JACKTHORN'S "IRISH FLAG" SHOTS

JACKTHORN'S "IRISH FLAG" SHOTS

Orange Whiskey mixture: Your favorite Irish whiskey (Jameson, Bushmills, Redbreast, whatever) with a drop or two of Grenadine.  Stir until the hue is right.

In tall clear double-shot glasses, layer green Creme De Menthe, then Irish Cream, then the orange whiskey mixture.  The order is important, because higher gravity liquids float on lower gravity ones.

Layering is best done over the rounded back of a small spoon, or teaspoon, or melon baller.  Pour the second and third liqueurs over the tool, slowly and steadily, so they don't mix.  Ideally the liquid should hit the rounded tool and spread over it, but the tool should be tilted down to touch the side of the glass, so the liquid hits the side of the glass and is further slowed.

Any questions?

Rob Brezsny:

"Poet Robert Bly says that to be wild is not to be crazy like a criminal or psychotic, but "mad as the mist and snow." It has nothing to do with being childish or primitive, nor does it manifest as manic rebellion or self-damaging alienation. The marks of wildness are a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. What do you say?"

ceryneian-hind:

“Libera was the female Liber (Dionysus). She was sometimes identified with Ariadne. However the Roman poets usually called the god’s wife by her Greek name Ariadne.” ~Theoi.com

Anyone able to elaborate on this?  I’m curious if that means Adriadne is basically just his female-sexed counterpart/other half, so to speak?

flamendeorum:

This quote is probably from the Republic when the shadow of Numinism still stretched over Rome. In Numinism (the faith created by King Numa) the Dii are shapeless nameless genderless and all-encompassing. This means that Ecstasy could be prayed to using the name Liber or the name Libera probably depending on the gender of the worshiper or the specifics of the holiday/request. Over time the Romans adopted more Greek costumes and began to assign gender to their deities. This is where all that good ole Roman sync comes in. By Caesar’s time the divide was complete and Ecstasy gained two faces two names two bodies and two genders that it previously didn't have. I hope that clears things up some.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the Liber / Libera thing was Nuministic.  Liber is pretty strongly accepted as Dionysos, though.  Libera is generally accepted as Persephone or Ariadne -- and generally Ariadne can be thought of as an aspect of Persephone.  Remember, the Liberalia deities are the Aventine triad, three deities -- Liber, Libera, and Ceres.

It's more complicated than just Greek / Roman, of course, but as far as that goes, it was Dionysos / Bacchus.  Liber was a later splinter thing, basically.

Blood stains by ~Miss-Opheliac

In Adoration

Dionysus! Mad and foreign born! On bulls foot You come From wilderness and wanderings In Your manic pilgrim roamings You saw that not by bread alone can the human heart be filled And as we yearned for fullness You gifted us the vine

that unmakes our thoughts conquers fear and heals pains and ends our restlessness but Oh! by Your spirits maddened scheming, though hearts and guts are full to bursting there is always room to spare!

i raise another glass in Your name! There is always room to spare!