I'm not going to let this blog die. Nay! Since we spoke last, I became a credited editor (not to be confused with an edited creditor). The Seven Sisters by J.B. Hendricks. It's a hell of a book, and he's already working on another.
What happened in August? I declared a new holiday! Be it henceforth known that the Friday immediately preceding Summer Commencement at The Ohio State University begins a subseason known as Sommertaint. This space betwixt the balls of Summer and the butthole of Autumn brings with it many delightful treasures: College Football, wearing hoodies, having fires, and the eponymous Sommertaintfest.
Sommertaint was greeted with twelve pounds of meat, eight pounds of mac-n-cheese, sixty cans of Natty and three-and-one-half imperial gallons of Taintpunch. It was an ethanol-fueled, wood-burning, meat-eating hell-of-a-time. We must enjoy these days while we can, as 2012 will mark the end of Sommertaint, not because of Mayans, but the Office of Academic Affairs.
Taintpunch
Serves between 1 (dead) and 20 (tipsy)
2 750-ml bottles Galen's 151 vodka
1 2-liter bottle Canada Dry Ginger Ale
1 2-liter bottle Generic Red Pop
1 2-liter bottle Pineapple Pop
1 2-liter bottle Squirt
1 2-liter bottle Orange Pop
1 2-liter bottle Peach Pop
Mix in large vessel, serve over ice in redcups.
