Drink.
The Two Mikes
But what happens when the book you just read is about about hungry zombies or a haunted house, and your Eat, Pray, Love–reading friends aren’t really into reading it, much less discussing its finer points? That’s what we’re here for. We Two Mikes will be your virtual book group for discussing new and interesting and old and half-forgotten horror books.
If you want to follow along with us, look at the next forbidden book on the table and start reading.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Episode 58 : Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
Drink.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Episode 57: Joan Samson's The Auctioneer
It's Cocktail Time!
The Yankee Virtue
1 shot brandy
1/2 shot Becherovka clove liqueur
2 shots hard apple cider
Shake with ice and strain into martini glass. Garnish with lemon twist.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Episode 56 : The Tenant by Roland Topor
Knock Three Times.
Take a Mason Jar and fill it with vodka. Take half that jar and pour into sauce pan with the peel of a whole orange, 2 star anise, 2 tablespoons coriander and 2 tablespoons of tarragon.
Warm this up, don't boil, just warm it through. Put this in the Mason jar and top off the jar with more vodka.
Keep tightly closed in a cool dry place - 1, 2, or 3 weeks. Shake it up every few days.
Get a nice bottle of rose wine.
Into a tall glass packed with ice fill with half wine and half infused vodka.
End Music: We have Adel's Crazy for You. We wanted Tony Orlando and Dawn's - Knock Three Times.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Episode 55: Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird
click to listen
It's Cocktail Time!
Flipping the Painted Bird
In a shaker of ice mix
- 2 shots buffalo grass vodka
- 1/2 shot Bärenjager
- 1/2 shot apple schnapps
Friday, August 20, 2010
Episode 54: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Two Mike's discover the real story behind the Great Emancipator but now don't know who to believe anymore: Carl Sandburg or Seth Grahame-Smith?
It's Libation Time!
The Lemonabe
In shaker, assemble
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 shots of rye or corn whisky
Pour over ice into rocks glass. Top with soda.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Episode 53 : Horns by Joe Hill
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Episode 52: Danielle Trussoni's Angelology
And no, they are NOT the new vampires.
It's Cocktail Time! Bad-touched by an Angel
Place in the bottom of a Tom Collins glass:
- slice of ginger
- piece of lemon rind
- several dashes of Angostura bitters
Pack glass with crushed ice and pour over it
- 1 shot of bourbon
- 1 shot Frangelico
- top with hard cider.
Drink through straw so you can stir up the goodies down below. Chin chin.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Episode 51: Dracula Undead by Dacre Stoker w/Ian Holt
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Episode 50, Robert Silverberg's The Book of Skulls
Mike S. convinced Mike M. to read with him a book he loved in high school. Always a risk, to reread something you loved as a kid, but we aren’t disappointed. We dig the grooviness of its early seventies scene and don’t even have to wonder if it is horror (it isn’t). It gives us lots to talk about: immortality, hot hairy lovin', kids these days, and so on.
It’s Cocktail Time!
The Skull beneath the Skin
½ oz each of gin, vodka, rum, and triple sec
¼ oz Rose’s lime juice
2 oz sour mix
1 oz blue agave syrup
Shake with ice and strain into martini glass; top with a splash of champagne.
Chin. And also chin.
Bonus link: Robert Silverberg's thoughts on his career in sleaze:
Closing music: “Live” by Emitt Rhodes, performed by the Bangles.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Episode 49, Peter Straub's Lost, Boy Lost Girl
Monday, February 22, 2010
Episode 48, Brian Keene's The Conqueror Worms
click here to listen
Here have a cocktail.
The Wormy Apple
1/2 shot mezcal (with or without the worm)
shot apple schnapps
shot apple brandy (or calvados)
Shake with ice, strain into glass.
Enjoy.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Episide 47: Alice Seybold's The Lovely Bones
The Mikes agree that this is a fine book, but bash heads anyway.
It's Cocktail Time!
The Dead Don't Kiss
1-1/2 shots vodka
1/2 shot orgeat (almond flavoring)
1/2 shot Grand Marnier (or B&B)
dash or two of Peychaud's bitters
dash or two of Orange bitters
Shake with ice, strain into martini glass, chastely enjoy.