The Two Mikes

The Two Mikes
Ever wanted to talk with someone about a book you just read? You could just join a book group and talk about it, drink a little, veer off on tangents, work back around to the book again, and finally wrap it up by picking the next book.

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.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Episode 158: Nick Cutter's The Troop


The Mikes pack their gear and head into the woods for some up-close encounters with nature. Worms are nature, right?

It's Cocktail Time!

As the Worm Turns

In a shaker mix
  • 2 oz mezcal
  • 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 oz ginger juice
  • 1 oz agave nectar
strain into ice-filled glass and top with sparkling water. Garnish with worm from bottle.


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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Episode 157 - Simon Raven's Doctors Wear Scarlet

 




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Continue your studies abroad with the Mikes and Simon Raven's Doctors Wear Scarlet.  Will you graduate Summa Cum Laude? You will if you're a nasty young chap who get's his kicks from having his neck gnawed on.   


Cocktail Time!

Tbe Dick Fountain Cocktail

1 ounce anise flavored liquor

1/2  ounce simple syrup

1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

one egg white 



Put everything in a shaker of ice, sans egg white. Shake well.  Now add the egg white and shake well. Pour into glass with the ice or strain into a martini glass. Chin chin.






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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Episode 156: Thomas Disch's The Priest

 


The Mikes have a confession to make: we read and have thinkings about another Thomas Disch novel. We marvel and cringe at the what goes underneath those cassocks. 

It's Cocktail Time!

No one Drinks the Spanish Inquisition

In a shaker with ice, mix
  • 1/2 shot Cointreau
  • 1/2 shot calvados
Pour into coupe glass (for up) or rocks glass (for on the rocks). Fill glass with cava and top with a shake or two of bay leaf bitters.

Chin Chin!

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Monday, January 11, 2021

Episode 155 - The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones

  
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Join The Two Mikes but quietly tip toe backwards as they come upon a herd of ghostly elk in Stephan Graham Jones's horror novel  The Only Good Indians.  You can run but the Elk Head Woman will find you and she's going to want to play a mean game of H-O-R-S-E.


It's Cocktail Time!

The Elks Club  ( yes, there is no apostrophe)

1/4 ounce dry vermouth

2  ounces SoCo

Dash bitters

Maraschino Cherry to garnish.

Directions: Shack in an ice filled shaker.  Pour into a high ball glass or strain into a martini glass.  



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