New cocktail index in progress

January 27, 2010 Chuck announcements, webloggy stuff 3 Comments

By the way, y’all … Happy New Year! I know, January’s almost over by now, but rather than doing a special brief Happy-New-Year-post on the 1st I thought I’d just dive right in to regular posting and spit out some content. (Yes, I’m aware I didn’t get around to it until the 18th. Gimme a break.)

Now that we’ve had our break, Wesly and I hope to charge into 2010 (or “oh-ten,” as we’ve heard some people say, to our mocking delight). With Marleigh’s help I’ve gotten started on another new feature. Note that there’s a new link up in the header that says Cocktails — it’s a work in progress at the moment, and when complete will be a compendium of every cocktail recipe I’ve ever posted on Looka!, going back to 1999.

I’ll be importing the old cocktail recipe posts into WordPress and backdating them so that the index can add them, and for the most part I’ll be leaving them more or less intact. This means that I’ll be keeping in the embarrassing shit like “I’m not a big fan of gin” and “I don’t like vermouth” in posts from 10+ years ago, plus embarrassing drinks like the Velvet Hammer. I will be updating recipes for clarity and accuracy, however, plus fixing dead URLs as I can and throwing in an annotation here and there. All original posts (plus the rest of the old content) will still be there in the stone-knives-and-bearskins section of the archive.

So far I’m about halfway into 2002, and I’ve got along way to go. It’ll likely take a couple of weeks, but by the time I’m done importing we’ll have a very handy and convenient index of cocktail recipes here on the ol’ blawg, and future cocktail recipe posts will be automatically added to the index.

Whoever of y’all that have been nagging me to do this for years (Barry? Chris?) … good things come to those who wait!

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3 Responses to “New cocktail index in progress”

  1. Rob said:

    Jan 27, 10 at 1:32 pm

    More fun than “I’m not a big fan of gin” are comments from 2001 like “You may think $8 is a lot to pay for a cocktail…” Ha! Ye olde dayes!

  2. Chuck said:

    Jan 27, 10 at 2:25 pm

    And we didn’t have those fancy Yarai mixing glasses in those days. We had to make drinks with stone knives and bearskins!

  3. Chris said:

    Jan 29, 10 at 5:32 am

    Hey Chuck, Good job, been looking forward to this, knew you would get around to it.