets a $1500 seat into the event. I managed to get myself into heads-up play with just one player remaining but unfortunately I only had 1500 in chips to my villain's 8500 in chips and a drastic turn of events did not happen and I finished 2/10.


The Final Table of a WSOP Event

     It's a real mood killer to get that close and watch an opportunity slip away. I checked out the big name pros in The Rio playing tournaments and cash games, but after my almost win I wasn't really in the mood to play so I headed back to The Strat and recharged for tomorrow.

Stratosphere 1/2 NL Hold'em 2 hours: $196
WSOP STS 2/10: -$175

Up $21


June 28, 2011 - Las Vegas, NV - Day Two





     I entered the unique and interesting surroundings of the Circus Circus casino around noon. I was ready to forget about my WSOP FAIL and play some cash games. However, the CC poker room isn't a 24 hour action room and there wasn't a soul to be found anywhere. OK...I guess I'll walk over to the Riviera.  


Circus Circus' empty poker room: send in the clowns, where are they clowns?

 


The Riviera is all about class

     The Riviera was so much better than Circus Circus. They had "one" full table of 1/2 NL Hold'em going. Wow, not really too exciting. The only action I felt like taking at The Riv was that they did randomly have a makeshift arcade in one of their hallways that had both a Taxi pinball machine and a Spy Hunter game. Like I said The Riv pwned CC in terms of action, but after one game of Taxi and Spy Hunter I was back on the sidewalk of Las Vegas Blvd to search out a cash game.


The Riviera Poker Room and their one table of 1/2 NL Hold'em


Taxi Pinball Machine


Spy Hunter - one of the best arcade games of all-time


     I knew The Wynn would have games going.



     I got the action I was looking for as The Wynn had 4 1/3 NL Hold'em games going. Unfortunately, the cards weren't on my side at one of the IMO nicer rooms on the strip. I never really got anything going and after what was either a great read or a stupid laydown half of my chips were gone. I ended up running into pocket QQ holding pocket 77 on a flop of 654 rainbow where I shoved the rest of my stack. The villain called and I didn't improve. Boom, my first buy-in gone. I wasn't feeling it at the table, so once again I started heading down LV Blvd.



The Infamous O'Shea's Casino

     The beauty of Vegas is that at one moment you can be in a high end place like The Wynn and the next you can be drinking cheap beer and having the hot Vegas air blowing in your face at O'Shea's. The O'Shea's poker room is pretty much just a novelty; tables are literally almost on the sidewalk and the open air and random people walking by on The Strip invade the poker game constantly. I played 1/2 NL Hold'em at O'Shea's for about an hour and had my fill as I left up 7 whole dollars.

     I left O'Shea's for Planet Hollywood and the sad thing about my time at PH was that the most exciting thing to happen was The Hangover slot machine I played and won $114 on. It was the Stu progressive jackpot that gave me my windfall on this penny slot machine.



     I was card dead my whole time at Planet Hollywood. The 1/2 NL Hold'em game was normal. The players were playing straight forward ABC poker but after no significant hands or pots I was down $71 after 7 hours. On a side note the University of South Carolina Gamecocks won their second consecutive College World Series while I was playing. GO COCKS!!!



     I headed over to MGM around midnight and my cold cards followed me. Again, nothing and I mean nothing developed. I was hoping to find a Pot Limit Omaha game to play somewhere since I was getting brutalized in Hold'em holdings, but none of these rooms were running any PLO. 3 hours at MGM and down $152. It was time to stop the bleeding and head home to The Strat. 

The Wynn 1/3 NL Hold'em 2 hours: -$300
O'Shea's 1/2 NL Hold'em 1 hour: $7
Planet Hollywood 1/2 NL Hold'em 7 hours: -$71
MGM 1/2 NL Hold'em 3 hours: -$152 

Down -$495

The Ghost Town of the Pine Barrens

PHOTO BLOG: BATSTO VILLAGE



     When you usually think of ghost towns you usually picture tumbleweeds going through somewhere in Arizona or Nevada, but located right in the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens is a town that time has forgotten. Batsto Village was founded in 1766 and survived until 1989. Today the streets and houses are empty. Walking around this abandoned town is much like a time warp into the past and a reminder that nothing lasts forever.









     Inside the Wharton State Forest is where you can find Batsto Village. The town is a registered historical place and is maintained by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection which explains why the houses don't have broken windows and why the walls haven't crumbled. But like everything else in the Pine Barrens there lives a vibe of eerieness and something strange. 




The Batsto River




The Batsto General Store






An Abandoned Mansion






An Empty Stable



Batsto Village: The Ghost Town of the Pine Barrens

Comic Review: Batman Arkham City #1



    
     The video game "Batman: Arkham Asylum" is the best video game ever based on a comic book character. So I was anxious to check out this mini-series by DC Comics that is intended to bridge the gap between "Batman: AA" and the upcoming "Batman: Arkham City" video game. First of all the cover kicks ass and the first few pages are true to form with the ending of "Batman: Arkham Asylum". It shows The Dark Knight defeating a Titan fueled Joker, but unlike the game where Batman and Commissioner Gordon hear a radio call about Two-Face robbing a bank the comic jumps ahead one full year to where the former warden of Arkham Asylum is now Mayor of Gotham and the plot revolves around two thugs named Terry and Tracy Trask who have made use of leftover Titan barrels from the Arkham riots.  

