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Cocktail Politics, Rio Rancho Office Space and Truman Republicans

Lee on Nov 03 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008

It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, or beer and soda in tall glasses. The ambiance befit the beverages: general levity and young merriment. Sporty coquettish girls with wide white toothy smiles dominated all conversations.

But when it became clear that the exit polls predicting a Kerry victory were wildly mistaken, and field reports were coming in on cell phones of Karl Rove’s successful mobilization effort, it wasn’t long before the assembled Democrats had exchanged their drinks for short glasses filled with dark brown fluids. To match the new taste for scotch and bourbon whiskey, the sporty girls seemed to disappear and old men began to dominate conversations.

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The real thing

Lance on Jul 25 2006 | Filed under: Culture, Lance's Page

(Listening notes: Dr. John, The Clash, The Neutral Milk Hotel, Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” performed by Johnny Cash, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, The Saints, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s version of “Over the Rainbow”)

I had a friend over this evening, and he said something that hit me. He asked what I had to drink. Needless to say I had beer, but that wasn’t the thing for him, so I offered Diet Coke, which he initially accepted. Upon spying a Sprite he said, “I’ll take a Sprite instead.” I remarked about his love of Caffeine and he said, utterly devoid of irony:

Diet Coke? Without the rich full taste of real Coke it just isn’t the same.

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