http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/2010/01/cocktail-talk-assassins-have-starry-eyes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cocktail-talk-assassins-have-starry-eyes Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:23:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/2010/01/cocktail-talk-assassins-have-starry-eyes/#comment-428 admin Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:36:13 +0000 http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/?p=573#comment-428 Sister is tough--you can pull it off. The waitress will love you for it and follow you home (which may be a problem, all things considered). Sister is tough–you can pull it off. The waitress will love you for it and follow you home (which may be a problem, all things considered).

]]> http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/2010/01/cocktail-talk-assassins-have-starry-eyes/#comment-427 phismi Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:42:51 +0000 http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/?p=573#comment-427 I've actually started peppering my conversations with "sister" where appropriate. Haven't tried it on a cocktail waitress yet. I suspect it would get me a Martini that's one to five to one (that final 'one' being cocktail waitress saliva). I’ve actually started peppering my conversations with “sister” where appropriate. Haven’t tried it on a cocktail waitress yet. I suspect it would get me a Martini that’s one to five to one (that final ‘one’ being cocktail waitress saliva).

]]> http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/2010/01/cocktail-talk-assassins-have-starry-eyes/#comment-426 Twitter Trackbacks for Spiked Punch » Blog Archive » Cocktail Talk: Assassins Have Starry Eyes [ajrathbun.com] on Topsy.com Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:29:50 +0000 http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/?p=573#comment-426 [...] Spiked Punch » Blog Archive » Cocktail Talk: Assassins Have Starry Eyes www.ajrathbun.com/blog/2010/01/cocktail-talk-assassins-have-starry-eyes – view page – cached I don’t know much, but I know I love the song “Starry Eyes” by Mötley Crüe. Do I love the book by Donald Hamilton called Assassins Have Starry Eyes? Not as much, definitely. But I did like it, though I don’t know the Hamilton oeuvre that well (and yes, I did just bust out the “oeuvre.” I rule like that, literarily.) I don’t even know Matt Helm, who’s called out so boldly on the... Read moreI don’t know much, but I know I love the song “Starry Eyes” by Mötley Crüe. Do I love the book by Donald Hamilton called Assassins Have Starry Eyes? Not as much, definitely. But I did like it, though I don’t know the Hamilton oeuvre that well (and yes, I did just bust out the “oeuvre.” I rule like that, literarily.) I don’t even know Matt Helm, who’s called out so boldly on the coverm but who isn’t in the book at all. I do know that the book was once called Assignment Murder, but the Crüe never had a song called that (though, in hindsight, maybe they should have). And that it’s a funny jumble of a book, with some mystery, some intrigue, some hard-to-believeness, and some anti-government plot or rigmarole that Donald (if I can call him Donald) seems down on somewhat. I also know that the following quote is a nice kick in the face to those who would drink a pre-made or a poorly made Martini, and that is why I’m quoting it, and why Mötley Crüe would dig the book, because they don’t stand (in leather and thigh high boots) for any bad View page [...] [...] Spiked Punch » Blog Archive » Cocktail Talk: Assassins Have Starry Eyes http://www.ajrathbun.com/blog/2010/01/cocktail-talk-assassins-have-starry-eyes – view page – cached I don’t know much, but I know I love the song “Starry Eyes” by Mötley Crüe. Do I love the book by Donald Hamilton called Assassins Have Starry Eyes? Not as much, definitely. But I did like it, though I don’t know the Hamilton oeuvre that well (and yes, I did just bust out the “oeuvre.” I rule like that, literarily.) I don’t even know Matt Helm, who’s called out so boldly on the… Read moreI don’t know much, but I know I love the song “Starry Eyes” by Mötley Crüe. Do I love the book by Donald Hamilton called Assassins Have Starry Eyes? Not as much, definitely. But I did like it, though I don’t know the Hamilton oeuvre that well (and yes, I did just bust out the “oeuvre.” I rule like that, literarily.) I don’t even know Matt Helm, who’s called out so boldly on the coverm but who isn’t in the book at all. I do know that the book was once called Assignment Murder, but the Crüe never had a song called that (though, in hindsight, maybe they should have). And that it’s a funny jumble of a book, with some mystery, some intrigue, some hard-to-believeness, and some anti-government plot or rigmarole that Donald (if I can call him Donald) seems down on somewhat. I also know that the following quote is a nice kick in the face to those who would drink a pre-made or a poorly made Martini, and that is why I’m quoting it, and why Mötley Crüe would dig the book, because they don’t stand (in leather and thigh high boots) for any bad View page [...]

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