     Wait? Why not just pick up with Two-Face robbing the bank? Two-Face does make an appearance as he is the one that hired the Trask siblings to oversee the barrels of Titan, but he quickly takes a back seat to some other mysterious figure who seems to be plotting something awful for the Cape Crusader. While I'm sure the action and gameplay of "Batman: Arkham City" the video game will remain true to the original, if this first issue of the comic series is any indication of the upcoming plot for the game then I definitely see a drop-off coming. There's an incident in the comic that serves as a catalyst for the formation of Arkham City, basically a prison within the city of Gotham, but the tone of the narrative hints of 9/11 false flags and the notion of Batman battling badies in one enclosed location is all too familiar. 

     In closing, I still look forward to playing "Batman: Arkham City" when it's released on October 18, 2011, but this comic has me questioning the storyline. When it comes to video games I always do stress gameplay over plot but after hours and hours in front of your X-Box eventually it's the story and characters that can make a great game a classic.  


BATMAN ARKHAM CITY #1            READ IT!!!    SKIP IT!!!    BURN IT!!!

Best of 2010

Below you'll see what I read, watched and played in 2010 (doesn't mean they necessary came out in 2010, I just got around to experiencing them this year). They are listed from top to bottom in the order of worst to best:


BOOKS



TOP OF THE HEAP - by Erle Stanley Gardner
     The ending will leave you feeling flat much like the plot and character development.



EMPIRE - by Orson Scott Card
     The book that inspired the X-Box Live classic game "Shadow Complex" had potential but didn't really deliver.



MAUS - by Art Spiegelman
     An interesting read but the pacing kind of drags.


BOOK OF THE YEAR


THE GODFATHER OF POKER - by Doyle Brunson
     This is a must read if you play poker.


MOVIES



MACGRUBER - AWFUL 
     Easily the worst movie of the year.



GET HIM TO THE GREEK - AWFUL



IRON MAN 2
- OK



SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD
- OK



BLACK SWAN
- OK



TOY STORY 3 - OK



INCEPTION - EXCELLENT



WINTER'S BONE
- EXCELLENT


MOVIE OF THE YEAR


THE SOCIAL NETWORK - EXCELLENT
     Whether you understand the Facebook phenomenon or not this film will keep you captivated from beginning to end.



VIDEO GAMES


PUZZLE QUEST
     A twist on the classic Bejeweled game but gets repetitive quick and the story and RPG elements aren't strong enough for you to want to keep playing.



RESIDENT EVIL 5: LOST IN NIGHTMARES
     There are a few exciting moments in this expansion to the classic horror game but overall this download probably isn't worth the extra $$$.



PINBALL FX2
     It's a decent diversion from the games in your rotation but if you want to play pinball please go play the real thing. The industry needs your support!



INFECTONATOR! WORLD DOMINATOR
     You want to destroy the world and waste time at work? Then this "Free Game" is perfect for you!



X-MEN ARCADE
     Relive the early 1990's again with this direct import to X-Box Live from the age of the end of the arcades. FYI - the Japanese version is the version worth playing.



GTA IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY
     Can't get enough of Liberty City? Then check out this GTA IV expansion that contains some of the most action packed mission in the GTA series' history.



DRAGON AGE ORIGINS
     A truly epic and amazing game. I really put some hours into DA in 2010 beating the main game and the following expansions:
     Dragon Age Origins - The Stone Prisoner
     Dragon Age Origins - Warden's Keep
     Dragon Age Origins - Awakening



BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM
     An instant classic, this is one of my all-time faves and the best video game based on a comic book ever!



GAME OF THE YEAR


RED DEAD REDEMPTION
     "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" meets "Grand Theft Auto" and it couldn't have been executed better. The grand scope of the world was engrossing. Some nights I would just spend picking flowers and hunting critters. Some nights I would brave the deadly area know as Tanner's Reach. Nothing beat forming a Posse with your friends over X-Box Live and ruling the terrain with an iron fist.


HAPPY 2011 FROM WELLHUNGOVER.NET!!!

Cheers for a Christmas Zombie

    

     The holidays can be stressful so what better way to relax and destroy a few brain cells than with a new drink of mine called "The Christmas Zombie". It's a updated and somewhat stripped down version of the classic "Zombie" drink, but after all the money you've spent this month do you really need to waste anymore on frivolous things like grenadine, apricot brandy and Angostura bitters. Also, garnishes like cherries and oranges have been left out; my version of the "Zombie" is basically just booze and juice. Quick and easy to make so you can get your buzz on by the time Uncle Eddie arrives in "Christmas Vacation".



Here's what you need:

1 Bottle of White Rum
- I went with Cruzan from St. Croix it's one of the best rums for mixing.

1 Bottle of Dark Rum - To pick things up a notch go with Gosling's from Bermuda, but be careful kiddies at 151 proof this shit is flammable, so just imagine what it's doing to your body.

1 Bottle of Pineapple Juice

1 Bottle of Orange Juice






The Formula

2 oz. white rum
1 oz dark rum
2 oz orange juice
2 oz pineapple juice

Shake and strain into a holiday glass with ice. 



      Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
                                                                               Jeff
      
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