“They don’t make em like they used to.”
“Do you have bulkhead seats available?”
“A little something for everyone.”
END TIMES
Immediately, in a cocktail shaker, place:
6 mint leaves
1/2 oz simple syrup
3/4 oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
Gently bruise the mint leaves with a wooden muddler. Add:
1.5 oz medium-bodied gold rum
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Fill shaker with ice, and shake well for 10 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Top with 2 ounces chilled champagne. Garnish with a mint leaf.
Sometimes, it would appear as if being stupid was a competitive sport.
If you could only stop your heartbeat for one heartbeat.
Just won the Nobel Prize.
From: Eli Horowitz
Subject: Re: New York State of Mind
Date: October 12, 2009 3:31:45 PM EDT
I am skipping meetings about feelings! What a world! Here, read this interesting fact from the New York Times:
For many centuries, and perhaps back to Homer, Western society slept in two
shifts. People went to sleep, got up in the middle of the night for an hour
or so, and then went to sleep again. Thus night — divided into a “first
sleep” and “second sleep” — also included a curious intermission.
Our conception of sleep as an unbroken block is so innate that it can seem
inconceivable that people only two centuries ago should have experienced it
so differently. Yet in an experiment at the National Institutes of Health a
decade ago, men kept on a schedule of 10 hours of light and 14 hours of
darkness — mimicking the duration of day and night during winter — fell into
the same, segmented pattern. They began sleeping in two distinct, roughly
four-hour stretches, with one to three hours of somnolence — just calmly
lying there — in between. Some sleep disorders, namely waking up in the
middle of the night and not being able to fall asleep again, “may simply be
this traditional pattern, this normal pattern, reasserting itself,” Ekirch
told me. “It’s the seamless sleep that we aspire to that’s the anomaly, the
creation of the modern world.”
