Drink of the Show: “Liquid Cocaine Shooter”

Recipe:

• 1 oz Amaretto
• 3 oz Bourbon
  
• 2 oz Pineapple Juice
• Skittles
  

Combine in shaker with ice. Shake and strain into rocks glass. Drink.  

Top 5 List: Top 5 Childhood Toys

Toys!

Television

What we’ve been watching:

News:

• Captain Planet on Funny or Die
• The Weather Channel lives for disasters

What we’ve been watching:

• Lone Ranger is ‘spensive
• George Lucas speaks out against altering films

• Adam: nothing new
• Tev: Recettear, Dungeon of Dredmore, Fortix 2, The Tick (SNES)

Drink of the Show: “TMNT”

Recipe:

• 1/2 oz Blue Curaçao
• Orange Juice
  
• Vodka nip
  
• Skittles
  

Put a skittle or two of the same color into each vodka nip. Ideally, make one for each turtle, and maybe some for April, Splinter and The Shredder.  Allow it to dissolve overnight.  

The next day: Fill a highball glass most of the way up with OJ, then add the Curaçao.  It should turn a bright green.  Assemble your friends, marvel at the whole thing, take a vodka nip and pour it in and drink!

Top 5 List: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Movies

They are terrible but we love them.

Television

What we’ve been watching:

News:

• Studios delay streaming content, piracy fills the gap

What we’ve been watching:

• Facebook adds Mirimax to their streaming movies

• Adam: Deus Ex Human Revolution
• Tev: Recettear

Drink of the Show: None, but Tev was drinking Glenlivet

Top 5 List: None.  We were lazy this week.

Television

News:

• Breaking Bad Renewed for 16 episode final season

Movies

Reading

What we’ve Tev’s been reading: 

• Adam: All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder, Vol. 1
• Tev: Anya’s Ghost, Judge Dredd
• Tev on the cover of Spider Man #666 (close up)

Video Games

What we’re playing: Alice the Madness Returns, Vanquish, Words with Friends

News:

• PS3 Price Drop
• New XBOX interface
• Old Republic will be limited release

Tech

News:

• New meme Stocking
• Let MGM eplode a casino
• HP Going Bye Bye?
• Britain using facial recognition to arrest rioters
• Best Buy Selling Stern Pinball Machines

End Music:

• Untitled Geek song (abcdawg from fiverr.com)

Drink of the Show: “Snickers Shot”

Recipe:

• 1/2 oz Kahlua
• 1/2 oz Baileys
  
• 1/4 oz Frangelico

Take a shot glass and a bar spoon. Pour in the Kahlua.  Pierce the coffee liqueur with the bar spoon and then slowly pour the Baileys over the bar spoon, letting it settle on top of the Kahlua.  Then repeat the process with the Frangelico, layering it on top.  There should be 3 visible layers.  Drink!

Top 5 List: Top 5 Movie Deaths

Top 5 list coming soon.

Television

What we’ve been watching:

• Breaking Bad

News:

• Frank Darabont was fired from Walking Dead
• Star Trek resort planned in Jordan

Movies

Reading

What we’ve Tev’s been reading: Game of Thrones, The Year of the Flood

Video Games

What we’re playing: Darksiders, Infamous 2, Fortix 2, Sony Welcome Back

News:

• GOP candidate quotes pokemon
• 18+ plus in austraila

Tech

News:

• Firefox 6 and 7 coming in the next two months.  WTF?
• The micro-saga of Jonathan’s Card
• FBI “secure” communications unsecure
• London goes crazy and stuff, British PM blames twitter
• Wal-Mart closes their MP3 store you didn’t know they had
• Verizon workers cutting fios cables
• gizmodo off the hook for iPhone protototype theft
• doom 3 source code

Interlude music:

• Space Doggity (Jonathan Coulton)

End Music:

• The Russian Revolution (Red Army Choir)

Drink of the Show: “Dark & Stormy”

Recipe:

• 2 oz dark rum
• ginger beer
• slice of lime (optional)

Put rum in a rocks glass with ice, fill the rest of the way up with ginger beer, stir, garnish with lime, and drink.

Top 5 List: Top 5 Non-alcoholic drinks

For those occasions when for some reason you don’t want to be drunk in a gutter someplace.

