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And these are not the Elysian Fields
Last night, while watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ericmvan's with gaudior, rushthatspeaks, nineweaving, eredien, raxvulpine, sharhaun, and captainbutler, I discovered caffeinated root beer. This was not a good discovery.* The film, however, was spectacular, as harrowing and funny and no-holds-barred as I had imagined from the words on the page; no one is innocent and no one is unsympathetic and the camera work almost never lets you get enough room to breathe. When it's over, your ears are ringing. And that's how you play Get the Guests.
My poem "Plague-Bearer" has been accepted for a future issue of Lone Star Stories.
Outside, the sunlight is as thin and brilliant as autumn. Last night, I slept under an extra quilt. When I was in seventh grade, I wanted to live in an ice age.
*Barq's. I didn't even think to check. This was root beer, like ginger ale or cream soda; what did it need caffeine for? In the very unlikely event that I want to imitate a character in Scanners, there are more than enough caffeinated drinks in this world, thank you.
ericmvan's with gaudior, rushthatspeaks, nineweaving, eredien, raxvulpine, sharhaun, and captainbutler, I discovered caffeinated root beer. This was not a good discovery.* The film, however, was spectacular, as harrowing and funny and no-holds-barred as I had imagined from the words on the page; no one is innocent and no one is unsympathetic and the camera work almost never lets you get enough room to breathe. When it's over, your ears are ringing. And that's how you play Get the Guests.My poem "Plague-Bearer" has been accepted for a future issue of Lone Star Stories.
Outside, the sunlight is as thin and brilliant as autumn. Last night, I slept under an extra quilt. When I was in seventh grade, I wanted to live in an ice age.
*Barq's. I didn't even think to check. This was root beer, like ginger ale or cream soda; what did it need caffeine for? In the very unlikely event that I want to imitate a character in Scanners, there are more than enough caffeinated drinks in this world, thank you.
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I saw that when I was far too young. If I had to come up with a list of "Made me the Man I am Today" and the number was greater than 5, that would be there.
Barqs is kind of a mean trick to a lot of people.
Not me.
But a lot of people.
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Caffeine gives me migraines. I'm sure it helped immerse me in the atmosphere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but it did not help at all with my conversational fluency afterward.
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We live in a wired world . . .
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One of my favourite movies ever.
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I had read the play six years ago and been wanting to see it ever since. It was amazing.
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Thanks!
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Thank you!
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And I'm sorry to hear that Barq's did that to you. Wish I could have warned you, somehow.
The caffeine is supposedly in there for the bitterness, ABIR.
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Bizarre.
ABIR?
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I suppose it is. I'm not sure why they use it instead of some other bittering agent. Then again, I'm not sure what that would be--hops?
ABIR?
As best I recall.
Sorry for the confusion--I suppose that is a fairly non-standard acronym.
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I miss drinking Barq's. It's my favorite root beer of all time, but the caffeine makes me crazy.
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Awesome. Congratulations!
It's my favorite root beer of all time, but the caffeine makes me crazy.
I grew up on A&W. Anything else is an unnatural substitute.