Episode 115: F. G. Cottam's The Colony

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The Two Mikes and a Linda join a group tour to the Hebrides for one more haunted vacation and, after a wee bit of tooth-pulling, have a fine time with our last Cottam book.

It's Cocktail Time!

Spite Made Flesh

Take two rocks glasses. Fill one with ice and water to chill. In another glass pour two shots cognac and add a few cubes of ice.

Pour out ice water from chilled glass. In bottom place some raw sugar, several generous shakes of a rum-based tropical bitters, and rub rim of glass with fresh lemon peel. Strain cold cognac from other glass into spiced glass and enjoy! 

Special closing Music: "The Recruited Collier" by Anne Briggs

Episode 114: F.G. Cottam's Brodmaw Bay

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The Two Mikes take a classic English vacation at the seaside with F.G. Cottam in Brodmaw Bay.  Come for the scenery, stay for the little girl ghosts, ancient hungry sea beings, infidelity, racism, coked-out authors, white flight, sassy children, creepy sexy villagers and desecrated churches!  Don't eat the seafood though, it might back up on you.  The town's motto: Fresh Blood!  Fresh Blood!

There are no places without troubles.


It's Cocktail Time!

The Shadow Over Brodmaw

One bottle of light nitro ale like Harp
One bottle of hard cider, low carbonation
One bottle of dark beer like Guinness or Murphy's Stout

Get a pint glass. You need all your pouring skills. Tilt the glass and pour the beers over the spoon to reduce splash. Do it in the order listed above. You are creating a layered drink with each layer taking up a third of the glass.  Chin Chin!

Episode 113: F. G. Cottam's The Waiting Room

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The Mikes hit the road with the mysterious Linda, and listen to the first of the three F. G. Cottam books on the table. Discussing the book in a hotel room in the savage beating outskirts of Rapid City, South Dakota, we parse the plot and subtleties of the novel and ultimately find it to be quite spooky.

It's Cocktail Time!

I Can't Abide the Stench of It!

In a cocktail shaker with ice, pour:

• 2 shots of gin
• liquor of 1 oyster
• a couple shots of your favorite hot sauce

Shake vigorously and strain into martini glass. Garnish with lemon or lime or, better, the oyster.

Chin chin!

special closing music: "The Roses of Picardy" by John McCormack

Episode 112: Willam Sloane's Three Short Plays

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The Two Mikes pay their penance for delayed podcasting by reading Three Short Plays written by William Sloane.  There is not much to recommend, but if you blow your wig for 1930s gangster talk then we're jake with that.

It Is Cocktail Time!

Bells Won’t Be Ringing

1 bottle of Bells Oberon Beer, very cold

4 shots of watermelon purée, very cold

1/2  shot of Domaine de Canton

Chill a pilsner glass.  Pour the watermelon purée into glass and slowly top with beer (it will fizz).  Top that with the Domaine de Canton and garnish with mint.