Episode 111: William Sloane's The Edge of Running Water

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The Mikes buy a ticket to Maine to find out what's happening with an old professor and learn all about sinister mediums, plucky debutants, hostile downeasters, and the importance of knowing where the fuse box is. And then they get sucked into another dimension.

It's Cocktail Time:

The River's Edge

• In a pint glass put a clump of fresh and cleaned lemon basil or lemon verbena.
• Task a stalk of lemon grass, and bend about 1 inch of the bottom 90 degrees. Muddle the bent end of the lemon grass with the herbs.
• Pour in 1 shot simple syrup, 1 shot aquavit, and 2 shots cointreau. Stir.
• Fill glass with ice and seltzer. Stir again, and enjoy.

Closing music: Down to the River by Buck Owens 

Episode 110, William Sloane's To Walk The Night

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The Two Mike's put on their gym shoes, stay up late, and sneak out of the basement window with William Sloane to Walk the Night. They encounter a beautiful woman in mismatched clothes and bad hair. And you know what that means? MAKE OVER!!!! So watch for the Pretty Woman montage.

It's Cocktail Time!

The Scotch Bonnet

Roast a hot pepper (i.e.. a Ghost, Scotch Bonnet, or Thai pepper) over a flame until blackened. Set aside.

Fill a rocks glass with ice

Rim the glass with the pepper and put in glass

Fill with a medium-OK Scotch (for the love of god, don't use the good stuff; Sean Connery would kill you.)

Drink.




Good article about Sloane: http://wwwbillblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-kind-of-face-you-slash-thinking.html

Episode 109: Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives

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Finishing our Lovecrafian trilogy with Charles Stross's Lovecraftian espionage thriller, the Mikes explore the eldritch horror of office bureaucracy, the limits of fictionalizing the holocaust, and whether Lovecraftian things are even scary anymore.

It's Cocktail Time!

The Hand of Glory

• In 5 (or more) shot glasses pour yellow Chartreuse almost to the top
• Then into a teaspoon pour 151 proof rum and float a bit onto the shot
• Carefully ignite the rum (keep hair away from the flame!)
• Turn off lights and enjoy the glow for a bit.
• BLOW OUT THE FLAME (VERY IMPORTANT)
• Drink and enjoy.

closing music: "Hand of Glory" by Jimmie Silva and the Empty Set

Episode 108: Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas

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The Two Mikes jump into their beat-up convertible and hit the road with Nick Mamatas and his book Move Under Ground.   They find out the Old Ones are horrible driving companions and those Beat dudes are a bit ripe so ya got to leave the top down.

IT'S COCKTAIL TIME!

The Exterminator 

1 1/2 shots of green Chartreuse

1 1/2 shots of white rum, high proof

Place in shaker with ice, shake, strain in martini glass, garnish with a green cherry

Chin Chin

Music: Ants on Parade by The Homosexuals