The Goth Club

If you're not seeing these after 6 or so of these drinks, you've got a strong constitution.

It started out as just a “Pink Monoke“, but the number of Ens and Ohs just kept on growing the more of them I had.

So this is the last of the Ramune based drinks from Solstone. Some of you will be shouting hooray. Others who have actually gotten hooked on the delicious nature, and the creepy fact that they fluoresce, will has a sad. What makes it worse is that supplies of Ramune will still be limited for another month or so in Melbourne, at the time I post this, due to Manifest purchasing so much of the import stock last quarter.

So, technically speaking, this should have been called a Pink Mononoke, but there’s a delightful legal complication with that that I’d rather not get into… Instead, let’s get you into one of these. (more…)

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Yeah, pretty much until the end of January, you’re being subjected to the drinks that were at Solstone. In my defence, these drinks are delicious, and if you don’t like them then you suck a lot more raping tentacle than most of the girls in the hentai that seems so popular nowadays.

So this week’s cocktail is something that will fit in perfectly for Summer. It’s cool, it’s jazzy, it’s Hawaiin… it’s inspired by getting really drunk while watching Cowboy Bebop. (more…)

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If you’d gone to Solstone last night, then you would have noticed a number of drinks on the menu that were rather… aimed at the otaku set, shall we say.

I could have gone the traditional steampunk route, and had a whole bunch of classical Victorian era cocktails…  But let’s face it, Solstone was not Euchronia and nor was it meant to be.

It was merely meant to be the first “theme” to a set of anime inspired parties that Manifest is intending to hold from here on in. And to that end, the drinks were geared towards the otaku audience. And what drinks to otaku like?

Ramune, sake, midori… sweet things, generally. But really people drink for two reasons: either to get drunk or to solve their problems.

And what could solve more of the types of problems you’re likely to get at an alcohol fueled NYE event full of teenagers and early 20 somethings than a Falcon Punch? (more…)

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Here’s some anime bible for you, with god dolling out wrath… and a robot… on Noah’s ark… with Noah… and only two very young children… kind of like Lafayette Ron Hubbard…

All this talk of religion lately, it leaves me with a line of questioning I don’t think anyone really stops to think about once they’re fully indoctrinated into their ideological pap.

As far as Monotheism goes, we’re basically up to V3.x with Islam. Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed. Some pretty fucking major prophets right there, never mind all the people that did spin offs on the show, like Martin Luther or Joseph Smith. There’s some serious time between these major upgrades, six centuries at a minimum.

If any of them were the one true religion, precisely why does it take their god so fucking long down his own little timeline (i.e. Islam has been around for about a quarter of the time that’s been since the Earth was created, Judaism’s got only a little over two thirds) to actually remind people about him and get them to start worshipping properly?

I mean, surely, if there was one true religion he’d have gone “Noah, remembereth the cataclysm of flood upon which i wrought terrible wrath upon an unfaithful land? Lo, tell all ye inhabitants of yon lands beyond where sky meets earth to worship me as the one true lord… bitches.”

Surely that religion would have been started, by god and his prophets, a little bit closer to the beginning of time, instead of waiting somewhere along the six and a half thousand (supposed) years of history to reveal it.

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