There’s a brilliant line in the movie Julie & Julia where food blogger Julie Powell says that blogs are inherently narcissistic, it’s always about me, me, me, right? So here’s me being all about me, me, me. I just wanted to let you know that I’m taking a mo to revamp Symposiia. It’s still going…
Tag: cocktails
Guest Post: ‘Queen of Thorns’
A Drink Inspired by HBO’s Game of Thrones By Jaclyn Koss White Russians. Cosmopolitans. Vespers. French 75s. All of these cocktails have one thing in common — they have a strong association with a movie or tv show. There is a large list of boozy beverages made popular because of their ties to the entertainment…
Oscars 2019: A Sensible Drinking Game
It’s time for the 2019 Oscar Academy Awards. They don’t serve alcohol at the Oscars like they do at the Golden Globes (boo.) but that doesn’t mean we can’t indulge at home. This year, Jaclyn Koss (Symposiia East) and I are going to watch the Oscars together over videochat from opposite ends of the country. We’re teaming up to find a reason…
Hi, for the first time.
I have been agonizing over how to write this first post for a very long time. Since 2016. I meant to start this in 2017. And here we are, in 2018, several drinks in on a night when I should be working on a graduate school assignment and finally inspired to write. I have been…