Television

What we’ve been watching:

• Adam:  Thundercats, Hoarders
• Tev:  True Blood, Breaking Bad, The First 48, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Archer

• Tev:  Limitless, I Heart Huckabees, Harry Potter

• Nintendo drops price on 3DS & Nintendo Reports Loss
• New Humble Indie Bundle
• Redbox Carrying Games
• Gamepro Magazine now on quarterly schedule
• ESA wants $1.1 million reimbursement from CA

Drink of the Show: “7 & 7”

Recipe:

• 1 oz Seagram’s 7 Canadian Whiskey
• 6 oz 7-up

Put ingredients in a rocks glass with ice, stir and drink.

Top 5 List: Top 5 Video Game Weapons

When you absolutely, positively have to kill every last possessed baby in the room.

Television

What we’ve been watching:

• Adam:  Breaking Bad, Repo Games, Storage Wars/Auction Hunters
• Tev:  True Blood, Breaking Bad

• Adam:  24 Hour Party People (Steve Coogan)

• Marvel vs Capcom 3?  Already?

Drink of the Show: “Slippery Nipple”

Recipe:

• 1 oz Bailey’s
• 1/2 oz peppermint schnapps

Put ingredients in a shot (jigger) glass, drink without using your hands.

Top 5 List: Top 5 Pinball Machines

Which machines have the best balls?  (see what I did there?)

Television

What we’ve been watching:

• Adam: True Blood
• Tev:  Sherlock, True Blood

News:

• Emmy nominations

• Adam: nothing
• Tev: Horrible Bosses, Super 8

• Next Version of PS3 no longer supports watching Blu-ray via Component cable
• Netflix on 3DS – streaming 3D movies coming
• Gamestop buys Impulse
• EA buys Popcap for a billion in cash and prizes stock

Drink of the Show: “Moscow Mule”

Recipe:

• 1 oz Vodka
• 1 oz lime juice
  
• 3 oz ginger beer

Mix ingredients, serve over ice in a copper mug (or a chalice, or I *guess* a glass if you must)

Top 5 List: Top 5 Video Game Villains

Nefarious Nasties.

Television

What we’ve been watching:  

• Adam: Penn and Teller: Fool Us, Master Chef Australia
• Tev: Jekell, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

News:

• Virtual product placement in syndicated shows

Movies

Reading

What we’ve Tev’s been reading: Game of Thrones

Video Games

What we’re playing: Darksiders, Infamous 2, Fortix 2, Sony Welcome Back

News:

• Nyko figures out a lens can make Kinect take less space
• Star Trek game takes place between JJ Abrams movies
• EVE Online almost explodes, but doesn’t
• Neverhood headed to mobile platforms

Tech

News:

• Patent Wars!  It’s not Samsung’s Day: Apple blocks Samsung from shipping, Microsoft collects $15 from Samsung for every phone sold
• Flying cars are coming, but still dumb
• Google retires Blogger and Picasa brand names
• Facebook adds skype video chat

Interlude music:

• Crazy Comets (Commodore 64 game)

End Music:

• Neverhood Theme (Terry S. Taylor)

Drink of the Show: “Red Death”

Recipe:

• 1/2 oz Vodka
• 1/2 oz Rum (151)
  
• 1/2 oz Canadian Whiskey
  
• 1/2 oz Cinnamon Schapps
  

Shake with ice, strain into glass.

Top 5 List: Top 5 Terrible Sitcom Intros

Situation comedy at its worst.

Television

What we’ve been watching:  True Blood, Apprentice UK, Master Chef

News:

• Thundercats Cartoon Premieres July 29

Movies

Reading

What we’ve Tev’s been reading: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Video Games

What we’re playing: Darksiders, Infamous 2

News:

• Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D can not clear save
• World of Warcraft Free to Play, sorta
• Team Fortress 2 F2P
• Steam sale

Tech

News:

• Supreme court says Video Games are protected speech
• Future of phones:  iOS, Android, WebOS, RIM
• RIM doomed
• Google Redesign
• Odds of Clicking on a Banner Ad
• Final Cut Pro X Dumbed Down?
• LulzSec asplodes

Interlude music:

• I Feel Fantastic (Jonathan Coulton)

End Music:

• Kirby SuperStar: Ska Buffet by The Overclocked Plaid Muffins