Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail: Winter Drinks You’ve Never Had
December 26th, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 10 CommentsMy pappy said “Son, you’re going to drive me to drinking if you don’t stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.”
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The Rituals And Routines of Famous Writers
December 4th, 2014 | Writers | journalpulp | No CommentsWriters, as you know, are a strange and superstitious lot. Here’s Jack Kerouac: I had a ritual once of lighting a candle and writing by its light and blowing it out when I was done for the night … also kneeling and praying before starting (I got that from a French movie about George Frideric […]
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Best First Sentence Contest: Winner Announced
November 12th, 2014 | Best First Sentence Contest | journalpulp | 5 CommentsIt was an exceptional contest — one which because of the sheer number of first-rate entries took me over a week to decide. Here, in no particular order, are some of my favorites: Shonda Royall: I woke up, dying. Jeremy J: Not again, she thought. QUINN-TUP: With closed eyes, she stumbled to the blood-spread of […]
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$100.00 Best First Sentence Contest — Halloween Edition: UPDATE: CONTEST CLOSED, WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED: UPDATE II: WINNER ANNOUNCED
October 17th, 2014 | Best First Sentence Contest | journalpulp | 189 CommentsUPDATE II: WINNER ANNOUNCED HERE Journal Pulp is offering a $100.00 cash prize for the following: Best first sentence for a novel about a clever but silent twelve-year-old girl who’s an only child and who one dark night traveling with her mother and father falls asleep in the backseat of the car — and wakes […]
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Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail: Sazeracs & Manhattans
October 2nd, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 15 CommentsA reader writes: In your last video (which I enjoyed somewhat) you said the Old-Fashioned isn’t the oldest cocktail on written record, and you are correct. The Sazerac is. When will you do a vid featuring that one, bud? Here you go, bud: Thanks for watching. Please be sure to comment. And watch all the […]
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The Most Fundamental Thing in Any Work of Art
September 23rd, 2014 | Subject Matter | journalpulp | 6 Comments“There is no work of art without a subject,” said Ortega — and with him here I do not demur. Subject-matter isn’t the only component of art — nor is it the most complicated — but it is the most fundamental. It is the component toward which all others are geared. This is true in […]
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The Grasshopper and the Cricket
September 17th, 2014 | Poetry | journalpulp | 13 CommentsDid you know that John Keats pronounced his own name with such a thick Cockney accent that his friend Leigh Hunt nicknamed him “Junkets” — “Junkets” evidently being the way “John Keats” sounded coming out of Keats’s own mouth. On December 30th, 1816, Leigh Hunt challenged his twenty-one-year-old friend Junkets to a sonnet-writing contest. The […]
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Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail — the Old-Fashioned Way
September 9th, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 11 CommentsIs there any cocktail that gets people as lathered up about technique as the Old-Fashioned? If there is, I don’t know about it. Come and have a drink with the unwashed.
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How to Make the Perfect Gin Martini
August 14th, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 15 CommentsThe Perfect Gin Martini: This is Part 8 in our Putting-the-Cock-Back-in-Cocktail series: Don’t forget to watch the Carpet-Licker and the Cosmo. And Getting Numb with Rum.
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Top Six Movies That Are Better Than The Book
July 26th, 2014 | Movies | journalpulp | 1 CommentI’ve long argued that the old cliche is simply untrue that the book is always better than the movie — and if, heaven help you, you’re anything like me, you love seeing how literature translates onto the cinema screen. This list, which is far from exhaustive, is my list of six movies that are better […]
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Best First Sentence Winner
July 10th, 2014 | Best First Sentence Contest | journalpulp | 1 CommentIt was another difficult decision over which I heartached for one week. Here, in no particular order, were the finalists: She sat down exhausted. — Shannon Murray After a lifetime of incubation, she now carried the fatal disease. — Scott The Ark lay in shadow, its golden angels covered in thousands of years of dust. […]
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4th of July and the Nature of Independence
July 3rd, 2014 | Fourth of July | journalpulp | 2 CommentsIndependence is individual autonomy. It’s the freedom to govern yourself and to rely upon your own independent judgment. Independence is individual freedom. What is individual freedom? Freedom in its fundamental form has one and only one meaning: it is the omission of state force. Freedom is the absence state force and government compulsion. Freedom means […]
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The Carpet-Licker and the Cosmo
June 26th, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 22 CommentsAnd other fine, fine cocktails from the 1980’s: Possibly Related: Getting Numb with Rum
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$100.00 for the Best First Sentence
June 19th, 2014 | Best First Sentence Contest | journalpulp | 234 CommentsJournal Pulp is offering a $100.00 cash prize for the following: Best first sentence for a novel about a monomaniacal archeologist who discovers for certain the actual resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, and who resolves that, despite its being so heavily guarded, she will open the golden lid of the Ark — […]
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Tiananmen Square: The Twenty-Five Year Anniversary — But Do You Know About Chengdu?
June 4th, 2014 | Tiananmen Square massacre | journalpulp | Comments Off on Tiananmen Square: The Twenty-Five Year Anniversary — But Do You Know About Chengdu?Do you remember Tiananmen Square? It’s difficult to believe that it was twenty-five years ago, but today, June 4th, indeed marks the twenty-fifth year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China. This was when the communist dictatorship of that country quashed a political reform movement, which was begun by Beijing students who sought […]
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