Drink your summer away with this vile elder god!

If you're anything like me, you're a wee drunk very hammered off of Mai Tai's right now, laughing at all these PDX people complaining about "the humidity."  If you're not like me, you're probably wondering who is that crazy drunk lady pointing and laughing at you.  Anyway...
This summer, I have (clearly) be revisiting the tiki drink, and the joy of the 1950's Polynesian drink.  What better way to take that trip down Bahama Mama lane than with a true island original, The Cthulhu tiki mug!

Designer Jonathan "Atari" Chaffin came up with this beauty and with help from the intensely talented Kristina Lucas Francis has decided to bring your summer nightmares to life.  Right now, there's a Kickstarter for it, so make sure you pledge a few dollars to get your very own.  Last one in the Dagon is a miasmic egg!

Various internet goodness

Here's a bunch of stuff the interwebs has to offer:

First we have the pizza necronomicon, or as I will forever call it: the necro-om-nom-nomicon.
Unfathomable, soul-destroying evil never tasted so good.

Up next is Madame Hillary Clinton being fucking awesome.  You're welcome.

And lastly is a wonderful pride tribute to Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician, computer scientist, and creator of the Turing Test, who would have 100 on Saturday.  Though it is often said he committed suicide, there has been several people who said that might not have been the case.

Halloween Prep: Lovecraftian Sex-Ed

I'm sure we all remember the eldritch horror that was Sexual Education, but if not, here is a little reminder. Dear Dagon, how on Earth did anyone want to get it on after seeing those diagrams?

He has risen! The mighty (chocolate) Cthulhu!

I ordered one of these the second I saw them (via The Mary Sue), because nothing says Happy Easter like a chocolate idol of the great priest Cthulhu. Hey, if you're going to spend the holiest day of Christianity eating some kind of chocolate figure, why not make it Lovecraftian? At least it's cooler than a bunny, and slightly less horrific than those creme eggs. Pick up your own eldritch horror for your Easter basket here. And please don't blame me if you go mad from it.

Happy Birthday Howard Phillips Lovecraft!!!

by now you should know to click on it for an awesomely larger image

Well, happy early birthday. I'm posting this a day early because tomorrow I will be out celebrating a real, living friend's birthday (Way to go Colleen! Turning 30!).

Anyway, tomorrow is Howard's 120th birthday, and what better way to spend it than with a Lovecraftian themed cocktail and lots of cheese. Below is my version of the Corpse Reviver #2, which I have re-titled for this special occasion:

The Herbert West

Components:

1 shot gin (I have Philly pride, so I prefer Blue Coat)

1 shot Lillet Blanc

1 shot Domaine de Canton

The juice of half a small lemon (you can go easy on this)

Dash of Pernod (or Absinthe if you're fancier)

Pour all ingredients over ice, shake well, and pour into a slightly chilled cocktail glass. I used Manhattan glasses from the 1960's, but champagne cups, not flutes, work just as well.

Now, the best part of any drink is the garnish (which, clearly, I forgot to add) and you have some choices with this: you can either use a slice of starfruit or long lime peels that you curl slightly and hang over the edge (like tentacles). I prefer the star fruit because it stays a bit better but limes are easier to find. You can also use Whiskey Stones in a tumbler with this drink. They won't water down your drink and they give the impression of Cyclopean ruins at the bottom of the sea (tell your friends the drink is called Dagon if you're going with this method).

This cocktail is best enjoyed whilst sitting on a moss covered mausoleum in a disturbing New England backwoods; preferably you'd also be fainting from seeing some terror or, you know, an Italian guy.

However, if a trip to Rhode Island isn't in your future tomorrow, you can also just drink this in your living room (yes, that's really my living room) while listening to the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast (very funny and well produced) and watching out for night gaunts, re-animated fiends, prime numbers, monolithic architecture, rats, Jell-O, and your weird neighbor who always complains about his AC unit.

Add some dry ice around the place to give it a murky miasmic ambiance and you’re good to go!

Enjoy!!!